> full scale war that's why you are mistaken. if usa were going to war with china, you would be correct, but usa doesn't need to fully mobilize to turn iran into a flaming wreck. you don't understand what air supremacy truly means. we can assert air supremacy over iran and completely and totally eliminate their conventional military without a single boot on the ground. we have military and air bases completely surrounding the country. we can strike and eliminate anything anywhere at any time without much cost. > and it has a real and 100% intact modernized (though not 1st class) military with ideologically hardened and competent leaders sorry to tell you this, but that military would be reduced to a flaming wreck within 1 week if the us orchestrated a full blown air supremacy campaign. iraq was "modernized" as well by the standards of 2nd rate powers. it's true that russia and china would try to prolong the war with mercenaries and military aid, but that really only matters if the us tries to actually invade. if they just reduce it from the air in a punitive campaign, there's literally nothing that they can do to stop us.
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