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>the Iranian regime has no capability that could prevent its country from being turned into a smoldering parking lot.

This is a laughable amount of ignorance. The capability that Iran has to prevent this is physics

Iran is gigantic. Iran has 90 million people.

If you put together every long range precision munition the US has ever built, you could attack a single City and severely damage it.

People have zero sense of scale. To level cities the way we did in WW2 requires the level of industrial output that we had in WW2, because we have literally not made enough explosives to do so since

The US dropped 1.4 million tons of bombs on Germany alone in WW2

That's the equivalent of 3 million Tomahawk missiles. The US has built less than 10k total

parent mrguyorama 3 months ago

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