“I cant even make up a legal basis for a no fly zone over Iran but I will assure you that will never happen. Did you know that Iran is fully backed by Russia and the SAM missiles they have would kill hundreds of our pilots. You people amaze me.”
Dream on. Their SAM batteries are the first things that would be targeted by ship-borne cruise missiles and stealth fighters firing stand-off weapons hundreds of miles away. Relatively-speaking, Russian hardware was junk when they were spending big money on their military and it’s even junkier today, now that their expenditures are a pale shadow of Cold War numbers. It’s not some kind of accident that the Iranians weren’t able to put any birds in the air over Syria. The mullahs’ theocratic version of Marxism has cratered the Iranian economy.
“Russian hardware was junk when they were spending big money on their military and it’s even junkier today”
Much of it has probably been redesigned and is now of high quality.