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Highly doubt it. Iran isn’t just Iraq 2.0, they have a large military. Better missiles than the US, even! Doubt the navy wants to see Kaliburs introduce a carrier to the sea floor.
Remembering that interview with a lib podcast where said something to the effect of “Iran has a moral imperative to obtain nukes” to deter US invasion and it stunlocked the hosts
It was this incredible interview with Yahoo News’ podcast
https://youtu.be/leDn52N1nr0?t=252
It is a painful but funny listen, as well as the ep of chapo in which they listen back to and comment on the lib interviewers being insane. These are experienced even prolific lib journalists. The old guy broke a bunch of torture stories in the 2000s. But they are utterly cooked, they are more aghast at them insulting the west wing than the Iran nukes thing
Korean historian Stephen Gowans (sp?) essentially shared this take somewhat apologetically on RevLeft Radio at the end of the interview, saying that the DPRK having developed a substantial stock of nuclear arms is the best case scenario.
My only point of disagreement there is that he said as much gingerly instead of with his whole chest. I suppose standing on business isn’t conducive to being tenured in a shithole western country though.
I believe that was Felix on the pod Jon’s podcast, Lovett or Leavitt. It was a live recording but the pod Jon edited out a bunch of stuff Felix said for the official release. You can find the crappy raw audio files from the audience though if you look hard enough
Iran has a top 5-10 military in the world. It depends on how much you weigh being a nuclear power and whether you think Iran has nukes.
Iran loves edging about the nukes; I think they actually don’t have any, but have the materials and expertise to make them very quickly if the need arises. So if they think shit is about to go down they could prolly whip up a couple warheads and put them on whatever nuclear capable launch systems they have, or get some donated by Russia and China.
It’s not. But the US seems completely unwilling to rein in Israel/Bibi. I think there’s a very good chance Bibi continues the escalations to war. Once Israel is at war on 4 fronts, I don’t think there’s any way the US doesn’t put boots on the ground. Israel is already low on manpower (they’ve already expanded mandatory enlistment).
Did you just say Iran has better missiles than the US? In what fantasy world are you living in?
Edit:iraq = iran
The USA doesn’t have jinking hypersonic missiles. Iran does. So, jot that down.
Honest question, but anti missile defenses don’t really work (see iron dome) against traditional missiles and there is no effective way to defend against ICBMs. So what’s the value of a low flying, fast missile that can’t be shot down compared to a high flying, slow missile that is cheaper and also can’t really be shot down?
