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  • vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.mlBanned
    20·
    25 days ago

    [2026-06-18] @Pataramesh@twitter.com: It all could have went very different for Iran if:

    • It had no missiles & drones able to penetrate opponents defenses and answer back… ↪️ 🇺🇲 + 🇮🇱 would have certainly hit Powerplants & bridges

    • It had no 60% enriched weaponizable Uranium… ↪️ Entirely possible that it’s Missile Cities & Nuclear sites would have been hit by chemical or even tactical nuclear weapons

    • It had no persistent & credible control over the Strait of Hormuz on which world economy depends… ↪️ A U.S. naval & economic blockade could have put Iran under siege without any leverage to counter it with time on its side

    • It had no super-hardened Missile & Drone Cities… ↪️ U.S. & Israeli stand-off missile power, and Airpower, would have neutralized Iran’s capability to hit back at will and persistently

    • It had no ambush-type air-defenses to hold opposing Airpower at risk… ↪️ 🇺🇲 & 🇮🇱 Airpower with low-cost guided bombs could have suppressed Missile & Drone launch operations and badly degrade Iran’s missile launcher fleet

    ➡️ Only the combination of all of this, and more, lead to the outcome we witnessed

    Iran is a very… different country…

    • Large Cane Toad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      21·
      25 days ago

      Engineers, engineers, engineers. Iran has one the highest number of engineers in the world both in total and per capita. If you want to build a capable country you need engineers, and if you want engineers you need good education.