"Enormous Costs"?

Does he even understand what those costs could be? 

He still lives in the la-la land of the Desert Storm, where the US operated essentially unopposed in its assembly areas, but even in Vietnam, the US Army never experienced a fire impact (maybe Khe Sanh) which would compare to daily "deliveries" Iran can provide against any troops. These will not be some artillery and mortar impacts, that will be stand-off weapons, some of them with warheads measuring in hundreds of kilograms. This is a different game, and then there are recon and targeting ... but I said it before--the US doesn't have relevant experience with this. 

 

So, what COULD be the "costs" if the US decides to do "ground operation"? Depending on the scope (the US doesn't have required resources for large scale op, McCaffrey should know this) it will range anywhere between 10,000 + KIAs within limited scope op to hundreds of thousands KIAs if the US bogs down (which it will) in case of the "full scale" invasion of Iran in the first couple-three years. Vietnam War will look damn good compared to this. 

Tucker Adds To My Previous Post.

And I am on record about Western "intel". 

Because intel as a craft of the state in collecting and analyzing (and synthesizing) information about opponent is gone in the US (I will omit here discussing the quality of US intel community--Russians do not rank it high at all) and is substituted with the narrative-mongering for purely PR purposes. I speak about it in my yesterday's video.

The record speaks for itself in the last 25 years: Libya, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. All of that was a result of crudely constructed false narratives used as a pretext for attacking weak. Now, with Ukraine and a desperate desire of the US to postpone its actual physical demise which is already in progress--there is no low US politicos wouldn't stoop to to serve their agenda. Politics anywhere always attracted psychopaths with no honor, class and principles other than own personal interest, but modern media era revealed an astounding pathology of the Western "elite" which is infested with people who should be looked at by psychiatrists not by laymen. But it is the Anglo-American politics where this sad state of the affair is exacerbated by a grotesque incompetence and ignorance, once one considers the fact that the US is a nuclear superpower and is ungovernable.  

Does anybody there know the truth? Some, certainly, do but when one has no principles, honor and class and is brainwashed by incessant crude propaganda, and is spurred in life by the aspirations for a success defined in terms no normal moral human being accepts as a success, what do you expect? Hey, look what expired products of Sandhurst produced just now:

It is funny, how once the UK was considered a respectable military power with great history, not a collection of teletubbies. Does anybody there experience now a bout of shame from participating in this pathetic hoax? Yes, I know, this sacramental: we just carried out superior orders. Remember? Nuremberg Trial?  Lavrov may meet Blinken at some point in the nearest future, I am positive he should avoid shaking hands with him under any excuse, even if the quarantine will be lifted. At least use good hand sanitizer after that. And maybe the course of antibiotics after.