Actually, NBC Must Be Commended ...

... for giving the tribune to Abbas Araghchi, albeit we know it has been done not out of journalist "integrity", but to provide additional insight into Tramp's madness against the background of upcoming midterms and sink even more GOP's prospects. 

Having said that, the expression on the face of the NBC host told a lot of things when Araghchi told him that Iran is "waiting for" US ground troops. He is not bluffing. And the main pillar of the US military mythology was always air power, but in pursuit of these WWII doctrinal ideas, everybody forgets what the use of ground forces entails--yes, assembly areas. Remember, I even made a whole video on that? 

This is a rough scheme of what assembly area of a battalion looks like. But that's Russian battalion which has Troops' Air Defense (Войсковая ПВО) component fully employed for protection of this assembly area, if Russians have to assemble forces. Here is what it looks like:

And this:

And this:

And this: 

And, of course, MOGs--Mobile Fire Groups equipped with everything one needs to repel UAVs attacks, plus Russian Armed Forces have a whole new service--Troops of Unmanned Aerial Systems. Needless to say, US Armed Forces has nothing which is even in the vicinity of such capabilities and Iran proved it again beyond any doubt--the US Army cannot fight with any enemy (forget about fighting Russia) which has UAV and missile forces which will attack assembly areas, and considering the "effectiveness" of the US air defense, they will wreck havoc in assembly areas and will inflict enormous casualties. 

That is why I repeat ad nauseam that FM 3-0 DOES NOT reflect any reality of operation for the force which cannot defend itself from the air. They learned nothing from SMO, because, of course, they have been high on own supply and drank 404 Kool Aid, until they started to suspect that something is fishy when Wiesbaden "Group" killed more than 200,000 personnel of VSU and failed to even reach the first line of defense of Russian Army in now famous 2023 "counter-offensive" clusterfuck on part of Pentagon, which not unlike Al Bundy from Married With Children whose main life's accomplishment were four touchdowns in Polk's High School football game, continues to hang on to the memories of defeating a semiliterate and backward Saddam's Army. And this is even before we begin to talk about resources. 

Here is visual representation from yesterday's employment by Russian Army of RUK (Recon Strike Complex) with Mr. Iskander with cluster munitions paying a visit to one of the camps (parts of assembly area) of VSU.  

Rough estimate--200+ KIAs and WIAs, two companies are gone in a blink of an eye. Remarkably, these losses WILL NOT BE counted in Russian Defense Ministry's daily updates. To remind you--so far, the tally of AD complexes, Russian forces destroyed 651 of them, including the best NATO could provide. What are "the other ways" in which Russia and China help Iran, I leave it to your imagination. Per "AI operational planning" by Pentagon, not only it is a laughing stock among serious military, but AI has now a new meaning--Artificial Imbecile, operated by very natural ones.