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this is quite [an] unambiguous military catastrophe for the United States.
I raised this issue on Twitter. […] Grok was able to answer in the affirmative.
So you got a racist slot machine to agree with you? That’s the opposite of a convincing argument.
Ugh, grok even did the math it seems, should've read the comments before the article.
let's go gambling
Grok was able to answer in the affirmative.
let's see what are Ja Rule's thoughts on this
What's with the Grok reference. I don't know this guy well enough to tell if that's a bit
lol I have no idea, I kinda thought that was unnecessary, I just liked the article because it showed how badly the yanks are eating shit.
"It will destroy the Trump presidency; it will destroy the GOP for a generation; and it would finally end the entrapment of the United States by its junior geopolitical ally." 
".. .Grok was able to answer in the affirmative"
Got it, the military ist under funded. Cut social spending and raise taxes. Send the teachers to the democracy bomber factories. This message sponsored by all elected repräsentatives.
Gulf monarchies already crumbling, supply chain aftershocks inbound. Iran just needs to hold on, U.S. needs to hold the world economy together.
What was that quote? US needs to be lucky everyday, Iran just needs to be lucky once
Oh please please land troops on Kharg Island I want to see a burning Wasp-class Assault ship live on cnn
lol there's so many comments on this article, and apparently one is by a nazi substack: https://substack.com/@natsoctoday1 I never really got into substack and didn't realize it was a place where actual literal nazis are posting too
The owner of substack is a zionist, but it be what it be, at least they aren't censoring communists
"THAAD's gotta hurt."
(More) Proof positive of America being an unreliable partner who will always put Israel's whims above all others in the region is a crushing defeat that will echo for decades regardless of the outcome of this illegal war.
I question the long-term capability to keep making drones without support from Russia and China (which is probable).
How long is "long-term"?
Iran specifically has built up its local infrastructure to make the drones as locally as possible. The Iridium network stuff for remote control of the drones, is so small that it shouldn't be that hard to either smuggle in more or have stockpiled a fuck-ton of em already.
If "long-term" is years? Then sure, outside support is necessary. But I don't think the USA/Israel can keep this up the assault for years.
If "long-term" is months to a year, Iran is probably very okay. (Outside of some incredibly lucky conventional strike by USA/Israel or a Israel starts using nukes and trying to glass Iranian civilian population centers.)
In order to achieve the same force-to-space or the same force-to-population ratio as Iraq, the US will have to deploy 600,000-1,000,000 troops.
Strongest argument that they'll need a draft that I've seen
Generals at the time of the 2003 Iraq invasion said they'd need 4 million US troops to occupy the country when we had only 4 million troops worldwide. Bush still went ahead with it and killed a bunch of Iraqis anyway without doing a draft.
This is why I worry about tactical nukes. It's the only quick way to end the war on favourable terms for the US/Israel.
Even that won't be so favourable...
Everyone will scramble to get nukes.
As I shall now prove mathematically
a^2^ + b^2^ = death to amerikkka^2^
QED