It does seem to headed in the direction you suggest. The "trump" card that I see Iran holding is that they've amassed 200k+ missiles and now drones of various types in underground facilities. We've seen from the Al-Asad Airbase bombing that their missiles are hyperaccurate, and with the Russian copies of Iranian drone designs, that their drones are incredibly effective on the battlefield.
If existential push came to existential shove for Iran, I fully believe they could blow up every single thing in Israel worth blowing up in a couple of days of continuous hellfire. On the flip side (long analysis), I think Israel has only about 50 tactical nukes and everything else has been a bluff for quite a while.
So it's a crazy situation. I almost completely discounted that the US blew up Nord Stream as the stupidest thing ever but, well, here we are. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that I think there are some very cool customers running Russia, China, Iran, Saudi, and North Korea. The proof of that, you'll note, is that they're all the countries we're supposed to hate and fear.
It does seem to headed in the direction you suggest. The "trump" card that I see Iran holding is that they've amassed 200k+ missiles and now drones of various types in underground facilities. We've seen from the Al-Asad Airbase bombing that their missiles are hyperaccurate, and with the Russian copies of Iranian drone designs, that their drones are incredibly effective on the battlefield.
If existential push came to existential shove for Iran, I fully believe they could blow up every single thing in Israel worth blowing up in a couple of days of continuous hellfire. On the flip side (long analysis), I think Israel has only about 50 tactical nukes and everything else has been a bluff for quite a while.
So it's a crazy situation. I almost completely discounted that the US blew up Nord Stream as the stupidest thing ever but, well, here we are. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that I think there are some very cool customers running Russia, China, Iran, Saudi, and North Korea. The proof of that, you'll note, is that they're all the countries we're supposed to hate and fear.