A whole lot of slop when the article should’ve started from the get go with this point here
According to the Times, Israeli officials estimate that they have destroyed 50 percent of Iran’s missile launchers.
If that number is remotely true, then its an insane number.
Maybe Israel is lying, wouldn’t be the first time. Let’s halve it to 25%. Even with that number, removing 25% of Iran’s missile launch capabilities in a couple of days is fucking crazy.And its that kind of thing that completely changes the military calculations. Sure, they’re a lot more expensive, but if you fuck up your enemy’s capability to launch missiles, they’re very much worth it.
And missile launchers cannot be built at the same fast rate, it goes without saying.Its things like these that make me (extra) distrustful of western media. Do an actual genuine effort at estimating capabilities and stop it with the clickbaity slop, I’m tired.
I treat numeric estimates of launchers destroyed very skeptically. The US has a history of double-counting and counting decoys.
I do expect that a lot are being destroyed, but its a very far cry from that to claiming that the Iranians won’t be in a position to have a lot go through in a few days
Nobody wanted this, the way wars are waged has changed and I think it’s only a matter of time until there are strategic drone attacks at home that we’ll call terrorist attacks.
Iran has every right to defend itself. I don’t want Americans to be killed, but ffs what did this administration expect?