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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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In January 1941 it really didn't look like USA had the stomach for a fight. They'd spent 30+ years withdrawing from the global stage, there were marches on the street to keep America out of the war in Europe.
The very fact that by 1943 they'd shipped more than a million soldiers 6,000 miles away to an entirely different continent while doing the same thing in the other direction was an unprecedented achievement.
Plus is also didn't look inevitable that the axis would lose, Germany were still steaming forward in Russia at that point it was far from certain who would prevail and if Japan hadn't hit first they would never have achieved anything.
In January ~~1941~~ 2025 it really didn't look like ~~USA~~ Iran had the stomach for a fight.
It's not really comporable though? USA had more manufacturing capacity than almost the entire rest of the world combined in 1941.
Plus Iran has consistently shown it does have the stomach for a fight. It's used terrorist cells and proxy militias to engage in indirect warfare with Israel and it's allies since the Islamic Revolution. You couldn't pick an enemy in the world more willing and able to put up a fight against Israel and America.
Certainly not in conventional means but then they've never shown any interest in conventional warfare since Iran/Iraq and they mostly won that through the use of suicide bombers disuading Hussein from perusing a ground offensive in Iran.