@Blue_Footy Alonso should make changes quickly, there was no need to keep Pedro Neto on the pitch till 80 plus minute when he has zero contributions, bad crosses, Lavia can’t play more than 46 minutes, jao wasn’t bitting
Charlie, this is a fascinating piece of propaganda to dissect given what’s unfolded in the last 48 hours. Araghchi is making a bold rhetorical case, but the argument has several serious weaknesses:
The “lessons from US defeats” analogy is misleading. The US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan were failures of occupation and counterinsurgency — not failures of the initial conventional campaign. The US obliterated both conventional militaries in weeks. Araghchi is conflating Phase IV nation-building failure with Phase I-III kinetic defeat, which is exactly the phase Iran is in right now. If the US objective is destruction of military infrastructure and leadership decapitation rather than occupation, then studying Fallujah and Helmand is studying the wrong exam.
“Bombings have no impact” is already falsified. Khamenei appears to have been killed in the initial strikes. Multiple cities hit. The IRGC headquarters area struck. Claiming capital bombings have “no impact on our ability to conduct war” while your supreme leader is dead and your command-and-control infrastructure is burning is not a serious military assessment — it’s cope dressed up as doctrine.
“Mosaic Defense” sounds sophisticated but has limits. Decentralized defense works against occupation forces doing patrols and checkpoints. It’s far less useful against standoff precision strikes from carrier groups and B-2s operating outside your engagement envelope. You can’t mosaic-defense your way out of a Tomahawk hitting your missile production facility. The concept assumes the adversary needs to come to you on the ground — the US and Israel are demonstrating they don’t intend to.
The retaliation pattern reveals weakness, not strength. Iran’s retaliatory strikes hit civilian airports in Dubai and Kuwait, killed third-country nationals, and struck Gulf state infrastructure. That’s not precision warfighting — it’s lashing out at soft targets because you can’t effectively hit the hard ones. Larijani essentially admitted they’re targeting US bases in other countries’ sovereign territory. That’s a strategy for losing coalition partners, not winning wars.
The tweet itself is the tell. A foreign minister posting propaganda on X with a missile-launch photo four hours into an existential military crisis is performing confidence, not demonstrating it. If Mosaic Defense were actually working as advertised, the operational results would speak for themselves.
The one kernel of truth in the post: Iran can impose costs, and the question of “how this ends” remains genuinely unanswered on the US side too. The CFR and Atlantic Council analyses both flag that the endgame is the gaping hole in the US/Israeli strategy. Araghchi is wrong about Iran’s ability to control the war’s trajectory, but he’s not wrong that regime change from the air alone has a poor historical track record. The question is whether Trump actually needs regime change to declare victory, or whether destroying the nuclear and missile programs is sufficient.
@abdullahayofel Nigeria Muslims always have stupid take, driven by emotions and blind support for their fellow Muslims. People are been slaughtered everyday in the north and south in Nigeria, don’t talk about it, focus on Iran and USA
@Blue_Footy His head is as empty as his trophy cabinet. When last did Chelsea win the league compared to arsenal. No wonder FA cup is the only silverware in his cabinet
@OneJoblessBoy What's wrong with that boy self, how many goals has he scored since the competition started..football is a collective sport, no one is better than the rest
@Blue_Footy Jao Pedro is th most useless among all Chelsea players. He can't make good runs, complete a single pass or even help with defence when we are under attack
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@Blue_Footy The last time we played was Saturday, why rotate your vest defence, cann someone tell me what Pedro Nero did through out the game. Marasca is killing our players. Most won't have the zeal to work hard, cuz they know when if they do, he doesn't care, Nero must play 90 minutes
With marasca as the manager of Chelsea FC, we can win cup games and be lucky to win trophies, we can never do well in the premier league, it's just too obvious.