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Anyways we'll see if anything happens, I'm not holding my breath. Everyone likes comfort and stability, even the iranians, and I don't get the impression they want to rock the boat too much. Escalation right now is probably aimed at getting them breathing room, and proving prickly enough the US can't send in marines. Jews be jewin' as always but it doesn't seem like the blackmail has the power it once did? If they had their way we'd have invaded 5 times over by now. They apparently can't get EVERYTHING they want all the time.... well they probably could if it were even a realistic ask. I think the biggest reason there's no land war yet is because netanyahu & friends want the impossible from the states, and the US can no more take over Iran like '03 Iraq than it could unleash AI-reinforced clones of nanosaur velociraptors. From the US POV we just don't have gas in the tank. No strategic sealift capacity to actually prosecute a ground invasion, unless we ferry in M1s one C-17-load at a time (an aircraft that is another dwindling, irreplaceable asset burning up quickly)