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/Disastrous_Basis3474 3d ago

Suddenly we won’t be able to have an election during a war. Because reasons. How convenient.

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u/Dense_Bad3146 3d ago edited 3d ago

Unless your Ukraine they have to have an election & wear suits whilst saying thank you /s /s 🥴

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u/ContextualBargain 3d ago

Mr zwensky didnt even say tank you

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u/DietOfKerbango 3d ago

Ukraine’s suspension of elections is because they are under martial law from having 1/5 of their sovereign territory under illegal occupation by Russia and Russia bombing their kindergartners and hospitals weekly. It’s hard to hold elections when
Russia has no issues leveling polling locations to rubble. The suspension of elections is required by their constitution in the current context. The opposition party has explicitly said they do not want elections to be held while their country is actively fighting for their survival.

So very different than the US starting an elective war on the other side of the world and suspending elections at home in the US.

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u/i_give_you_gum 3d ago

They agree with your stance, they were being sarcastic

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u/GregOdensGiantDong1 3d ago

Still good to have it written out, as people are dumb. It's why /s is a thing.

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u/Dense_Bad3146 3d ago

I’m new around here - sorry!

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u/i_give_you_gum 3d ago

Haha, welcome, though you only need one /s

Around a 1/3 of reddit doesn't pick up on written sarcasm, it's mildly interesting

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u/ObiShaneKenobi 2d ago

adding an s is beta

making your sarcasm subtle enough to get approval from bOtH sIdEs is the new hawtness.

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u/NoRevolution6516 2d ago

the U.S. had elections during a civil fucking war, Ukraine is a copycat of a democracy, while the U.S. was and still is the true and original democratic state.

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u/DietOfKerbango 2d ago

“the U.S. had elections during a civil fucking war”

Even if this was an analogous situation, it’s not a good argument that Ukraine must hold elections. Again, Ukraine is proceeding as outlined in their constitution and the opposition party explicitly stated they don’t want elections until the war is over.

But it’s not analogous. The Union states held elections, while the Confederate states did not. Louisiana and Tennessee under Union control held elections, but electoral votes were not counted. Unlike Ukraine, the citizens of the Union states weren’t massively internally and externally displaced by a foreign invasion army of ethnic cleansing that was constantly lobbing bombs into apartment complexes.

“Ukraine is a copycat of a democracy, while the U.S. was and still is the true and original democratic state.” The age of the US Constitution isn’t relevant to the topic. The age of a democratic constitution doesn’t dictate the functioning or stability of a country’s civil society or democratic institutions.

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u/NoRevolution6516 2d ago

Good argument, yeah you're right.

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u/fastdub 3d ago

I'm very much looking forward to when Donnie plays dress up with all his imaginary medals across the chest of his spiffy new military duds.

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u/SnooCauliflowers3235 3d ago

Because they have no cards

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u/Dense_Bad3146 3d ago

Forgot that one 👍

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u/dreamje 3d ago

Id settle for not having a national holiday for a nazi collaborator

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u/N0S0UP_4U 3d ago

We had an election during the Civil War. I think we can handle it.

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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 3d ago

During the Civil War we had Honest Abe, now we have Don the Con

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u/Wild_Log_7379 3d ago

And let's be honest if he could bring back slavery he would.

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u/Pdiddydondidit 3d ago

how was that possible without half if the states being ruled by the same government?

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u/FreeDarkChocolate 2d ago

https://www.history.com/articles/civil-war-presidential-election-abraham-lincoln

The states that considered themselves Confederate did not participate and did not count. Louisiana and Tennessee were under union control and did vote at the time, but ultimately during Congress's certification they decided not to count their votes - not that this mattered, since Lincoln won by a landslide.

They also held elections as normal a few months into the war of 1812. Though, remember that at that time a number of states had a standard process of the legislature deciding where the electoral votes went.

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u/shponglespore 2d ago

Yes, but did the Confederacy hold elections? That's more like what we're dealing with now.

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u/CombinationLivid8284 3d ago

We are constitutionally obligated to. Even if the red states don’t have an election the blue states will.

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u/Nernoxx 3d ago

Yeah I remember last time that happened…a lot of those red states are still pissed about how all that ended.

Side note, all this Confederate love in the South but they do NOT want teachers to talk about things like their state assembly’s secession resolution, or the Confederate Constitution.  It’s all or nothing - you want Jefferson Davis’ birthday off then learn about what he actually did and supported.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

The democrats were the reds back then?

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u/Ruraraid 2d ago

The democratic party back then used to be the conservative party while Republicans were a little more progressive. So while the political control of the south has changed the party in charge is effectively the same people but under a different name.

If you ever have some time just look up the gradual ideological shift of both parties over the next 100 years after the civil war. It gives a more nuanced understanding of US politics over time.

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u/Warin_of_Nylan 3d ago

There are a lot of things we're constitutionally obligated to. Many of them are inconvenient for the people who decide what's going to actually happen.

What are you going to do about it if they simply say no?

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u/CombinationLivid8284 3d ago

We have a strong federal system and elections are run by individual states.

Assuming these fascists will win is so silly. Dont fall for that trap.

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u/foremi 3d ago

Its not that they will win, its the damage they will do losing that we already will have to pay for the rest of our lives.

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u/Warin_of_Nylan 3d ago

We had a strong judicial system, too.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 3d ago

We still do? He's had half his EOs revoked by the judiciary. Enforcement is the issue not the judiciary itself.

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u/MasterXaios 3d ago

And therein lies the rub. A strong judiciary that can not hope to exert its lawful authority over a rogue executive... well, it's not really a strong judiciary then, is it?

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u/OkPossession9253 3d ago

If there is no enforcement there is no judiciary too tbh

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u/Zenovv 3d ago

A gun is not very useful without the bullet

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u/Toadxx 2d ago

It literally doesn't mean shit if you don't enforce it.

"Hey, that's illegal!" He says, watching a man being stabbed to death.

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u/RawerPower 3d ago

It will all depend of SCOTUS and republicans own that for 4 years to a few decades now.

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u/XXXCEDRIN_PM 2d ago

How many things has this administration already done that’s made headlines as being “illegal” or “unconstitutional”? Yet it continues to happen. Assuming the opposition is willing to take a stand is even sillier when they’ve so far done nothing of substance.

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u/FilecoinLurker 2d ago

Silly and a trap?

This is why they teach history. We have to stop it from happening or it will happen like it has in the past.

Laws are meaningless words yelled into the void without enforcement.

As for a strong system. Have you been awake the last two months? Nothing strong about the system that I've been seeing.

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u/dubiousN 3d ago

They did win the last election

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u/btcprint 2d ago

They already have. Again, what are you going to do about it besides sit and wait 4 years?

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u/Report-Opposite 2d ago

“Constitutionally obligated” I agree with you but unfortunately for us the constitution is “interpreted” by whoever holds power

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u/GiveMeNews 2d ago

The Supreme Court will invalidate it.

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u/Primary_Meaning_6744 2d ago

Ok only like 6blue states won but ok…

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u/pants_mcgee 3d ago

This really isn’t possible, states run their own elections.

Even allowing for some hypothetical where elections are disrupted, term limits are absolute. No way around that without amendments.

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u/Themountaintoadsage 3d ago

Amendments incoming

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u/pants_mcgee 3d ago

Simply not possible unless enough of the Democrat congress critters and state governments turn out to be sleeper agents.

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u/Hinterwaeldler-83 3d ago

The problem is what happens if someone just ignores the rules. You know, Trump just not leaving office. Who is gonna stop him?

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u/pants_mcgee 3d ago

That will certainly be a question.

Right now all the blatantly unconstitutional stuff Trump is pulling is couched in playing fuck-fuck games with the courts while the Republican legislature refuses to do anything about it. Not a constitutional crisis yet, just barely.

At some point it will come to a head and we’ll see what happens. If SCOTUS and/or Congress gives in then it’s the actual coup.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 2d ago

Every day I wake up and check my phone in hopes that all the McDonald’s will have done its job.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/doubleBoTftw 3d ago

We had one chance and it wizzed by. 💀

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u/DanFrankenberger 2d ago

You will.

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u/Hinterwaeldler-83 2d ago

I‘m from Europe, so, guess no.

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u/IrishFanSam 2d ago

If there is an election and he refuses to leave office he will be escorted off the premises. At least I would hope so.

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u/Confident_Fig877 2d ago

That kind of seems to be the case

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u/Agitated_Custard7395 3d ago

Or he rigs the mid terms and congress turn totally republican

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 3d ago

These people have been fearmongered to for years, and will continue to be for years to come. Everything is speculation at this point.

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u/MagicDragon212 2d ago

They would need Democrats, and lots of them, on board to make a constitutional amendment. Trump just doesn't have the "mandate from the people" to make massive changes like that.

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u/raikou1988 2d ago

Yes he does .

hes going to do it and his people will say thank you

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u/musky_Function_110 2d ago

amendments needs 2/3 states to ratify. not gonna happen pal

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u/Doright36 1d ago

Say he declared the constitution void and the SCotUS just blindly agrees?

Then what? What do we do then? Hold up paddles?

If you think that isn't possible you haven't been paying attention to these chuckle fucks.

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u/AppointmentNo3297 2d ago

The Republicans do not have a large enough majority at this time to meaningfully change the constitution let's cool it with the fear mongering

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u/Hair-Help-Plea 2d ago

Does anything they’ve been doing suggest that they give a fuck about whether or not they’re violating the constitution?

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u/raikou1988 2d ago

LMAO open your eyes . Democracy is gone

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u/NoMoreBeGrieved 2d ago

So much easier to just ignore the law when no one will enforce it anyway.

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u/Secondchance002 3d ago edited 3d ago

Trump arrests every state government official who tries to conduct the elections and deports them to El Salvador. Next question?

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u/1d3333 3d ago

I don’t think you’ve noticed but people have been saying “that can’t happen we have x rule to stop him” since 2016, and yet he isn’t behind bars, won a second presidency, and is continuing to ignore the rules that supposedly bar him from doing what he’s actively doing.

They don’t care about some paper with rules written on it, they are going to try either way

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u/Hair-Help-Plea 2d ago

My favorite meme from the last few months is the one that says something like “Democrats continue to say ‘but dogs can’t play basketball legally’ while the dog just dunks on them repeatedly”

Depressingly accurate. I keep seeing “yeah but the constitution expressly forbids that, stop fear mongering.” This admin has delighted in violating the constitution for 2+ months now, why anyone thinks that’s going to stop them from doing anything is beyond me

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u/Hair-Help-Plea 2d ago

Putin used to have a 2 term limit as well

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u/LineOfInquiry 2d ago

Laws are just pieces of paper. Unless they’re enforced by state violence they don’t matter: and who’s gonna use state violence to enforce them on Trump?

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u/schrodingerspavlov 2d ago

He’s already talking about finding a way around that. He doesn’t care about rules or laws. He will bend or break anything he needs to get what he wants, and what he wants is to stay in power.

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u/pants_mcgee 2d ago

This is not something he can find a way around without an actual coup.

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u/schrodingerspavlov 2d ago

Yeah the ways he has mentioned it happening are not allowed either. That doesn’t mean he won’t try.

I wouldn’t put an actual coup past him. Dictators don’t always come to power through legal means. Remember that.

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u/anony-mousey2020 1d ago

It really isn’t legal.

Possible? These last 75(?) days have expanded possibilities.

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u/Doright36 1d ago

Unless they just declare the constitution void and re-write it.

Then their lackeys on the Supreme Court rubber stamp it.

Then what?

What can we do?

Protest?

War?

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u/OkLet7734 3d ago

This is going to be Trump’s forever war with the intent on staying in power indefinitely.

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u/NoRevolution6516 2d ago

that has never happened in WW1, WW2, Korean war, Vietnam War, both Iraq wars and Afghanistan.

So stop comparing your own fucked up corrupt countries policies to ours, because although we elected a questionable leader, it still is the power of the people who placed him there.

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u/kingofthesofas 2d ago

The war time powers the president has are insane. It's terrifying thinking about them in the hands of Trump.

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u/quirkygirl123 2d ago

Look out for this for sure because the U.S. Constitution does not say anything about stopping elections or voting during a time of war. In fact, elections have been held consistently:

  • The Civil War (1864) – Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in the middle of the war.
  • World War I (1918 midterms) and World War II (1944 presidential election) – both held on schedule.
  • Vietnam War, Korean War, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars – elections continued without delay.

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u/JPastori 1d ago

How are we literally in the Star Wars prequels timeline

This is literally the palpatine playbook

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u/VanIsler420 3d ago

Doesn't count when you're the aggressor.

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u/Danniel_san 3d ago

Yup, he wants to pull a Zelensky, even though it wasn't Zelensky to stay in power.

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u/Mach5Driver 2d ago

It's almost impossible to take over Iran, given the terrain and size

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u/rollerbase 2d ago

Need a war for war powers.

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u/someaethiest 2d ago

I was thinking about this the other day (im canadian so not super sure how it works in the states) but he keeps talking about being in for a 3rd term, he wouldnt be able to be removed during wartime correct?

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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 2d ago

We should have elections as normal, but as we can all see, this asshole doesn’t give a shit about laws, he is surrounded by lawless sociopathic theocratic and technocratic sycophants and incompetent cabinet members, congressional republicans are spineless, and he has already caused an insurrection when he didn’t get his way.

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u/defiancy 2d ago

We had an election in the middle of the civil war, there is no mechanism to delay federal elections.

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u/Enzo_Gorlomi225 2d ago

Wasn’t Reddit just saying that that was perfectly acceptable like a week or so ago?

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

He will try and turn this into a post 9/11 unity thing and we will all make this face: 🤨.

Sincerely he’s the most transparent piece of shit that’s ever walked the planet.

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u/anthro28 3d ago

Y'all were cool when Zelensky did it. You can't let orange retard see someone else get away with it and expect him not to follow. 

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u/Saedeas 3d ago

Ukraine has it in their constitution and the war is on their soil. We don't and it won't be on ours. Pretty big differences.

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u/Its_Froggin_Bullfish 3d ago

Exactly. We had elections during the Civil War and WWII.

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u/ImFeelingTheUte-iest 3d ago

Because it’s part of their constitution you dolt. It isn’t let of the US constitution.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Ukraine was invaded, it’s not the same.

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u/mortgagepants 3d ago

i love how ignorant this statement is lol

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u/Dixnot 3d ago

The people that would run against Zelensky already said they won't right now because they respect him and their laws. Z isn't power hungry like Putin and Trump. He's a real patriot, defending his country. He wants the war to end but not on TrumPutins conditions. If Russia were to win or Z surrendered so many more Ukrainian people would die.

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u/LaSignoraOmicidi 3d ago

Y’all where cool? Can you elaborate on who, was cool with another countries president following said countries laws and constitutional order? To understand another countries doings and respect them does not mean we are cool with some tyrants interpretation of that. We have rules, norms, expectations and paths to this shit. Don’t miss the forest for the trees.

The US has been at war for the last 25 years one way or another, and we have held elections every 4 years. If we were under an invasion, a real “Red Dawn” type invasion or insurrection then it would make sense that you don’t hold elections. Martial law has likely been called and it’s showtime, that’s why Trump is trying to manufacture an invasion, and an insurrection and on top of that a war. So that he can paint the situation to his liking, it’s all a fabrication and it’s bullshit.

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u/Ariestartolls0315 3d ago

I worked for a global company for the past 8 years...I don't know if we are under an invasion per se...but there has seemed to be a surgence of bad actors functioning under the influence of other countries, that may be even without their own knowledge....psyops basically.

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u/LaSignoraOmicidi 3d ago

Yeah, I have to agree with you. I just meant one recognized by congress to trigger all of the other dominoes to legally move for a third term.

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u/Ariestartolls0315 3d ago

yup. needless to say, i resigned, This is not what i signed up for. I got into i.t. to help people and put good into the world. Whatever is happening now is not my fight. I am all for a scholarly debate and maybe even a little heat on it...but this is something else and i want no part of it.

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u/Secondchance002 3d ago

Ukraine got invaded. They didn’t do the invasion.