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As the kids say these days, WMD-grade copium by the Atlantic Council (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/TrueAnon@lemmy.today
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8856436

Here's the link but honestly not worth reading

https://archive.ph/zuMGa

Except for this

Critics maintain that the rapid and large-scale expenditure of munitions has “wrung out” U.S. power and that Washington’s inability to subdue Iran sends a message of American weakness around the world. On the contrary, the war showed that the United States is still willing and able to engage in large-scale military action. Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot safely assume the Pentagon will stay on the sidelines if they attack NATO or Taiwan.

The war also gave the U.S. military the opportunity to practice. China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a war in decades. The Pentagon just conducted a months-long exercise in Iran of new tactics and technology that will be useful in a future conflict in Europe or Asia.

anya-heh

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago

300 billion points is a lot of points

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    [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    my god does matthew kroenig look like a cunt

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    He was probably that one kid that held everyone back from getting to the cafeteria because he'd ask redundant questions right when the bell rang. Even the teacher hated his annoying ass.

    Later in the day you'd see him taking his hall monitor role way too fucking seriously when some poor kid is rushing to the bathroom.

    Damn... that dude's stupid smug face got me all agitated lol

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    It's Foreign Policy, a Graham Holdings publication. It's from the same company that took the Washington Post, formerly of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate fame, and turned it into another neocon propaganda outlet before Bezos acquired it.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    What points? We bombed children and civilian infrastructure when we discovered we couldn't destroy their primary offensive capability. We watched helplessly as they did the very thing that was predicted would happen (closed the straight) and forced hardship all over the world. Depleted our own offensive and defensive capability supporting and protecting isreal without significantly effecting theirs. We lost tremendous strategic advantage in the region as Iranian bombs rained down on our bases and oil infrastructure in the region, damaging valuable weapons and killing our soldiers. We achieved none of the stated goals for starting the war aside from killing a few of their old leaders who were rather quickly replaced. The president embarrassed the nation and ruined our reputation repeatedly by alternately begging for peace and immediately ignoring the requirements for even starting negotiations. Trump showed his personal capitulation to Netanyahu by refusing to abide by terms in earlier agreements that would require isreal to stop doing even just one of their genocides for five fucking minutes.

    And for what? What notches do we have in our column? Please elaborate.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Lol

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