alt Hacker NewsOr perhaps they will learn they are outmatched, lack the resources and technological capabilities to compete, and deterrence will have been established.
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Very few countries lack the technological capabilities to produce these kinds of drones.
What most countries don't have is, for lack of a better term, the resolve Iran has shown. Venezuela could have built drones and resisted just the same, but it's internally divided enough that it was possible to strike a deal with an inside faction and have a coup from within.
Iran has always known that the US is a higher tech nation, but you should not just expect them to surrender on that basis.
History would suggest otherwise; rarely is this ever the case.
The Iranians just hit an F35 with a proverbial box of scraps they put together in a cave. The Chinese military must have experienced collective euphoria when they saw that.
You miss the fact that many adversaries will not act rationally.
There is a huge difference between 'deterrence' in the sense of deterring a country from taking aggressive action it might have otherwise considered, and 'deterrence' in the sense you are using here (surrender without fight, we are so much stronger than you).