IIUC, Iran would be harder to invade and occupy than Iraq: it’s over 2x the size, has about 2x the population, it’s more mountainous, and the regime now might be twice the age, and presumably twice as entrenched, than Saddam’s was in 1991.
Granted, it’s GDP is lower than Iraq’s (now and perhaps before 1991) and IIUC, its arguably more heterogeneous, and Saddam before June 1990 was less antagonistic to the US than Khomeini or Khamenei, so maybe you have a point.
and I doubt it will happen.
IIUC, Iran would be harder to invade and occupy than Iraq: it’s over 2x the size, has about 2x the population, it’s more mountainous, and the regime now might be twice the age, and presumably twice as entrenched, than Saddam’s was in 1991.
Granted, it’s GDP is lower than Iraq’s (now and perhaps before 1991) and IIUC, its arguably more heterogeneous, and Saddam before June 1990 was less antagonistic to the US than Khomeini or Khamenei, so maybe you have a point.
Just because it makes even less sense than then invasion of Iraq doesn’t mean TACO will not try anyway
Agreed, and there might be some anti-Trump/anti-American types that want to see him try it.