So maybe a hundredth of what's needed to invade Iran?
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More importantly, arriving 4 weeks into active conflict.
Instead of arriving before the bombs started dropping, when they could have been 100x more effective by their mere presence -- especially if combined with a full-spectrum diplomatic and economic push with the Democracies of the world as allies.
Jesus Christ, Trump and his cabinet are fucking hubristic-stupid
holy shit the casualties are going to be terrible
If that figure is true.
...does anyone else hurt when these things happen?..
The families of our troops.
I meant this unironically. I physically hurt.
Inflammatory stress response. Take an advil and do something that makes a small contribution to making things better.
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But American will have the element of surprise! /s
...when a corporation is a government, people do not matter...
Never did. I remember an article shortly back about enlistees feeling like pawns for the current regime, comments beneath unanimously ⁉️♟️🤣
...why do human beings hate each other?..
The origin story in the modern era is the British East India company
35 million people genocided in 100 years.
Forced cash cropping so that farmers were growing opium, indigo and poppy rather than food.
Increased taxes during drought to pay out more to shareholders back in London.
Throughout thousands of years of Indian history the cultural norm was for taxes to be either reduced of waived during drought.
Extracting human suffering elsewhere into capital at home. That's what the East India company did. One of the world's first joint stock corporations.
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The arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors is keeping the number of American troops in the Mideast region at over 50,000 — roughly 10,000 more than usual
The U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003 was close to 250,000 at the beginning.
Worth noting: Iraq and Iran are very different societies & cultures.
Before colonialism, Iraq was decentralized/tribal for thousands of years before being arbitrarily collected into a single political unit.
Meanwhile Iran was its own empire, with a central head of power for those thousands of years.
90% chance Trump thinks he's at war with Iraq. Most of those troops couldn't even find Iran on a map last month.
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Jesus Christ. Can we just band together and do a coup to overthrow Trump and Vance at this point? This is going to be a needless bloodbath on both sides
Yes, what's the goddamn holdup?
They've chosen to be complicit.
They are going to invade Iran, and play up every single death as a way to blame the Dems and every citizen for not supporting Trump. Now its a real war and "oopsie doopsie no can do elections"
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Americans fight for zionists. Zionist first!
I've been to concerts with well over twice that many people in the crowd
The excursiom that was aleeady won that was actually a forever war? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
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Just jumping in here before the bags start shipping back to say fuck every single one of these service people. All of them chose to go. All of them chose to serve this lying, fascist government and do the bidding of their corporate patrons. All of them signed up to bomb children. All of them deserve the consequences. Have fun shitting in a bag the arrest of your life assholes.
Most of them are probably 18 years old, poorly educated, and raised on Fox News. They're just pawns that have no idea what's going on.
Congress on the other hand, knows exactly what they're doing, and has no moral qualms.
You’re right, but the 18 year olds are probably educated on As~~smeinkampf~~mongold and that is even worse.
Don't blame soldiers. Blame their government.
Absolutely blame governments. But that doesn’t absolve soldiers from responsibility in a volunteer force. Absolutely blame soldiers for their own misdeeds.
This notion that our service people are somehow these fragile, perfect little angels that deserve nothing but effusive worship is nonsense, and part of how the government enforces its awful, self-serving corruption.
Fuck the soldiers, every single one of them. They signed up to do evil, they deserve to suffer the consequences. Can’t wait to ridicule them when a few of them get back.
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Don't blame soldiers. Blame their government.
I'll also blame the ranking officers.
The grunt soldiers may not have the perspective to see how illegal this is, but the officers should.
It's the troops coming home from Vietnam being spit on and called baby killers again.
And that was the high point for many, as they'd end up addicted and living on the streets shortly thereafter.
I hope the Europeans know how to cook. These boys are chubby. Or maybe that's the plan to make them a little slimmer?
I've seen this one before, try Paramount+ or something
I don't know how this ends well, we're staring at the Rubicon. Didn't end well for Caesar either.
I fear that it ends with nukes unless trump is stopped.
Setting the stage for nuking Iran, because a 'conventional war' can't be won?
Can we please turn back time some thirty years?
I don't think they would bring in troops if they were going to nuke. Bot who knows?
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No better way of getting Trump supporters out of the US. A silver lining for Americans at least
Didn't he declare victory weeks ago? I'm confused.
just like the simulations
probably fewer soon
Time to put the American soldiers's sacrifices on israel's altar to their violent genocidal god. Sorry to the soldiers and their families.
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