• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Copium. Trump can wipe the floor walls and ceiling with Iran, and no amount of cope is going to change that

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      Trump can wipe the floor walls and ceiling with Iran, and no amount of cope is going to change that

      America very well could win a war against Iran, but not without having boots on the ground and taking nam-Korean war level casualties. No one has ever won a war by just dropping bombs.

      The copium is believing a country that lost over 200k people in the 80s fighting Iraq would capitulate after a couple air strikes.

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        14 hours ago

        Probably the same fighter jets and bombs he used before, no? They may run out of missiles though, but enough firepower should remain to commit a genocide.

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          11 hours ago

          And what would be different the second time around? The US has depleted 50-80% of key munitions to kill around 7k people in Iran. With total cost of 113 billion dollars already spent, that roughly 16 million dollars per Iranian killed.

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          12 hours ago

          Commiting an israel-style genocide is not feasible for the US here because there is very little to gain from killing civilians and destroying the basic infrastructure especially considering the limited resources and time the US has.

          Full scale war is only gonna go the Russia Ukraine path which is just a humiliation ritual for the human intellect.

          It’s time to accept the fact that you shouldn’t kill your path through every problem in the middle east and just find a reasonable deal for the time being.

          The long term game is always on the US side anyway, because the US has the best weapon in history called Wall-Street that is guaranteed to make you economically stronger than anybody else in the long term.