They will “cheat”. While we are destroying their military assets they will unleash $160,000,000,000 worth of irregulars on our malls, schools, and other soft targets on our soil. Really, really wise to give them pallets of untraceable cash. 🤦♂️
[They will “cheat”. While we are destroying their military assets they will unleash $160,000,000,000 worth of irregulars on our malls, schools, and other soft targets on our soil. Really, really wise to give them pallets of untraceable cash. ]
That money is gone. Syria, Yemen and the Iranian welfare state, along with considerable official corruption, have chewed through that cash. Every ballistic missile they fire at Saudi Arabia costs about $1m. They’ve probably fired hundreds, if not thousands. The Syrian and Yemeni campaigns have got to be costing billions a year. They don’t just have to arm the rebels - they also have to feed the civilians in rebel zones to stave off starvation in regions where economic activity is at a standstill due to supply problems. Then there’s the officials with their hands in the till.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
[By mid 2018, Iran had spent tens of billions of dollars on Syria in economic and military aid, not counting the cost of Iran’s own military operations, though estimates vary widely on the exact figure. Mansour Farhang, a United States-based scholar and former Iranian diplomat, calculated that Iran had spent at least $30 billion on Syria in military and economic aid, while Nadim Shehadi estimated the total at $105 billion.[42] The United States Department of State puts the figure much lower, estimating total Iranian costs from 2012 to mid 2018 at around $21 billion: over $16 billion in military aid (including the funding of Iraqi, Palestinian, and Lebanese militias, many of which also fight in Syria) and $4.6 billion in a credit line to Damascus.[43] BBC’s Persian language service published an investigation on the subject, where they posted several estimates (including the aforementioned U.N. estimate) as well as the only two official figures given (credit line: $6 billion; civilian medical supplies, medical equipment, food, and other consumables: $2.8 billion).[44]]
“they will unleash $160,000,000,000 worth of irregulars on our malls, schools, and other soft targets”
That’s why we need our guns. If they do as you suggest, irregulars and innocents will die. That’s war and we’ll win it.
The US would then retaliate by using smart weapons to destroy Iran’s “regime control assets” — the police and paramilitary units and facilities used to keep the population under control. Electric power, roads, and bridges would be next. Iran would collapse as an organized society.