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Originally Posted by HunterICX
 seems that we are waiting till the day will come that we are in an open war.
you know its comming , but when? |
Hopefully not before we are no longer depending on their oil. Else we will have lost it the day war broke out. and even then it is an extremely risky adventure, and our victory - or even survival - is anything but certain. We are more vulnerable, then they are. Our high complexity and developement standard only works as long as we are confronted with lower powers that can not really hurt us. If faced with the ablity to exploit our weaknesses, we no longer look like the winners for sure - our dependencies on what makes us to superior to lower factions, turns into threatening vulnerability of ourselves.
All wars of the US since WWII have been against much weaker, local factions only that could not project influence or combat effectiveness beyond their region. and even under these optimal conditions, the war sometimes failed (Korea an unsatisfying draw with hurting long-term consequences, Vietnam a total defeat, Iraq a total defeat, Afghanistan about getting lost, the "Stellvertreterkrieg" of Israel versus Hezbollah being a defeat as well - it was the general test and preparation-effort towards an Iran war).
I can only warn of easily starting a war against Iran. And do not even start again to think about wanting to missionise them again towards western understandings of freedom and democracy...!!! try that, and if you do not loose the war during the field battle, you will loose it afterwards nevertheless.