crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
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crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
13hr ago
Yes, I know what jihad and religious martyrdom is. I also think it's stupid. Making the other dumb bastard die for his country has been the American warfighting strategy for over a century now, and if the Iranians want to indulge in dumb sand people strategies they're more than welcome to.
Also... what the hell gives you that impression? If they have Russian/Chinese communication tech, they're not using them. They're meeting in person, for God's sake. They're so thoroughly infiltrated by Mossad they've given up on communication technology altogether.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
14hr ago
But those contingencies are contingencies for a reason. Obviously it is not an ideal state of affairs for your entire civilian and military upper ranks to be decapitated! Now the former Ayatollah was an old man getting up in the years, dying of cancer and willing to martyr himself. But his wife? His son's wife? All of his subordinates, too? It's not like Israel or the Americans are stopping with just them. They're going down the entire chain of command, killing anyone who even has a whisper of command authority.
How can you plan for that? You can't. Planning for a war where there is no central leadership and your state is degenerated into regional warlords is a shit plan.
And there is degrees of international pariah: there's being on American's shit list, and there's 'bombing the Strait of Hormuz and being treated as a rogue state by everyone'. The Gulf State Arabs were neutral before this. Now, they're in a coalition that INCLUDES Israel in shooting down missiles and drones. That's a sea change! Iran had no friends before this war. Now, it doesn't even have business partners. (Not that they could pay for anything now.)
Iran casually discarded all that remained of its international clout and recognition to strike a doubtful blow against American hegemony. It will take their neighbors a long time to forget about those attacks, and China and Russia are in no rush to bail them out. All to spike oil prices for about a day before the market settled back down. It wasn't worth it.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
14hr ago
Come on. Epstein Fury? There's a bar of civility on the Motte (of which I, admittedly, fail at times to meet) but you're not even trying.
I could go to the effort of telling you why the drop-off in ballistic missiles is actually a bad thing, or what JDAMs are, or how the IRGC isn't the Taliban and actually does have the responsibility of managing ninety million people, but why should I? You didn't put any effort into your post. If you used AI to generate your post, it would be far more coherent and have an actual point, rather than skimmed points from third worldist tiktoks and tweets. Maybe you should request an exemption for yourself because you clearly need it.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
14hr ago
I'm not going to defend the occupation or the American foreign policy of the time, but Iraqi Freedom was objectively a sweep: Saddam's conventional forces were destroyed in little less than a week. The black eye came from the attempt at nation-building, not the military operation. Turns out the US military is good at blowing things up. Who would have thought?
The Americans can actually learn lessons. They're not going to commit to a pointless ground occupation where mujahadeen can shoot at them. Iran isn't a insurgency which passes off responsibility of statehood onto an occupying power - it's a nation of ninety million people. If Iran is a smoking, sectarian shithole like Syria with collapsed central authority, that good enough. They can hate the Americans, but if they do so impotently, that's a win.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
15hr ago
No country plans to have their entire leadership killed, become an international pariah by firing missiles at every neighbor, and then finish it off by obliterating the country's only export of value. It's cope. Pure cope. If the Americans are being humiliated, then they can put on the clown suit and honk their horns as all of their enemies die. Third Worldists have internalized 'if you kill your enemies, they win' mentality, and I hope they cling onto it as long as they can.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
5d ago
Gabbard seems to have the personal esteem of Trump, but not his court. If she was more belligerent publically, she would have been let go, but reducing her to sinecure to award a loyalist while keeping her out of power is a compromise. If it becomes advantageous to be dovish, she can be promoted forward.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
6d ago
"MAGA is HITLER and STALIN! WORSE than NAZISM! CRUEL! CULT OF PERSONALITY!"
But going into the mountains and fighting in the hills is fundamentally incompatible with being a functional state. They would essentially abdicate sovereign control of their own country to whoever cared to take it. They wouldn't be glorious freedom fighters, fighting the good fight against the Big Satan: they'd be cowards running away from a war they started and leaving the people they were ruling out to dry. If the IRGC wants to leave the cities and live like the Taliban, how will they control said cities? How will they keep up missile production?
All of those soldiers need to be paid and fed. Jihad doesn't pay the bills. Who is covering the tab of salaries and material?
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