I've used my cameras (unifi, local storage) to 1) help a neighbor find their lost dog, 2) help me find my own dog after a contractor left a gate open 3) make sure my kid gets home when he bikes ahead of me, 4) watch a fed ex employee punt a box of mine, 5) watch local wildlife at 3AM - last night there was a racoon party in my front yard.
Not true in the US either, in any meaningful way. Weight thresholds are different, FAA thresholds are different, allowed control systems are different, etc., etc.
What do they hold, exactly? Leaders are dead and keeps dying, good chunk of their military is defunkt, while "mightiest human forces" don't even have boots on ground.
The strait of hormuz is still closed, and a new government has not been installed.
From a conventional perspective Iran is by all means "losing" the war. However, the United States and the majority of the world desperately want the strait to be opened and have so far been unsuccessful in preventing Iran from blocking it. The US is also greatly interested in regime change, which has also been unsuccessful.
> The US is also greatly interested in regime change
Trump doesn't car about regime change. Just like in Venezuela, his plan is to kill leaders until there's one that can make a "deal" (whatever it means).
Agree with what others have said. And will add that under Trump US was losing soft power around the world. But attacking Iran accelerated that process significantly.
Most of our allies feel that they can give us the middle finger when we ask for help. More people around the world than ever before now think that US and Israel are the biggest threat to world peace.
This is new and uncharted territory for us. We will pay a bigger price for this over the coming years and decades than whatever we did to Iran.
I highly recommend you to open a few foreign newspapers and lurk in foreign forums, groups, &c. you're either misinformed or blind
> don't even have boots on ground
Anyone with half a brain cell knows this would be the biggest strategic, tactical and political blunder of the century
> What do they hold, exactly?
What they hold exactly is:
- middle eastern countries who've been greasing Washington's palms for influence and protection received 0 protection, it'll take decades to rebuild any trust here
- Americans deserted their bases in the region instantly, they are now damaged or destroyed, the US conveniently ask satellite image providers to delay the release of new data
- Lost a bunch (most?) of radars from their early warning system in the region
- US sailors seemingly set their own ship on fire to avoid deployment
- Depleted israel interceptor stocks, more and more things are passing through the dome
- the US spent 12b so far to fuck up Iran, Russia made 6b from the gas price increase in the meantime, big brain move
- the US pulling out of asia to send more shit to the middle east, eroding trust of countries like South Korea
- Israel support in the US is falling fast, in the EU it's gone
- the price of everything will slowly rise, because everything we use rely on gas one way or another, they've been sanctioned for 50 years they don't give a shit anymore.
- the US showing their complete lack of strategical vision, saying something on monday, the opposite on tuesday and denying they even said either things by wednesday
No, _I_ highly recommend you to open a few foreign newspapers and lurk in foreign (to whom?) forums, groups, &c. you're either misinformed or blind, based on these bullet points.
Stop reading r/iran or CNN or whatever bs you pump into your brain.
This war sucks but it's very far from "Iran is holding".
They're getting absolutely wrecked, but it doesn't mean it's good for the US. This is basically warfare 101, you can have a undisputed tactical victory and a complete strategic failure at the exact same time, in that case the tactical victory is bombing a country which is like 20 years behind in technology and spend 10% as much as the US on defense (wow good job!), the strategical blunder is that it did not achieve anything good for the short nor long term for anyone involved, if anything it helped Russia and China which kept being mentioned as the US arch enemies
Iranians don't like their current government much but they don't particularly like getting fucked up by Israel and the US either, especially when you kill 170 kids on day 1 and then lie about it on live tv. How did it go in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq? Yeah, not so good. It's always about "preventing wars" and "bringing freedom", but it ends up being "bringing wars" and "consolidating authoritarian regimes"
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