Comments on: Iran is playing the long game

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:27:09 +0000

The other Arab countries could send in immigrant conscripts and make this a much worse war for Iran.

Chinese and Indian shipping is at risk from poorly focused Iranian mines, and perhaps at greater risk from ‘Iranian’ mines from US or Arab countries.

Or we could lose this one.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:32:59 +0000

But how long is their long game? Drones and missiles are more complicated and expensive than IEDs. They’ll probably be struggling to eat soon.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:49:37 +0000

Well, yeah. But also, there is a larger picture. It seems that right now is the best time for them to fight USA.

1. NATO have spent all expensive hardware and enthusiastic personnel they could afford (and then some more) on the previous proxy war. Which even the most delusional cheerleaders had to accept is now as good as lost and quite unsalvageable.

2. USA was running a half-baked campaign of bans against Russian oil & gas export and when this did not really work, piracy campaign by proxy. And that’s when Middle East oil becomes mostly inaccessible. The word that comes to mind is “checkmate”.

Opening the wells in USA may save USA, but what can the vassals on other continents do about it? This looks like a recipe for either outright mass defection, or removal of puppets by coups if defections will not happen in time.