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[–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

I wish Iran would declare that they are going to continue to keep the straight closed until Trump himself personally travels to Iran and personally apologizes for his illegal war.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think we’ve ever seen the US lose a war so quickly and completely.

And I call it losing because they’ve failed at every reasonable objective.

[–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

Americans honestly don't even consider this our war.

This is Trump's war. America didn't lose this war. Trump lost Trump's war.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, they're not totally wrong, Trump seems to be negotiating with the Iranians in his daydreams.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

I would say he is totally right

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

So what objective is the US exactly fighting for if this does not stop now? What the US would call winning will be the Iraq/Syria senario which is Netenyahu's wet dream.

Iran becomes a failed reigon controlled by 500,000 members of different malitias without any government killing each other and destroying ships and production plants in nearby countries with drones and attacks for 5-10 years to come. This means 10 yrs of 200,000+ US troops deployment in there to escort shippings and fight back ..etc..etc. costing $trillions and thousands of lives. Also means collapse of world economy for at least 5 years because Iran will not go down before taking the economies of gulf US-puppets down with it. Shortly after Israel will be free to occupy Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and parts of Eygpt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia because those countries will not have any economy left or strong government to defend themselves.

In what world would there be any other senario? They bomb Iran to smithereens and that Palahvi clown who lived his entire life in california out of Iran's stolen wealth becomes king of Iran, but then all previous military members with drones and guns and artiliary rpgs whose currency became 0 already and lost everything and had all their families killed just stop fighting and hang up their weapons in their living rooms?!?

[–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

To be clear, the US isn't fighting for anything.

This is Trump's war and his war alone.

Virtually no Americans actually wanted this war.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago