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Which war do you think this one will be compared to? (This is an excuse to name your favorite war, historical analogies are not expected to be analytical so just wing it.)
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A🔻atar of 🔻engeance lemmy.ml tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml
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disregardable lemmy.zip disregardable@lemmy.zip
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I don't know that this has an appropriate comparison. Right now it's more like the US committed a terrorist attack than a war.

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I don't know that this has an appropriate comparison. Right now it's more like the US committed a terrorist attack than a war.

I disagree, you're seeing the future of modern warfare defeat the quagmire-for-profit as strategy. Decentralization, drone mass-production (which Iranians codified), usage of missiles to disassemble military infrastructure and the electrical grid, long range land-to-ship combat making aircraft carriers obsolete (okay not obsolete but future ones are going to be unrecognizable to most people, I really ought to post on here completely slipped my mind), the puncturing of the advertising claims made about air defence with saturation and hypersonics + degradation of its rare earth supply chain. Ukraine lost so many electrical transformers this way that the US production lines ran into difficulty meeting the needs of repairs at home and abroad, and by the way, disabling small-scale stuff is meant to avoid denying people fresh water. Hit power generation and you're out of the game for good. Iran is aiming to destabilize banking and insurance. USA was aiming for a "short war" or I guess special combat op now iirc

Coming to terms with how little I understand the need of capital to produce these psychotic decisionmakers & internal Washington politics tbqh, got too focused abroad

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I disagree, you're seeing the future of modern warfare defeat the quagmire-for-profit as strategy. Decentralization, drone mass-production (which Iranians codified), usage of missiles to disassemble military infrastructure and the electrical grid, long range land-to-ship combat making aircraft carriers obsolete (okay not obsolete but future ones are going to be unrecognizable to most people, I ...

Your comment was interesting but a complete non sequitur to start with the claim "I disagree".

Nothing you wrote refuted the claim that the current "war on Iran" is more of a terrorist operation. Ukraine has boots on the ground so it's not really comparable to Ukraine.

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A🔻atar of 🔻engeance lemmy.ml tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml
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Your comment was interesting but a complete non sequitur to start with the claim "I disagree". Nothing you wrote refuted the claim that the current "war on Iran" is more of a terrorist operation. Ukraine has boots on the ground so it's not really comparable to Ukraine.

The terror bombing etc is their war strategy it has worked before, I don't think it is illustrative to describe it as not a war. That would be true of many military "interventions" they have conducted recently. Not something confined to terror bombing of Tehran here, that's what's being publicized in western outlets as they can feign outrage, and it is the only thing the US can pass off as a success.

The trick has been running a military the global south pays for and losing wars in a way that devastates regions to cement the hierarchy of development, infinite money, no problems right? Well,

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Korhaka sopuli.xyz Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

While not exactly a war, it may be compared to Anschluss

Edit: If they go for a land invasion, I would replace my suggestion with Stalingrad.

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eldavi lemmy.ml eldavi@lemmy.ml
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#7 · Quote Reply

it seems to be the same as all of the other hit-and-run bombings that the us empire has been doing for the last 20 year. the only difference is that it's against an adversary that has sufficiently prepared for it including a strategy that hits the empire where it's the weakest with its economy.

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sauerkrautsaul lemmus.org sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org
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#8 · Quote Reply

your favorite war

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TiredTiger lemmy.ml TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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#9 · Quote Reply

My "favorite war" is class war. 🙃

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

If troops get sent, it'll be Dry Vietnam for sure

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tomi000 lemmy.world tomi000@lemmy.world
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#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

Which of the dozens of ongoing wars are you referring to as 'this'?

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#12 · Quote Reply

The Emu War is the only one that I can see similarities.

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A🔻atar of 🔻engeance lemmy.ml tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml
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My "favorite war" is class war. 🙃

Which episode of class war is your favorite #seasonthree

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A🔻atar of 🔻engeance lemmy.ml tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml
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#14 · Quote Reply

Which of the dozens of ongoing wars are you referring to as 'this'?

My favorite one that I post about every single time I log on. The Iran-Coalition of the Epsteins war

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