• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Exactly! One of them is done to us, and one of them is done by us. What more do you need to know! /s

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    That’s right, just like encouraging protesters in Iran to overthrow their government, while ordering ICE Apes to murder protesters in our own streets.

    That’s MAGA for you.

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    Trump was born with seven silver spoons in his mouth. He’s never had to worry about money, or problems he himself didn’t generate, in his entire existence.

    To him, “fair” just means getting everything he wants despite his many idiotic decisions.

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    reminds me of a discussion I had on Reddit, they said that houtties blocking traffic to/from Israel was inhumane, as some cargo included food and medicine…

    but he had absolutely no comment on Israel’s decades long blockade on Gaza that was causing a mass starvation.

    I really hope those redditors stay there

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    2 days ago

    It gets better:

    Kharg island, that place we bombed, to soften up for a Marine invasion?

    Not even visible in that image.

    Because its further up north, practically all the way up the Gulf, to Iraq.

    So… we’re gonna… do an ambibious invasion… that requires the amphib landers… to go through the Strait of Hormuz…

    Which is the thing that we currently cannot secure to the point of being able to guarantee safe passage through.

    It is such a ludicrously stupid plan that if it were anyone but Trump and Hegseth in charge, I would say it is a laughably obvious false attack / psyop diversion.

    But, they are in charge, so… it might essentially be an intentional Gallipoli, to serve as a rallying cry, after a bunch of Marines get killed.

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      Well the risks and quality of planning can still be debated, but you’re mistaken that the amphibious landers need to go through the straight. They would fly them into US bases in Kuwait and/or Bahrain and launch from there.

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      It probably got suggested in an off-handed comment by someone and since nobody in the Trump regime has ever looked at a map, it was hailed as a grand idea.

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        Now that you mentioned it, a leader being surrounded by sycophants is precisely what American founding fathers were trying to rail against. And that is all collapsing right before our eyes.

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      One of the most optics driven wars ever. But I guess that’s what we get in the era of tiktok and AI

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        Yeah, I agree, at least if they want to attempt a ‘sane’ plan.

        ‘Baluchistan’.

        There’s a semi-significant port / naval base at … Konarak? Konark?

        That would make much more sense, or somewhere near it, for an MEU or two to try and establish as a beachhead.

        The US’s NeoCon/CIA playbook has long been to try to induce Iran to shatter apart, balkanize:

        Apparently Richard Perle presented this or something like this map to Netanyahu, decades ago now.

        Konarak (sp?) is maybe ~150 miles / ~250 km west of where Gwadar is, on the NeoCon map.

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          I don’t like any of this, but the idea of trying first to economically strangle Iran into submission via Kharg island makes more sense than committing to a land invasion of the mainland at this point… But then again, none of this makes much sense to begin with

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        That would take strategic planning, steps to follow, etc. That’s not how MAGA works. They don’t think past the initial bombing attack, because blowing shit up is wicked cool, and enough reason to have a war.

        “We blowed them up so good, they won’t be able to retaliate! Wait, why are there missiles coming back at us? They are shooting at US? But we obliterated them! Somebody help us! Why won’t anybody help us?!”

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          I disagree with the war and have utter contempt for this US administration. However, the US military seems still quite capable of planning and executing highly effective operations, if their abduction of Maduro is anything to go by.

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            That was an Operation, not a War. It’s the difference between a run to the grocery store, and a cross country drive.

            Big difference in scope.

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              Agreed, that’s why it seems like they’re treating this situation like a series of operations rather than a war.

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                Maybe that works when you are just in the bombing stage, and are just flying in and out, but that won’t work when they inject troops into the mix, and the number of troops in the region is growing by the day. They aren’t staging them there because they have no place to go, they intend to use them. Once the soldiers start shooting, it’s a full-fledged War.

                Russia has lost 1.2 million soldiers in 4 years in Ukraine. America lost 58,000 in Vietnam over more than 10 years. We lost less that 5000 in Afghanistan over 20 years. Trump is a psychopath, and he’ll want to keep score with how many American soldiers sacrificed their lives for him, and no matter what anyone else’s objective is, his personal objective will be to collect as many deaths in his name as possible. He’ll want to run that score up to Russia numbers, just to prove how important he is, and how much his soldiers love him.

                I can just hear him bragging about it, trying to impress the Sociopathic Oligarchs sitting around his table at Maralago: “Yep, over a million soldiers laid down their lives for me, that’s how loyal they are to me.”

                A Trump war will be a meat-grinder, and he WILL announce a draft after the Midterms.

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      They’ll bully countries into letting them cross over from the other side.

      Let us use your country to launch attacks or we’ll cripple you economically.