US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines to Iran

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

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          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.

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    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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      You’re right. If you are gonna do a ground invasion you really need to go in force. 5k is a suicide mission.

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    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.

    • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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      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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      Tucker Carlson is an op. And a stalking horse for President. He plays the game just like they all do.

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    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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      It’s true. USA hasn’t won its own war since their Civil one, if that counts. They’ve been on the side of victors in other people’s wars, but not for any skill other than being able to build shit and ship it over quick.

      This is the standard play. Big show of bravado at the start, realise it’ll take more, troops go in, yada yada yada, USA loss.

  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    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.