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[-] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 81 points 6 days ago

Significant strike. Each one of these that bite the dust means 5-10 less planes raining bombs on Tehran. Iran has excellent targeting prioritization, much better than going after schoolchildren.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 49 points 6 days ago

You can really tell they've planned this out. They took out all the early warning systems in the first days, and now they're hunting these high value targets.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago

Well when you're up against ZERO FUCKING PLAN being enacted by the world's dumbest and most arrogant leader on your own home turf... It's kind of hard to lose, I imagine.

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[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago

Russia is also coaching them and providing live target info.

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[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

The habit of a lifetime for yankee pedo in chief.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 82 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It feels like Iran is exposing the traditional US military as a bit of a paper tiger unless you count nukes. I’m sure I’m at least kinda wrong, but that’s the vibe I’m getting

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 64 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

US seemingly watched russia get rekt by ukrainian drones and decided they'd like a punch in the face as well. But who am I to judge those masochistic tendencies.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

The US military did a Tobias Funke “but maybe it’ll work for us”

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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

I think the last year of officer purges also has something to do with.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

They didn't stop with the officers. They also purged a ton of their most competent enlisted personnel.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago

This is the first time the US actually tried to fight a technologically advanced army since WW2, and the results are frankly embarrassing.

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 days ago

I am not asking for much, I just want to see the US defeated in West Asia and elsewhere around the world.

[-] racoon@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago

The US doesn’t make war to win or lose. It makes war in order to fund the weapons’ industry’s oligarchs with unlimited public money

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 days ago

While that is absolutely the case, the problem they have here is that they don't control escalatory dominance. Typically, the US can dial things up or down as convenient, and if things get too spicy they can leave without any consequence. But here, Iran controls a choke point of the global economy, and leaving would have disastrous geopolitical consequences for the US. If they're forced to abandon all their vassals in the Gulf, then their image as a world power collapses overnight. How can Europe, occupied Korea, or Japan credibly think that the US will defend them at that point?

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[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They also hit a radar and two blackhawks with drones. And the best part part is, the radar taken out was a short range radar that was supposed to be used to track drones.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago

And you can see the bases are now completely abandoned too with the drones flying through them uncontested.

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[-] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 days ago

Its been a while since I could enjoy reading news

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Pete Hegseth going over to his emergency appropriations request and adding another zero to the back end.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 days ago

It's ok, they couldn't afford the fuel anyway

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

We get to pay for that. Thanks, Daddy Donald. Such a brilliant strategic planner.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 13 points 5 days ago

It isn't about the size of the dog, it is the fight in it. The Iranian chihuahua has a death grip on the neck of the American doberman.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago

I wouldn't exactly call a country of 90 million a chihuahua.

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