(02-28-2026, 07:39 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(02-28-2026, 06:34 PM)Kenzo1 Wrote: Wars can be fight with air strikes , but winning wars usually needs ground forces .
I dont see anyone even mention sending boots on the ground ,in any larger way.
Gun control is very restricted in Iran ,for obvious reasons. So the iran military has the guns and civilians dont.....IRGC can easely shoot 100k if needed to secure mullahs position . So if there will be only these precise strikes , but not help Iranian civilians get armed , we are in unpredictable zone .
If they're smart, they won't send in any foreign ground forces. Ground forces - "boots on the ground" - are only necessary when one intends to take and then hold ground. The US isn't interested in holding ground there, they are interested in decapitating the regime so that the Iranians can retake and then hold THEIR OWN country.
In other words, the Iranian People are "the boots n the ground" - it is THEIR country to retake and hold, not ours.
So what they probably need most is air-drops of crates of weapons to facilitate their battle against the IRGC. They don't need boots on the ground, they need air-dropped crates of weapons on the ground. The air strikes serve to thin out the IRGC herd, and throw it into disarray to make it ripe for the picking by the Iranian People.
What worries me the most is that the only attacks from "the people" that I've heard about so far are MEK attacks. MEK is a Marxist organization, and what we really don't need more of on Earth is Marxist countries.
BUT... that is for the Iranian People to decide. it's their country, not ours, so they can run it as they see fit. I just hope they look at history and choose widely. I'd hate to have to do this all over again in another 40 years.
Without those weapons supplied to the Iranians, they are then as much at the mercy of te Marxist MEK as they are at the mercy of the fanatical Islamist regime... and tht is not an enviable place to be, either way.
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It`s not certain that Iranians can overthrow regime . So the risk here for Iranians opposing the regime are big.
It could happen and they get rid the regime. But there is some resilience on Iran’s Theocracy system .
Let`s not forget that this escalation means also that if the regime survives ,all gloves are off and they will go to build the bomb for sure as an only option to survive from attacks in the future . They may get weapons-grade HEU from North Korea " possibly", satellites cant detect HEU inside submarine underwater, NK has submarines .