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Iran destroys five US refueling aircraft. (www.vietnam.vn)

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If they're forced to abandon all their vassals in the Gulf, then their image as a world power collapses overnight.

As opposed to staying and their image being more like the loooooong, slow decomposition of an embalmed corpse? Like it's still going to happen, it's just taking too 🤬 long?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

There are no good choices left for the empire here.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

Painful as it may be for underdeveloped egos, GTFO NOW and start making reparations seems the best option, but I'm an internet rando, so there's that

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 minutes ago

realistically that is the best option left, but the humiliation would be too much too swallow