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I gotta admit the one thing really continually grating me in groupchats is the insistence that the US is a Smol Bean party to the conflict that has been dragged into this by Israel and we have no agency in the matter

Three carrier groups in the area and regular TLAM strikes disagree!

Oh yeah, fuck that Nazi apologist asshole.

Yeah, this isn't a scoop by Dropsite. Everyone is reporting on this, it's just most mainstream outlets aren't talking about the human cost.

The _people_ of Tehran, whom israel and the US have both paid lip service to, stand to suffer massive, _generational_, catastrophic injury and damage.

They're willing to break basic laws of war to get a corpse that's been dead longer than I've been alive. They killed *children* in Lebanon for a very, very dead man.

The moderate position at this point is crushing sanctions against Israel. Everything less than that is collaboration.

Russian soldiers were rather fond of lifting upon bayonets, which I thought was awful when I first read about it. Later on I read about the treatment Russian enlisted received and was suddenly much more okay with it.

Loved seeing a Pirates resurgence, before they fell apart into a bargain basement joke once again.

I'd like to believe that, but our military's willingness to keep going along with these things is not filling me with confidence.

Watching A.J. Burnett and Rod Barajas at pitcher and catcher for Pittsburgh was always funny, because it was a terrible defensive catcher, paired up with a guy who flatly refused to try and hold runners.

I would give myself like... a 20% chance to steal a base on those two.

Also, unlike Afghanistan, there is a solid Iranian idea of nationhood, and a willingness to fight and die for it that spans across the ideological spectrum.

We're talking mullahs talking to communists like it's 1979 again levels of hatred.

We can try.

But we'll try in the same way the Japanese did in China.

And unlike Iraq, these people won't start off with a neutral, or even at times positive, view of the US. The only way to deal with this will be occupation of the southern coastline, the population will fucking despise us, and it will be completely justifiable.

I get it for mutuals, but for everyone? Fuck that, man. Make a blog.

We had it before, but that's going to change pretty rapidly.

Not a ton of people who will be willing to sell out their country to the people making it rain oil and murdering schoolgirls for funsies.

As well, the Red Sea can be avoided. It costs more to use the Cape of Good Hope, but you can do it.

If you want into the Persian Gulf, there's no alternative. You travel the Straits or you're SOL.

Every enemy we face is infinitely pathetic, unless ourselves, who are the only strong people on Earth.

Unless we lose, in which case it either never happened, or it was impossible to have won because the opponent is Built Different.

See also the accusations of launching attacks from "civilian areas", as if it's cheating to defend your country from an aggressive war unless you take all your arms to somewhere deserted & easy to target

I just keep imagining how I would feel if Republican policies and actions caused the murder of children in my country and how resolute that would make me.

[touches ear piece]: wait that was that?

Love to make a snack that would have been decadent as hell in 19th Century Ireland, then name it after the worst catastrophe in modern Irish history.

Nah, this is about killing Iranians and destroying Iran.

Theft is just a side bonus.

Surely tanker owners would be totally fine with sending uninsured ships through a warzone in order to grab oil at less than $100 a barrel.

Fucking coward.

We didn't manage to beat the Houthis, but sure, we'll somehow destroy Iran despite having no boots on the ground, including Saudi boots!

Man, if this happens, you're gonna have so much fun dunking on the... uh...

People calling for the defeat of a fascist state engaging in an unprovoked war of aggression and constant atrocities. That'll show 'em!

It's literally raining oil in Tehran. This is eco-terrorism.

How the fuck is voting in the people who aren't even willing to universally condemn these atrocities going to fix this? How can this fascistic monster be stopped in any way but with blood?

Behold the rotting monster you live within, and how it is so willing to take human life for media time and Twitter clicks.

You're making technocratic arguments about this? You are trying to find ways to make little reforms around the edges to deal with *this*?

I know there are a lot of people talking about how there's no inherent strategy here, how the administration is doing something that is unconstitutional, and how this isn't the *real* way to support the troops.

All are true, but they deflect from the most important thing: we're doing Nazi shit.