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Cake day: November 9th, 2021

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  • … How many villages in southern Lebanon has the IDF captured, again?

    Let me guess, you think declaring victory and running away in 2006 meant they won, right?

    Man, you should talk to Emperor Gowron. You guys share some ideas.

    Edit: and no, cutting edge weapons systems on the Iranian/Russian side have not been used. The west would literally salivate at the opportunity to get some real world data on the S500.

    Also, the purpose of American weapons systems is not to be the best. The purpose is to be an expensive and effective way to funnel middle class money to the stock holders of Boeing and Raytheon. Good military systems are as effective as they need to be while being cheap enough to manufacture in large numbers. An anti missle defense system that costs 2 million per missile intercepted when the missiles themselves cost 10 - 100k is an absolute failure, even if it intercepts everything it targets.

    Frankly, the country with the most impressive drone program in the world is Yemen.








  • So inferior that the Israel strike that was supposed to accomplish SEAD turned and fled when target locked by an unknown anti air defense system?

    Most (including US) current generation weapons systems have been untested. There is a reason and a strategy for all weapons producing countries doing the same thing. Using current generation systems where their effectiveness can be studied by the enemy is giving the enemy free information.

    In other words, using qualifiers like inferior or superior for literally untested weapons(and yes, weapons are untested until used against an enemy) Is purely a faith/propaganda thing.






  • Their Oct 1 attacks were in response to the assassination of Nasrallah, in combination with a response to the assassination of a visiting diplomat in Tehran from a separate attack from Israel.

    Iran agreed not to respond to the assassination because the US promised that if Iran didn’t respond, the US would secure a peace deal for Gaza.

    The fact that they delivered and the US didn’t is well known to the Persian people, even if it isn’t here. And, the lack of response was considered internally there as encouraging Israeli aggression.

    The whole ‘nothing is more important than the US election’ is far less accurate than you think it is.


  • Iran has it’s own internal politics and factions it needs to appease.

    This is true of most countries too.

    The US invasion of Iraq had far more to do with internal politics than it did with any actions of Saddam.

    The current elected leader of Iran was actually the concillatory to the west candidate, elected when tensions were not quite as high.

    Now that tensions are high, he has to prove he’s not too weak to his own constituency, as the Persian people come together under what they consider to be an unjust attack.

    Again, this is true in general for most countries. Foreign policy is driven far more by domestic politics then most people consider.