๐ฎ๐ท๐บ๐ธ Instead of trying to shoot U.S. aircraft out of the sky, Iran is taking away the runways.
There's a name for it now: debasification. And by the numbers, it's working.
Prewar, the U.S. could run operations against Iran from roughly 20 airbases. Strip out Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi and Jordan and you're down to about five.
Hundreds of airframes compressed onto a handful of tarmacs, with less time between launch detection and impact than it takes to get them airborne. More planes parked, more hits.
Jordan was supposed to be the fallback. Per NYT reporting, 4 Iranian strikes there in a week produced casualties and aircraft losses, including personnel killed at Muwaffaq Salti. Interception rates in the footage look nothing like the official ones.
And the retreat carries its own penalty. Pull back to Israel and every tanker now flies a thousand-plus miles to reach Iran's border. More when carrier aircraft are launching from 1,700 miles out in the Arabian Sea.
No tankers, no loiter time. No loiter time, no suppressing Iranian air defenses. No suppression, no cheap bombs. And the cruise missile stocks are already thin.
The one lever left is accepting losses the U.S. hasn't accepted in a generation. Is Washington willing to pull it?
Source: Amerikanets on Substack / Writer: Oliver
CIA Director John Ratcliffe called China โour greatest threat.โ
But this is not really about a โChina threat.โ
It is about American decline meeting a civilization it cannot break.
China has spent decades trying to surpass its own previous stage:
build better industry, better infrastructure, better science, better education, better technology.
America has spent decades trying to prevent others from catching up.
It sanctioned the Soviet Union.
It disciplined Germany.
It crushed Japanโs rise.
It bends Europe into strategic obedience.
It blocks, bans, tariffs, blacklists, and weaponizes every system it controls.
So when Washington says China is a threat, what it really means is:
China is the first rival we cannot easily destroy.
That is the wound.
America grew up believing history ended with itself.
That it was the final empire.
The permanent winner.
The author of rules.
The judge of legitimacy.
The only power allowed to rise without permission.
Yet America has no civilizational memory of humiliation.
It was not colonized.
It was not carved up by foreign powers.
It was not burned, invaded, occupied, sanctioned into weakness, and forced to rebuild from national trauma.
China was.
China understands rise and fall.
Dynasties. Collapse. Humiliation. Revival.
The long rhythm of history.
America understands victory.
So when it finally faces a civilization that grows stronger under pressure, it panics.
Not because China wants to destroy America.
But because America knows what it has done to every weaker country it could dominate.
And now it is terrified by one question:
If we lose our monopoly, will China treat us the way we treated the world?
@Jibe8912@HomesWithHilton@joekent16jan19@sarahadams That's something i have also failed to understand. People are really brainwashed. What has Iran done for the last 47 years apart from minding its own business???
@Shinobi77355385@Govtistyrany@joekent16jan19@sarahadams Most of you lots have failed to understand how Islamic States operate. The USA has NEVER won any war against any Islamic State. It's Just that most of them capitulated because their governments were weak. Iran is not weak. Islam wins all day.
@AaronMichael@joekent16jan19@sarahadams Israel now knows what Iran is capable of. At first, they didn't. That's why they used to attack Iran aimlessly. Now, no country will just attack Iran without thinking thrice.... ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
If Iran were to abandon the Palestinian cause, they would allow it to possess nuclear weapons, lift the sanctions against it, make it the dominant power in the Middle East, and the Gulf rulers would gladly pay tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
But Iran has not and will not abandon Palestine, and therefore it is paying the price for standing by Palestine since the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Even the Arab and Western media that have been distorting Iran's image for fifty years will stop, and we will see the Gulf rulers praising and currying favor with Iran.
Therefore, we can say that Iran is not fighting for Iran alone, but for Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and all the oppressed people in this world.
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@antifastats@DailyIranNews Unless you're either brainwashed or dumb! Iran keeps surprising everyone with their missile capabilities and you're here yapping
@HundredCHours@Texan_By_Birth@MarioNawfal You know! He's asking for USA to carpet bomb Iran as if Iran can't do that with Missiles to all those neighbors housing USA bases...