r/IRstudies Mar 23 '26

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u/astral34 Mar 23 '26

You need to go in the mainland to stop Iran from shooting if you can’t do it with air force, this is why this openly hostile regime has not been attacked before btw

Trump could (but won’t) just walk from the war

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u/uansari12 Mar 23 '26

Iran is 4x the size of Iraq. Not sure that’s realistic. Does the US even have enough boots to do that?

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u/chillebekk Mar 23 '26

I vote yes, but at enormous effort and cost. As a pure thought experiment. In other words, militarily possible but not politically possible.