So you bombed a school with kids in it. Big whoop.
Iran is more culturally homogenous than the Balkans and many Arab countries. All your points are valid, but I don't think ethnic conflict is likely in Iran. I think the plan is eliminate Iran as a threat when they are at their weakest and be done with it. Is that a smart idea? I don't know because I can't see the future. What I do know is that a lot of Americans, myself included, will be very upset if Trump sends troops into Iran. Maybe he's considering it and is seeing what happens after the midterms. It could be that Trump is playing the waiting game to see what the regular people in Iran do versus the theocratic government. If the leaders dig their heels in and IRGC morale holds, then all of this just sets the timer back a few years.
They don't seem to have had any problem stopping ships passing the straight of hummus, and setting fire to those who tried. Not a single US ship has escorted anyone through so far.
you mean in the past few days, after which we destroyed the rest of their navy, including their minelayers? after we've made it so that their drone warfare is going to have to deal with the literal hard-counter russia and ukraine have been developing in their drone war? why do you think they were so fucking pissed about the drones from ukraine being sent to the US military?
The plan was to obviously destroy Iran much like how Trump killed Venezuela and to install a puppet regime that would be more favorable to the long term goals of Israel. First it was that worthless south American nation, next it was Iran, and afterwards Cuba. Basically a 4 day SMO. However, Iran surprisingly managed to fight back and so Trump is looking at ways to end the conflict as soon as possible while carrying out his directives from above. Midterms be damned.
Cope harder. The USA couldn't defeat Iraq and Afghanistan after 20+ years, and now Trump is busy begging other countries to donate ships to fight in his war since the Iranian regime didn't fall after 3 days.
The US (and its allies) achieved military victory in the initial Afghanistan invasion in less than 10 weeks. In Iraq, it took less than 6 weeks. You can quibble about how the overall plan of introducing DEMOCRACY and stability failed in the end, but militarily those operations were a slam dunk. It's like saying that the Soviet Union couldn't defeat Germany and the Baltic countries, because Soviet Union is no more and those countries exist today.
It took the USA 21 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, and when they left, they couldn't take off fast enough. The Iraq war resulted in the Republican Guard waging warfare for another decade, and eventually the rise of ISIS.
I think all Trump saw was that 80% of Iranians supported a regime change and assumed it'd work out like Venezuela.
Hahahahahaha, get off your alt, Badman
Trump isn't dumb enough to reveal his hand to a traitorous media who will do whatever they can to sabotage him. He'll keep his own council with the people he trusts. Completely consistent with the way he always operates.
Wouldn't be surprised if those polls included the insatiably bloodthirsty 2nd/3rd generation Iranian exiles whose views on foreign policy can be summed up as "fuck you grandma".
If you begin a statement with this it cancels out the rest of whatever you're going to say.
I'd say a more pressing existential threat to the world is a country who currently has nuclear capability with a history of waging unilateral wars of aggression against its neighbors. Thankfully there's no country like that today and we're effectively preventing one from springing up in Iran.
Ask Israel. We aren't in the driver's seat.
did they have any plan so that iran didnt target them too or did they expect we'd just go full iraq quick enough to avoid them having to conjure a menorah fingered homunculus netenyahu?
