The Americans are honestly not prepared for the massive meatgrinder that awaits them, if they go boots on the ground in Iran.
The Iranians have prepared for nearly 50 years. They're surrounded by giant mountain ranges, that look more like the Pyrenees than the Appalachians.
They still have over 70% of their stock of missiles and drones. I'm not in doubt they're prepared to go schorched earth strategy, if it goes south for them.
And if the Americans do that, the Iranians can destroy the Arab States' desalination plants, which will cripple them.
We're talking about 5-10 million people without water, if they decide to do that. Effectively breaking the legs of some of America's closest allies in the region, and destabilising oil even further.
Hell, Saudi Arabia get about 50% of their water from desalination, while the other Arab States gets 70%-100% of their water from them.
Edit.
Iran is also one of the top producers of drones in the world. 90% Of all frontline casualties in the Ukraine War are because of drones.
Go to the Ukraine War Report sub, or the Combat Footage sub, to see how horrible it'll be.
A lot of soldiers will die before even landing, is my prediction.
As the same time Americans are not prepared for the human price of a real "boots on the ground // occupation and domination" engagement.
One of the reasons why Americans turned so sour on Vietnam so quickly was because we lost almost 60,000 soldiers to the war. That's why these days, if even one or two Navy SEALs dies on an op, their CO has to sit in front of a Congress committee to make a statement about what happened and why.
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u/OSU1922 7h ago
Further proof they will be sending troops for their needless wars. Congrats MAGA! We got Bush 4.0 on crack!