Iran Threatens the U.S. with "Consequences" for Israel Support

Pure ignorance, once again. The U.S. has not lost a war since WWII, with the exception of Vietnam. North Korea was (and is) a tie. We have won every other war with a uniformed enemy since WWII. We have not always won the peace, meaning that partisans have taken advantage of the American unwillingness to harm civilians to attack the U.S. forces as terrorists. But no uniformed military has stood up to a determined attack by the U.S. in the last 45 years. Not every war has been as decisive as the 1991 War in Iraq, with 150 U.S. soldiers killed vs. about 100,000 Iraqi troops, and 1 U.S. tank possibly destroyed vs 3300 Iraqi (Russian) tanks, but they were always decisive during the actual war phase.

You are a bad American because you expect us to surrender at the drop of a hat, abandoning principles and allies alike. Probably convenient, as you seem to have no principles. Is that correct, Lil' Neville?

 

Again, how does a highly-trained and energetic military shoot down something that they don't even know is there until the bomb explodes and the plane is long gone? No one has been able to reliably detect and target the F-35. Especially at night, it is virtually invisible. We saw how Iraq did against aircraft that it couldn't detect on radar. Iraq ate a huge number of extremely accurate bombs while shooting weapons blindly into the sky. What do you think Iran is going to do, shoot all their missiles blindly into the sky, and hope one of them randomly hits a tiny invisible target speeding through the sky at an unknown altitude? The damage to their own people from the falling missiles would be devastating. Or are they going to send up some F-14's that have not been used in 40 years to take on the F-35's?

 

Crappy article. It assumes that the only two options were to sign the Munich Agreement (giving Germany a green light to invade other countries), or to declare war on Germany. That was obviously not the case. Being blind to the possibility that Hitler, who rose to power through lies and thuggery, might be lying was obviously an astounding mistake.

And no, the terms of the WWI peace agreement were not especially onerous to Germany. It is a complete myth that the WWI agreements were a cause for WWII, other than as a psychological insult on a proud nation. Their economy (GDP) had fully recovered by 1929. The worldwide Great Depression was what had caused economic problems for Germany, not the WWI agreements. Germany had stopped making payments to France and England before 1930, but France and England had stopped asking for payments as well. The debt was virtually forgiven. Any writer ignorant to those details cannot be trusted to write an accurate and reasonable article about WWII Germany.

 

It's not saying that much to say that Iran has better missiles than the Patriots. So do we. The Patriots just happen to be the 40-year-old missile that we are willing to share with Ukraine. But Iran still needs to be able to detect and target the F-35 before its "excellent" missiles can damage it. So far, no one has been able to successfully target the F-35. If you would apply the lump between your ears to the situation, you would realize that a plane has to be identified and targeted BEFORE it can be shot down. It is foolish to assume that the Iranian missile would know how to aim itself and find a target that it can't detect.