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I think we will see ground troops first though. At this point our best hope is that this thing outlasts trump. On the other hand maybe it's the Israelis who are fucking crazy and also nuclear equipped we need to worry about.
I don't want to lathe something into existence, but a democrat in office would see libs go back to brunch when the US drops a nuke anyway. They will even cheer it on if someone like Harris or Buttigieg pulls the trigger, rationalizing it with "having to make the hard choices to protect democracy." The dem president will do it for domestic reasons the way Obama postured drone strikes on hospitals as looking tough in front of Republicans.
Though Trump has arguably accelerated things a bit, pointless invasions and huge attacks of poorer countries are extremely normal for USA over the past few decades, this is not reducible to just Trump-thought. The difference this time is that the enemy has missiles, modern military tech, and a sizeable, well organised army.
This is incredibly stupid even by US standards
I can only disagree, I think it's pretty typical by US standards. We just live in a world that can increasingly fight back.