Terrorism is defined as an organized group that intentionally targets civilians in order to spread fear, which will thereby further the groups ideological, political or religious goals.
If you launched most of your missiles and your retaliation capabilities significantly degraded.... It will be very tempting to attack you in the moment of your maximal vulnerability.
Iran is very important for both Russia and China. Not only because of its oil and gas, but mostly because of their geographic position.
If you are ready to commit suicide for Iran, so are Russia and China. It is more important for them, than for America. And no, it's not about commiting certain suicide. Even in the worst case, Russia won't lose more than 30 mln killed.Apparently they love them so much they are willing to commit suicide for them.
We have like 2,000 active nukes in our arsenal. We wont come anywhere near depleting our nuclear missiles.
Important enough to see their nations burn in a nuclear holocaust? Nah. Thats an absurd claim.
There are different definitions of the terrorism. But bombing power sites not with goal to affect military, but with the goal to spread fear and terror among civilians - its definitely terrorism.
Depends on your goals. If you are a military recon-sabotage platoon commander and send one of your fire teams to light off some bombs in crowded public squares to distract your adversary from defending, say, a biolab and then attack it with the rest of your platoon, it's not terrorism.
No. Why? If you attack people you should be ready that they can hit you back.
There are people who are trying to redefine terrorism, but it never works.
Your goals are irrelevent. Take Hamas for example. Their goal is to have total freedom from Israel, but when they attempt to achieve that goal by raping women and butchering babies, they are terrorists, by definition.
Iran is an evil regime that deserves to be destroyed.
And Iran has 1,250 cities, many of them need more than one warhead, and they are partly covered with ABD, plus there are hard targets, mostly underground. In fact, all what you actually can use, without significantly decreasing your own nuclear deterrence, is two hundred of B61 gravity bombs. And you still need to deliver them to their targets by F-35s.
Actually, we are more interested in territory, than in people. And yes, if Iranians choose to betray Russia and China and join Western alliance, we can nuke them too, and we have much more tactical nukes.
And what price are you ready to pay for this destruction? One American city? Two cities? One hundred cities? How determined you are? Given that you can't sacrifice even few hundred thousands of soldiers in ground operation, you are not determined at all.
If they were it would have already happened. They are giving very little help to Iran and even they arent dumb enough to give religious fanatics nukes.
You’re a highly unpersuasive paid troll bot.
He can bomb them.
There are political goals, strategic goals, and tactical goals. Terrorism is a tactic.
That's what we call deterrence. "If you attack us, we attack you". And Iran can buy some ships with Club-MS cruise missiles with nuclear warheads for such patrols. You attack them - they attack you. No pain, no gain.
And they can bomb him. So what?
Hey, from the Russian point of view Evangelists and Haradrim are religious fanatics.
lol.
Russia prefers to solve this crisis and defend Iran without giving them nukes. But if the USA are really determined, giving nukes to Iran might become the only option left.
Not yet.
Of course, there should be some action made, like, say, cancelling NPT de jure, (while Trump already effectively cancelled it de facto). But it's seems almost unavoidable now. Russia (and/or China) will sell nukes to Iran if it will be the only way to defeat the USA.
