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It'll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won't lead to a protracted ground war.
Iran will be taken by complete surprise, since they didn't expect it.
Just a couple of helicopters with some special forces guys who go in at night, and in the morning Iran's leadership will surrender, apologize and build a Trump Hotel in Tehran.
I'm sure of it!
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
For sure, it's not like America has a long history of fucking up amphibious landings or helicopter based airborne operations. Grenada had like 1500 dudes armed with sks defending it and they only lost like 10 helicopters. Surely it won't be worse than that......right?
To be fair, there are also examples where a daring helicopter raid lead to an end of the war -
Like Mogadishu.
Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
-- Harry Reasoner
helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Nowadays helicopter pilots seem to just be riding the copium that is autorotation.
Ain't nobody getting me to fly in something that relies on a "Jesus nut".
Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn't have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that's significantly younger than the airframe..... What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it's not an osprey?
Fuck it. Send in a squadron of BUFF. We've never lost any of those.
/s
I told you it was always about oil . It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
I mean..... Israeli colonial interests and American imperialist interest are kinda the same thing.
Most people at least those vocal on lemmy claims that it's only about Israel colonial interests. It is about both
I guess it can be a bit confusing considering Israel is basically a vassal state of the US, but at times it can be hard to tell who is the tiger and whose is holding it by the tail.
I disagree. This is spin with no possibility of pay off. It's still all about Israel weakening Iran and annexing Lebanon.
And the obscene ammount of blackmail generated by Epstein and Maxwell of course.
Obviously they're doing this to protect the world from Iran using nuclear weapons. I cannot think of any other reason. Just like Venezuela.
Good luck with that one. Even if they do go through with this threat, have fun holding it.
Reverse Gallipoli.
Unopposed landing, then, a week or so later, 2,000 shahed drones a day untill I guess something like a quarter of the 82nd airborne ceases to exist.
He’s going to get a lot of service members killed to gain nothing
naa. he’ll gain profit. his cronies will gain profit. this is what war is always about
Not at all. Their lives will delay any consequences Trump may face for raping all those children.
Oh look another round of stock manipulation for profit.
Someone in the Whitehouse making bets!?
What a joke.
enough to distract with operation epstein fury again.
Aaaaaaand he's chickened out. In other news, water is wet.
Iran has been given 24 hrs to respond before they get another 72....
6hrs mark: TACO!
Taco Thursday it is!
Ah yes, the sent of bitch is in the air today. For trumps once again being a little piggy bitch that bitches out of things like a weak pathetic loser.
Attacking, then stealing.
I really wish Bonespurs McFuckUp would go to the Middle East for once just to oversee... That'd be nice, don't you think? I'm sure it's be safe.
Ahhh. 😌 Another fine example of the United States liberating a country. Long live democracy!!
Great OpSec. Giving away our military plans? The Iranians won't see it coming.
Trump says
fuck him, I don't care. He lies more than he breaths.
He ever wants to stop either, I'm good with that.
Watching Trump is like watching someone thrash around in quick sand; every time he makes a move, he ends up sinking even deeper.
He's a bottom dweller. He's just getting closer to his natural habitat. Too bad he'll just drag everyone with him.
The only thing Trump is hitting hard at night is his stimulants!
What a joke of a man.
OK, when this was expected in the first few days, it was not as stupid. Still stupid, but now they've given them months to prepare. This has always been the most obvious target for an invasion. There's no way it isn't a trap at this point. If they did it fast then at least they wouldn't be dug in. Now, a lot more people are going to die for nothing. It doesn't move any closer to ending the conflict.
It’s amazing that Iran has gone from a pariah state to something of an underdog. The regime was on the nose and the Demented Don arrived diverted attention to him. A master stroke launching Operation Epstein Fury!