Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba

• Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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  • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It worked so well for Vietnam so why not

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Afghanistan was a huge success. Rich people made billions.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?”

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Something about a land war in Asia…

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First in command is Donald J. Trump. His XO is Pete Hegseth. Do I need to continue?

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