I'm seeing a lot of posts drumming up war hype and WW3 fears but there is nothing to fight. Iran is already cooked and no one is wants to do a ground invasion of Iran. Iran's allies have abandoned them. This is american security preparing for possible counter attacks and bombing targets, not a full on war. Iran is already at war with Isreal.
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Early 2000's era nostalgia goin real hard
Operation Desert Shield, redux, again. Hey at least the music of the era is relevant again
I fucking hate this rhetoric which is: OIL! GAS! BUY OIL! BUY GAS! KEEP PUTIN HAPPY! OIL! GAS!
No one was taking the 'war' between Israel and Iran seriously last week after the initial surge in oil price because the USA was like... "yeah, nah". Now, after a quick call from Putin and bam, all this BS about how the US is pandering for war to drive commodity and share prices up when it's a nothingburger.
Remember kids, buy oil, buy gas and do as you're told.
A-10 movement always preceeds ground deployments. They moved those to Kuwait at the end of March. This has been coming for a while, its not an unplanned thing like it appears.
Where are those informations diskussed? If the information was out in March then Lemmy as a whole is not good at filtering the relevant news.
We need to fix the voting system. ALL pacs should be banned and campaign spending should be limited.
worry not. remember this is TACO Don... he'll chicken out again
This comment will age poorly if he don't.
that's not even in the list of things I'd consider giving a fuck about
It'll just change to TOCO, Trump Occasionally Chickens Out
He also said if he was president there'd be no more wars, so this obviously totally super duperly cannot happen.
It's not a war, it's a special military operation.
Only for a day
He openly calls service members suckers and losers. I dont know that he much cares whats done with them.
Yeah, it seems fairly impossible he'll get fully into the war, and even lending a few bunker busters would be surprising when that's risking a blowback on American forces.
I would guess that Trump is expecting Khamenei to cave, because that's what he'd do. Most likely, he won't, Trump will be confused, and this will drag on and on until a regional nuclear exchange is on the table.
it works in russias favor since its redirecting some resources from the ukrainian front, its not a coindence that this is occuring at the same time russia was having larger losses.
Who is exchanging nukes in that? Israel and who else?
Reciprocal nukes like Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
US is going to be bankrupt by the time he is done his second term.
I mean, that's just on brand for him. If anything, he has shown a talent for bankrupcy.
Ueah. Yeah its pretty fucked.
The shitty thing is: this mother fucker woild love iranian culture. It's super good at all the shit he fakes like gold plated shit.
he loves russia more.
Well, so much for peace talks.
When you are 0/2 why go for 3.....
WW3 Here we go! 🎉🥳
/s
Any tips? Like do I hoard rice, beans, sugar, spices, things I can trade with other people?
Should I get a pro-grade slingshot, maybe a bow and arrow?
Hoard stuff that you want to actually eat
Don't ask me for tips.
I'd probably just kill myself, I wouldn't have the will to live.
I hope reincarnation is real and I get to be born in an advanced post-scarcity civillization somewhere out there in the universe/multiverse where I can enjoy hundreds orntousands of years being a captain of a starship just mapping the universe.
Unfotunately, that's just me daydreaming, its too far fetched to be real.
(Okay maybe get some ham radios and some portable ones, stored in an EM-Shielded container with some solar panel batteries? Communication might be important. But, ask yourself: do you really want to live in a nuclear apocalypse?)
This is basic dictator playbook, problems in domestic politics, start a war and problems change to foreign policy.
Putin has done this multiple times now, and Trump is following up.
Wasn't Trump the peaceful dove?
Everyone knew he wasn't going to be able to curtail democratic elections without the excuse of a war. This is on schedule.
Time to waste hundreds of billions defending israel while our infrastructure crumbles and our citizens still go without healthcare.
Again.