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Even the total destruction of almost every building in North Korea did not defeat them.

1. They were Marxist-Leninists hardened by years of fighting and enduring Japanese colonization, occupation, and barbarity.

2. China helped them. Without the PVA it's unlikely we'd have a DPRK. We'd instead have a united occupied Korea on China's border, the remaining elements of communists would have been murdered off by the 70s or before and they would have begun causing problems for China. China's willingness to not blink in the face of the threat of nukes plus big brother USSR looming over them with newly acquired nuclear weapons really helped and probably swayed western planners not to nuke China with the idea that if they did it might push the USSR to use nuclear weapons back in their own next conflict against the west.

3. The US will absolutely accept a Libya or Syria style situation. The zionists are deranged and hope for a puppet but the reality is so long as the central government is removed and the IRGC scattered to the wind the US can and should count it as a victory for their hegemony and the final piece in their designs for strangling China that they need in place before launching a hot war and all out sanctions and decoupling against them to decide who controls the rest of this century and sets the agenda for the next.

I cannot recall a non-Marxist-Leninist power that resisted a direct war with the US and "won". The Taliban sorta but also sort not because the US held them off for 20 years and successfully occupied the country for as long and really just kind of got tired and decided it wasn't important to hold the country and wanted its resources elsewhere. I also can't say for certain the US didn't decide they wanted the Taliban to stick around in some form and couldn't bring themselves to get rid of a former tool like that for some reason and so hampered their efforts to truly win by trying to have their cake (image of western liberal "democracy" puppet gov) and eat it too (Taliban proxies to use on others elsewhere from say Pakistan).

If the US could keep Iran from being an anti-imperialist power for a mere 10 years that would likely be enough time for their designs on China. The fact is the US tried to turn Afghanistan into a proper western puppet state under the neo-con model of building this perfect western puppet "democracy", if they'd from the start just tried to keep it destabilized by creating other factions like ISIS and so on and playing them and warlords off the Taliban it's quite possible they could keep it in a Libya type failed state situation without one singular government for decades. They also were not able to operate with full effort against the Taliban in Pakistan as though they flew tons of drones and killed lots of them and lots of civilians Pakistan's nuclear status meant they couldn't just straight up invade even if they'd wanted to. Iran has no nuclear armed neighbor its forces can retreat over the border to regroup under, all its neighbors are hostile and in bed with the zionist entity or client states of the US.

Even wins by ML states are few. Korea is kind of a half-win as the DPRK remained but the US occupies the southern half to this day, Vietnam was the only solid, uncontestable win. Every other attempted revolution was crushed usually using coups, fascist strongmen, military juntas, and so on without the need for a direct US war.

Eh sorry but people said the same type of things about Syria and Assad at the start of that. The US doesn't have to defeat Iran right away, they just have to disable the central government, plunge the country into economic and other forms of chaos and keep them in a state of civil or other war for years until society starts to break down. Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria. This isn't just a "greater israel" thing like Lebanon was, Iran is a bonafide regional power and a big partner for China and Russia.

In 2002 Iran's small boats very well would have defeated the US navy in the strait of Hormuz but 2002 didn't have zionist/US/UK hackers who could disable and destroy their logistics, communication, and physical equipment with advanced malware and electronic warfare. It didn't have an Iran that had been under the kinds of sanctions it's been under for decades that started in the 2000 with Bush's "axis of evil" stuff.

I hope Iran pulls out a win but I could see them collapsing so many ways. This is a big, big moment and if they do manage to stand and fend off the US it spells doom for the empire. If the empire wins well China will find itself in a very, very bad position and with it the world.

There will be tremendous bloodshed, no doubt, it'll be horrific

This is exactly what im pessimistic about