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tl;dr: It'd be up to the US to prove they didn't.
This is retarded diplomatic slapfighting. If this was Japan or Thailand I would expect that with a wink and a nod. This is Queer Starmer, a sleazy lawyer from the ICC who made it so you can sue his own soldiers even if they were following lawful orders. He is trying to set himself up for private practice suing Trump and trying to get him on warcrimes after.
Retarded Journoscum & most civilians cannot grasp the concept of preparation. If things are even remotely spicy that plane will be in the air.
If that plane is needed to be in the air and isn't, it will be too late.
Same reason you move a quarter of the US surface fleet off the coast of Venezuela, when really we only needed one ship. (And hell, we didn't even need that, the mission could have taken off from PR.) But if VZ hadn't folded, we'd need those assets even if US boot never got any mud on them so it was better to have them an not need them than need them and not have them.
Completely different situations. Syrian Separatists were always there, but the same conditions that lead to the rise of ISIS gave them a huge boost in power and recruits. The Syrian civil war was more like the US Civil war, the rural western part of the country going to war with the urban east - but the population disparity wasn't as wide, and foreign aid showed up.
Basically a lot of Good Ol' Boys out in the mountains away from the watch of Achmed Law - lots of guys who can get their hands on an AK. And most of the early "Free Syria" was out in those boonies with limited state control.
The Syrian Army was also not unified. there were "ethnic units" and most of these defected to the Rebels early.
Iran is mostly urban bugmen, disarmed and cucked since even before the IRGC took over.
As @BigJoey41X points out, Iran's borders are more-or-less natural instead of imposed so there is less ethnic strife; the demonstrations weren't an ethnic war masquerading as anti-government. The people were completely cucked and disarmed with no weapons to resist, and the IRGC had pulled in Iraqi fighters early on to massacre them. the IRCG units were also rigorously indoctrinated; none of them were going to turn for the protestors because "their people" wouldn't be among them.
tl;dr: Syria's resistance was armed. Iran's was not. Lynch any leader who wants to disarm you.
not just size. Syria was much more fractured, and the bordering ethnic groups were for working with the separatists not backing the government.
You can pretty much stop at "Iran's borders formed more or less naturally, Syrias were imposed by France". But even then, Iran still has to deal with Kurds, Balochs, Some other northwestern group I forget (I don't think its pashtuns) separatists who do effectively run fiefdoms and blow stuff up from time to time (part and parcel you know). Its not all sunshine and nightsticks, but the restive minorities are vastly, vastly outmatched and out powered.
Iraq has 3 principal ethnic groups, none of the others had enough power, and given that if any two of them teamed up they'd be able to genocide the third, its kept them in a Mexican stand off.
US Marines as we speak are having their diet changed from crayons to green colored pencils.
Airforce paper pushers rubbing pencils on blank sheets of paper over paper cups furiously r/n.
US army taking cheese graters to black soldiers this very moment.
Navy has press-ganged every 3rd-world port whore into the galley to burn all the food to a black crisp.
Graphite bomb production is maxed out.
That's exactly what I'm saying. I don't think Trump folds unless there is something solid & actionable from the regime, but if he does and its more worthless negotiations after that posturing I'm going to have to side with the retarded leftoids and agree that's a shameful TACOing.
Difference I'm not losing my mind (or working those beads against my prostate) until we see what happens.
I think something will happen, I think Trump is having a big mad. I'm just willing to entertain the possibility it won't and we're back to pointless negotiations.
Total.
Muslim.
Death.
I partly agree but dispute you on why it was needed for the peace deal to go through; 73 made Egypt realized how absolutely fucked they were. They had the initiative, they had allies, they have EVERYTHING in their favor, and they still got rolled. Sadat had a full on melty, he was afraid he was going to get couped in the aftermath. Egypt was also being raped economically and couldn't keep up.
Also with Nassar gone, pan-arab "Nassarism" was something that was just too expensive for Egypt.
then the government realized how much better everyting was when you weren't trying to prop up ungrateful shiftless arabs and could buy weapons that worked from the US instead of Soviet copeboxes and never looked back.
Except that small period when Obama let the muslim brotherhood take over.
Also with Nassar gone, pan-arab "Nassarism" was something that was just too expensive for Egypt.
then the government realized how much better everyting was when you weren't trying to prop up ungrateful shiftless arabs and could buy weapons that worked from the US instead of Soviet copeboxes and never looked back.
Except that small period when Obama let the muslim brotherhood take over.
