I want to know if i need to throw some ribs on. One of my oldest friends married a KC10 pilot. We ran cross country on rival teams in high school. Our parents always wanted us to date. Well, okay until my parents met my wife like a year before we started dating. And did not tell me jesus mom and dad help a dude out. Her mom played piano for one of my choirs.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It isn't about the size of the dog, it is the fight in it. The Iranian chihuahua has a death grip on the neck of the American doberman.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

I wouldn't exactly call a country of 90 million a chihuahua.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I am not asking for much, I just want to see the US defeated in West Asia and elsewhere around the world.

[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The US doesn’t make war to win or lose. It makes war in order to fund the weapons’ industry’s oligarchs with unlimited public money

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 hours ago

While that is absolutely the case, the problem they have here is that they don't control escalatory dominance. Typically, the US can dial things up or down as convenient, and if things get too spicy they can leave without any consequence. But here, Iran controls a choke point of the global economy, and leaving would have disastrous geopolitical consequences for the US. If they're forced to abandon all their vassals in the Gulf, then their image as a world power collapses overnight. How can Europe, occupied Korea, or Japan credibly think that the US will defend them at that point?

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