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HokieAl

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Everything depends on what we do next


This response, from a military perspective, was less than I expected. But from a political perspective it is very strategic.

In order to respond against Iran targets, we would have to attack something inside their border. And that would be a major escalation because so far, everything has been done inside Iraq (which I’m sure they are tired of).

If we don’t do that then we either do nothing (not likely with the current admin), or we attack more of their proxies in Iraq. And either one of those gives Iran a PR win for their people by being able to say that they bloodied us and we didn’t hit them back.

I hope that things settle into some kind of stalemate, but my gut has a bad feeling. Too much at stake for leaders in both countries to expect an easy out this time.

[Post edited by HokieAl at 01/07/2020 11:32PM]

(In response to this post by bigbadbird)

Posted: 01/07/2020 at 9:45PM



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