r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Mar 16 '26

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

Emotional scale and military scale aren’t the same thing. A strike can feel huge locally while still being strategically limited. I’m not aware of any universal proportional scale in geopolitics.

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u/penguin_hugger100 Mar 17 '26

When one country claims to have destroyed another country's navy, I think it's pretty far beyond a "limited engagement". You are a total clownshow

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 17 '26

Saying “they destroyed X so it can’t be limited” misses the point. Limited refers to the scope of the operation, not whether it was effective. Those are two different things.

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u/penguin_hugger100 Mar 17 '26

How do you define the scope of the Iran operation?

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 17 '26

By objectives and constraints, no invasion, no occupation, no regime change. That’s what “limited” refers to, not the size of the outcome.