He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.

a guy getting his ass kicked

The Americans and Israelis have massacred an extraordinarily large number of people, demolished billions in critical infrastructure, and plunged the country into a bleak future of warlordism, poverty, and famine.

It cannot be adequately expressed how nightmarish life will become in Iran in the next few months, without a globally organized relief campaign.

What they’ve accomplished militarily is impressive, but it hasn’t come anywhere close to breaking the genocidal grip of the imperialist powers around their collective throats.

Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.

Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes

Is this even possible?

WW2

The only bombing that actually led to results was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And only because if was so devastating, on a scale of cruelty never seen before.

So the war itself, absent the bombings had no power of destruction, killed no one?

Is that a positive outcome?

As a German: Hell yes! The Nazis needed putting down and that entire worldview got a thrashing that lastet us a good 70 years before Germany is on the verge of falling to the fash again.

Germany should have been denazified after the war. It’s no wonder that ideology lived on, considering that most members of the NSDAP just moved on to be politicians of CDU/SPD and the KPD was made illegal.