Comment by lm28469

Only someone coming out of the US education system can have both the power to start such a war and the complete lack of knowledge needed to think it would go well...

> a country as poor and as heavily sanctioned as Iran

It's one of the oldest civilization in the world

It's not poor by any means, it's the 20th economy in the world

They produce as many engineers per year as the US, and they're not financial engineers or saas coders, fyi:

> mid-14c. enginour, "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor "engineer, architect, maker of war-engines; schemer"

Sanctioned for half a century means they developed other ways to live and survive