Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 20 2022 10:46pm)
Just a little reminder: Iran is four times as large as Iraq, has three times the population and an infinitely more challenging topography. Invading Iran instead of Iraq would have been magnitudes more difficult and have required manyfold more resources. Yes, the US could have done it in 2003, but the casualties and costs would have been exorbitant. And with the knowledge of hindsight about how the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have gone, it's blatantly obvious that an occupation of Iran would have ended in the same fashion, i.e. a total disaster which fails to establish a stable, democratic society.
A lasting turnaround in countries like Iran or Russia is only possible if the change is organically coming from their own people.
There is a very big fact you are missing, the majority of Iranians are Persians, of which many are loyal to the gov. Essentially US would be fighting something like 55-65% of the population, in comparison to iraq where sunnis were like 20% (the entire north (20%) was strongly anti-saddam, and the south (60%) was anti/indifferent). The iranian army wouldn't fall apart so easily because a lot of it would fight for the cause, rather than take their gun home.
Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Oct 20 2022 11:50pm)
Iran is imploding on its own. Certain agencies will also be working to facilitate more civil unrest.
France is also imploding by that narrative, as did the US which divided into 13 nations due to the civil unrest during blm
This post was edited by ownyaah on Oct 20 2022 03:19pm