Now, Iran is a five-thousand-year civilization that has gone through annihilation before by the Romans partially and the Mongols totally among others. Not only did Iran survive, but the invaders were eventually absorbed and assimilated into the Iranian culture, behavior and system. Not only did the invaders not able to impose their culture and behavior on the conquered Iranians, but they were instead under the influence of their defeated enemy. That Iran could rise despite all those annihilation attempts says a lot about its tenacity and resilience.
Now, this is the same scenario that happened against China, another five-thousand-year civilization that withstood all the attempts to tear it apart. China had been under Mongol rule of Genghis Khan and history tells us that the Mongols, instead of imposing its culture on the Chinese during the Yuan Dynasty, were reported to discard their nomadic lifestyle and being assimilated and adopting the Chinese way of life and Governance of the country.
That is also the case with the Northern China nomadic Manchus that ruled China under the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus tried to impose its culture on the rest of China by force but failed. The Dynasty was to be the last to rule China. Each time China was humiliated but rose again and again.
Trump is now upping the ante by imposing sanctions on five Chinese oil refineries, possibly an attempt to faking the upper hand in his coming meeting with Xi. China responded by asking those Chinese refineries to just ignore the USA sanctions. This red line had never been crossed by China before and China is now doing it, telling the USA not to interfere in China's internal oil policy and legal import of Iranian oil that the UN had never sanctioned.
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The Iranians do not have to do anything more to tell the world that they are in fact winning the war. Most analysts are saying that Iran does not have to defeat the USA, but by showing its ability to survive USA brutal assault is enough to tell the world it has in fact won the war.
ReplyDeleteNow, whether there is going to be a ceasefire or a stalemate, Iran is going to be seen standing tall looking at what it has done and achieved. Why do I say so?
Throughout the war, Iran has shown that it is capable of taking out USA military bases, radar systems, interceptor batteries and render the USA naval power totally unable to exert its strength. The USA, despite the boasting by Trump of destroying Iran's air force, navy and missile sites, is still facing a fear of Iranian hypersonic drones and missiles hidden deep underground.
What has the USA achieved in all of this war? The reputation of the USA projection of power using its aircraft carriers has been given a rude awakening. Iran's use of Chinese anti-aircraft carrier hypersonic missiles has punctured the much-hype up invincibility of the USA naval power projection since WW2 and is a lesson that will be well learnt by the Chinese in any future confrontation with the USA. China does not have to test-drive its anti-aircraft carrier missiles as Iran is doing it for free. Iran is also giving Chinese air=defense a test of its capability that China has little chance of testing them. Never mind that the USA and the West called them junks. I do not think those anti-aircraft carrier missiles are junks, otherwise the USA would not have to move them out of range from the Iranian coastline.
There is still little being talked about the use of spoofing by the Iranians against satellite imaging and fighter jet targeting by the USA military, using Russian and Chinese technology. When fighter jets shoot at each other and bombs miss their targets by wide margins, who knows what is happening. It is well known that the GPS system is hackable and not spoofing proof in the wars fought so far.