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For context: Vietnam had 40 million people during the war, the US sent 550,000 troops there and it lost the war
Iran is 5 times the size of Vietnam, has 2.3 times the population, and is just as determined to kick GI butts as the VCs were. And Iran has just mobilized a million troops.
How will 13,000 US troops become anything other than dead bodies and war prisoners in very short order, pray tell?
Not sure how a country of 203 million in 1970 (census data) would have sent a multiple of its population to war in Vietnam?!
Your numbers are off by a LOT.
Oops, wrong order of magnitude. Well spotted.
As our foremost intellectual in the cabinet Markwayne Mullin would say, that was a misspoke 🙂
Thanks for correcting your post, now it makes sense and really shows how fucked the US is. This will get much worse for everyone involved and everyone of us.