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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Attack Mexico.

Start Draft.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

2025, the start of the beans war, USA Burrito vs. Mexican Taco. Fight fire with fire.

It all starts with a sandwich attack... Next thing you know the USA realizes that drones can't win a food war....

[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Anything to distract from the Epstein files.

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Are those similar to the Trump-Epstein files?

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

drawing up

Doesn't DoD have detailed attack plans for every nation already?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes.

Well, not necessarily detailed. Like I'm sure the plan for an invasion of Uruguay is basically nonexistent, while one for war with China is comprehensive.

Plans for a zombie apocalypse have also been created at least once as an exercise. It's good practice for an emergency situation.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Airborne Rabies wouldn't be that dissimilar from zombies. Pretty sure there's a tabletop for that.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We've got that in Australia!

note: It's 'not rabies' (it's Bat Lyssavirus, which is 'totally not rabies'*) and it's 'airborne' since they're bats :P

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean, bats carry hella rabies too. They're basically just little mystery disease packets.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but this is a bad headline. The article is about specifically using US military to attack cartels, which the Trump administration has already made legal for themselves by recategorizing them as terrorists.

It is still a violation of both international law and common sense.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Doesn’t DoD have detailed attack plans for every nation already?

Yep. I would be more surprised if there wasn't an attack plan for any country with more than 5m people.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

When current news gives you flashbacks to the Cyberpunk 2077 lore. The names and dates are different but the trends and events match enough to give the uncanny feeling. Agencies in the streets being deployed, USA in trade war losing irrelevance, going for the Central American war and then losing. By the way, that's why cybernetic limbs got so good, they needed them to patch up the soldiers from that war.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (14 children)

He's trying to imitate Putin. Probably go about as well as it has for Putin as well.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, roght out of Isreals play book, invade a country on the basis of eliminating terrorists/gangs

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehm... the US doesn't need to use someone's else's copy of the book they wrote.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Pretty much every nation with an army has attack plans against its' neighbours, just in case. Actually using them, of course, is quite another thing. Unless you need to be really on your toes because of an unpredictable, aggressive and vicious southern neighbour like -not to name anyone- Austria.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

At some level of detail, anyway. Usually the stupid ones are regarded as an exercise for junior officers, and there's limited research that actually goes into them.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The US isn’t ready for a two front war where the whole world wants to get rid of them. They don’t have the cards.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Please... I'm not a big fan of the US right now either. But that is just an absurd claim. No one is going to willingly open up a front against the US.

Like it or not, but they absolutely have the cards.

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[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why? What's even the end goal? A war to stay in office maybe?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Martial Law is definitely on his wishlist.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, well thats nice of them, I guess. Who is Mexico attacking?

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 day ago

Mexicos government is infiltrated by corrupt drug lords. Their Fentanyl attacks the US population.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

if and when he feels like it

I hate that this is an actionable threat.

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Deport military age immigrants to Mexico, then attack. Brilliant plan

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 day ago

no one cares about their numbers. Us drones will defeat the drug cartels.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Faltering empires always flail about militarily. Part of the death throes.

That said. It would almost be worth him doing it just to see what happens when Mexico invokes Article 5.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

US - China proxy war of attrition coming or nah? Americans finally understanding the horrors of war might push their society into positive change...

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 week ago

That’s a funny joke.

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