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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke from Tehran in an exclusive interview with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across the region. He also refused any negotiations with the U.S. and said that Iran had not asked for a ceasefire.

His comments came after the U.S. and Israeli militaries began a sweeping attack on Iran on Saturday, which decimated its military defenses and killed its top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Arguably, WW2 is the last war the USA won, and they only won that one by swooping in at a time when the Nazis were already battered and at the edge of strategic defeat. The Korean war was a stalemate, and the second gulf war ended in a quagmire and a withdrawal. The USA is great at taking territory, terrible at holding it and doing counterinsurgency. They'll win the invasion, but lose the war.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

They won because the highly motivated Russians were quickly moving toward them from the East, forcing the Germans to split their army into two different meat-grinder fronts.

America did not win the war, it was very much a product of the Alliance, assisted by strong rebel resistance.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i don't disagree. the question was about invading though, not holding land.

And from a military perspective they can hold land for as long as they want.

They didn't leave Afghanistan because they ran out of bullets/money/warm bodies to throw at it.

They left Afghanistan because they ran out of political capital

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

political capital (or morale) is just as, if not more, important than bullets or money. And somehow, despite decades and decades of failures, the US empire fails to understand that