• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    6 hours ago

    I wonder how many lives per day will be spent to keep the island once it is taken. They act like once they open the strait the war will be over.

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      6 hours ago

      How exactly does the US defend its troops from Iranian missiles and drones? Are they bringing patriot systems with them, or are they planning to fly jets 24/7 to intercept them?

      When Iran decides to go scorched earth and attack every last American boot on the island, what will America do then?

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        36 minutes ago

        There’s literally nothing the US can do, it’s basically Romans with the tribal confederacy’s of Germanania. Doesn’t matter how good your tech or how big your empire is when the people fighting you have home field advantage, out number you locally, and your leaders are inept at best. The best way to win is to not fight, but Trump and everyone around him is too stupid and too bellicose to know this so here we go anyways. I fucking hate the feds with a burning passion, the selfish sociopathic side of me hopes for a civil war so I can kill at least one and get congratulations for it, the humanist side of me thinks that’s stupid and hopes for a largely peaceful break up of the United States.