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Melon

(718 posts)
7. The Middle-East is a different world.
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 11:56 PM
Jun 14

I’ve worked over there for periodically for years.
There is no culture of “ hard-work”. The lower class and immigrants perform all labor. Officers are appointed. An officer is not held to the same physical standards as a soldier. They do not lead from the front. Iraq had a large army and they lasted days against the US. The Afghanistan army was large rely untrainable by the US.

The military’s in those regions are a joke versus western standards. Saudi is a bit better because they are western trained. Israel training standards are on par with the West. Expectations that Iran can or will do anything with their military is misplaced. They can shoot missiles and hope to hit something.

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