You arguably can't run gorilla large-scale manufacturing. There are obvious limits to what you can achieve when the opposition can run decapitation strikes every few months.
You gotta bet china and russia loved what happened here
And the US surveillance capabilities are substantially greater than they were during the Iraq and Vietnam wars. Smuggling in drones or missiles isn't some trivial affair.
And again, if they do that, we just decapitate their leadership again. And again. Until they stop.
And the talk of chipping away at russia and china's influence in iran, youdo know that iran is asking for payment in yuan to let ships through. The US invaded iraq to maintain the petro dollar and now iran os flagrantly subverting it and backing china's currency