Nobody's efforts but your own, in the two posts you made on Page 15.
I'll admit one thing and one thing only, I've been too hard on LeGend. For some reason I've latched onto him since I view him to be the ultimate personification of American arrogance (excluding Gambit and others). Iranians and those of us who sympathize with Iran have definite attitude issues that is to be sure. We can be overly rude and bombastic, we can also be rabble-rousers although I would argue that this behavior has been learned due to the environment of PDF being generally hostile against Iranians but that's a topic for another day, in short we act defensive as a knee-jerk reaction to the hostile forum we've settled in after the other forums closure.
Anyways moving on, Iran has come such a long way since 10, hell even 5 years ago yet it seems the majority of the members here will just caste away that progress to parrot some Pentagon PR line of 'full spectrum dominance' bullshit and just leave it there expecting us to just accept it. I sincerely know that many Iranians have either tacitly or inadvertently accepted that any sort of conflict with Israel or the U.S. armed forces will lead to huge losses for Iran as a nation in some form or fashion. But that reality doesn't mean much since, well, what else are we gonna do? I'm American, born in the states to two Iranians immigrant yet I still have this weird attachment to Iran (that doesn't trump my own loyalty to America per-say but its complicated). The Iranians here born in Iran or moved from Iran also have a strong attachment to Iran so when we see forum users putting America on a pedestal whilst dragging Iran's name through the mud obviously our first reaction is to become hostile. It's just a natural response.
Idk, I genuinely don't think LeGend is a 'bad' person ( although his latest racist/bigoted tirade against Persians/Iranians and Afghans is very telling) but him giving America
EVERY benefit of the doubt on-top of being super biased in favor of the U.S. war machine is just mind numbing (America can be defeated, we've seen in play out multiple times, they're not invincible for the love of ****). If I didn't know better, and I took the words of LeGenD and Gambit as gospel. Then Iran should just give up right here, right now. Iran stands
ZERO chance according to those two. Which is just stupid a year and a half ago-ish when I last had discourse with LeGenD and it still is now. Sincerely don't know where this idea that America will just steam-roll through Iran is coming from... I just can't grasp it. Iran isn't Iraq for the one-hundreth million time. There isn't any viable correlation, the militaries are different, the weapons are not the same, the IADS are not the same, the tactics are not the same, the people and ideologies are sure as **** not the same, the
RESOLVE is not the same yet those two bring up Desert storm (30 years ago now) as if it will be a play-play re-play of what will happen to Iran in a war time scenario against U.S. forces. Forget the 21st century ADS, forgot the cyber-warfare, forget the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of missiles in bases well fortified against most of what America can throw, forget the 100,000s of non-Iranian troops ready to go to war against U.S. across the levant, forget how Iran has surgical level missiles that can hinder American operations the region over, forget the oil fields going up in flames, forget Hezbollah bringing the entirety of Israel to a standstill, forget the ever advancing Iranian missile program that is showing just how effective a viable missile force can be;
JUST FORGET ALL OF IT SINCE AMERICA WILL JUST WIN, BECAUSE AMERICA IS WINNING.
It's tiring, it's childish, it's disingenuous and loathsome to say the least.
LeGeD, say what you want but I really don't care anymore, at this stage we are clearly in the part of the movie where both belligerents will have to get into a true conflagration to see who was bullshitting and who was being honest.