Just a few hours after the U.S. military launched airstrikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, Iranian anti-American forces launched attacks on two U.S. military bases in eastern Syria, using drones and rocket artillery to carry out air strikes on U.S. military targets. In other words, Iran has also quickly counterattacked, which shows that the confrontation between the United States and Iran is on the verge of breaking out.
The U.S. military has launched two airstrikes on Iranian military targets before, and the Iranian side has directly launched four rounds of attacks against the U.S. military this time, and the purpose is very clear, and the attack is also very ruthless. After the attack on the military base by Iran, the U.S. government also issued a statement saying that if Iran and the anti-American forces it supports continue to launch attacks on the U.S. military base, the United States will take further measures.
The United States is always a belligerent country, and if its so-called interests abroad are violated, and the president of the United States cannot make up his mind to use force, then he will inevitably encounter strong opposition at home, and the president will be labeled as weak. Supporting Israel this time is a decision made by the United States, and Biden, an elderly US president, still has a strong Cold War mentality, so it is naturally impossible for him to let his opponents succeed in this matter, so he must strike at the anti-American forces in the Middle East to show his support for Israel.
At present, the Middle East has actually been divided into two factions, one is the Western countries led by the United States, and their aim is to protect Israel to the death and prevent it from becoming the target of the entire Arab countries in the Middle East. On the other hand, the Arab countries represented by Iran aim to defeat Israel once and for all in order to repay the hatred of the past decades. For Iran, they must attack US targets, and for the US, they must send strong forces to suppress the momentum of Iran's attack. As a result, the United States and Iran are bound to compete in the Middle East, and the scale is probably not too small.
In terms of national strength, the national strength of the United States far exceeds that of Iran, so does this mean that the United States will definitely be able to win in the confrontation between the two countries? You must know that in such a complex region as the Middle East, if you want to win a military confrontation, you can't accomplish it by relying on national strength alone, otherwise the United States would have laid down Afghanistan long ago, instead of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan in a gloomy way. Therefore, Iran still has a dominant advantage in Syria and Iraq, especially as Iran continues to increase its troops on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Judging from the current military situation, the main force of the Iranian army is deployed two or three hundred kilometers away from the US military base, and there are many Shiite armed military targets scattered around the US military base, which are basically combat units at the battalion and company level, and the targets are relatively small, and the US military cannot effectively strike at them. Moreover, these troops are equipped with some rockets and drones, which can harass US military bases from time to time, making it impossible for Americans to guard against them. And even if the Americans want to strike at these anti-American targets in the vicinity, they are nothing more than tents and small mud houses, can they use cruise missiles to hit these worthless targets?
At present, the ratio of personnel in this region is also very large, and there is no need to talk about Iran's regular army, with a total strength of hundreds of thousands, but what about the US military? Although the US military has seven military bases in Syria, the total number of troops stationed in Syria is only 900, and the number of US troops stationed in Iraq is only 3,000. What's more, there are still Russian troops stationed in this area, does the United States dare to completely tear its face with Russia? If they had dare, they would have done it in Ukraine a long time ago, so why leave the problem to the Middle East.