The bargaining chip isn't what we already hit but what we can hit. Their ability to defend infrastructure decreases with every interceptor used. The bargaining chip is "we won't destroy this" not "look at how much we destroyed."
No, it is what you have hit. This is no longer 2 months ago where hitting our infrastructure was a possibility. They are already hitting our cement, aluminum and steel factories. They have already targeted our petrochemistry, gas fields, etc.
That bargaining chip is stupid and will eventually lead to surrender, if that's your bargaining chip. They are not going to stop because they think "you can" hit somewhere, they already know you can and they don't care apparently.
No it's selling for economic reasons, I never said otherwise. The fact is, for economic reasons they haven't intercepted any shipments yet. If they start to, Iran will stop selling and prices will rise even higher.
That will cripple Iran as well. How do you want to run a country of 93 million people without selling oil?
Also, you do realize that the collective West have not released their strategic oil reserves yet, right? It means they have long-term plans.
Vietnam didn't raise gas prices to $4 and LBJ didn't say he was going to cut all federal funding for healthcare and daycare to pay for it. They also went to the trouble of faking Tonkin while Trump just shrugged and said "bibi made me do it." And even so, Vietnam won that war regardless of how long it took them to do it.
The Vietnam War was before the Arab oil crisis in 1973. So, not really relevant. But the antiwar sentiment was much stronger than it is now. Nevertheless, it lasted 20 years.
Trump said help us, Europe said no, regardless of what reasons they have. Macron admitted Hormuz can only be opened with Iranian cooperation, and he's right. The ukroids are doing us a favor by hitting Russian oil, it increases Iran's leverage against Europe.
You missed my point. The Europeans are concerned with the overall safety of Iran because of security issues. They do not care who will control Iranian islands. In fact, the Europeans have already called Iran an invader in our 3 islands. I don't think they care if Iran loses its 3 islands or not.
Yet it means they have to take precautions, use expensive and limited stand off weapons which are not as quickly or easily replaced. This affects operational planning, suddenly the ground invasion is made less safe and more costly to cover by air and it may force them to scale back their goals.
You think air refueling helicopters deep inside our territory shows they're precautious?
Criticism can occur before and after the conflict. Spreading fears that we're going to lose land and there's no hope to defeat an invasion because of one maybe successful maybe not operation is defeatism.
We are not soldiers of the IRGC or Artesh to spread fear among our troops. And there is no guarantee about the state of affairs after this war. Criticism should always be welcome. In fact, this is the difference between our armed forces and American forces. Look at all the criticism in the US media about this war, while in our media they are framing the destruction of our critical infrastructure as winning the war and becoming a global power post-war.
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