• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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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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    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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      To anyone that was actually fooled by this, when we start bombing Cuba, please remember to not listen to the Cuban diaspora that cheer on the bombing as some form of liberation. Remember all of the Iranian diaspora that cheered on Iran being invaded? They do not care about the country they or their parents left for the US. And with Cuba, there is a high likelihood they are the children of slave plantation owners that fled Cuba after the revolution.

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        I’m living in Miami right now and there are no bigger “victims” than some Cubans here. Everything is someone else’s fault. If it weren’t for the revolution, they would be rich!

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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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      There is something slightly humbling about the fact that in the face of so much firepower and human “destruction”; that it can be countered well simply by the powers of nature and some human planning.

      Basically, yeah, you have trillions of dollars of weapons research and ammunition spreading over decades. Nice. But we’re just gonna use natural geological structures, the best concrete recipe known to man, Toyota trucks, and low cost drones we optimized to all hell for affordability. We’ll be here until you decide to leave…

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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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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      They got better.

      Probably happen again.

      Trump’s an idiot.

      We’re paying for his stupidity.

      This should stop…but it doesn’t.

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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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        Fuck you mean? All the US oil majors are ROLLING in cash right now, they still have plenty of supply but get to profit from global shortages. They love this shit.

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

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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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    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 what if he just ignores the 60 day limit, and then we all wait till two years later for a court to finally decide that wasn’t legal and he should stop?