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Trump is now caught in the oldest trap of modern warfare – believing a swift, surgical military operation will yield quick, enduring political results. The Soviets did it in Afghanistan; the US in Iraq in 2003; Putin did it in Ukraine, and is still fighting. Whatever force a military fails or succeeds in applying at the start, the people it is attacking have greater commitment to defending their lands and homes.

The White House may have rushed into this, seizing the opportunity for a decapitation strike, provided by Israeli intelligence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very different objectives regionally, and a long US involvement against Tehran suits his desire for an Iran in rolling collapse that is no longer a threat. But the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has caused as many problems as it has solved.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Sleep now in the bed you shit on.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

Well, now we all know what happens when you make a felon rapist pedo the most influential person on the planet.

[-] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 59 minutes ago

Onlyfans? Maybe pay per view

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

We could even throw in a FIFA peace price!

[-] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 32 points 11 hours ago

"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please" - Niccolo Machiavelli

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 13 hours ago

The man isn't even able to prevent himself from shitting his pants.

[-] DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

The only thing « they » won is a larger distraction from the Epstein files of a pedophile president.

[-] a9249@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago

Yeah real odd the timing of this attack is the same day they released evidence of him diddling kids...

[-] incompetent@programming.dev 7 points 7 hours ago

they released evidence of him diddling kids

They did?! WTF? Why isn't it all over the news?

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago
[-] incompetent@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago

Does anyone have a link to the evidence? I have a few family members that really need to see it.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

That would be funny if it were not for all the dead people he will create as a result.

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 44 points 13 hours ago

We blew up a school. It was war crimes from the start.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

right out of the gate!

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 14 points 13 hours ago

You're about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 25 points 15 hours ago

Uh, y'all already all in on that.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

And we know the Zionists are intensely relaxed about perpetrating genocide.

[-] sobchak@programming.dev 7 points 12 hours ago

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
[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 15 hours ago

Because bombing a school isn't a war crime in the US. It's just a Tuesday

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[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Correction: the war Netanyahu started, and Trump followed along with

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 39 points 18 hours ago

EVERY war ever fought was going to be over in a month with an overwhelming victory, and yet, it NEVER happens.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 78 points 20 hours ago

This dude started presidency with zero major crises, and has created at least three.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

And all he had to do was make life less soul-crushing economically, and people would have gladly lined up behind him to support anything he wants to do, no matter how awful.

But they're not. They're poor and starving, so he's losing everyone, including his own coalition.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

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.

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