• Sundial@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    That’s why Iran’s direct, retaliatory responses have been so tepid

    No, it’s because America is holding a gun to their head saying “Try Something, we dare you.” Can Israel beat Iran in a fight? Maybe. Can they occupy it? Definitely not, they’re struggling to occupy Gaza and Lebanon who are being defended by militia groups. Iran is too big and has too big a population to be occupied by only Israel. And let’s not even get into what their neighbors would do. Even their biggest friend, Saudia Arabia, has starting telling Israel to not use their airspace and not target certain Iranian targets. Israel and Iran fights, it becomes a regional war. And the entire region hates Israel with a passion, so it’s not a stretch to think Israel would fight a lot more than Iran in that kind of war.

    1,600,000 ground troops the Pentagon plans to send in this scenario. Iran knows all this.

    Where’d you get that number from? That’s much more than half of the entire size of the US military. I highly doubt they would deploy that number of troops to a single area in any conflict.

    Going to make Netanyahu look like Ghandi.

    Netanyahu would be Hitler in this case. Creating a regional, or even a world, war in the name of race superiority and ethnic cleansing. Oh wait, he’s already doing that never mind.

    Luckily, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, so something can be done about it.

    Calling Israel a democracy is a bit of a stretch IMO. A healthy democracy doesn’t limit journalistic integrity as well as imprison and kill journalists who speak up. Israel is pretty radicalized thanks to the culture of propaganda the government has propped up and uses. If you’re constituents can’t actually make informed decisions because you limit what they can know. Then it’s not a proper democracy.