Uh sure it can, we could easily tell them to do something in return of this other thing, and then fuck them over

no it really can't

Iran is already distrustful of our govt

But even if you can’t have both, we have infinite power compared to them so we can choose

Ok and? Who fucking cares about how Iran feels ?

we're not gonna be able to trick'em

Really what I’m saying is that we have the guns, we can order them around, and they know it. So why not use that advantage?

yeah no, that's not how it works

us having power doesn't matter

and if anything it would only make us seem arrogant and/or evil as fuck

That’s exactly how this works, three frigates and one sortie I could have the US military make Iran get on her knees.

yeah no

that's not good enough

Yes it is. Their analysts say so

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three ships ain't shit

Because they have one specific island where 85% of their oil and gas goes through. That’s where the one sortie comes in. And three frigates too close and block off the Persian gulf, cutting off their oil exports

We’re oil and natural gas independent

So we don’t need any resources coming through

more like three ships get swarmed with attack boats and missile strikes

Bruh

I’m not putting them inside the Persian gulf

I don’t need too

and yet you'll be putting them in missile attack range

No I won’t

yes it would

Well sure a few missiles

hundreds on average

The SAMCO attacks proved they have some damn good missiles but those are rare

Most of their missiles are mediocre

And aren’t long range precision guided

some of their missiles are questionable, but the rest are relatively good

Yeah but they aren’t gonna be able to have the precision needed to hit a frigate out in the Arabic ocean.

That’s actually really difficult

They have a few missiles that could

But we also have missile defenses

if it were south then that would be the max range, but the same could be said of the three ships as well

if you're going to be ordering cruise missile strikes then those can be shot down, if they could even get close to their targets

Not really, Iranian military just doesn’t have the same capability to fight as America does. They have worse off tech, I’m sure they’d shoot a few planes down but more often than not it would be their own.

Again, one sortie of plans over that island and their fucked, even if we lost all of the planes and pilots in that mission we could replace them

With better men and better equipment than the Iranians currently have total