Iran

[ButchPlz]

Saudi has a large military budget, but I don’t think they have that many troops. I don’t think there gonna want to get in a ground war.

We're going to end up in a sad game of chicken where someone is going to have to deploy boots on the ground. Unfortunately I think that's going to be us.

 

[Smokey123]

Has it been reported how/where the US servicemen were killed? I've not seen thar reported.

I think I read a base in Kuwait

 

[tvolsfan]

We're going to end up in a sad game of chicken where someone is going to have to deploy boots on the ground. Unfortunately I think that's going to be us.

You could be right. The politics of that would be really bad, though.

 

[Ttucke11]

Everyone believed Iraq had WMDs.

Except the people that profited the most.

 

[hndog609]

Has it been reported how/where the US servicemen were killed? I've not seen thar reported.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/us-service-members-in-kuwait-were-killed-in-military-operation-against-iran/

 

[ButchPlz]

You could be right. The politics of that would be really bad, though.

Of course they would be, but we launched an attack on a country where all of the participants are on drastically different pages on how long, how aggressive, and how thorough the attack should be. Hell, they can't even agree on the reason for all this in the first place.

At the end of the day, the US gets the short end of the stick because we've set ourselves up as the world superpower/police force. It's just the way it is, and why I have been strongly against this stuff since the very first attack a few months ago. Nobody that's been to war should want this kind of thing- I haven't been to war, but I've seen enough of the destruction it causes back at home to not want us to do this more.

 

[jvol1]

Last heuple-thetical, if the oil dries up, will any 'superpowers' care about the region?

Switching electric vehicles could speed the demise of our political interest in the region.

 

[Delmar]

We're going to end up in a sad game of chicken where someone is going to have to deploy boots on the ground. Unfortunately I think that's going to be us.

Could be wrong but I believe that’s the only way regime change will happen. I don’t think the Iranian populace can overcome the Iranian military by themselves. And there are plenty of Iranians that actually support the existing nuts in power.

 

[SquirrelOrange3]

Has it been reported how/where the US servicemen were killed? I've not seen thar reported.

Or even who they were.

 

[ButchPlz]

Could be wrong but I believe that’s the only way regime change will happen. I don’t think the Iranian populace can overcome the Iranian military by themselves. And there are plenty of Iranians that actually support the existing nuts in power.

Well, and like I posted earlier, the ones in the US seem to expect us to finish the job.

I hate it.

 

[Orangeslice13]

I didn't know it is verbotten to dialogue with him.

Meh.
He’s just nuts.
There are many who are far worse

 

[Orangeslice13]

Sympathy?

Empathy?

 

[EasternVol]

I get the gist. I don't think of that way though.

What's the difference (except that the Zionists and Ulster Protestants were the newcomers)?

 

[Orangeslice13]

They're not there from what I find. Odds are it's another 'there are no Christians in Gaza' figment of your imagination.

Triple down on stupidity.
So you’re incapable of research and don’t understand statistics.


We’re told there are 400-600 people who identify as Christians in Gaza. There are 1.5-1.8 million people in Gaza.
Oddly we can’t find any people to interview from Gaza who identify as Christians.
So…there are no Christians in Gaza. Not anymore.
15 years ago there were roughly 10k but we (the group I worked with) was able to get most of them out

 

[adam.vol]

Well, and like I posted earlier, the ones in the US seem to expect us to finish the job.

I hate it.

This is what Charlie Kirk was talking about the day before someone killed him.

The only way this ends is with more terrorism and greater mass surveillance.

 

[hndog609]

Switching electric vehicles could speed the demise of our political interest in the region.

Or hydrogen. In either case I wish we could get more behind dependence on oil not being inextricably tied to being "green" and flat out saying "we can start divesting ourselves from oil dependence and that's a good thing".

 

[FLVOL_79]

Saudi has a large military budget, but I don’t think they have that many troops. I don’t think they’re going to want to get in a ground war.

Poorly trained too. They get good training..but it doesnt "take". Symptomatic of most third world countries when the west gets involved.

 

[Ttucke11]

Well, and like I posted earlier, the ones in the US seem to expect us to finish the job.

I hate it.

We are just such a good, loving country we love to spread "democracy" to these feral people ya know. If that means our kids have to die in the desert across the world then so be it.

 

[sonofUT62]

Everyone believed Iraq had WMDs.

It was almost like something happened 15 months earlier that suddenly caused the average citizen to want to trust the government, even at the sacrifice of personal liberty and common sense.

 

[n_huffhines]

This guy needs a shave and a haircut and then a run for office

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[Orangeslice13]

Christians (if you can actually find any who will say they are and not just accept the 600 number) are 0.000352941% of the population.

What a healthy community of believers

 

[ButchPlz]

We are just such a good, loving country we love to spread "democracy" to these feral people ya know. If that means our kids have to die in the desert across the world then so be it.

They wonder why I get hostile about certain people posting like cheerleaders for this stuff.

They are a combination of either not having kids, being old (no long future timeline), being totally disconnected from the fact that war is actually a reality, or being greedy and darn close to evil. They aren't going to be the ones paying for this stuff, especially if they're retired. I am. And my daughter will be.

I don't give a rip what someone's background is, brainlessly rah-rahing conflict because you like when your country blows tax dollars flexing nuts is and always has been completely stupid.

 

[EasternVol]

Everyone believed Iraq had WMDs.

Not everyone. Of course I was out of the US during all that so I wasn't getting force fed American media like most here were.

 

[McDad]

Meh.
He’s just nuts.
There are many who are far worse

Errybody a little nutty here. Can't participate in Thuderdome if youre sane.

 

[McDad]

What's the difference (except that the Zionists and Ulster Protestants were the newcomers)?

No difference in application or effect.

In general I think of terrorism much like I do guerrilla warfare. Tactics the little guy uses against the big guym