Plus even the ones they do detain are costing them millions in fuel and maintenance. Surely even monopoly finance capital will realize there’s upper limits to what can be captured.

o7

Good thing Iran knows all of this, and are actively preparing for the inevitable next round. And Russia and China will not stand idly by, however much they downplay their roles publicly.

It’s not wise to underplay this. If they’re planning a ground invasion, their end goal is causing as much death and destruction as possible to collapse the government.

Agreed. This has been the US playbook for many decades now, and can be traced back to the genocidal tactics used by its first settlers. As Marxists, we know the long term trend is the collapse of western capital. But that doesn’t tell us much about the short or even medium term. For that, we can only understand the balance of forces by what’s already happened, and project from there.

How do they still have so many weapons stores? I wonder if Iran has been or will start targeting them soon.

Forgive me if I sound more poetic than materialist

It’s ok. Sometimes, the material reality is already poetic.

Thanks for the detailed reply! Here’s hoping they turn out to be just the latest neoliberal MIC boondoggle.

“You get a hypersonic to the face! You get a hypersonic to the face! Everyone gets a hypersonic to the face!”

These are their weird expensive shaheds, as you can tell.

Is…is it made out of cardboard?

Compradors. That’s my very limited knowledge, but it seems us/isntreal has managed to build and maintain a compliant ruling class for quite some time now.

What were they washing dishes with? TNT? 🤣

Edit: I missed who the OP was, as I believed this was something CENTCOM might actually say.

That makes sense. And their abuse won’t stop until enough of them are put in the ground.

Settler brain is something else. They’re being actively, systematically destroyed by Iran, and instead of fleeing the sinking ship, they try to inflict one last wound on the Palestinians before their colony is reduced to ashes. I really wish I believed in Hell at times like this.

Iran has been incredibly systematic and thorough in blinding the empire. Taking out the AWACS and maybe RC-135s is hopefully the last phase. What else does us/isntreal have left besides satellites after that?

o7 o7 o7

It was in response to isntreal bombing Yemen since March 15th. They likely would have preferred not to get involved at this moment so they could continue to rebuild from previous attacks, and also seemed to defer to Iran.

That all said, full support and incredible respect to Ansar Allah and the people of Yemen. This was never their fight, but they joined anyway, and were likely decisive with their blockade and strikes on isntreal.

Ah, famously “neutral” Switzerland buying arms from and getting punked by the global hegemon.

Whoopsies, guess that attack on Kharg is out for now…

We should take Iran at its word: they are monitoring US troop movements. They will not be surprised by when and where the US picks to land.

I hope they reduced the place to ashes. That stuff is fucking evil.