IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCould the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happenwww.pennlive.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down112file-text
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minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up110·2 days agoHard to assess success when there are no objectives and no plan.
minus-squareEndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days agoThe objective is regime change. The plan? I think they were expecting to achieve their objective very quickly, so it is already off script.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoThey were dumb enough to think that the regime was only a few religious dudes. But the experts already said It’s the revolutionary guard and a bunch of rich businessmen who s were keeping Khomeini in power. Those guys don’t need to give up power, they just need to pick a new expendable figurehead.
Hard to assess success when there are no objectives and no plan.
Hard to prove failure too.
The objective is regime change.
The plan? I think they were expecting to achieve their objective very quickly, so it is already off script.
They were dumb enough to think that the regime was only a few religious dudes.
But the experts already said It’s the revolutionary guard and a bunch of rich businessmen who s were keeping Khomeini in power.
Those guys don’t need to give up power, they just need to pick a new expendable figurehead.