Generally what happens when you start a forever war.
It's the only thing Republicans do other than taxcuts for the rich and fucking up the economy.
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No no, they also fuck something else!
Won't somebody think of the children
This dude started presidency with zero major crises, and has created at least three.
that's like guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar.
there's at least three!
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I don’t see why he’d want it to stop. He’s been actively destroying the US for the overwhelming majority of his presidency. If he benefits the US at large, it’s major news to me. A stone rolling downhill shouldn’t be news.
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You opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
You opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
He's already choking in them too.
And imo, ofcourse he can end this whenever he wants to. Strategically and morally this operation makes zero sense. Not that anything he's said or un-said, or started and or ( never) ended ever did. And no, I don't think Iranians will come better out of this. It's another humanitarian disaster in the making. He's a destructive asshole. # edit Iran not Iraq ofc.
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EVERY war ever fought was going to be over in a month with an overwhelming victory, and yet, it NEVER happens.
Except in the first US gulf war, back in the early 90s. (Kuwait was attacked by Iraq. The USA spent months preparing and then three days attacking. Then stopped when Iraq surrendered.)
Or the fall of the USSR. (Happened in about a month, no major fighting.)
Or the Russian annexation of Crimea.
It isn't that short military exercises never yield results. It's that wars persist until both attacker and defender believe peace is the best tactic.
The USA bombing a country for whom fighting the USA is essentially their national myth is possibly the dumbest thing that my country has ever done.
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please" - Niccolo Machiavelli
Calling it now, when striking military targets fails to get surrender, we will switch to war crimes, Israel and then the US will start hitting water, food, and transportation infrastructure.
The only way to get victory from this war is genocide.
We blew up a school. It was war crimes from the start.
right out of the gate!
Uh, y'all already all in on that.
They already have been. I know that at least one water desalination plant was hit. Civilian fuel infrastructure has been hit. The US openly stated they're going to try to cripple their industrial capacity. Seems the US has adopted Israel's Dahiya doctrine which targets civilian infrastructure. I think Trump said once the US is done there will be nobody left to surrender...
“At some point I don't think there will be anybody left, maybe to say ‘we surrender.’ They’re being decimated.”
- Donald Trump
And we know the Zionists are intensely relaxed about perpetrating genocide.
Because bombing a school isn't a war crime in the US. It's just a Tuesday
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Trump, as an individual may not have a way out. Remember, Epstein was Mossad-trained and probably shared a lot of useful dirt with Israel.
But there is always a path to peace; and in this case it starts with the US backing off. Iran doesn’t have much capacity for war beyond protecting itself.
Exactly the same as how there’s a way for Russia to have peace in Ukraine.
The implication I haven't seen explicitly mentioned in the article (which it should be! Bad article) is "there is no way for Trump to stop the war without losing face and thus his power".
The reason they keep going is because otherwise they have to admit they were wrong. And probably not only wrong, but knowingly wrong, which equals malicious. And admitting that you're malicious is bad, even with your most loyal supporters. The only way to not have that happen is to just keep going and act as if everything is fine, which is what's happening.
The actual "path to peace" is very very simple, you just have to retreat your troops. It's supremely unlikely Iran will attack halfway around the globe with their infrastructure.
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The man isn't even able to prevent himself from shitting his pants.
Well, now we all know what happens when you make a felon rapist pedo the most influential person on the planet.
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That fat cunt is unable to keep it's trousers clean from it's own shit.
So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.
The only thing « they » won is a larger distraction from the Epstein files of a pedophile president.
I mean, he could stop the war tomorrow by handing himself over to the Iranian authorities.
It is pretty endable. We just give them our republican leaders and any democrat leaders that were in favor.
There will be some sort of financial reimbursement.
Might be able to spin it around and offer college admission to their students to help bridge the damage.
Operation Payback: rounding up all political leaders who allowed this to happen and shipping them to Iran and letting them deal with punishment.
Considering they have been shipping innocents around the world to be locked up in prisons without due process, they kind of deserve it.
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Honestly I believe Iran would accept:
- Full sanctions relief
- Return to IAEA inspections
- Pinky-promise not to attack again
- Fake reparations program spread out over 30 years
The alternative is:
- The US is evicted from the Persian Gulf
- The US fucks off from Iraq, and Iraq gets an Iran-friendly government
- Bahrain gets regime change
- All goods through the strait are now controlled by Iran
The worse/better alternative is:
- Pipelines and refineries in the Arabian nations go boom
- All US/Israel trade through the Red Sea is blocked
- US is starved out of Djibouti
- Iran gets a nuclear weapon and says they're going to "test it" on Tel Aviv unless Netanyahu sucks a donkey dick on OnlyFans
Choose wisely, pedophile scum
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It’s almost like there was some sort of reason why no one else was stupid enough to do this.
Trump can't even end his own bowel movements, it just randomly starts, leaks, and stops. I am sorry, but expecting him to control anything when he can't control his own bowels is an awfully big ask.
I'm willing to bet this is Trumps and by extension America's 3 day special operation. And I mean that down to the expectation this would all be over in 3-4 days after the extensive bombing and killing of the upper leadership in the first day.
Instead Iran was all "nah we're good, we've been preparing for this day for 15-20 years". And started fucking up the whole region.
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Iran gets a vote.
And that's it. This war is going to at least last through November because Iran now wants to hurt Donald politically.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please – Niccolo Machiavelli
Orange fucker deserves what's coming to him.
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I hope it hangs around the neck of every feckless congressperson that votes not to keep their constitutional powers
Correction: the war Netanyahu started, and Trump followed along with
He's going to bomb until he's bored and then stop. That's why it's going to be air only (maybe ground special ops), air only is easy to stop. Well the US part is easy to stop, then it's when does Iran stop.
Iran seems to making it clear they will not be stopping soon, regardless of what Trump does. Trump has been trying to send Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner back in for "negotiations" (they were in the middle of "negotiations" when Trump attacked), but the Iranians have said "fuck no, it's too late."
It'd be funny if Iran invited Kushner for negotiations and then killed him.
Well, "funny" for certain particularly dark styles of humour, I suppose. And probably not very productive. But turnabout is fair play, eh?
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War is a choice, he could end it right now.
I know the first thing I would do is stop shooting at the nation that bombed and killed my family and 100+ kids because they stopped first.
We have radicalized an entire nation against the US for no reason anyone can actually explain. The only thing we taught every nation is that we can bomb you and take your leaders captive if you do not have nukes.
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He can choose to no longer shoot at Iran, but he can not make Iran stop shooting at the US. It takes only one site to keep a war going.
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Of course he cannot stop it now. The world and it's history is way bigger than the current blip that is trump.
Sleep now in the bed you shit on.
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