@JimPointless Worst case scenario is adventurism/mission creep with a slow advance along the coast to intercept drones, but any ground troops will probably just become a drone target
@JimPointless My read since term started is that Rubio/Pentagon officials believes a conflict with China over Taiwan is likely in 27/28 so they have been isolating/dismantling their allies preventing a swarm but the don could just be moving because domestic policy is impossible at the moment
@Thememe26920328 @JimPointless Not a puppet leader, but someone in the regime was more moderate enough to deal, but we might past that point, better just to defang them and push the gulf states to beef up their offensive capabilities
@JimPointless I mean after the Mullahs took over, it’s essentially been constantly hostile, and has also tired to block oil flow through the strait before during the Iran-Iraq war which we intervened so I don’t think it gets much worse than it already is, they’ve always threatened the strait
@JimPointless Iran is an adversary of the US for many years, degrading their military capabilities I think ends up being very beneficial for the US even if regime change/popular revolution doesn’t occur