Right, I agree with all that, my impression is that this particular form of protest is entirely performative though. They never seem to translate into actually building things like mutual aid networks, unions, or any other kind of permanent structures. It would be nice if people would start doing those things for a change.

Right, I really can’t see how the US can win this war or even exit it with any sort of dignity. It’s a massive geopolitical humiliation.

Pretty much, we see this sort of thing happening every few years and people still don’t understand that protests on their own accomplish nothing. You have to build dual power to organize things like strikes and work stoppages. That’s what hurts capital. The protests come after that.

I don’t see any evidence to suggest that Tue US has superior military capability to Iran.

That’s frankly delusional. Iran is a country of 90 million people. The US does not have the resources to, as you say, roll them. In fact, it’s pretty clear that US army isn’t even prepared for the realities of modern warfare like drones.

They’re one of a handful of nations that are able to put a satellite in orbit and they have hypersonic weapons that burgerland is still isn’t able to procedure, but do go on.

you’re right might be premature to get excited about this, I’ll wait for a better source and repost

yeah just screwed up the link, updated to a current one

While that is absolutely the case, the problem they have here is that they don’t control escalatory dominance. Typically, the US can dial things up or down as convenient, and if things get too spicy they can leave without any consequence. But here, Iran controls a choke point of the global economy, and leaving would have disastrous geopolitical consequences for the US. If they’re forced to abandon all their vassals in the Gulf, then their image as a world power collapses overnight. How can Europe, occupied Korea, or Japan credibly think that the US will defend them at that point?

they do have a lot of experience with US tactics over the past for years they can pass on

You can really tell they’ve planned this out. They took out all the early warning systems in the first days, and now they’re hunting these high value targets.

Iraq had mostly 70s tech, and the US did manage to break their army initially and topple the government. It was a disaster in strategic terms, but Iraqi regular army was no match for the US. This time around, Iran actually appears to have the upper hand. They’ve pushed out the US out of their bases across the region, destroyed billions if not trillions in the infrastructure that the US built up over many decades, and they’re eliminating American air power which was thought to be untouchable. This is truly unprecedented.

And you can see the bases are now completely abandoned too with the drones flying through them uncontested.

This is the first time the US actually tried to fight a technologically advanced army since WW2, and the results are frankly embarrassing.

that’s the biggest fear

gonna have to outsource that to local talent like al-Sharaa

That’s a heck of a euphemism for the US abandoning their bases.

I wonder what lobbying conglomerate he’s angling to lead in his next chapter

bye princess

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