Are you from the former DDR territory? because most nationalist Germans seem to be from there. do you know why west Germans are have so little national consciousness?
Technological capability is one thing, know-how is another thing.
In most european cities, trams were introduced before cars, that's why their city design can support both. I think it's too late for Iran to adopt trams.
I'd say the problem is their "end of history" Ideology, which says that the western-based liberal-democratic system will inevitably and eternally dominate the world. In their view all countries will eventually submit to the western world order and sanctions will only hasten that. They could not...
Christ! every last one of the comments are bots... I mean pro-democracy activists!
Elon Musk has been threatening to release files exposing the liberal political manipulation of Twitter. I wonder if we'll see anything about Iran.
Your assumption here is that the US will "hold back" in case they decide to strike Iran, and that retaliating on the mainland will "unleash" the full might. But if you look at how they attacked Iraq, you'll see that they attack with whatever they have in order to achieve "shock and awe".
You guys are not fully understanding the meaning of deterrence. The purpose is to increase the potential cost for the aggressor. Even a conventional attack on US or Western EU could greatly increase the cost of aggression.
First is the political cost: If the enemy attacks for a cause that is...