iran might have nukessomething happened that they are not telling us
iran might have nukessomething happened that they are not telling us
Nah putin won't do that... He is completely in love with Trumpiii..Boots on the ground also means the most wonderful opportunity for eastern powers to give America sweet payback that has happened in decades. Russia must be salivating right now.
Likely just war mongering, trying to spread panic and justify the war to the public.
We talk about a 30 to 90km wide strait. Would even put these ships in range of some torpedos...even artillery. I would not go there at all with ships.This will bring USN ships within the range of Irans anti-shipping missiles, and potentially ship losses.
The Americans may be feeling lucky given that Iran has not been able to shoot down any jets over her airspace yet.
Likely just war mongering, trying to spread panic and justify the war to the public.
Save the part where unlike Iran, Ukraine gets some tactical and strategic overview through NATO assests that can't be targeted and destroyed.US and Israel "rolled in" air defense carpet stage by stage, thoroughly. But as Iran is just a big, mountainous country, and number of aircraft over Iran is not infinite, nor support aircraft can afford to fly over Iran(yet) - it's possible to sneak out a few small low altitude strike sorties by just via timing sorties when blue strikegroups eggress.
But this is exactly "in-between", because meeting western groups is hopeless for Iranian aircraft - not only they can't fight back, there's apparently no even firm picture of blue aircraft presense any longer.
VKS doesn't fly over FLOT at all - and as such, it is always a manageable threat in modern air combat, simply because under GAC you can always turn away and energy kill any attack. Granted, sortie is wasted, but you'll survive.
Kurds were only able to do that in Iraq because US has boots on the ground, for 15 years.From the lens of Israeli and American hardliners, the goal here isn't for the Kurds to swallow up the entirety of Iran, but for Kurdish separatists to carve out an autonomous mini-state inside Iran — Iranian Kurdistan, if we're to call it that — as they did with Iraqi Kurdistan inside Iraq.
Likewise, just as Iraqi Kurdistan effectively — but somewhat discreetly — hosts a permanent US military presence, so will Iranian Kurdistan, should it be "liberated" by Kurdish . . . I mean freedom fighters.
If things pan out for Washington and Tel Aviv, Iranian Kurdistan will serve as a base of operations — for collecting intelligence, training insurgents, and launching drone strikes, among other activities — that will weaken and disrupt, if not destabilize, the government in Tehran for years, if not decades, to come.
It’s more likely concern about boots on the ground and the U S getting pulled into a fullscale invasion.