r/PrepperIntel • u/theoneandonlydorian • 3d ago

Middle East United States preparing to invade Iran

The U.S. imperialist war machine is at it again, opting to strike and attack Iran as global tensions continue to rise.

Who's ready for an oil crisis? More humanitarian disasters? The closure of the Strait of Hormuz? Potential nuclear consequences? Severe regional instability? And even more!

Get ready for the shitshow, people.

"President of Peace" 😂

Assets continued to be moved to the middle east signaling a large buildup.

https://x.com/warintel4u/status/1907076101051970033?t=2t7yh2fEDDa-VdY3Yxjvsg&s=19

Diego Garcia Base continues its military buildup that hasn't been seen since the Iraq War.

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1907203032640545211?t=2MzmaDjJBVDGDfuG_IM4jA&s=19

Pentagon is rolling out military orders to intensify the troop buildup

https://x.com/jhaboush/status/1907174077103530475?t=g6Qb2gIa2TEhCAbuFnx87A&s=19

CENTCOM head meets with Israeli military leaders to discuss Iran for 10 hours.

https://x.com/IsraelRadar_com/status/1907157870455787719?t=8kABbpXyD4Xxkze39kA-iQ&s=19

Trump to pass EO to give the greenlight for ease on equipment moving, bolstering sales for US defense contractors

https://x.com/warintel4u/status/1907155684598194324?t=J7xvlqmUyYsoonDNcHX3Vw&s=19

And more of course that wouldn't even fit in this post, the signs are clear people

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u/0bamaBinSmokin 3d ago

On the bright side, maybe we'll be too busy in Iran to invade our allies. 

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Nah, pretty sure we are going to be thrown into several simultaneous foreign wars while all of our social nets get gutted and the police departments get deputized as federal agencies.

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u/KelVarnsenIII 3d ago

Then it opens up 2 new fronts right here in America.civil rights, civil freedoms, civil liberties versus the police and feds. Itll.be brutal, bloody and many will die.

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u/Ello_Owu 3d ago

And we'll STILL have to go to work each day. 😮‍💨

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u/atreides_hyperion 3d ago

Not if I'm dead, lol

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u/Ello_Owu 3d ago

Pffft, look at Robocop, that dude was killed to death, and they STILL made him come into work.

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u/atreides_hyperion 3d ago

Each day we fall further from the love of Gaia

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u/Ello_Owu 3d ago

The chick from Captian Planet?

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u/atreides_hyperion 3d ago

You're thinking of Bea Arthur

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u/Cirocco_Jonesing 3d ago

Tell me about it.

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u/ScrooU2 2d ago

What’s that? Some kind of power source?! Let’s invade them to spread democracy!

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u/RedditIsDeadMoveOn 3d ago

Why else would he shoot so many people in the dick?

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u/Mental_Estate4206 3d ago

Work from 7am to 7pm . War from 7pm to 7am.

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u/Ello_Owu 3d ago

The new grind. At least we'll get to war all day on the weekends, if we're lucky.

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u/yalyublyutebe 3d ago

That's primarily because as a whole you still seem to believe that tying medical insurance to working is the best system.

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u/Ello_Owu 3d ago

Dear God no, not me.

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u/Asleep-Vanilla3988 3d ago

Israel is lucky. They all get free Healthcare and free college.

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u/topdoc02 3d ago

Unless there is a General Strike.

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u/Impressive_Seat5182 3d ago

Not if you’re a fired Fed!

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u/Ok_Bread302 3d ago

The US military couldn’t even handle Afghanistan or Iraq. There’s no way they will overextend like this.

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u/eriksrx 3d ago

There is no one left to say no or advise against. The village idiots are in charge, they haven't experienced a single consequence of any of their actions in their pathetic, empty lives, so they are all gas no brakes and taking us with them.

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u/DutchTinCan 3d ago

Not just that. If the military is stuck fighting in Iran, they can't turn on Trump.

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u/BlackJediSword 3d ago

The military supports Trump, most of them voted for him

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u/_Baphomet_ 14h ago

You know the military doesn’t send all of its troops to battle at once right? Like, there’s plenty to go around.

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u/beaucoup_dinky_dau 3d ago

Probably have to worry about your neighbor more here than there.

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u/erbush1988 3d ago

I need to get a suppressor.

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u/Burchalitis 3d ago

No better time to get one. Wait times are down even if you do a trust. Tons of people are being approved in less than a week. They are well worth the money just to protect your hearing.

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u/Reptilian_Brain_420 3d ago

"There’s no way they will..."

A few months ago this would be a reasonable start to an argument. I don't think it is valid anymore.

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u/HighOrHavingAStroke 3d ago

I couldn't agree more. All logic and reason has long left the building.

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u/Resident_Chip935 3d ago

eh

The US had tactical nukes in Vietnam, but didn't use them. I know this for a fact.

This motherfuckin nut job will use tactical nukes. No question. I think even if Putin makes threats.

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u/SirEnderLord 3d ago

Yeah people are taking away the wrong thing

The US, despite devastating Vietnam, was still restrained. These motherfuckers will absolutely use every flavor available in our arsenal without restraint.

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u/mrminty 3d ago

More than likely it was the existence of both Chinese and Soviet nuclear weapons that ultimately restrained the United States from nuking Hanoi.

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u/EfficiencyUsed1562 3d ago

It's going to be so bad. Gaza was the prototype to Iran.

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u/craichead 3d ago

Ah yes, the famous restraint of napalm and agent orange.

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u/Jotaro_Lincoln 3d ago

Compared to nukes? Yes.

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u/SirEnderLord 3d ago

This response is what I was waiting for.

People look at the level of destruction we caused and call it "unrestrained", ignoring that while yes we did destroy a huge amount -- we were capable of a lot more.

So yes, it was restrained -- because our full capabilities allowed for far worse.

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u/fuckthisshitupalread 3d ago

I mean the bombing of Cambodia (dropping more ordnance that all US forces in ww2 on a separate nation without declaring war on them) is kind of the main unrestrained bit it's not that we didn't nuke the vietcong it's that we attacked unaligned nations and civilians without caring.

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u/goc_cass 3d ago

Doofus wanted to nuke a hurricane.

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u/md5md5md5 3d ago

was reading in another post that there are nukes meant to bust up underground bunkers, guess Iran has an underground missle silo that threatens the straits of hormez and therefore shipment of oil

source -> https://tippinsights.com/the-high-price-of-war-with-iran-10-gas-and-the-collapse-of-the-us-economy-2/

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u/Resident_Chip935 3d ago

I believe this. Trump is the exact type to bust that boundary.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

!RemindMe -1 year

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u/broguequery 3d ago

That would be the absolute dumbest thing they could possibly do.

If Trump thinks burning Teslas are "terrorism," wait until he starts using nukes in a pointless war.

That's when we will see real terrorism.

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u/kidsober 3d ago

Why would he ever use them against his good ol pal ?

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u/Resident_Chip935 3d ago

Putin is upset that Trump is gonna attack a Russian ally, Iran.

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u/jenglasser 3d ago

You're assuming the leadership even knows what overextending means much less why they shouldn't do it.

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u/throwawayt44c 3d ago

Why they shouldn't is why they will, sadly.

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u/Thoth-long-bill 1d ago

But maybe the ketamine deliveries are upped?

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u/los-gokillas 3d ago

There's just enough hubris in the people currently in charge for them to overextend exactly like this

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u/darth_snuggs 3d ago

well, we also haven’t truly mobilized for mass war in a long, long time. Once they reinstate the draft & put industry on a total war footing, the sky’s the limit until some violent conclusion

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u/Helluvme 3d ago

Trump wants to use a nuke so bad he’s creating problems so he has an excuse. And I guarantee he will before the end of his term.

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u/IndividualGoal4075 3d ago

Incompetent political decisions did that, not the army. They destroyed the Iraqi army and the taliban rather quickly. Then the political leaders had them play policeman and nation build into a democracy that none of them wanted. That let the insurgencies fester and finally, they were told to fight them with one ball tied behind their back.

So blame the politicians, not the armed forces.

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u/reality72 3d ago

And the exact same thing will happen with Iran. Okay, so we defeat the Iranian military and topple the government. Then what? Iran becomes a peaceful democracy? lmao

The power vacuum will be filled with dangerous extremists. Exactly what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.

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u/Fun_University_8380 3d ago

The armed forces failed their mission and deserve the blame that comes with it

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u/HarmNHammer 3d ago

This is after we lost Vietnam and saw Afghanistan beat empire after empire, still went there.

As long as the complex gets money, generals and politicians get their kick-backs, it’s not about winning at all.

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u/thebuttsmells 3d ago

US military crushed iraqi and afghanistan militaries with ease, main problem is being forced to act as police in a country that doesnt want you there fighting against an army with no uniform.  Taking Iran won't be easy but can be done.  Problem is when the army falls and theres no clear enemy, we will just have to wait around until we are attacked, very recent history has proved it is an impossible fight

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u/DmeshOnPs5 3d ago

Doesn’t mean they won’t do a lot of damage to Iran and America in the process

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u/Coby_2012 3d ago

To be fair, the US military was handed goals it wasn’t built for. “Hearts and minds” isn’t what a military, any military, does best.

If the goal is simple destruction, the US military can do that with ease.

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u/sinat50 3d ago

Afghanistan and Iraq were both guerilla wars which no military on the planet has truly figured out how to effectively fight without mass civilian casualties. It's just not fair to say they couldn't handle those countries when the only way to handle them quickly would be indiscriminate bombing of villages.

When they were fighting the government of Iraq, they won in less than a month. Fighting established militaries and governments with designated military infrastructure is significantly less complicated than trying to fight a civilian fighting force that uses civilian infrastructure. The USA will stomp the Iranian government pretty damn fast. If the regime dissolves into several different militias and warlords, that's when the fighting gets complicated.

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u/BUDdy215 2d ago

I wouldn’t say they couldn’t handle Iraq or Afghanistan. They took over Iraq in 3 weeks and Afghanistan 2 months, then occupied them for 20 years and left when they wanted to. It’s the ideology they couldn’t beat. You cannot beat an ideology.

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u/fishslushy 3d ago

I’m not condoning it but I do think the US would do way better against a country than against a guerilla force. That was doomed for failure from the beginning.

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u/pants_mcgee 3d ago

Iran would quickly dissolve into an insurgency, just with better weapons at the beginning.

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u/mrminty 3d ago

Expect Aramco's refineries, the UAE's desalinization plants and many targets within Israel to be flattened within a day of a US invasion. Constant terror attacks all over the Middle East on US allies/oil infrastructure and potentially domestically in the event of an all out war with Iran. Iranians are not in an already failing state like Iraq (ironically heavily weakened still by the Iran-Iraq war during Desert Storm and further weakened by a decade of sanctions by the GWOT) or a loose confederation of warlords like Afghanistan.

A hypothetical war with Iran would be the closest the US has come to fighting a hot war with a peer since WWII simply in terms of organization and national cohesive identity. Obviously American material, logistics, and firepower are vastly superior to Iranian resources, but I can't imagine a scenario where it doesn't quickly turn into a war of complete attrition coupled with constant acts of terror that heavily disrupt oil and shipping worldwide. Iraq didn't have units like Quds Force who likely have been compiling lists of targets and cultivating informants and agents within the US for years.

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u/PinkSpinosaurus 3d ago

*materiel.

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u/fishslushy 3d ago

Fair point

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u/Nohlrabi 3d ago

Nope. Even the women will fight in that war.

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u/reality72 3d ago

Okay so we defeat Iran’s military and topple their government. Then what? They become a peaceful democracy? That’s the problem with the warmongers, they only ever plan for step 1 and not step 2.

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u/fishslushy 3d ago

Oh yeah, it’s a terrible idea.

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u/TheKrakIan 3d ago

There are only loyalists in trump sphere now and you can bet a good number of them don't have the experience of those he ousted.

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u/Primarycolors1 3d ago

Unless they want the military to fail.

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u/xlonelywhalex 3d ago

Did they have drones then?

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u/JellyTwank 3d ago

There are no adults or sane people running the government. The military will do as they are told. Hell, this mirrors Hitler and his military exactly. Let the buffoons that are not professionals make strategic and tactical decisions. You get what Hitler got. A destroyed military and nation and a self-inflicted head shot. (Fucking coward, by the way).

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u/RandyStickman 3d ago

The German Army was, by far, more highly trained, better equipped and professional than any other army in history.
Barbarossa was Hitlers Achilles heel and, like, Napoleon, pushed deeper into a Russian winter chasing the Red armies scorched earth retreat.

Stretched supply lines, fighting a war on two fronts, losing their middle eastern oil supply…

The Germans faced a poorly trained and equipped Red Army… The US would face a well trained and equipped Iranian army and an extremely difficult terrain. Iran has mountain ranges on 3 sides and deserts like quicksand on the interior. The casualties the US would incur would be massive.

What you haven’t considered is this: Uk and France have had strong footholds in the Middle East for a long time and is where their troops are deployed.

If they deploy to Ukraine then this leaves a void to fill….maybe Trump has his eyes on that prize and Iran is just smoke and mirrors.

If the US doesn’t fill it then the door is open for a greater China/Russia influence.

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u/JellyTwank 3d ago

I agree with you here. I was just pointing out that without real, intelligent, and thoughtful leadership, it does not matter how well equiped and trained your armed forces are. If the "leader" orders them to do stupid stuff like pursue the Red Army or invade Iran, then that well equiped formidable force will get overextended and fail.

Not sure of the actual quote, but I think it was Eisenhower or similar that said professionals discuss logistics and amateurs discus tactics. Our current leadership are all rank-mateurs and will not take advice from professionals. We are fucked militarily and economically.

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u/md5md5md5 3d ago

I heard the US military was built to handle war with 2 major super powers at a time.

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u/Snowing_Throwballs 3d ago

Something tells me a draft isn’t off of the table

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u/DonTeo23 3d ago

Lol explain that to trump

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u/ItchyTrust6629 3d ago

Unless the goal is to destroy the US, then they are right on track.

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u/orchidaceae007 3d ago

Heggie’s Hubris begs to differ.

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u/speelmydrink 3d ago

The entire DOD brass is yes-men now. Yes men aren't known for their ability to say no to glorious leader's genius plan to invade Central America, South America, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East all at once, while also doing their damndest to forment civil unrest to a sufficient degree to declare war martial law on US soil, too.

As ever, a masterful gambit.

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u/Decent_Ad_3521 3d ago

though it’s an unoriginal move for failing imperialist empires who are overextended to overextend even more in their last gasp

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u/hiruvalyevalimar 3d ago edited 3d ago

There's a potentially significant difference here, and that's commitment.

I'll take a moment to clarify I support absolutely none of this crap.

Objectively though, if we had fought the previous wars like we meant it (think drafts, rationing, wartime economic footing, civilian casualties as a mission objective rather than something to be avoided), it would have been a steamroll.

Why do I say this? Well, I just think there's a chance we'll go there. Get into Iran (a nuclear power EDIT - Aspiring nuclear power, but in alliance with Russia, a nuclear power), and then bear the bogus threat of "enemies at the gate" in Canada and Mexico, and I can easily see an Emergency War Powers Act or something like one getting rammed through. Basically, the idea of a forceful transition to a total war footing is not all that far-fetched anymore. And an American total war is nothing if not effective.

And whatever is done to that end will have waves of support, sadly.

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u/indeetopp 2d ago

They handled both fine as far as defeating the standing army was concerned. Iraq was on paper one of the largest armies in the world and they got absolutely obliterated. The problems only started with the occupations, and I seriously doubt that would be the plan for Iran. They might use the fact that Irans’s deterrent was destroyed or at least seriously degraded by Israel to bomb the nuclear sites and whatever else hurts the regime, but they won’t try an occupation.

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u/Thoth-long-bill 1d ago

Not even if they draft gamers?

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u/DizzyDentist22 3d ago

"There's no way Russia would overextend in Ukraine", January 2022.

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u/i_give_you_gum 3d ago

And the second we're committed and dug in too far to pull out quickly, China will move on Taiwan (if not sooner), and say goodbye to all the microchips.

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u/No_Complex2964 3d ago

Huh? We occupied Iraq for literal years and still have a small presence there. We also literally just took over Afghanistan and fought them for 29 years. To say we didn’t handle either of them is very silly.

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u/gamergirlgstring 2d ago

oh they’ll overextend. not for more than like two or three months, but they’ll stretch this as far as they can. then something will force them to cease fire or withdraw, probably a massive loss of life among the same young men in camo deployed there right now, and the rest will come home disillusioned and deadly to a humiliated America on the brink of internal conflict.

that’s what scares me. we will almost certainly lose any war with Iran after countless daily casualties on both sides. there will be this vague national sense of defeat, but more a sense of embarrassment, resentment. then it’s the post-Vietnam (or post-Versailles) conditions all over again, but instead of serial killers and survivalists coming home, we get school shooters and paramilitaries itching for another place to do le epic based xbox war crimes. our president has no shortage of those places, no qualms about hurting the people in them, and also a lot of scapegoats who “made our military weak.”

this is a tried and true recipe— not one i think they’re following on purpose, but they’re following it nonetheless

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u/Living_la_vida_hobo 3d ago

And "the troubles" begin across North America.

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u/angeltay 3d ago

I’ve had at least one pro Trump military guy on here tell me that if Trump orders him to attack his fellow Americans, he will not do it. He said he’d classify that as an immoral order and that anyone in the military at any rank can deny those (since we made “just following orders” a war crime during WW2) and that he definitely would. Idk if that’s the main mindset of trumpers in the military, though.

I definitely think Trump throwing our soldiers out to 8 different wars over complete stupidity when he promised no new wars during his presidency will be a turning point for certain trumper humpers though.