Iran has long possessed the ability to survive decapitation and respond to an existential threat by closing the strait. It’s why no US President tried it before now. Ukraine was more of a surprise than Iran, but Russia not realizing that their own neighbor wouldn’t be a pushover the second time was still a danger that they could’ve foreseen. In both cases, deterrence didn’t work because the invaders were greedy and irrationally confident.
And sincerely your “being cocky” smells like kremlin apology sauce, you sincerely don’t think Ukraine is at fault in any kind of way for the 2014 invasion or the 2022 full scale invasion?
I don’t know why you think I was saying Ukraine was at fault for once again being the target of Russian imperialism. If anything, I’m giving them more credit than you are
No you don’t, because you have no idea how much credit I give the Ukrainian people, which if you wonder is around astronomical.
You can also just accept and say “ah yeah they didn’t have formidable armies. I was thinking about how it went after the invasions.” But that’s too hard for some people I guess.
Iran has long possessed the ability to survive decapitation and respond to an existential threat by closing the strait. It’s why no US President tried it before now. Ukraine was more of a surprise than Iran, but Russia not realizing that their own neighbor wouldn’t be a pushover the second time was still a danger that they could’ve foreseen. In both cases, deterrence didn’t work because the invaders were greedy and irrationally confident.
And?
Still didn’t have “formidable” armies.
And sincerely your “being cocky” smells like kremlin apology sauce, you sincerely don’t think Ukraine is at fault in any kind of way for the 2014 invasion or the 2022 full scale invasion?
I don’t know why you think I was saying Ukraine was at fault for once again being the target of Russian imperialism. If anything, I’m giving them more credit than you are
No you don’t, because you have no idea how much credit I give the Ukrainian people, which if you wonder is around astronomical.
You can also just accept and say “ah yeah they didn’t have formidable armies. I was thinking about how it went after the invasions.” But that’s too hard for some people I guess.