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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But they did so well in Vietnam's jungles … /s
I've already seen the pictures posted by soldiers of the great meals they suddenly, recently received
You know what would really slap? Iran setting up military bases in Mexico, Canada, Venezuela and Argentina
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.
Die for pedophiles boys
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
The late Iranian president did fight in the war, in a way. 😅
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.
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.
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.
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.
The US has been at war for over 200 years of its existence.
"A Flock of Seagulls" saw this coming a long time ago.
I couldn't get away.
Dying for Epstein to own the libs.
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.
At most they're going to grab any islands and a foothold on the Straits. Occupying Mainland Iran is a Herculean task that would take millions of troops to do properly and they do not have the support for that and even then with the mountains it would be constant guerrilla warfare. Like Afghanistan. As soon as we left, the absolute minute we leave it would revert to them.
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.
Sounds like 1984. “We’re at war with Eurasia. We’ve always been at peace with Eurasia”
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I see we're falling for one of the classic blunders.
Having a dip-shit for a president?
Facing a country that not only outlived the start and fall of the roman empire, but has actively defended itself for the past four millennium thinking they can win?
Vietnam.
Can we in the rest of the world not get involved in yet another ground war in the Middle East?
Well where CAN we start a ground war then? Sheesh.
/s
I suppose you could not start wars for a change, Don. They dry out your skin.
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.
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)
They almost have to though, like the British mortgaged to their empire to the US and need to keep their special relationship.
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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