What are the similarities and differences between the military conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East? The writer and publicist Ivo Injev commented on the topic in the audiocast "This is Bulgaria". of "Focus".
"One is real and the other is more of a show. What Putin did with the aggression in Ukraine is the worst war of our time, absolutely unprecedented. Moreover, in the center of Europe, as we know, the geographical center of Europe is located in Ukraine, if only if you look at it. While the exchange of strikes, as you said in the announcement between Iran and Israel - can with a certain sense of humor be defined as an exchange of courtesies, because the Iranians have sent a truly unprecedented wave in the history of the participation of unmanned aerial vehicles in wars," said he.
The drones
"Neither in Libya, where it was more or less the first time the world paid attention to this weapon, nor later in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, nor even in Ukraine, was there such a wave of nearly 200 combat drones launched. But they travel like a passenger train at about 200 km per hour, absolutely predictably they will be destroyed by Israeli air defenses. On top of everything, she also received quite serious support from the United States, which had brought an aircraft carrier with the appropriate means of countermeasures. Great Britain, France, even Jordan helped.
Princess Salma of Jordan herself has flown combat flights. There was also a photo of her after the combat flight in which she claimed to have personally shot down several Iranian drones, which is very interesting because she is actually Palestinian by blood, by mother. But those Jordanians are initially Palestinians there, the concept of Palestine is geographical first and then it is already sewn together as a separate people. So the Iranians helpfully sent an air armada that was destined to follow the fate of the Spanish Grand Armada, which was sunk and went to Hell, as it happens to every armada, as Valery Petrov wrote. With the difference that that Spanish armada was terribly surprised by its terrible fate," the publicist added.
"They expected that England would surrender easily. Whereas here it was expected. Israel's echeloned air defense is perhaps second to none in the world. Bearing in mind that it is in a small area and very dense, it is against any kind of air attack and it shows. This is from the Iranian side. Then the Israelis, again in the spirit of that sense of humor, graciously retaliated with an almost insignificant airstrike, given that they had far greater combat capabilities against Iran. The technological difference between Israel's and Iran's armed forces is huge in Israel's favor.
These are generally people somehow reasoning with some quantitative categories. Iran is a country of 88 million people, nearly 10 times the size of Israel, but has a smaller gross domestic product than Israel. And per capita it is quite bad, Israel is 10 times richer. This is also related to technological progress, Israel is one of the most technologically developed countries in the world.
They have the means to do very serious damage in Iran, but they didn't. Because it just doesn't align with the geopolitical priorities of the big interests. Neither the United States, nor Putin's empire involved in Ukraine, nor China, which is very supportive of Russia. I say painful, because there is more and more evidence for this, too, that China is also quite irritated by its friendship with this country, which is damaging its relations, especially in terms of trade with the West. And the West is using more and more, especially the United States, these tools to pressure China and the Russians are becoming more and more toxic to the Chinese as trading partners. This is evident in the restrictions that Chinese banks are beginning to impose on Russian trading partners.
Let me also say that only 3% of trade, of China's exports is intended for Russia. While for the United States, China, which is absolutely dependent, it is a country whose economy is export-oriented and thus achieved its prosperity. The relative prosperity of the country, not so much of its people, is 30-40% dependent on the United States in trade. Guess who China will choose when they have to sit at the table and choose one of the two", added Ivo Injev.