47 Needs to follow a Tripple B strategy with Iran. In a very particular order

Sorry for posting this in multiple threads, but the other one isn’t getting much traffic.

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If you don’t agree with me here, that’s perfectly fine. It’s a pretty hard pill to swallow in contemporary society. War today is not the same as war prior to Vietnam. Human rights and civilian casualties have handcuffed what needs to be done to end this.

Look at the civilian casualties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look at the civilian casualties in Europe from the two World Wars. Go back as far as you want from that point.

Iran is effectively using what would be a very public outcry against “genocide” against the US and its allies at this point. Look what they did when Trump announced “power plants and bridges.” If we aren’t going to bring the decisive force necessary to end this thing with a victory, we should just get out of it completely.

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my guess is that they are trying to keep iran from using drones and missiles on other ME countries and infrastructure.

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my guess is that they are trying to keep iran from using drones and missiles on other ME countries and infrastructure.

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Does Iran still pose major threat to the region? This is the question I keep posing and no one seems to know. If they do then the current stalemate makes more sense. Its possible we've run out of military targets that we can bomb and they still retain a large enough stockpile of drones an missiles to cause massive damage to our partners in the region. Iran will go tit for tat if we start commencing with infrastructure bombing. The only way to clear these stockpiles may be with ground troops. Trump wants to avoid both.

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ran has zero intention to bargain in good faith.

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Uh, unprovoked invasion tends to inspire that response. And murdering religious leaders in a theocratic country probably doesn't help, either.

Trump is fricked and he should have known that before doing this stupid shite. If he keeps bombing, eventually more stories of dead civilians mount up, gas prices mount up, bad press mounts up and this thing stretches into the mid-terms. Blockade? Piss off allies further, Iran weathers it. Bargain? He's already on the weak side of that. Right now, I suspect he's hoping to quietly back away from this thing. The other option he has is actually trying to make good on his threat of regime change and that will require troops and bodies coming home in flag-draped caskets. See how that worked out for Dubya.

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you mean unprovoked by chanting death to America for almost 50 years? You mean unprovoked by using terror proxies to kill thousands of Americans over 50 years. You mean unprovoked by building a nuclear capability that they swore to use against Israel and anyone else once they achieved it? You mean THAT type of unprovoked? You fricking retard.

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So we should start bombing every nation that chants "death to America"? We're going to be busy. Terror proxies? Better get ready to invade North Korea, Mexico, China and probably a few more middle eastern nations... including our good friends in Saudi. Still waiting on the evidence they had nukes... and I couldn't give a flying frick about what happens between Iran and Israel. Let them blow each other to kingdom come. Why does that mean we have to drop bombs and land ourselves in a war we can't afford?

You don't think much, do you?