Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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[–] [M] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks like they changed up the headline on you:

"Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East"

We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.

    Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked "live" updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don't even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.

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    [–] 119 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    The window of opportunity to get out of this situation in the USA is closing fast, and if it's not seized soon, this mess is going to last decades, assuming a lot of deaths and an absurd amount of money that the country no longer has like it did decades ago. The shit is going to fall on everyone.

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    I foresee this escalating and getting worse, leading to some catastrophic nonsense that puts our species to shame in only a matter of months.

    We’re running out of helium, the strategic oil reserves are at most 20% of what’s needed, and now that wells are capped it’s to take months to get back.

    As this continues Trump will get madder, dementia-ier, and try and escalate more.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I'm pretty sure the window is already closed. This is our second war with Iran in under a year. Both of which were started by the US/Israel; while we were actively negotiating with Iran. After the first war, we bragged about how the negotiation was a genius move by us to catch Iran with a surprise attack. The last time we had a major treaty with Iran, we unilaterally tore it up; and none of the other signatories stepped up to try and make Iran whole.

    The 12 day war ended when we decided to end it. Iran agreed because no one likes getting bombed, and they assumed we had done all we had the stomach to do. However, this type of stop-and-go conflict massively favors the US. Iran's strength lies in a sustained war of attrition. Deplete our air defense systems faster than we can resupply them. Disrupt the oil market long enough to cause global shortages. Draw us into a war against an insurgency. None of this is effective if they let us decide when the conflict pauses.

    Their actions show this. Mining the straight of Hormuz and bombing oil fields are not the type of action you take for a conflict you don't plan on lasting. Appoint the son of the leader we assisinated as your new leader. Those are decisions that will take months to reverse.

    Also, I should mention that the current leader of Iran just had his family killed by us. And Iran was just in the middle of an internal political crisis that conveniently goes away in the face of an external one.

    I don't see how we get Iran to agree to end the war without us offering some major concessions.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (29 children)

    I am shocked that america isn't 24/7 protests.

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    [–] 107 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Spare the Marines and send ICE, think millions in savings not having to pay out those deferred signing bonuses.

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    [–] 65 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.

    Damn, what a way to go.

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    [–] 54 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "It's not like we have troops on the ground."

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.

    all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a "reason to do it" and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.

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    [–] 43 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    So far, we have been able to weasel out of every definition of war. I'm curious to see how that changes with boots on the ground.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    The US President and the US ministry of war have called it a war many times already. They call it a war pretty much all the time. If someone is still not calling it for what it is then they‘re probably high on Russian propaganda and didn‘t read the script. Again, the US president started a war to distract from his disastrous polling numbers and he doesn‘t even try to hide it. Unlike his close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

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    [–] 42 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    It will be interesting to see how well that goes over with the isolationist Trump supporters who liked the idea of non-involvement abroad and thought that that was what they were getting with Trump.

    It sounds like Tucker Carlson, for example, which has been playing to the isolationist crowd, has been pretty critical of activity in Iran.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago

    They'll just suffer from broken spines from bending over backwards trying to explain how they always supported the idea of going to war again and how its the woke libtards who are in the wrong.

    In other news Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

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    [–] 38 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's fucking grim how predictable all of this is.

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    [–] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    How does one say: “America is beyond fucked” but in MAGAt speak?

    Long live the draft yanks. This is Vietnam, but way worse and just like Vietnam, you’ll loose this fucking war as well, because for all your chest thumping, you absolutely suck at war.

    Anything to protect a pedophile and the rest of the Epstein class I suppose.

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    [–] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There is literally no way this can end badly

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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.

    And he must finish the announcement with "Now watch this drive".

    As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.

    That is the protocol.

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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    "Put these seeds in your pockets so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here."

    https://youtu.be/L17Bi7zBJHI

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    I’m pretty sure we can’t have that many without congressional approval.

    Everyone make sure to stab your senators in Minecraft.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    never get involved in a land war in Asia

    I'm sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines bodies for the grinder to Iran

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    [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    May they all come back in body bags🙌✌️

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Here's hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They've been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment...

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This news always seems to come in Fridays

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    It's pretty fucking clear something beyond the American people and possibly even beyond authentic genuine politicians, and possibly beyond American nationals, and possibly people OTHER than Russian or Israeli OWN the nation of America.

    And that American citizens are disposable. Written off like day old bread.

    America world Mafia.

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