Iran is clearly trying to break the alliance network between USA, its vassal state Israel, and their allies, both other governments and corporations. And it’s doing so by showing that:
Those alliances don’t benefit USA’s allies. For example, showing that USA won’t defend them when they’re attacked, and instead will run away with tail between legs.
Those alliances cost too much to USA’s allies. For example, corporations put their investments at risk by simply being associated with the United-Statian government. (Remember corpos don’t give a fuck about human lives, but they do care about money.)
The news is an example of #2. From Iran’s PoV the best outcome is OpenAI cutting ties with the rogue state; the second best is to get rid of its tendrils in the region. So the goal is not escalation, but the threat needs to have some bite so it can’t be a simple bluff. Also note Iran already attacked AWS data centres so…
I also don’t think indiscriminate killing is part of Iran’s goals (unlike USA’s and Israel’s) so issuing a pre-emptively warning lets people to evacuate the region. This also helps to further disrupt operations so it’s a win-win.
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.
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.
Oh no! Anyway…
If I’m analysing this right, it’s neither.
Iran is clearly trying to break the alliance network between USA, its vassal state Israel, and their allies, both other governments and corporations. And it’s doing so by showing that:
The news is an example of #2. From Iran’s PoV the best outcome is OpenAI cutting ties with the rogue state; the second best is to get rid of its tendrils in the region. So the goal is not escalation, but the threat needs to have some bite so it can’t be a simple bluff. Also note Iran already attacked AWS data centres so…
I also don’t think indiscriminate killing is part of Iran’s goals (unlike USA’s and Israel’s) so issuing a pre-emptively warning lets people to evacuate the region. This also helps to further disrupt operations so it’s a win-win.
So what you are trying to say is that the leadership in Iran is using their brain cells and the USA leadership isn’t
You need to have a braincell in order to use it tho. It’s an unfair comparison between the two.
Yup, pretty much.
Yeah Iran has been preparing for this for decades and it absolutely shows.
How does it show?
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.
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.
No im sorry this sounds too much like strategy.
Military is expected to strategise, not just to go loco-loco.
No im sorry thats nerd shit. Also cheating. Im telling their mom.
They aren’t even save-scumming or modding to remove FoW. That’s fiiiine.