| ▲ | ReptileMan 10 hours ago |
| >War is better for regime survival than peace. Not when your adversary has air superiority and they can just kill at will the leaders and elite and not the schmucks. Israel's tactics is to kill important people and links. |
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| ▲ | alkonaut 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Iran doesn’t have air superiority (you probably misread which countries’ regime I meant…) |
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| ▲ | ReptileMan 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Probably. Since of the three involved only Iran has a regime. The other two have democratically elected governments. | | |
| ▲ | tsimionescu 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A democratically elected government that then flaunts the law and the constitution, such as illegally attacking another country without congressional approval, is a regime. Particularly when it has historically low approval ratings. | | |
| ▲ | ReptileMan 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | >But Trump is still running ahead of his approval rating at this point in his first term. And at this point in his second term, he’s actually running slightly ahead of Obama and Bush at this point in their second terms. From Rey Teixeira. So obviously not historically low. |
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| ▲ | zelphirkalt 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Israel's government is probably only in power as long as they continue to start and wage war against countries in the neighborhood. It was very convenient for them, that the attack of October 7th happened, just when ten thousands of people went on the streets to protest against their attempt to take away power from the judges and elevate themselves. In the US the election might have been tempered with, according to newest reports, so the government might not even be actually democratically elected and Trump is playing the autocrat's playbook, going as far as arresting political opponents without a warrant. Iran no question there. That makes 3 out of 3 in my book. I am not so sure your statement is footed on a solid base these days. | | |
| ▲ | samrus 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | lets not go crazy here. israel didnt conduct those attacks as a false flag to dodge the regime change | | |
| ▲ | zelphirkalt 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Lets not jump to conclusions here, about what I meant. There are other possibilities, that you are not considering. | |
| ▲ | owebmaster 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | all my allies are heroes and my enemies degenerates |
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| ▲ | zelphirkalt 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think you need to take a look at Gaza and revise a little about Israeli tactics. |
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| ▲ | youngtaff 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Iran will just employ asymmetrical means of defense and it will go on for years Israel’s decades long subjugation of the Palestinian people hasn’t brought them closer to peace |
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| ▲ | karmakurtisaani 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Israel’s decades long subjugation of the Palestinian people hasn’t brought them closer to peace Recent events have convinced me the goal is not peace, but extermination. | | |
| ▲ | zelphirkalt 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | That will be hard to do with a whole Iraq in between. I don't think Israel's military has what it takes. They already struggled in Gaza and are on the lifeline of US support. US could probably not even do it with massive amount of effort, and it would turn into a second Vietnam for them. Without troops on the ground no chance anyway. | | |
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| ▲ | samrus 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| how long did it take to kill bin laden, the most wanted man on the planet? and what happened to afghanistan more than a decade after he was actually killed this isnt software bro. its probabilistic and has high variance. even then the expected value is vietnam |
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