• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Man, it sure didn’t take long to pivot from “We need to invade Iran to protect those poor protestors from their evil government” to “Bomb 'em back to the stone age”.

    How strange. It’s almost like Trump didn’t have the best intentions of the Iranian people at heart from the get go.

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      From the get-go? You mean the get-go where we blew up an elementary school full of little girls?

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      It’s almost like Trump didn’t have the best intentions of the Iranian people at heart from the get go.

      Does he ever have anyone else’s but his interests at heart?

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        Maybe the person he’s secretly imprisoning who has a perfect match for any organ replacement he might need. Im sure they get taken care of well other than the imprisonment.

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    Your tax dollars at work. You could’ve had free education, Medicare for all, functioning roads and infrastructure, end homelessness, but instead we’re bombing fucking brown people in the Middle East. Let’s waste all this money and blow up the fucking desert mountains in Iran while simultaneously fucking over the rest of the world and raising gas prices to 10 bucks a gallon.

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      What gets me is there is still people supporting this. I find it hard to imagine how we’ll ever progress given we can’t even agree on the problems to be solved.

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        Because theyve been raised in the belief that shooting yourself in the leg is worth it as long as some random person you will never meet loses both their legs.

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      Sounds very familiar… Ah, yes. Russia does the same shit. So now it is the USA who repeats after the Russia, not the opposite.

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    Wait didn’t we do that a year ago when we had a single attack that somehow destroyed all of their nuclear capabilities?

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      I believe that was a strike at their centrifuges. They are needed to enrich uranium to powerplant grade or weapons grade.

      Iran had agreed to stop using them, as part of the treaty trump tore up. Afterwards, the lack of any detectable fallout indicated that they were not in use, since no uranium was present.

      Basically they lost their ability to produce more weapons grade material. It is unknown how much (if any) was previously made, and might be stockpiled elsewhere.

      It also shows that Iran seems to have remained in compliance, despite trump pulling out of the deal.

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    I’m confused. I thought they had 48 hours to reopen the straight, but not really because talks were going well, but still 10 days until the US destroys all the infrastructure, but talks have been productive, and the war is going to be over any day now, but it doesn’t matter because we don’t need the oil, but we could take over the oil fields, but Europe should help us, but we don’t need them and they should do it themselves.

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    No country has ever surrendered unconditionally from conventional airstrikes.

    So we’re either going to see boots on the ground (well, they’re in the area), or more tiny hand flailing within that time frame.

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    In his 1965 autobiography (co-written with MacKinlay Kantor), LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that "they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

    Is that really a quote that you want to lean on, Donny? Not exactly a great omen.

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      Iran has simultaneously been obliterated within the first 2-3 weeks of the war and will have nuclear weapons in the next 2-3 weeks.

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    My guess is that Trump doesn’t have Congressional support for an AUMF, which means that all Iran has to do is last for 60 days before Trump has to pull out.

    So basically, if Trump wants some kind of deal that uses the military as leverage, he has to get it closed in a matter of weeks.

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      But you absolutely CAN bomb the news about your pedophile rape gang out of the front pages.