Feels like Iran is the big last hurrah before drones change the battlefield in the same way steel canons did.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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Iranian drones have existed since 2015 and somehow the US is still not prepared for it
The US isn't capable of anything approaching peer conflict, and these chucklefucks thought they were going to fight China. These are the true believers in American exceptionalism - America is so great it doesn't need things like supply lines or an industrial base!
They're also hampered by neoliberalism and free market ideology. They actually really believe that the best solutions will always come from private industry, so we just need to give them enough room to grow with tax cuts and deregulation. Oops. 🤷♀️
The same private industry that off-shored as much manufacturing as possible and pocketed the rest. If people can't see the contradictions of capitalism after the war with Iran, they're just not paying attention.
The US seems to be very vulnerable to a drone attack like this one that took out a dozen Russian bombers last summer.
Aww, did someone proliferate military technology under the assumption that nobody else would ever get their hands on it?