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[–] DoofusAscendant@hexbear.net 122 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"We haven't won in Iran yet because we've been holding back on our most effective strategy: crimes against humanity"

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 63 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

as if the very first target of the war wasn't a girl's school

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[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

And they gleefully committed crimes against humanity in Vietnam and still left in defeat. They've been coping ever since with the "we would win if we nuked them all" option, as if the US is impervious to missiles itself.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

We haven’t even begun to commit sex crimes, are you stupid?

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 101 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

boots in the ground

That typo indeed carries more truth than the rest of these posts

two months to topple the Taliban

checks notes hmm let’s see who’s in power in Afghanistan again

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They were famously in Afghanistan for 20 years and the Taliban are in power? Did we jump dimensions or something? What are they referring to lmao

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 97 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Americans had a multiyear breakdown over having to wear a mask, they will not be able to handle the war economy going berserk requires.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The pretty minimal social reorganizating we did for covid felt great, if we weren't going to be on the wrong side of WWIII, I'd almost be looking forward to seeing the entire economy mobilized.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago

Joke’s on amerikkka. Even if this shithole was in ww3 under the new axis, porky would rather die than have more workers.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

War economies are bad, actually.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 87 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Don't siege Tehran, just take it"

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 77 points 3 weeks ago

Common fascist rhetoric, the only thing they need to do to win a war is triumph their will harder and kill more civilians, if they are losing a war you should be grateful that they're choosing to be merciful by only targeting the civilians outside of the range of enemy air defences.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 75 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Enormous value on the lives of their troops??

Okay, whatever you need to believe to keep feeding your babies to the imperialism machine I guess.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine seeing all the living veterans with untreated PTSD, physical disabilities, and all sorts of other issues and then still believing this shit lol (of course they don't see them, they're unhoused or otherwise abandoned). That doesn't even count the dead ones.

They're all 100% disposable to porky-happy

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[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

you dont understand, we chose to lose those wars

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 72 points 3 weeks ago

We usually destroy all major infrastructure and power plants after we take out the military targets.

i-love-killing-people

We place tremendous value on the lives of our troops

us-foreign-policy

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 60 points 3 weeks ago

Guys you don't understand we just have to zerg rush their command center and destroy all their harvesters in order to get that victory condition!

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“We haven’t used nuclear weapons [which would guarantee our own destruction and The End of Treats], so we’re actually fighting this war with our hands tied because we enjoy being publicly humiliated.”

The US also used nuclear weapons in the Algerian War of Independence, paying the French 100% of the cost of that war. Some nukes were “tested” by France in the Algerian desert during that time and people there still have health issues because of that to this day. But the nukes didn’t stop Algeria.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

paying the French 100% of the cost of that war

this is the only part that surprises me, how much money was this

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 55 points 3 weeks ago

Fascists are all that guy who thinks he can win any fight if he goes sicko mode.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 52 points 3 weeks ago

could you imagine America actually committing to the WW2-style total war economy that would be needed to defeat a near-peer adversary in 2026? I'm not convinced that the American government currently has the capacity to whip its own capitalist class into necessary shape, although i do think we could probably send out vans of masked men to kidnap draft card holders.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

got into a hilarious argument in youtube comments with someone that was coping about how Trump is the reason why their army sucks now. data-laughing

"No, you don't get it, Trump lost the berserker mode button!"

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[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My wife pointed out an amazing contradiction in the American hegemony. Our entire mythic past is built up on the idea of tiny rebels going up against the big overseas tyrannical, overreaching government. We were able to beat them because we had the home field advantage.

But those insert colonist slur of choosing can't possibly beat the might of the mighty American government as it reaches across the ocean in it's might and smashes all these puny tiny groups in it's path. What's a tunnel?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The mythic American past is also about how the the supposedly superior whites took the land from the natives. It's just that, again. It's a belief that our foes are technologically and culturally inferior and thus can't actually resist in a meaningful way. Also there's something to be said about how Americans will still claim to this day that we actually won in both Korea and Vietnam because we had higher kill counts than they did.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

USians do not understand yet that the world has changed and the countries that it held such extreme advantages over in the past have closed the gap in a variety of ways. They imagine a world in which they would always hold a giant technology lead.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 47 points 3 weeks ago

i-am-adolf-hitler Wir wollen den totalen Krieg! amerikkka-clap

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is exactly how Hegseth and Trump thought before eating shit in Iran. These Yankee chuds have the strategic foresight of a Koala.

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

Hey that's not fair!

A Koala has way more insight before it drops down on someone's head.

[–] EatMoreMacroplastics@hexbear.net 44 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I've had multiple arguments on hexbear where a whole bunch of AmeriKKKans got really offended because i pointed out that the US hasn't won a war since the end of WW2, angrily informing me that Iraq and Afghanistan totally count as wins because fucking shit up and causing chaos in the region is already sufficient for US interests, completely ignoring that the US was unable to ever gain full control over either country and originally went in with the intention of turning both of them into reliable client states like Germany or Japan, which they had openly stated before the invasions. It was as if i was suddenly back on reddit, where such things also happened every time i dared to trash talk the track record of the empire's troops. Even being an anti-imperialist doesn't stop AmeriKKKans from believing in the supposed might of their shit-ass third tier useless overpriced military, they just can't help being good little patriotic chauvinists inside.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

sorry to tell you but Iraq was in many ways a victory because the US continues to control all Iraqi oil revenue and they did destroy a functional anti-imperialist state and force it into underdevelopment

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 44 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, the "inept and stumbling empire" is a dangerous trope. American ruling-class won a lot in those wars.

The troops are absolute losers tho stacking Ls.

[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sadaam was in many ways, already a US puppet.

But he tried to switch the dollar for the Euro. This was unacceptable to the US, and the spineless servile Europeans helped the US stomp Iraq into the ground.

He was a puppet that tried to navigate the dynamics between himself and his masters.

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unlike the vile Moslems who don't care about their people we only send our troops to safe places like the burger king in Abu Dhabi

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

I do love when people forget that the Iran/Iraq war happened and Iran, despite being the smaller military, fought Iraq to a standstill because it is extremely difficult to invade Iran, and they have only had 40 years since then to learn from the invasion by Iraq.

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[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's spinning the ball on his finger! JUST TAKE IT!

[–] booty@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

As can clearly be seen here though, it's not a secret. It's just what americans will say out loud

[–] RION@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

getting made fun of because I can't crack an egg properly while baking

Dude if I wanted to I could crush this egg in my hand right now!!!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Americans/chuds/westerners in general crave death and destruction. They are cruel, twisted beings.

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[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just wait until our military takes off its shirt and throws it on the ground.

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[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

Same fantasy as the reveal that Goku’s been fighting the entire time with weighted clothes

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Legit question: What consequences would murikkka or its cancer in Levant face if they do use nuclear bombs on Tehran? None of its vassals is going to care and I don't see China nor Russia doing justice against them.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The direct consequences would be Iran itself launching everything at the entity, I think

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[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

Agree that nobody will do shit about it. The eurolibs will be outraged. They'll look deep into their hearts, and then keep doing what they've been doing anyway, licking American boot.

Fascist parties will use this hypocrisy (only the latest among many liberal hypocrisies) against them and unequivocally sweep the continent. Not so secretly itching to do it themselves.

France will wind up using them in Africa. Maybe after the fascist sweep, but probably before.

Then the lid will be well and truly off and we're in the cool zone.

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