Exactly... interceptors are a finite commodity. In this case the most valuable!
In a war where Iran has equal reach unlike any other conflict in recent history. It is not possible to provide safety or security to forces, bases or assets.
For US to intervene it must be able to project impunity.
It has peer competitors!!!
Looming crisis...
US cannot intervene knowing the risks involved and insufficient resources.
At best it could be a hit an run but that will imperil regional bases.
This war has been a disaster already for zion... this war has also sharply downgraded and exposed the collective in its ability to project sustained power. Once you know the limits... it becomes easier to roll back and level up.
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You are absolutely right.
I would add that something else has happened too. Muslim nation's unnatural aversion to war is gone. Since the Iraq war muslim Psyche became war avoidant due to unconscious place we held for Iraq as it was once heart of muslim power. WE started avoiding wars and often allowed others to blackmail us.
This finally changing now including for Pakistan. First short war with india and now this massive unjustified assault on Iran and ( and immense immense patience shown by the lionheart people of Gaza) has energized even Pakistan and many in rest of muslim world that war may be bad but we can handle it. Even Indian attack that literally involved the best Russian or French technology had to offer, from brahmos,, to cruise missiles and other stand off weapons of various kinds, actually only few made it and did some damage but that has massively added to our learning. Not to mention WE learned how hard it is to harm Pakistan for the enemy. That we are a huge country that can take the hits after hits and still respond. Plus it takes far too much to hurt a country so we can't be destroyed even by the largest power that easily and even if we sit passively doing nothing.
Same is true for Iran. Even though war is hard and full of hardship, they will learn that facing is much better than avoiding the war since our enemies actually intend to destroy us for no bloody reason. They want a regime where we live like cats and dogs serving only our animistic needs. Genuine moral values that built character are not needed in their world view. serving the flesh its freedom. Or else its not. 'We must follow or else we will be killed. We also cannot choose who to be friends with. If they don’t like China or Russia, then we must obey them and ditch these nations.
A total slavery is proudly being referred to as freedom. Savagery is called protecting freedom. Robing and looting while secretly controlling nations is freedom. Creating civil wars in Congo and elsewhere, installing puppets so that African babies suffer and die, but they get their “natural resources” using “Lobito Corridor” what a narcissistic self-entitled barbaric people.
They love to keep us vulnerable and weak. They harm, push us to limits and then when we react, and engage them, we are declared as the threat. Every year Israel was killing 100s' of children alone long before this war with total impunity.
Eventually someone was bound to go the extreme. especially under desperation.
Israel was narcissistically asking recognition, that muslim must trade with them, make them rich, while killing the very same muslims in Palestine and wherever they can. They were asking while they kill muslim children, muslims must let them create energy corridor using muslim energy resources to make cash for themselves and the other evil twin, india. Will amercia do that or europe if you do this to their people. Off course NOT. BUT Muslim must.
We are NOT worthy of freely choosing who we recognize, be friends with or do even trade with as we must follow "their sanction rules". That's freedom and liberty. Even in wars we must join, even their wars have nothing to do wiith us. We must give them bases, keep their stuff safe with our lives and help them kill more civilian and destroy nations so that their industry can make and test weapons on other humans. Because they have somethign callled "military industrial complex". We are here to serve that savage system and its called freedom. We better get nukes then.
Iran or other Muslims cannot have nukes so that they can do to them what they have been doing in the west banks and Gaza. Time to listen to such orders are long gone now. We now must fight for our actual freedom and be able to get whatever weapons we feel we need to keep ourselves safe. We can’t have our babies getting slaughtered by rabid dogs like they are doing to our little ones in Gaza. Muslim world should stop taking instructions from such monsters. Dealing with them once and for all is the way to go. We must unite to face this menace. Nations like Israel have NO consciousness or any sense of humanity. they can't be told they are wrong. They are programmed in a delusional visicous belief system where one of them has value far more than entire humanity whose job is to serve them.
They shoot unarmed young hungry children by luring them to "food distribution centers" run partly by US. They shoot tank rounds on them, Open fire on them, so they suffer with severe injuries and then they destroy hospitals so that muslim children with broken bones, bullet wounds, burn bodies, scream and scream until they die who were kept hungry and starving for months and years now in the first place. That evil nation wants recognition. it ordering us hey you cannot have nukes as you are bad. You have to be pure devil to accept such nation. Getting nukes agaist such nation is greatest act of good deed one can do.
Israel is devoid of humanity. Whose war doctrine begin with coward principle of attacking civilians. By nature, they rely on cruel deception and lying with no shame whatsoever. The only just war is against nations like Israel