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It will be kind of same story with Pakistan, after 5-7 days of intense war, they would be in similar state.I'm appalled. Iran, using PMU militias, placed Iran oriented Shia candidates in the Iraqi (enemy state) parliament, managed to hold Assad's hand throughout the entire civil war till Russians started wrapping up and other factors (Assad made a lot of big mistakes last year which led to his downfall this year), had control over Lebanon with a near iron grip using Hezbollah and was financing and keeping the Palestinian and Houthi terrorists up to snuff.
Such outsized influence and I would sit down and marvel reading about IRGC's exploits. Truly world class capability in assymetric and unconventional warfare.
Naturally, I assumed that their conventional military would be sort of somewhere around the same level. I assumed that that level of mental bandwidth would at least hold up their conventional capability too.
Now it seems like the Iranian regime focused their entire attention and put all of their best men in Basij and ignored their conventional capability to what we see now.
The hardest part of the war for the Israelis so far has been stopping Iranian missiles on population centers and target prioritisation according to a missile's ROI.
It's honestly way way worse than Pakistan or some African countries.
Both relying on using unconventional means to drive their foreign policy and military outlook.