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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    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.

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

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    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.

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      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.

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      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

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        There’s a lot darker option. US and Israel tag team the populace in a genocide, shut down Iranian oil production while protecting the rest of OPEC. Leading to massive profits for Russia, some profits for US oil companies, and massive bankruptcy in Europe while crippling their manufacturing base. Which leaves the US, Russia, and China with functioning autocratic economies that can carve up the rest of the world. And the other nuclear powers are left to dismantle their own military to feed their people.

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

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    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.

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

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

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      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.

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      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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      Idk what you’re talking g about, he started with multiple crises and has only made them worse: climate change, health insurance, student loans, genocide in Gaza, etc.

      Biden was nearly as incompetent and evil as Trump, he just hid it better and occasionally threw us a bone.

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        Don’t forget the Ukraine war and the ongoing social, health and economic consequences of the pandemic.

        Trump is a dumb, racist, idiotic pile of pedophile shit, but US wasn’t doing great before him either.

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        The person people who down voted you went out to brunch the whole Biden administration.

        “We’ll push him left after the election!”

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    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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    That fat cunt is unable to keep it’s trousers clean from it’s own shit.

    So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.

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    I mean, he could stop the war tomorrow by handing himself over to the Iranian authorities.