Trump has only terrible choices, but there are no fixes anyone else could apply. Trump has fucked us, and we will remain fucked by this situation for years to come. This cat won't go back in the bag and Trump is almost irrelevant other than it all being his fault. What an incredible bunch of morons that elected him and refused to push him out of power or prosecute him on the multiple opportunities to do so.
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I'm convinced we cannot live with the MAGAs anymore but I don't know of anywhere who would take them willingly.
Russia would love some more ~~cannon fodder~~ immigrants.
I hate fascists so much due to the history of what they did to my family that I find myself almost rooting for the fucking ayatollahs on this one.
Yeah I'm over here way on the other side of the line. At this point any enemy of America is who I'm rooting for.
The Iranian regime is brutal and should be gone. But I'd take them surviving over the US regime survivng any day of the week. Not even close.
I'm just happy enough to let them fight each other then crush whoever is left. There isn't really a good governing body in this one. Both need serious rework and replacements.
Let's jump into a major war just before midterm elections.
What could go wrong?
Trump has terrible choices because he and his entire administration are shit at actually strategizing anything. They have an attention span of a gnat, don’t listen to experts, and don’t have an ounce of empathy in their tiny heads. For fuck sake, Hegseth thinks the best soldiers have lots of testosterone like some ‘roided out monkey. Of course all he has are terrible choices. It’s because he’s a moron.
this piece of shit just doesnt care. its not his money. they are not his children.
he will take the save-face route regardless of financial or human costs because they are without value to him.
The solution is simple. Every dollar the Trump Org earned since 2020 will be seized and used to pay Iran to return the Strait to PreTrump Idiocy.
Def not gonna be enough.
Trump starts war USA is in no way ready to handle any negative outcomes from and is ran so shoddily that the USA is actually in a lose-lose scenario. Especially since the man cannot be trusted and Iran as said as much.
I couldn't figure out how to get it on internet archive.
You mean Iran would get to continue to control the straight that's completely within their national borders?
Completely unacceptable outcome
Guaranteed he'll make the worst possible choice as well.