History is full of easily won wars that went on for decades. Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin's war on defenseless Ukraine.
Everyone in this administration is either dumb as rocks, or pure evil. Mostly both.
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History is full of easily won wars that went on for decades. Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin's war on defenseless Ukraine.
Everyone in this administration is either dumb as rocks, or pure evil. Mostly both.
Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin's war on defenseless Ukraine.
Ah yes, the famous 3 day special military operation in Ukraine that ended February 27th 2022.
How many more people have to die unnecessarily before someone does something about Trump and his inhumane regime?
If it’s the same useless chuds that get hired at ICE, then I’m fine with it.
ive seen in other forums about joining, that trump boosted more recruitment for joining via budget increase and laxing on disqualifications. they are just going to keep using cannon fodder. When obama was downsizing it was difficult to join.
Yes the US army historically has performed superbly against countries they deemed small easily beaten opponents.
Iran is not so small, what 80 million people, a large country with mountain ranges, which lend themselves to guerrilla action, and hiding forces that it's hard to bomb them dead, as afghanistan could tell you. Flat countries like Iraq they can just get bigger bunker busters, they have communications corrupted so can see where these guys are more than they think the US can see them too.
But Iran will not be seeing regime change, and it would take millions of troops to occupy it properly, even if our leaders weren't too corrupt and mean to do it properly. We were too corrupt and mean to do Iraq and afghanistan well, this new administration would take it to a new level. They never set up an economy under an honest system. Never set up and fostered smallholding farmers and helped give them the tools and machinery to feed the country and make a base of support for a new government. In iraq they could've set up families with new farms they could split off for instance. They could've set up some industry, and made good solid jobs that pay for a dignified life.
Instead they paid off warlords that spent the entire time in a game of thrones type power struggle. Supremely corrupt, no one wanted or liked that government, and it predictably immediately collapsed when we pulled out. The taliban may be religious extremists, but they are honest. They don't tolerate that level of corruption and graft. If they said they didn't do an attack, you could believe it, if they did an attack, they would claim credit. Meanwhile the puppet government lied systematically, even about provably false stuff.
So anyway, they won't go in boots on the ground as such, but if they did it would be a massive boondoggle given an already bad leadership made worse by this administration and their blackmailers the Israelis. But they might seize pieces of land around the Straits of Hormuz, that is the likely scenario unfortunately. And of course bombing, including civilian infrastructure, assassinating their leaders, including their ayatollah. Power grids, hospitals, you name it. Ongoing, peace won't stop the attacks Israel doesn't care about dishonoring agreements they've absolute military advantage and blackmail controlling the superpower.
Nothing better will result, their islamic republic will endure, and many will die needlessly as economic harms will become worse in Iran and spread worldwide.
Actually, yes. Venezuela, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, etc. None of those were on the level of Vietnam that was supported by China and the Soviet Union
Desert Storm
Was so heavily propagandized and subjected to so little scrutiny that it's likely impossible to know whether it was actually successful by any objective criteria.
Afghanistan
Was famously two DECADES of achieving absolutely nothing and then retreating, ending in a decisive victory for the Taliban, who are in charge again.
The situation for anyone opposing them is identical to before the US invasion AT BEST, and the US lost FSM knows how many soldiers, civilians, and billions of dollars on that abominable quagmire.
As far as colossal military failures go, it's arguably somewhere between the US interference in the Vietnam civil war and Hitler's invasion of the USSR.
I don't see any of them as an example.
his top generals is defer his advice to CHARLES kushner and wittkoff.
I'll end this easily won war in, 24 hours tops.
Israel has a veto on everything though, this is them using their epstein blackmail while they have it, and the compromised leaders in there, to start their forever war.
They don't want to end the war. Even if the president gets them to end the war, so he doesn't look like a bitch of Israel, Israel will find pretexts to cross over at will and assassinate leaders and infrastructure. Every time their domestic affairs need a pick me up, every time their leaders are looking at having to admit past mistakes or lies, failures of allowing the ghetto revolt to break through, they can manufacture pretext to go kill their leaders and bomb some military installations, hospitals, whatever, and the US will be forced to endorse whatever they say, as always.
It's a special military operation
Fuck I thought they made Dean Caine a general for a moment
General Mills, maybe