ChuChu Rocket wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:53 pm Why would it be that hard to invade Iran? I know of Iran's mountainous terrain but in terms of their military, do they even have a solid force?

Yes the topography is daunting, how would you get to the capital? Land ships from the Straits, if any survived the missile attacks then march troops across those mountains all the way to Tehran, not likely. No matter which approach, you've got mountains except the Caspian Sea and I doubt Russia will help you there.

So just getting to Tehran is going to be a sizable and lengthy problem. If they tried to just hold the Straits then they will be under constant attack for as long as they were there, they learnt those lessons back in the failures that were Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia and China will deliver as many missiles as Iran could ever hope for because distracting the US from Ukraine is in Russia's interest and it delays any US aggression against China.

But how long does the west have to build an army before economic collapse anyway? Probably not long enough. Besides that there is no public support, Trump will be turned out of office before a sizable army could be raised.

And what is the war really all about anyway? Netanyahu's dream of there not being any strong Islamic countries in the middle east is what it boils down to. Regarding the nuclear issue Iran could have had a bomb ages ago if they really wanted though now the value of that deterrence has been hammered home.

Trump is completely fucked, he just hasn't come to terms with it yet, doubling the price of oil severely affects the price of everything and that reckoning will be hitting very soon for everyone.