Setting the stage for nuking Iran, because a 'conventional war' can't be won?
Can we please turn back time some thirty years?
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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Jesus Christ. Can we just band together and do a coup to overthrow Trump and Vance at this point? This is going to be a needless bloodbath on both sides
Just jumping in here before the bags start shipping back to say fuck every single one of these service people. All of them chose to go. All of them chose to serve this lying, fascist government and do the bidding of their corporate patrons. All of them signed up to bomb children. All of them deserve the consequences. Have fun shitting in a bag the rest of your life assholes.
Most of them are probably 18 years old, poorly educated, and raised on Fox News. They're just pawns that have no idea what's going on.
Congress on the other hand, knows exactly what they're doing, and has no moral qualms.
You’re right, but the 18 year olds are probably educated on As~~smeinkampf~~mongold and that is even worse.
They've chosen to be complicit.
I don't know how this ends well, we're staring at the Rubicon. Didn't end well for Caesar either.
I hope the Europeans know how to cook. These boys are chubby. Or maybe that's the plan to make them a little slimmer?
The arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors is keeping the number of American troops in the Mideast region at over 50,000 — roughly 10,000 more than usual
The U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003 was close to 250,000 at the beginning.
Worth noting: Iraq and Iran are very different societies & cultures.
Before colonialism, Iraq was decentralized/tribal for thousands of years before being arbitrarily collected into a single political unit.
Meanwhile Iran was its own empire, with a central head of power for those thousands of years.
They are going to invade Iran, and play up every single death as a way to blame the Dems and every citizen for not supporting Trump. Now its a real war and "oopsie doopsie no can do elections"
And the progressives on here are going to blame democrats for not having more votes to stop this guy and say we need to vote 3rd part to keep his power unchecked.
lol who hurt you?
Progressives are pushing to change local voting systems from FPTP to RCV or Score/Approval/other so that Americans aren't forced into a vote for the least bad candidate situation. Progressives are pushing progressive primary candidates to pull the whole party to the left, but in the primary voting D.
In the meantime in this current system, always Democrats unless they're going to win easily, then you can vote your conscience.
No, we're going to blame you for your desperation to appear non-threatening and say you need to start showing up armed.
I've seen this one before, try Paramount+ or something
So maybe a hundredth of what's needed to invade Iran?
holy shit the casualties are going to be terrible
But American will have the element of surprise! /s
More importantly, arriving 4 weeks into active conflict.
Instead of arriving before the bombs started dropping, when they could have been 100x more effective by their mere presence -- especially if combined with a full-spectrum diplomatic and economic push with the Democracies of the world as allies.
Jesus Christ, Trump and his cabinet are fucking hubristic-stupid
If that figure is true.
...does anyone else hurt when these things happen?..
The families of our troops.
I meant this unironically. I physically hurt.
You physically hurt who? The people causing it?
I would like to, any suggestions?
Inflammatory stress response. Take an advil and do something that makes a small contribution to making things better.
...like what?..I contact powerful people, I contact neighbors, the indifference to the next meal is infuriating...
...when a corporation is a government, people do not matter...
Never did. I remember an article shortly back about enlistees feeling like pawns for the current regime, comments beneath unanimously ⁉️♟️🤣
...why do human beings hate each other?..
just like the simulations
I've been to concerts with well over twice that many people in the crowd