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Topic: Someone help: If Iran has no navy or Air Force, how is it shutting down Hormuz straits?

Anonymous A started this discussion 5 hours ago #133,443

With spit balls and evil glares? Missiles?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 hours ago, 3 hours later[^] [v] #1,421,656

Well… whether Iran has an Air Force or not depends on your definition of an Air Force. They don’t have any manned airplanes, except they have a huge drone force. They don’t have an air force if you don’t count kamiakze drones. So you can say they have a big Air Force or they have no Air Force, it really depends on what kinda vibe you’re going for. The fact is, in the entire history of the world, bombing a country to force civilians to rise up against their government has never ever worked. The closest was when we nuked Japan, but even then the people never rose up, the government just surrendered.

Anonymous B double-posted this 2 hours ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,657

Now one of two things is going to happen: either the US will withdraw and leave the Iranian state fully intact (the government is not the state), or they will have to put boots on the ground in a mountainous country of 90 million people leading to a high causality clusterfuck.

Anonymous B triple-posted this 2 hours ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,658

The problem with Iran is they’re a decentralized authoritarian regime, individual military commanders can make decisions without the authority of the central government, so if you knock out the central government, nobody can tell them to stop fighting.

Anonymous B quadruple-posted this 1 hour ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,659

If you think about this: the military commanders can make decisions without the central government, if you take out the central government, the people almost certainly will not overthrow their government because that’s never happened even once in the history of the world, so how will all the military commanders surrender if they don’t have a supreme leader that can tell them, "Hey we surrendered quit fighting."

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