They're going to airdrop some Florsheim boots over Qom and Isfahan, aren't they?
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Boots on ground will run into artillery and drones.
It’s like they learned nothing from watching Russia and Ukraine.
Iran also has a lot experience with drone warfare since they're supplying Russia with drones and have people operating and learning in an active war. Meanwhile the US hasn't really fought against drones in a real war and they refused help from Ukraine one of the countries at the forefront of drone warfare.
I wonder how long will Trump stay in office when the internet starts getting videos of American soldiers getting killed by drones just like the ones with Russian soldiers we have right now.
Trump has raped children, is a convicted felon, and demolished part of the White House. He's threatened reporters with execution, demanded personal enrichment as part of foreign trade, incited a terrorist attack on the Capitol building, and then pardoned the terrorists convicted of their crimes. He has openly solicited bribes and disclosed classified data to our enemies that resulted in the deaths of American agents abroad.
His supporters will not move an inch regardless of how many soldiers they see dying.
I've been around for over 4 decades and the only thing I've ever seen conservatives give a fuck about were gas prices, unborn babies (specifically), and people with not white skin becoming president.
Note: Specifically unborn babies because they don't give a flying fuck about kids after they're born. That's why they voted for a party that is currently obliterating child cancer research and are against free school lunches.
That's because Conservativism isn't really am ideology. It's psychological cover for being selfish. Conservatives define their core values based on whatever is good for the people within the Conservative group. They believe that they are the good people, the special people, and that they are entitled to whatever they want. Anyone that stands in their way is evil. Any facts that challenge their world view are lies. Any crimes they commit in service to their goals are justified.
Conservatives don't care about gas prices or unborn babies or racism unless those issues help them get elected. Conservatives get abortions when they want them. They will even blame other people getting abortions "for no reason" as the reason why they can't get their own "totally justified and moral" abortion.
They start wars, make trade agreements, and deregulate inustries that raise gas prices, because someone is getting rich from the high gas prices. When Conservatives are in charge and prices go up, they will tell you it is your patriotic duty to fuel up you SUV and drive around.
Even the racism is entirely user dependent. Black conservatives, Latino conservatives, Asian conservatives, Jewish conservatives, Islamic conservatives, Russian conservatives, they all hate someone and they all pretend to be the most persecuted people. It doesn't matter if they all hate the same people, as long as they hate somebody.
This is not politics. It's pathological narcissism.
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They also really hate us LGBTQ people
They don’t hate you they think you’re literally an abomination. Especially the religious ones
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Until he dies.
If un-armed Americans getting killed at home didn't get him removed, armed Americans getting killed overseas won't get him removed, no matter what happens he will refuse to leave office alive.
There's 300 million of you and 1 of him, do the whole world a favour AND FUCKING K-[Redacted for legal reasons but you get the idea].
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He is doing what putin tells him.
And to those who say that Russia and Iran are allies. Russia was never a true ally with anyone, it is just partnership of convenience. US destroying itself in Iran has massive benefit for Russia.
And the fact that US did this and also lifted sanctions on Russia and Belarus is clear demonstration that US is ruled by Russian agent.
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I'm wondering about how they're going to get them there in the first place. Both landing craft and rotorcraft are going to be very vulnerable if our air power can't silence Iranian fire (which is seemingly the whole reason why this is "necessary").
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Say it with me, folks:
YOU WILL DIE FOR OIL SO THAT THE EPSTEIN CLASS STAYS WEALTHY.
The Epstein class wants to fuck your daughter while you die in a war of aggression to make oil barons richer.
Don’t forget Israel, you die for the Epstein class AND Israel.
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Born too early to deploy to the Middle East. Born too late to deploy to the Middle East. Born just in time to deploy to the Middle East.
God bless America and it’s love for forever wars in the Middle East.
One of my life's greatest accomplishments is not serving the American military. I take pride in it.
Thank you for your lack of service. :)
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They're gonna fall for one of the classic blunders, never get involved in a land war in asia. Only slightly less well known is never get involved with a pedo when Epstein files are on the line.
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Dying for Epstein to own the libs.
Call me an old geezer, but I liked peace better when it didn't mean starting wars out of the blue and sending your troops to die in meaningless skirmishes.
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That's cool, where are the Epstein files, you vile fucker?
Die for pedophiles boys
Man's never seen a ~~topographical~~ map of Iran and thinks that putting boots on the ground will work in those mountains.
We're going to se a whole lot more flag draped coffins stacked in amazon vans.
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It will be more like Afghanistan. Iran is mostly mountainous and guerilla warfare will be the default. The US relies too much on technology which will not that useful in that environment. Don't forget that the Iran army has been training for years for this type of conflict. Afghanistan was a disaster for American troops but will be nothing compared to Iran.
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They should put his boots on the ground there. With him wearing them, of course.
Two reasons for that: After he missed out Vietnam, he now has the chance to rectify this blunder. And: He can do everything perfectly (at least according to himself), so he should be a good leader and go first, leading his troops into battle like the kings of old.
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Yes, unfortunately the only way MAGA americans will learn is when their sons and daughters are needlessly murdered in a random country, to protect a massive sex trafficking, child-raping pedophile from facing justice.
Also send Stephen Miller over there too, just for good measure. Let's see how much of a patriot he really is.
I agree with this sentiment with one correction: they will learn nothing. They never do.
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On Thursday, Trump told reporters that he wasn’t “putting troops anywhere,” before adding the caveat that if he was going to do so, he “certainly wouldn’t tell” the press.
So....... he's gonna put boots on the ground. Got it.
So you are saying he is lying here? Who would do that? Just go on the internet and lie?
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Can we in the rest of the world not get involved in yet another ground war in the Middle East?
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Translated into neolib-speech: The markets will react poorly
So which is it, are we going to stop the war, or are we about to go all in with a ground force invasion? There are articles on lemmy that say completely opposing things.
The leadership of the country waging the war are saying completely opposing things, to be fair.
The war is over, it's not a war, no troops, but we're moving troops. We don't need allies, send allies, allies are cowards, all sorts of things.
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Based on my assumption that we live in the stupidest timeline, I predict that Trump will actually fulfill his promise to not put boots on the ground in Iran.
The Marines will instead be wearing crocs.
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Death by pedo.
Welp. A lot of service members are going to get a chance to die for the felon rapist they voted for.
The rest of us can go around and around living the same fucking Groundhog Day we've been living our entire lives. Elect a Republican. Go to war in the Middle East. Watch economy eat shit.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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