• massive_bereavement
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    241 day ago

    I know nothing about defense and everything I learned, I did so at NCD, but doesn’t Iran have like 88 million people and Israel just 9 million, and Iran has like six times Israel’s active personnel? Iirc they’re one of the largest armies in ME.

    Then again, just by sheer numbers Russia was supposed to overrun Ukraine, 1M dead later and they’re still where they started plus few towns charred to the bone.

    • @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      2521 hours ago

      Perhaps this map will help:

      To get from Iran to Israel, the Iranian soldiers would have to cross Iraq (and Jordan) or Syria, both very unfriendly countries full of mountainous terrain. Not a viable ground invasion whatsoever!

    • @belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Iran has 82 million inhabitants.

      The amount of people willing to die for this regime is much much smaller. 16% are Azerí, 10% Kurds and 2% Balochi, all groups who would rather die than fight for the IRI. Not that this would stop the IRI from pressing 15 year olds into service, but there wouldn’t be many volunteers.

          • @rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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            05 hours ago

            Yes sure they will side with Israel literally indiscriminately killing Iranians regardless on how they feel about the Iranian nationality . This is so stupid

            • @belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              14 hours ago

              This isn’t about siding with anyone. You’re putting words in my mouth. I never said the majority would not take up arms, I said there are groups who are ikely not to pick up arms.

              There is no Iranian nationality, there is a core of Persian Iranians, who are considered the only Iranians and then there are peripheral groups. Those groups neither feel Iranian, nor do they like the central government.

      • Berserker
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        -816 hours ago

        By comparison, a large amount of Israelis are ultra-religious nutjobs that refuse to join their army. And of course many of them have european and american passports and houses in the west to flee to. Colonialism pays. Iran has the right on their side, their people will certainly put their backs into it to a greater degree than Israel.

    • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      1722 hours ago

      Iran has many remote areas that are populated. Their military equipment is decades behind, and Israel gets all their equipment from the US.

      The comparison here is very stark; in a single strike Israel managed to cripple Iran’s nuclear program, kill a lot of leadership that has been around since their revolution, and completely eradicate all of their radar and early warning systems on the West side of the country.

      The best response Iran has? Just over 100 drones. Most of them got shot down before they even reached Israel.

      Israel gets a free pass on bullying anyone they see fit in the Middle East.

      • @nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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        And by “bullying anyone” you mean active countermeasures against the party, which FOR YEARS has been suggesting to wipe the country off the globe, and was aiming to create nuclear weapons just for that.

        How “convenient” of you to skip the public death wishes before being netralized. 💁

        /S

    • @rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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      -119 hours ago

      You can’t trust any number when it come to conflicts but will minimize the number of their casualities and overexageratr thr casuality of the other side