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by b65e8bee43c2ed0 24 days ago
Iran doesn't have real-time spy satellites and Starlink. it can only launch their shitty shaheds at stationary targets in impotent rage like Russia does.
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It’s ok to be patriotic, but underestimating your enemy could be foolish or even fatal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+launched+spy+satellite+...

Exactly! That's why the US won so decisively in Afghanistan! ;)
>the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 October 2001, alongside the United Kingdom. The two countries were later joined by a large multinational force, made up of multiple NATO members and two of their major non-NATO allies, as well as Afghanistan's local Northern Alliance. The invasion effort made rapid progress for the next two months as the coalition captured Kabul on 13 November and toppled the Taliban by 17 December, after which international military bases were set up near major cities across the country.

>13 killed (including 1 CIA officer and 4 non-combat deaths)[11]

if that was not a decisive victory, then I don't know what is.

the rest of the so-called war was a low intensity insurgency during 20 years of which the US lost fewer soldiers than Russia loses in 20 hours.

and a not inconsiderable amount of US PMC pork barrelling, related lobbying, contracts and business.

It's not nothing, and it seems that the scale of such things are enough to impact decisions and directions and lead to long low level churn with no particular outcome.

And now a dozen times in Iran?
Anyone can buy a StarLink terminal though. Also, you can use a friend's spy satellite if you don't have your own.