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[–] 46 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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    Israelis are the only ones that should die for Israel.

    But trump family and ICE i will accept as exceptions.

    Every politician that takes money from them is a fucking traitor, deserving of the punishment for traitors

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    This moron has no strategy other than hitting harder until he gets what he wants. Problem is that this isn’t one of his kids or wives he can beat up and lawyer his way out of trouble, these are nations that have the world by the balls and he’s too stupid and narcissistic to understand that.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The problem with the military in the 21st Century is that it has plans for absolutely everything. Nobody else has plans for anything, especially not the politicians, especially especially not this politician.

    Since the only ones with plans are the military, everything looks like a military. The only plan the military has at this point is ground invasion, so ground invasion it is. When that doesn't produce the results desired by the politician, more military plans are tapped, because the only plans available are military.

    We have seen the same thing happen in 2022. The plan was to invade Ukraine, decapitate the regime in three days, three weeks tops, and then profit. That didn't work out, so the next military plan was executed. Then that didn't work and the next military plan was executed. And four years later, there are still military plans to be executed, and well over a million people incapacitated.

    The Iran "thing" started with the attempt to decapitate the Iranian regime. The plan failed (for different reasons) but the similarity in the failure of Plan A is startling. I hope someone tells this politician that chasing military plans is a terrible idea in this case, too.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The problem with military plans is that they are always planning on fighting mostly based on the last war. Case in point, drones are overwhelming conventional weapons - they didn't plan for that.

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  • At this point I'm convinced Trump thinks he can win by dragging the gulf states into the war. What a mess.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Is this that war that he claims to have "won" and is "winding down"?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Time to enlist, all you big tough MAGAs! It's the least you can do for your Ruler.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Guess I'll fill that second 55gal barrel I have with gasoline.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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    Yeah right, with what fucking free cash? Everyone screams "buy EV" but I can only afford to get $2500 used vehicles and put sweat equity into them. There are no used EV's in affordable price brackets that aren't full of tracking electronics. Plus I can't move landscaping equipment, trash, or like 90% of the tools I need with one like I can with my 32 year old Chevy truck.

    With careful managing two barrels of gas will get me 5 months. I'll figure it out after that.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    How many times are the goal posts going to change?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Weeks

    Well technically, hundreds of weeks is still weeks

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Our grandchildren will fight this war.

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    [–] 31 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    "It's just a short term air campaign."

    "It's just a small ground raid."

    Reminder that our involvement in Vietnam started as small beans SOF incursions, too.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Just a small special military operation. Back before easter halloween christmas 2030

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Gotta help israelis genocide and landgrab while gun lobby gets ritcher, people get poorer. USA USa uSA /s

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Iran has a professional army with a ground force of 300k.

    That's about the same number of boots the US has. It'll be no small logistic feat to get that operation a chance.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    It will probably come down to US aircraft and overwhelming the Iranian government very quickly.

    If the US does invade and fails its first push the the scale tips back in Iran's favor.

    It will be bloody. The drones will also take down many aircraft, but they likely dont have enough yet to stop the US. However everyday that goes by tips the scale in Iran's favor.

    Even if the US did topple the government is just going to be like Afghanistan all over again.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This isn't going to be a surprise attack. They once held the advantage but they pissed that away. Now they will face a prepared enemy in an advantaged position.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    But... But... The big orange bozo said the war was over already.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Tony Schwartz, Drumpf's ghostwriter for The Art of the Deal, told The New Yorker "More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    It may be a negotiation tactic, he may actually plan to have a go but just as likely he is going to TACO.

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    "weeks" hahahahaha

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News last weekend. “My money’s always on the Marines.”

    7000 US soldiers died on Iwo Jima, and nearly 20,000 were wounded.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    7000 US soldiers died on Iwo Jima, and nearly 20,000 were wounded.

    Which is kinda interesting since they have around 10k troops deployable troops. One wouldn't want to be in the situation where the US "wants to save lives lost resulting from a ground invasion"...

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    This is going to be another Vietnam/Afghanistan.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Their whole job it to prepare. I’d be disappointed if they didn’t do so.

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