'Israel military alone is much superior than Iran'
A friendly person contacted me recently regarding a technical issue and the discussion turned to events in the Middle East, a portion of which i think is worth sharing. I stated that "at this point i think Israel will self-destruct without anyone lifting a finger, but the little devil on my shoulder hopes Iran strikes back as they promised - i want to see Israel's military completely obliterated". This person responded with "Israel military alone is much superior than Iran".
Following is my reply to which i added a bit more detail and cleaned up for publication. My intention was not to badger this person, but simply to educate based on my knowledge which is derived, in part, from my own research, but primarily from several former military, CIA and State Department people, as well as military analysts, such as those being interviewed by Judge Napolitano, Nima Alkhorshid and Rachel Blevins.
China, Russia and Iran have mutual interests and apparently Russia and Iran signed a mutual defense pact within the last day or so (it's been in the works for a while).
All 3 countries have hyper-sonic missiles and that's important to realize.
Israel, as i'm sure you're aware', gets the vast bulk of its weapons from the U.S. and neither the U.S. nor Israel have hyper-sonics, nor do they have any viable defense against them and that's really important to realize.
The U.S. cannot even defeat the Houthis in the Red Sea, much less in Yemen, and other than their nuclear subs, their navy is largely obsolete (again, hyper-sonic missiles and drones makes boats sitting ducks).
Israel's "Iron Dome" air defense would be better described as a 'plastic colander'. As we have clearly seen in the videos and read in Iranian reports, Iran can penetrate Israel's "Iron Dome" any time they wish, as they recently did with ~180 missiles, ~85% of which hit their targets, and it seems very few of them were of the hyper-sonic variety.
The reverse is not the case however.
When Israel responded to Iran's attack, it allegedly deployed ~100 planes to launch a few hundred air-launched missiles. These planes apparently never got any closer than ~70-100 km to Iran's border because they'd have gotten blown out of the sky (Iran has Russian S-300, possibly S-400 air defense systems, as well as their own apparently) and again, as we've seen in videos, sat pix and reports from Iran, only a very small number of missiles hit their targets, presumably, and there's very little evidence of damage, none of it significant.
The U.S., on the orders of Israel of course, has been spewing interventionist garbage about Iran and its non-existent nuclear weapons program for decades and thus Iran has been preparing for an attack by the U.S. for many years. Everything important to their defense is underground.
Israel apparently had 2 or 3 attack waves planned: 1) open a corridor in Iran's air defense, 2 and 3) bomb the shit out of everything, but from what we saw ... and didn't see (Israel has yet to offer any evidence they did any real damage) ... it appears the 1st wave was terminated early because their "cutting-edge", "stealth" F-35s were detected, apparently by an unknown air defense system (Iran's home-rolled system?), and thus waves 2 (and 3?) were scrapped. Not sure i'd want to be buying any stock in Lockheed Martin in the near future.
Another possibility here is that Israel knows it will get its Zionist ass handed to it if it launches a large scale attack on Iran, thus it launched a token attack which caused little or no damage which allowed the head ding-a-ling in charge (Bibi) to claim how great Israel's military is and how they obliterated every last one of their intended targets in Iran, praying all the time that Iran won't strike back.
This may surprise you, but i assure you this information is almost certainly accurate and comes from several ex-CIA and military people, as well as my own source: The U.S. cannot defeat Russia, or China, or Iran, much less a combination thereof, and if Iran is attacked, Russia will jump in to defend them and China may do the same. Israel, similarly, cannot possibly defeat Iran, with or without assistance from its bitch, the U.S..
Iran's military, i assure you, is far more advanced and capable than people have been led to believe and their behavior toward Israel and the U.S., who has assassinated key people in their nuclear energy program, damaged their centrifuges with malware and subjected them to decades of abuse, has shown incredible tolerance, patience and intelligence toward its enemies, but it appears Iran has had enough of the bullshit.
Meanwhile, Israel is disintegrating in every way; their economy is dead (men fighting, not working, the wealthy are leaving the country), there is dissent in the military, the government, and within the population. The IDF is taking a beating, not only in S. Lebanon, but they are also suffering casualties in Gaza, some by their own hand (suicide), and are having to reclaim the same territory over and over. They are fighting on multiple fronts, are over extended, are unprepared for long, difficult battles, and they have achieved exactly none of their goals, not even in Gaza after more than a year of fighting Hamas which is attracting recruits faster than they can train them apparently. The same is true for Hezbollah which, along with the Houthis, are sending missiles into the heart of Israel on a daily basis.
Israel is over and the worst may be still to come.
It looks like Iran is going to strike back as it said it would and, according to Scott Ritter, they have the capacity to launch ~400 missiles per hour for days. Prof. Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American geopolitical analyst, stated that Iran has hundreds of thousands of missiles for targeting Israel, the U.S. bases in the region, and anything else they want to blow up.
The wildcard here is Israel's nukes which are in the hands of a desperate and psychopathic bunch of Zionist lunatics who are losing everything. Nuclear weapons cannot save Israel, but they may be able to do a tremendous amount of damage to its enemies (much of the rest of the world at this point) if they cannot be intercepted. Though having no desire whatsoever to develop nuclear weapons, Iran has the capability to do and do so rapidly if the need arises.
Beyond all of that, the vast majority of "Jews" in Israel (~85%) are brainwashed Europeans who migrated there, many of them non-religious. Now what is it they claim? Something about "gods chosen people" being given that land?