didn't they move their operations to hotels and civilian office building?
will bombing them be considered a legitimate target? are they using local population as human shield?
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Aside from Iran starting to charge a toll and control traffic through Hormuz, this is the other most consequential outcome of the war. All the infrastructure that the US spent decades building is now useless. Iran proved that none of these bases were defensible, and they destroyed billions, if not trillions, worth of radars and other high tech equipment, not to mention the cost of building these bases themselves. The entire US position in the region has now collapsed, and there's no going back to the way things were before.
Those bases were never thought to need defense other than local riots. The thought was that nobody would dare attack them. They were seen as defense by their nature of existing. The defense being the threat of American offense coming a week later to wreak havoc. But if you put a country on their heels, what difference does it make? Might as well go out swinging, and that's what they did, and it worked.
It's almost like things didn't go as planned or something.
That implies that a plan even existed.
They're trying to bring about the end times.
A plan did exist, and it was serving the interest of the American Empire quite well.
Iran was effectively contained and economically suppressed by America and its Epstein class allies in the GCC and Israel.
But that plan was successful in part because of the conflict adverse posture of the Iranian leadership.
So when they were all killed, that plan went poof.
Whoopsie daisy.
Now we have no plan.
You bring up quite a good point that I hadn’t considered or heard yet. Part of the working reason for which Iranians were suppressed in their ability on the world stage was, in fact, because of their leadership. Leadership with a curated history of relations with the US, which made them more reluctant. The US has now killed that leadership, leaving us with a more adversarial version of the former Iran and now it appears they’ll have a larger say in international affairs moving forward. It’s ironic that killing the leadership was seen as an attempt to undermine the regime, when put this way it seems to have achieved the exact opposite. Isn’t that such an astoundingly idiotic overplay of the hand you’re holding.
Certainly not one rooted in reality and spanning longer than a couple days.