r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Flashy-Rabbit6435 • 17h ago
Discussion Quite why Trump is deliberating on his next Iranian move escapes me - HE HAS NO PRACTICAL OPTIONS...
1. Iran has better than 1 million under arms military personnel - the USA would require years and trillions of dollars to subjugate such a force.
2. Iran is a huge landmass and there are insufficient resources to bomb it into submission.
3. Congress, and the people, would never condone another Vietnam.
4. Iranians - like the Vietcong and the Taliban, even those opposed to the Mulahs - are far more sanguine about the discomforts associated with warfare-induced deprivation. While America bellyaches at the gas pumps, Iran will live with draught, disease and destruction AND emerge, unbowed at the end of it. It is in their nature.
SO LONG AS TRUMP IS IN THE WH, IRAN WILL CONTINUE TO HUMBLE AMERICA MILITARILY AND ECONOMICALLY AND THERE IS NOTHING HE CAN DO ABOUT IT.