• deeprlyeh@lemmus.org
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      6 hours ago

      IEDs are cheap and easy. This will go one as long as they want. Nothing can be done about it now.

      Once you use mines, you have to assume there is always mines. Oil prices will never go down now. Insurances companies will see to that.

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        This wasn’t even an IED, it was a projectile per the article.

        Iran is a large mountainous country, with tons of places to hide launchers, all within range of the strait. And unlike Afghanistan, it’s a very well educated country capable of producing its own sophisticated weapons. There’s a reason Russia of all countries turned to them for help against Ukraine.

        These aren’t improvised explosives, they’re carefully engineered. There’s a reason why the west has long avoided direct confrontation with Iran, most recognized the tar baby situation a war would cause. They’re not some country utterly reliant on cold war stockpiles to conduct war.

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          tar baby situation

          Wow, that is the first time I’ve seen that word used in the non-slur sense.

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          I understand. What Im saying is regardless they can keep this up indefinitely through far cheaper means. No amount of destruction can stop it, military intervention cant stop it, nothing can. Until they are done.