Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba
bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 hours agoWell, we don’t really know for sure yet because it’s so recent – the US does have a ‘clone’ of Iran’s Shahed drone called the LUCAS, which Iran has claimed the US has used in false-flag attack against civilian targets in the Gulf. We won’t know for sure until the intelligence around the Iranian invasion is declassified, which probably won’t be for several decades.
Honestly, I think if this war continues to escalate, a false flag on US soil becomes more and more likely, to get support for an invasion of Iran.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
They don’t actually intend boots on the ground against a mountainous country of 90 million right?? Right after Afghanistan?
Like they could probably set up a green zone in Tehran and then what? Just kinda hide behind the walls forever?
Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Afghanistan was a huge success. Rich people made billions.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Hegseth sent a couple thousand Marines to the Med, and he apparently thinks a ground invasion is at least ONE plan on the table. I do truly think Hegseth thinks that it’s just like Iraq in a video game, where it’s all flat, featureless desert.
Or, more likely, Hegseth doesn’t care about the lives lost, and thinks that we can just throw bodies and missiles at Iran to cow then into submission. That seems in line with his stupid “warrior ethos” shit.
DokPsy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It worked so well for Vietnam so why not
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Something about a land war in Asia…
bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 hours ago
It would be the stupidest decision that Trump could ever make, for sure. The problem is that Trump doesn’t exactly have a history of making good strategic decisions, and he purged his administration of people who disagreed with him, and is seemingly taking advice from Benjamin Netanyahu. I really, really hope that a ground invasion of Iran doesn’t happen, it would be like Vietnam, except Iran has the 13th most powerful military in the world and has been preparing for this war for 40+ years.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yeah, it’s not 13th in Iran, for sure, and with well-thought plans for basically everything. Only yesterday I was listening to the foreign minister of Iran spelling “yes” to a journalist question: “do you want a land invasion from the USA?”
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
First in command is Donald J. Trump. His XO is Pete Hegseth. Do I need to continue?