• NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
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    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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      I mean drive through my neighbourhood (Newmarket, Ontario) it’s pretty much little Iran as it is.

      Much love to my Iranians my kids are friends with their kids. I love my Iranian peeps.

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    This is absolutely f*%#ing insane…

    Kharg island is tiny. Really tiny. Any troops trying to hold it are going to get hit with drones, missiles and artillery constantly.

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      thats why trump was asking for help, hes only going lead his “suckers and loser” whom he called, marines to slaughter

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      That sounds like an awful situation where a bunnch of young lives would be sacrificed in an ongoing series of attacks so that the evening news could be saturated with graphic tragic shit leading up to Trump being “forced” to do whatever they have planned next.

      So I assume that’s literally evil plan A, and reality will turn out worse.

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    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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    Gotta try to stop the sale of oil in Yuan somehow, the orange turd stepped in the biggest pile of shit ever, but he just can’t get it off his shoe no matter what.

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      Yes, as far as I can tell, no sane “ally” of the US has agreed to help.

      Must be nice living in a country where the people learn from the last idiotic forever war that the US started in the middle east.

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        Unfortunately the british government has allowed bombers to fuel, arm and launch from air bases in the UK (and have been actively supporting a certain occupation/genocidal state for the past 80)

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          They almost have to though, like the British mortgaged to their empire to the US and need to keep their special relationship.

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        Unfortunately there are signals that allies are starting to acquiesce. Keir Starmer is sending the Navy to help ships navigate the strait, while Iran is bombing our bases so it’s a guarantee that our ships will be attacked, drawing us into another forever war for the United Pedos of America. The rest of the government are telling him it’s going to bankrupt us, but he’s too fucking stupid to see that, that’s the whole point of this war. To pull in NATO to put pressure on their economies, leading to a reduction of support for Ukraine. All because America elected a black man a decade ago.

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          I mean… I guess not directly? Fucking up oil prices pretty badly, which makes trump and the Republicans looks like massive fucking stupid cunts.

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            Well to be fair, it is not hard to make the administration look like massive fucking stupid cunts, because that’s what they are clearly.

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            As you say, it does fuck up might, there will be economic consequences.

            But no bombs will terrorize civilians of the washington regime, no iranian soldiers will set foot on the land, no resistance movement against Iran invasion has to be organized.

            All happens so far away, that one could pretend like it was not happening.

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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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      I dont feel bad for any american troop who dies. They willingly joined this military knowing all it does is attack other countries. I feel bad for the iranians who will die.

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        Ah yes selectively valuing some lives differently than other lives, that’s what a good and moral person does

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          Civilians lives are alwaya valuables, soldiers in a war where they are on the aggressed are always valuable, soldiers who is part of of the nation who is the agressor was never valuable.

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          You know, there’s a term used for Russian soldiers in Ukraine that’s apt, Orcs. The american soldiers just might be Orcs as well this time if they do this.

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      Yeah, but see, the US learned their lesson during the Iraq and other conflicts, so it will be quite different this go-round!

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        Like they used to say at the start of the war that there will be not a single soldier on the ground in Iran territory

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          Sure the suckers stationed there will be sitting ducks, they will have to dig in, park a patriot battery and missile defense there, and then sit back and let the deciders collect kickbacks for the billions in missile defense they use. And batter back.

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          If you clear out everyone within 30km and set up a minefield, plentiful aa, and build anti fpv stuff it could be held

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        It’s going to be worse.

        In Vietnam, the us had South Vietnamese troops to use as a distraction. We’re not going to have that in Iran, cause it looks like the cia can’t start a revolution for once.