Enshittification
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What pisses me off about the Iran War with this is that the media, leftists and pretty much everyone is foaming at the mouth to declare the power of the US military as having passed, the Iran War being proof of it, but all my life warhawks have been talking about imminent war with Iran and never has the conversation in serious circles ever responded with a narrative that this was something the US military could do successfully.
I distinctly remember my mom making the comment when I was growing up that if war ever did happen with Iran they would just blow up all the US military bases in the region because there were way too many exposed bases with massive amounts of infrastructure that could never be defended adequately in a million years... and my mom isn't some military intelligence expert, she is just a normal mom.... so I really can't fuckign stand this narrative it is utterly ahistorical and completely distorts the reality of what caused the Iran War to happen and why it can never succeed.
It has been recongized for decades that the geography makes the kind of military operation Trump is trying to do futile. Even before drones the strategic calculus was obvious, Iran would mass attack distributed vulnerable assets rather than try to sink a US destroyer or aircraft carrier that was far harder to get past the defenses of, what would be the point when there are warehouses all over the region without any effective air defenses to speak of at all?.... that are critical to the operation of those destroyers and aircraft carriers....
I get that people want to live in a world where the US military isn't frightenly more powerful than any other military in the world... but we don't live in that world yet. If people don't like that, they are going to have to evolve past the belief that war is something that can be dealt with at a distance with drones and is not a professional skill and practice that has to be studied academically. The fact that the US military didn't lose a destroyer and have a magnitude more aircraft shot down when trying to completely saturate Iran with bombing sorties should be a warning sign to the rest of the world that while Trump is a dumbass, the US military does not fit the narrative of obsolescense that everybody is embracing so quickly.
One only need to look at how foolishly the left and others reacted to the Venezeula helicopter attack operation that was stunningly successful (in a tactical sense, strategically it was stupid, illegal and pointless), nobody had anything to say about that other than that this must be the last time that would work "bEcaUse dRoNes".
The Iran War is a failure because you cannot exert political power by bombing people from the sky especially when they geographically control one of the most important chokepoints on Earth, not because the US military isn't leagues ahead of any other military on the planet.
The reason this pisses me off is this kind of attitude feeds into thinking that Europe and others don't have to take the US military's dominance seriously, they don't have to evolve and try to create their own multipolar alternatives, they can just conclude attack helicopters are obsolete and stick their fingers in their ears..