• Mothra@mander.xyz
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      5 months ago

      So what you are trying to say is that the leadership in Iran is using their brain cells and the USA leadership isn’t

        • tyler@programming.dev
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          5 months ago

          cellular command structure, complete control of the straight with an army that has 1/100th the budget, less than a quarter of the naval fleet of the US, 1/30th the airpower, and has hardly any support in the region compared to pretty much all of europe and the Middle East actively providing support to the US. The U.S. has claimed multiple times it’s stopped Iran’ss ability to fight and that hasn’t been true a single time.

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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            5 months ago

            Bro the Iranian navy isn’t a quarter of the naval fleet power of a carrier group much less the whole US Navy

            Naval comparison gets a little tricky but the best simple statistic is tonnage or you get silly things like Coast Guard speedboats counting the same in the comparison as a modern destroyer.

        • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu
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          5 months ago

          They’re bashing millions of dollars in equipment with tens of thousands of dollars in equipment. There is absolutely positively no way for them to win the war but they can make it so prohibitively expensive as to be untenable. That’s the only strategy that ever worked against imperial armies.