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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How to win at war:

  1. Start negotiating with foe
  2. Bomb foe during negotiations
  3. Declare victory, tell friends to fuck off
  4. ?
  5. Beg friends for help, because you have lost both tactical and strategic control of the situation. Threaten partners for not helping.
[–] Kcap@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

oh that is deff not going to be the endstate of this.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 36 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

But what if the foe is really the Epstein files?

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Then it was a stupid plan even from an electoral point of view.

I have an ongoing half joking bet since the 2nd day in the war that Trump will be talking about the parties in the island to distract people from the side effects of the war by June.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 8 points 19 hours ago

Double down on the distraction.

Ooh look, we've got Marines to deploy!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Sending the price of gas to the stratosphere, replacing the petrodollar schema by petroyuan, increasing the military spending by a huge margin, and antagonizing the entire world aren't enough of a distraction to guarantee people won't be thinking about it in the elections.

But doing that with 9 months of time for it to impact all the business and family budgets in your country is.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 22 hours ago

Then you have lost both the battle and the war.

And knowing is half the battle.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 21 hours ago

The real enemy was the secrets we made along the way.