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Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's Vietnam all over again.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;

it's government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;

there is no "South Iran";

and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;

unlike boomers and those older, young men haven't been drafted for 50 years;

oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;

but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Persia is also the 2nd oldest civilization that survives until today, after China. I think they know how to fight in their land better than anyone else.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

both china and india gets free passage through the strait from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago

afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Vietnam v2.0: Iraq

Vietnam v.3.0: Afghanistan

Vietnam v.4.0: Iran

Then sucking will continue until the Americans learn!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

WRONG. Iran is desert, not jungle, dumbass.

(I hope it's clear I'm being silly at you. Because I am. Being silly at you.)