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user-inactivated  ·  1742 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Approves [Missile] Strikes on Iran, but Then Abruptly Pulls Back

    Has anyone here run into any honest analyses?

A few years back, during the early days of Trump's presidency, the issue came up and the general sentiment was that Iran was too big geographically, too rich, and too well armed to make things easy. So I'd pretty much doubt anyone saying that a conflict with them would be a cinch.

    I wonder what the repercussions of US starting an all-out war with Iran would be.

The same repercussions for any war. Death, for starters. Also, the destruction of infrastructure and the ruining of a regional economy, as well as the risk of further destabilizing an already unstable part of the world. There's the disruption of lives through the creation of poverty, displacement, and social distress. Hunger and disease will spread, as will fear, resentment, and hatred. People will suffer and that suffering will linger, sometimes for lifetimes, and it will take significantly more effort to set things right again than it would ever take to keep things from going sideways to begin with and we'll all have to live with the fact that some damage caused can never, ever be undone.

The first question we should always ask when it comes to war is "What do we know, without any doubt, what will happen if we let war breakout?" The answer always is, "Guaranteed misery."