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Lmao sure.
Look at Vietnam, look at Afghanistan.
The US may claim at one point "Mission accomplished" but their soldiers may keep dying from IEDs, sniper and mortar attacks even a decade later...
Only America could lose back to back wars in both of Iran's neighbors and think they are invincible.
A land war against Iran would likely go like worse than Afghanistan, Iran has a trained paramilitary that is at a minimum 3 or 4 times the size the Taliban was at the peak of the war in Afghanistan, plus they have likely been trained based on the success of the Afghanistan.
Not only that, but only the most corrupt officials are going to be willing to run the puppet state, given it's just a matter of time until the regime collapses and is replacing by something worse (and all it's public figures are forced to flee or die).
Like sure the US could technically win a war, but by any reasonable definition the war won't end until they leave in defeat.
Seriously though. Even if the US military gets a foothold in Iran, they're still never going to be able to supply enough forces to overrun a mountainous desert twice the size of Texas with 90 million inhabitants. Afghanistan is a piece of cake by comparison, and the combined forces of NATO failed to effect regime change there. Iran is a fucking fortress. America will lose, again, if they try to march on it. And that's possibly what Netenyahu wants to see.
Or so I've heard.
"Try that shit on my M. Bison!!"
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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