Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Looks like they changed up the headline on you:

    “Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East”

    We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.

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    29 days ago

    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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      29 days ago

      It’s a war. Call it what it is and not what the politicians tell you it is. Fuck their definitions. People are dying.

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        29 days ago

        Oh I agree 100 percent. I’m also not worried about what politicians call it. I only want to see the administration defend their many broken laws in a court room one day.

        I know. I got jokes.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      The US President and the US ministry of war have called it a war many times already. They call it a war pretty much all the time. If someone is still not calling it for what it is then they‘re probably high on Russian propaganda and didn‘t read the script. Again, the US president started a war to distract from his disastrous polling numbers and he doesn‘t even try to hide it. Unlike his close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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      29 days ago

      Let’s be honest here, it’s a war. You don’t get to massively bomb another country without it being a war. And every piece of international law says so. The American government might disagree, but it is a war.

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      29 days ago

      Well you see, you’re not technically in Iran if you have boot between yourself and the soil.

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    29 days ago

    Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.

    And he must finish the announcement with “Now watch this drive”.

    As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.

    That is the protocol.

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    29 days ago

    That’s gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They’ve been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment…

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    29 days ago

    Here’s hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags

    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;

      it’s government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;

      there is no “South Iran”;

      and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;

      unlike boomers and those older, young men haven’t been drafted for 50 years;

      oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;

      but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.

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        28 days ago

        Persia is also the 2nd oldest civilization that survives until today, after China. I think they know how to fight in their land better than anyone else.

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      28 days ago

      Vietnam v2.0: Iraq

      Vietnam v.3.0: Afghanistan

      Vietnam v.4.0: Iran

      Then sucking will continue until the Americans learn!

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    28 days ago

    In the language of the risk assessments and wargames analyses done in this scenario, we shall refer to these troops as “chum”.