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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 HORIZONTAL ESCALATION: THE MILLION-MAN ARMY Iran has been preparing for this day since 1979, and Robert Pape explains why "homegrown" regime change is failing. Separatist groups are no match for a million-man army that knows the rugged, mountainous terrain of its own homeland. The recent strikes in Azerbaijan... show more

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