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Man, it sure didn't take long to pivot from "We need to invade Iran to protect those poor protestors from their evil government" to "Bomb 'em back to the stone age".
How strange. It's almost like Trump didn't have the best intentions of the Iranian people at heart from the get go.
To anyone that was actually fooled by this, when we start bombing Cuba, please remember to not listen to the Cuban diaspora that cheer on the bombing as some form of liberation. Remember all of the Iranian diaspora that cheered on Iran being invaded? They do not care about the country they or their parents left for the US. And with Cuba, there is a high likelihood they are the children of slave plantation owners that fled Cuba after the revolution.
I’m living in Miami right now and there are no bigger “victims” than some Cubans here. Everything is someone else’s fault. If it weren’t for the revolution, they would be rich!
The weirdest ones are the ones that say their parents/grandparents "fled communism"; and then you ask them "when?" and they say "1953".
From the get-go? You mean the get-go where we blew up an elementary school full of little girls?
Yes that's the joke they're making
He is a disgrace to the noble tradition of the FIFA peace prize.
Lucky for him, the Amazon Oscar is still within reach
He's the only FIFA peace prize recipient to ever start a war.
Your tax dollars at work. You could’ve had free education, Medicare for all, functioning roads and infrastructure, end homelessness, but instead we’re bombing fucking brown people in the Middle East. Let’s waste all this money and blow up the fucking desert mountains in Iran while simultaneously fucking over the rest of the world and raising gas prices to 10 bucks a gallon.
There is something slightly humbling about the fact that in the face of so much firepower and human "destruction"; that it can be countered well simply by the powers of nature and some human planning.
Basically, yeah, you have trillions of dollars of weapons research and ammunition spreading over decades. Nice. But we're just gonna use natural geological structures, the best concrete recipe known to man, Toyota trucks, and low cost drones we optimized to all hell for affordability. We'll be here until you decide to leave...
That would be….gasp….socialism
What gets me is there is still people supporting this. I find it hard to imagine how we'll ever progress given we can't even agree on the problems to be solved.
I'm confused. I thought they had 48 hours to reopen the straight, but not really because talks were going well, but still 10 days until the US destroys all the infrastructure, but talks have been productive, and the war is going to be over any day now, but it doesn't matter because we don't need the oil, but we could take over the oil fields, but Europe should help us, but we don't need them and they should do it themselves.
Wait didn’t we do that a year ago when we had a single attack that somehow destroyed all of their nuclear capabilities?
They got better.
Probably happen again.
Trump's an idiot.
We're paying for his stupidity.
This should stop...but it doesn't.
You weren't supposed to remember that!
I believe that was a strike at their centrifuges. They are needed to enrich uranium to powerplant grade or weapons grade.
Iran had agreed to stop using them, as part of the treaty trump tore up. Afterwards, the lack of any detectable fallout indicated that they were not in use, since no uranium was present.
Basically they lost their ability to produce more weapons grade material. It is unknown how much (if any) was previously made, and might be stockpiled elsewhere.
It also shows that Iran seems to have remained in compliance, despite trump pulling out of the deal.
No country has ever surrendered unconditionally from conventional airstrikes.
So we're either going to see boots on the ground (well, they're in the area), or more tiny hand flailing within that time frame.
That's why I always have one old unupgraded pikeman hanging around since 560BC to take over cities.
Especially a country run by a threatened regime. If the IRGC give in, they’re dead. They also have established that they don’t care about the human cost.
Everything is 2 or 3 weeks. 10 years from now, it will over in 2 or 3 weeks.
Iran has simultaneously been obliterated within the first 2-3 weeks of the war and will have nuclear weapons in the next 2-3 weeks.
Still don't know why.
Just know we can't have nice things here.
Because they have lots of oil and aren't Christian.
are brown*
Because it stopped a lot of the Epstein questions
Any miltary strategist will say that you can't bomb your way to a victory.
But you absolutely CAN bomb the news about your pedophile rape gang out of the front pages.
These idiots and their scorched earth threats. Worst B-movie villains ever.
These clowns and their maximalist bullshit. Were they playing paddycake for the past 5 weeks?
And the oil markets responded appropriately, WTI is now $112.
Bye bye any economic performance for all of 2026!
Of course. It worked for Vietnam after all the combined ordinance used in WWII was dropped there and its neighbors of Laos and Cambodia. Oh no wait the US still failed spectacularly. Is the US gonna have another forever war just to hide the president's role in a massive pedophile ring?
In his 1965 autobiography (co-written with MacKinlay Kantor), LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that "they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.
Is that really a quote that you want to lean on, Donny? Not exactly a great omen.
This is EXACTLY what Jesus would Say!
-Trump's Faith Advisor!
Will this be like how their military has been wiped out? Doesn't he realise everyone just calls his bluff because he literally never goes through with anything he threatens.
My guess is that Trump doesn't have Congressional support for an AUMF, which means that all Iran has to do is last for 60 days before Trump has to pull out.
So basically, if Trump wants some kind of deal that uses the military as leverage, he has to get it closed in a matter of weeks.
But what if he just ignores the 60 day limit, and then we all wait till two years later for a court to finally decide that wasn't legal and he should stop?
Right. He's technically not supposed to be able to start a war either. But here we are
Peace prize please.
FIFA "Here is your bribe......I mean Peace Prize, President Trump."
Donald comes cheap.
The situation has no way out. Leaving without opening the strait ruins the Gulf States that own a large part of the American economy that would go to hell. Opening the strait without troops on the ground is impossible, troops on the ground will be a pickle in lives and material as not seen since the Second World War. I think before this is over he will be seriously considering the nuclear option, I hope they can stop him before that
I hope a clot stops him before then because there’s a much better chance of that than any of the spineless people in government suddenly doing anything about anything.
Seems like it was never about nuclear weapons.