r/neoliberal • u/Currymvp2 unflaired • Apr 13 '24

Iran begins attack, launching dozens of drones that'll take hours to arrive News (Middle East)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-iran-begins-attack-on-israel-launching-dozens-of-drones-thatll-take-hours-to-arrive/
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u/Opkeda Bisexual Pride Apr 13 '24

chat is this real?

after all these years of nothing ever happening, something might happen?

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u/TheFlyingSheeps Apr 13 '24

Bibi doing a world war speedrun to avoid facing judges for his crimes lol

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u/ethanarc NATO Apr 13 '24

Wouldn’t be a world war even if it did maximally escalate. No one’s going to back up Iran.

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u/Sylvanussr Janet Yellen Apr 14 '24

Iran has good relations with China, Russia, and Pakistan. I don’t see this turning into a world war immediately either, but in a hypothetical WW3 scenario happening in the next few years involving Iran, it’s not exactly hard to imagine who their major allies would be.

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u/ethanarc NATO Apr 14 '24

After Ukraine and the expansion of the shared border with NATO, Russia won’t have the manpower/firepower to spare to backup Iran for at least a generation. All arms exports since the start of the Ukraine conflict have been going from Iran to Russia, not the other way around.

Iran cares a lot about China, but China really doesn’t care about Iran. They’re far more concerned with their neighbors to their east and south and see historically troubled American interventionism in the Middle East as a warning to stay away from direct or indirect military action.

Pakistan is closer diplomatically to Saudi Arabia then it is to Iran, and has never really expressed a desire to involve itself in the conflicts of other states in the Middle East outside of Afghanistan. It is far too concerned with the status of Kashmir and India to dedicate even middling resources to reinforcing Iran.