US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines to Iran

  • Foni@piefed.zip
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    8 hours ago

    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.

    • homura1650@lemmy.world
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      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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      3 hours ago

      It closed when we assassinated the former head of state and the entire family of the new head of state along with a few hundred children.

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        12 minutes ago

        There’s shitloads of protests going on over the matter, actually, but much like the protests against all the rest of Trump’s bullshit and especially ICE, you wouldn’t catch the media covering any of them, despite them being nigh-constant.

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      7 hours ago

      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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        6 hours ago

        We aren’t running out of Helium. The date at which a specific reservoir gets sold is coming closer.

        • Man_kind@sh.itjust.works
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          3 hours ago

          Technically we are. We won’t be out in our lifetimes, to my knowledge, but we aren’t making more helium. Once its gone, its gone. So, it is running out, but on what time scale?

          When will the human race start slowing down? Its eventually just going to get crazy expensive and only used when vital. And we’re filling party balloons with it.

          • ISOmorph@feddit.org
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            1 hour ago

            The moon has a butload, if the scarcity becomes threatening there be enough financial motivation to mine it there.