Man’s never seen a
topographicalmap of Iran and thinks that putting boots on the ground will work in those mountains.We’re going to se a whole lot more flag draped coffins stacked in amazon vans.
But they did so well in Vietnam’s jungles … /s
I’ve already seen the pictures posted by soldiers of the great meals they suddenly, recently received
Die for pedophiles boys
You know what would really slap? Iran setting up military bases in Mexico, Canada, Venezuela and Argentina
I mean drive through my neighbourhood (Newmarket, Ontario) it’s pretty much little Iran as it is.
Much love to my Iranians my kids are friends with their kids. I love my Iranian peeps.
qatar has one in the US.
Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
The late Iranian president did fight in the war, in a way. 😅
This is absolutely f*%#ing insane…
Kharg island is tiny. Really tiny. Any troops trying to hold it are going to get hit with drones, missiles and artillery constantly.
thats why trump was asking for help, hes only going lead his “suckers and loser” whom he called, marines to slaughter
That sounds like an awful situation where a bunnch of young lives would be sacrificed in an ongoing series of attacks so that the evening news could be saturated with graphic tragic shit leading up to Trump being “forced” to do whatever they have planned next.
So I assume that’s literally evil plan A, and reality will turn out worse.
Call me an old geezer, but I liked peace better when it didn’t mean starting wars out of the blue and sending your troops to die in meaningless skirmishes.
The US has been at war for over 200 years of its existence.
Dying for Epstein to own the libs.
Gotta try to stop the sale of oil in Yuan somehow, the orange turd stepped in the biggest pile of shit ever, but he just can’t get it off his shoe no matter what.
“A Flock of Seagulls” saw this coming a long time ago.
I couldn’t get away.
So which is it, are we going to stop the war, or are we about to go all in with a ground force invasion? There are articles on lemmy that say completely opposing things.
At most they’re going to grab any islands and a foothold on the Straits. Occupying Mainland Iran is a Herculean task that would take millions of troops to do properly and they do not have the support for that and even then with the mountains it would be constant guerrilla warfare. Like Afghanistan. As soon as we left, the absolute minute we leave it would revert to them.
The leadership of the country waging the war are saying completely opposing things, to be fair.
The war is over, it’s not a war, no troops, but we’re moving troops. We don’t need allies, send allies, allies are cowards, all sorts of things.
Sounds like 1984. “We’re at war with Eurasia. We’ve always been at peace with Eurasia”
A good analogy of the situation is the lyrics to Katy Perry’s Hot and Cold
I think the military is preparing for every eventuality. No one can predict what the administration will do next, except that, long-term, it won’t be to our benefit, just theirs.
Can we in the rest of the world not get involved in yet another ground war in the Middle East?
Well where CAN we start a ground war then? Sheesh.
/s
I suppose you could not start wars for a change, Don. They dry out your skin.
Yes, as far as I can tell, no sane “ally” of the US has agreed to help.
Must be nice living in a country where the people learn from the last idiotic forever war that the US started in the middle east.
Unfortunately there are signals that allies are starting to acquiesce. Keir Starmer is sending the Navy to help ships navigate the strait, while Iran is bombing our bases so it’s a guarantee that our ships will be attacked, drawing us into another forever war for the United Pedos of America. The rest of the government are telling him it’s going to bankrupt us, but he’s too fucking stupid to see that, that’s the whole point of this war. To pull in NATO to put pressure on their economies, leading to a reduction of support for Ukraine. All because America elected a black man a decade ago.
Unfortunately the british government has allowed bombers to fuel, arm and launch from air bases in the UK (and have been actively supporting a certain occupation/genocidal state for the past 80)
They almost have to though, like the British mortgaged to their empire to the US and need to keep their special relationship.
I see we’re falling for one of the classic blunders.
What? The Ayatollah isn’t Sicilian.
Having a dip-shit for a president?
Facing a country that not only outlived the start and fall of the roman empire, but has actively defended itself for the past four millennium thinking they can win?
Vietnam.
It will be more like Afghanistan. Iran is mostly mountainous and guerilla warfare will be the default. The US relies too much on technology which will not that useful in that environment. Don’t forget that the Iran army has been training for years for this type of conflict. Afghanistan was a disaster for American troops but will be nothing compared to Iran.
I dont feel bad for any american troop who dies. They willingly joined this military knowing all it does is attack other countries. I feel bad for the iranians who will die.
Ah yes selectively valuing some lives differently than other lives, that’s what a good and moral person does
Civilians lives are alwaya valuables, soldiers in a war where they are on the aggressed are always valuable, soldiers who is part of of the nation who is the agressor was never valuable.
Why? They chose to sign up to go kill people in another country. They are adults right?
No. They signed up under the premise they’d be protecting America, not slaughtering people to distract from the Epstein files.
The premise is broken. It is very obvious that it is not to protect the usa
Haha ok. Been on this planet for some years and I never felt an American solder was “protecting” America. Give me a break, we are a war mongering nation and you’re just an idiot if you’re not aware of that when the recruiters come around.
You know, there’s a term used for Russian soldiers in Ukraine that’s apt, Orcs. The american soldiers just might be Orcs as well this time if they do this.
Yeah, but see, the US learned their lesson during the Iraq and other conflicts, so it will be quite different this go-round!
They aren’t going to go full invasion, they will take islands, maybe a foothold on the straits.
Like they used to say at the start of the war that there will be not a single soldier on the ground in Iran territory
Wouldn’t that make them sitting ducks?
Sure the suckers stationed there will be sitting ducks, they will have to dig in, park a patriot battery and missile defense there, and then sit back and let the deciders collect kickbacks for the billions in missile defense they use. And batter back.
If you clear out everyone within 30km and set up a minefield, plentiful aa, and build anti fpv stuff it could be held
In term of soldiern death I expect it to be vietnam
It’s going to be worse.
In Vietnam, the us had South Vietnamese troops to use as a distraction. We’re not going to have that in Iran, cause it looks like the cia can’t start a revolution for once.
If we had not already betrayed the Kurds multiple times, I say we I mean them, I am constitutionally opposed to them, but they could use the kurds to break off in a separate republic, that would create a shit storm with turkey but fuck turkey seriously.
And Israel will kill American soldiers with American munitions trying to “help” and the US will do nothing about it except more of the same.
That the AI fault.
Yeah sure the USS Liberty was attacked because of bad AI.
Always. School attacked IA, bad weather AI, lost my keys AI again. They are everywhere.
You promise me that?
I’m sure we’ll find some Kurds that will trust us again.
That’s cool, where are the Epstein files, you vile fucker?
Conscientious objection!
