• JoeHill@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You do realize that this is likely to become a 3 front war. Lebanon in the north. And Bibi has to cowtow to his settler base in the West Bank.

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        1 year ago

        And one of those fronts will effectively be with iran. You seriously don’t want to fuck with the resources they have to throw into war.

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          I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won’t have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

          I wonder whether most everyday Iranians would support a war with Israel.

          Granted, it’s not likely Iran gets directly involved - they’ll just drive their Hezbollah prop.

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            I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won’t have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

            I guess it depends on how much the “helping our fellow Muslims” stuff works. I know it would in Egypt at least.

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            1 year ago

            Iran wouldn’t need to radically shift their budget… the revolutionary guard gets buckets of oil money and maintains a constant high state of readiness.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, Russia’s initial push against all of Ukraine was reportedly about 100-200k soldiers.