If I see anyone using the word "allow" or "allowed" again I'm ignoring their posts completely as they're mired in the Western hegemonic mindset. Israel, the US, the EU... none of them possess the power to determine outcomes these days.
Iran didn't start this war with hundreds or even thousands of missiles... they started it with tens of thousands, albeit of course lesser quantities of the most effective varieties (which they've been smartly firing off first). They've been stockpiling in deep underground facilities for decades anticipating these events. They've had a North Korean mindset ever since the Shah was overthrown.
Israel, OTOH, has been regularly depleting it's Iron Dome magazines fighting Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and others. The US & EU are also getting critically low on Patriots, THAADS, SM3's & SM6's. There's no question Iran has more missiles than there's AD to defend against them, especially when you consider they fire off at least 2 AD missiles for every target.
That doesn't even mention Iran's drones. They may have hundreds of thousands of those, more of which will appear as Israeli AD degrades. It's just like Ukraine... at some point EVERYTHING will get through, and it'll just keep coming.
Most people don't realize that Iran's industrial capacity is quite large. Like Russia, they've been heavily sanctioned for years and thus forced to develop and manufacture everything on their own.
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Do I fear nukes? YES. Bibi's as mad as Zelensky, but between Russia, China, NK & Pakistan pressuring Israel (and warning the US) I'm fervently hoping it doesn't go that far because that will lead to WWIII.
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As noted by Tom and others, this is overwhelmingly an air war, but Israel can't sustain an air war especially if their airbases are under continual missile & drone attack. That's likely why we're seeing bases in other countries being utilized, and why Israel's now begging for US assistance.IMHO Israel thought this would already be over by now, and whatever Mossad dirty tricks they had have almost certainly been played.
[AND YES, I admit I could be entirely wrong and full of sh!t, but this is how I see it.]
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 15 2025 18:19 utc
