• Denjin@lemmings.world
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      It’s not really comporable though? USA had more manufacturing capacity than almost the entire rest of the world combined in 1941.

      Plus Iran has consistently shown it does have the stomach for a fight. It’s used terrorist cells and proxy militias to engage in indirect warfare with Israel and it’s allies since the Islamic Revolution. You couldn’t pick an enemy in the world more willing and able to put up a fight against Israel and America.

      Certainly not in conventional means but then they’ve never shown any interest in conventional warfare since Iran/Iraq and they mostly won that through the use of suicide bombers disuading Hussein from perusing a ground offensive in Iran.

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        Sounds like you are agreeing with me, not arguing against me.

        USA had more manufacturing capacity

        [Iran have] never shown any interest in conventional warfare

        So these cancel out.

        You couldn’t pick an enemy in the world more willing and able to put up a fight against Israel

        So they have already shown willingness to fight one enemy. But after this attack.

        and America.

        Now they have been provoked into a war with the US.

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          I’m just saying that there’s no fair comparison between USA in 1941 and Iran in 2025 because everything about their situations is different, despite the similar results we’re likely to see.

          I was neither agreeing or disagreeing with you.

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            2 days ago

            History rhymes rather than repeats.

            I think the parallels of a country being unjustly attacked by another, possibly leading to a world war, are worth considering.