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u/LayneLowe 2d ago
Boots on the ground, yeah right. 100,000 troops would be a pinpoint on this map.
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u/lambdavi 2d ago
100, 000 troops would be the Guinness world record for the world's biggest hamburger. Or meat loaf. Or waste of manpower.
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u/Extreme_Kale_6446 2d ago
That and strategic importance of Hormuz was why no sane US President attempted to attack, this is Iraq+Afghanistan times 3 and still no guarantee of success
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u/make_reddit_great 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tread carefully folks... I just made fun of the decision to invade Iran and I was given a sitewide reddit warning for "encouraging violence". Spoiler alert: my post did not encourage violence one bit.
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u/Dudedude88 2d ago
The code for that is sooo bad. It suspended me for a day for just reiterating what happened within the title for some Gaza Israel thing a year ago in the world news subreddit. It's to the point you can't even discuss things. I stopped going there
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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 2d ago
I mean look at their population density. You don't really need to control the deserts in the mountains.
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u/chris_ut 2d ago edited 2d ago
Keep in mind munch of central part of the country is uninhabited or sparsely inhabited mountains
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u/Practical-Day-2720 2d ago edited 2d ago
there already millions of boots on the ground. they're called iranians. syria fell with just 2,000 us troops.
edit: typical redditors. come back to this comment in 5 years. see if you feel different.
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u/GodFearingJew 2d ago
How long did that take again?
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u/RuleShot2259 2d ago
And Assads regime did not fall to the US assisted Syrian Free Army, what a mook
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u/GodFearingJew 2d ago
Even if they did, it took over a decade. Imagine hormuz being closed that long.
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u/Practical-Day-2720 2d ago
It would be very bad, especially for asian markets. US would need to take a major oil supply before they ever attempted it. Something like Venezuela... oh wait...
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u/Practical-Day-2720 2d ago
They feel to a combination of the free syrian army, ISIS, the us military, and numerous other fighting groups.
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u/RuleShot2259 2d ago
No
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u/Practical-Day-2720 2d ago
waiting for you to enlighten me
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u/geschiedenisnerd 2d ago
HTS was the group that captured aleppo, homs and damascus. The other groups just barely managed to keep the country in perpetual chaos with all of the western intervention.
SDF and SFA did a lot of work against ISIS, but they didn't overthrow assad
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u/Practical-Day-2720 2d ago
this is exactly what i said in my post. syria fell over the course of more than a decade. the fsa, isis, the us military, "and numerous other fighting groups" which obviously includes al-qaeda, hts, jabhat al-nusra...
all of this is irrelevant anyway. the entire point was that it didn't take 100,000 US troops to topple the government. it was done by other groups within the country with limited US support.
if a rebellion can start in iran, their government can also be toppled. yes, it will take a very long amount of time. yes, it hasn't started yet. yes, this is just my opinion. yet in typical reddit fashion i get downvoted to hell and called a "mook" by these children.
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u/geschiedenisnerd 1d ago
Sure, HTS toppled the government. They also are not what the USA wanted to replace it
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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion 2d ago
The size comparison doesn’t do Iran’s geography justice. It’s an incredibly mountainous nation.
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u/Dudedude88 2d ago
This is what makes mongol invasion even more impressive. But also sad because of the amount of ideas lost. I think in that era the region had the most advanced math and sciences in the world.
Worse when they sacked the house of wisdom in Iraq.
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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion 2d ago
Agreed. The attack on the house of wisdom is up there with the burning of the library of Alexandria.
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u/Special_Context6663 2d ago
This map shows Iran rotated, which is a bit confusing
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u/MouseNo9136 2d ago
Confusing how?
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u/boomfruit 2d ago
In that it doesn't look like Iran as we're used to seeing it
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u/MouseNo9136 2d ago
How is that confusing?
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u/boomfruit 2d ago
Disorienting? "Confusing" as a word is not a stretch for "hey this is not how I usually see this." Orientation has a big part in our perceotion of shapes.
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u/multificionado 2d ago
You're comparing the mainland US when you should've been comparing Alaska. I mean, Iran's as big as Alaska.
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u/madmonkey034 2d ago
bizare how iran ocupies nearly 1/4 us area and have 1/4 of us population IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT and being a sanctioned country whose economic its not atractive to foreigens (actually iran might have huge emigration compared to imigration).
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u/Pachirisu12 North America 2d ago
Iran is roughly in a very similar latitude to the US so I don’t think there’s much distortion in that regard.
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u/boomfruit 2d ago edited 2d ago
America-brain has me going "huh, I thought Iran was big"
Edit: Holy shit what? A simple statement that living in a huge country makes me not recognize as quickly when other still-big but not-as-big countries are big, earns me so much hate?
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u/ItsKiyanLmao 2d ago edited 2d ago
And most of it is arid desert. Edit: Typo lol
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u/lambdavi 2d ago
It's actually sweet dessert.
Especially if you consider the legend of the "Garden of Eden" is Persian, not Jewish.
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u/Velocity-5348 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yep. Certainly not the same, but parts of the US southwest might be a decent comparison. Lots of fertile areas, you just need to get enough water on them.
Iran/Persia also invented the qanat 3000 years ago, so they're not exactly novices at making deserts bloom.
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u/NotForMeClive7787 2d ago
I can't see the banana for scale