how are they so powerful?I thought this was going to be like Iraqthey seem unironically invincible are China propping them up?
We're just too weak. Woe is us. Sorry Israel, we just can't do it.
>>537004628>a country of over 90 million people and with mountainous terrain is difficult to defeat militarilyOh wow shocking
>>537004628You can't always get what you wantEven if you shit with money
>>537004628They fucking lost
the time that has passed since february 28th has been one of the best confirmations ever that this board does not read
>>537004628>how are they so powerful? Under what standard is this statement made? They are a state and society with a high tolerance for defeat, destruction and pain, having been now bombed helplessly for months by powers of utterly superior means of offense and defense, they are beneficiaries of their geography, military doctrine and what has been their strategic logic for the past 40 years. Their leader was crushed like an insect and no consequence came for its perpetrator, what power? Endurance, both materially and culturally, sure.
>>537004628high iq plus being sanctioned so they retained a manufacturing base
>>537004713If only they hadn't bled you dry over the years. Very short-sighted of them.
>>537004628> how are they so powerful?They are not. Blocking civilian ships in that Straight doesn't require great power.
>>537004628Their country is an equivalent of a dugout with rockets instead of machine guns, even nukes would not do much outside of killing civilians.
>>537004628Because they have nukes, the US and Israel know it, and China/Russia can plug their economy so they can bide their time.
>>537004628>are China propping them up?Yes, but also there wasn't a real invasion like Iraq. You can't defeat a dictatorial country that has nothing to lose by lobbing hail mary rockets across the border and US intel basically told Trump before the war that this operation would achieve precisely nothing (in terms of regime change) and he still went with it just to ack ayatollah.
All arab countries are synthetic. That's why they are defeated easily. Iran is an actual nation.
>>537005337they're shooting down f35s
>>537004628America has cultivated a strategy of overwhelming air power, so the Iranians (and all other enemies of the U.S., you can bet China has long thought the same way) have responded with a strategy of hardening everything essential in underground bunkers. They've just beaten our strat and we have no idea how to adjust to the new meta. We can bomb their cities but we can't hit their missile production facilities or their command and control centers, and every time we bomb a city, we make Iran look like the good guys and us look like the bad guys in the eyes of the world.
