Trump: U.S. will bomb Iran "back to stone ages" over next 2-3 weeks
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Man, it sure didn't take long to pivot from "We need to invade Iran to protect those poor protestors from their evil government" to "Bomb 'em back to the stone age".
How strange. It's almost like Trump didn't have the best intentions of the Iranian people at heart from the get go.
To anyone that was actually fooled by this, when we start bombing Cuba, please remember to not listen to the Cuban diaspora that cheer on the bombing as some form of liberation. Remember all of the Iranian diaspora that cheered on Iran being invaded? They do not care about the country they or their parents left for the US. And with Cuba, there is a high likelihood they are the children of slave plantation owners that fled Cuba after the revolution.
I’m living in Miami right now and there are no bigger “victims” than some Cubans here. Everything is someone else’s fault. If it weren’t for the revolution, they would be rich!
The weirdest ones are the ones that say their parents/grandparents "fled communism"; and then you ask them "when?" and they say "1953".
Marco Rubio
From the get-go? You mean the get-go where we blew up an elementary school full of little girls?
Yes that's the joke they're making
Does he ever have anyone else's but his interests at heart?
Maybe the person he's secretly imprisoning who has a perfect match for any organ replacement he might need. Im sure they get taken care of well other than the imprisonment.
He is a disgrace to the noble tradition of the FIFA peace prize.
Lucky for him, the Amazon Oscar is still within reach
He's the only FIFA peace prize recipient to ever start a war.
Not so sure about that. I think he is pretty much in line with the FIFA peace prize requirements.
Your tax dollars at work. You could’ve had free education, Medicare for all, functioning roads and infrastructure, end homelessness, but instead we’re bombing fucking brown people in the Middle East. Let’s waste all this money and blow up the fucking desert mountains in Iran while simultaneously fucking over the rest of the world and raising gas prices to 10 bucks a gallon.
There is something slightly humbling about the fact that in the face of so much firepower and human "destruction"; that it can be countered well simply by the powers of nature and some human planning.
Basically, yeah, you have trillions of dollars of weapons research and ammunition spreading over decades. Nice. But we're just gonna use natural geological structures, the best concrete recipe known to man, Toyota trucks, and low cost drones we optimized to all hell for affordability. We'll be here until you decide to leave...
Russian government hasn't acknowledged this for 4 years straight. And you want the USA government(which is not much smarter) to do it in less than 2 months?
That would be….gasp….socialism
What gets me is there is still people supporting this. I find it hard to imagine how we'll ever progress given we can't even agree on the problems to be solved.
Because theyve been raised in the belief that shooting yourself in the leg is worth it as long as some random person you will never meet loses both their legs.
Sounds very familiar... Ah, yes. Russia does the same shit. So now it is the USA who repeats after the Russia, not the opposite.
But at least the Dems got owned! Fuck yeah murica!
Wait didn’t we do that a year ago when we had a single attack that somehow destroyed all of their nuclear capabilities?
They got better.
Probably happen again.
Trump's an idiot.
We're paying for his stupidity.
This should stop...but it doesn't.
You weren't supposed to remember that!
"completely and totally decimated" -Trump
I believe that was a strike at their centrifuges. They are needed to enrich uranium to powerplant grade or weapons grade.
Iran had agreed to stop using them, as part of the treaty trump tore up. Afterwards, the lack of any detectable fallout indicated that they were not in use, since no uranium was present.
Basically they lost their ability to produce more weapons grade material. It is unknown how much (if any) was previously made, and might be stockpiled elsewhere.
It also shows that Iran seems to have remained in compliance, despite trump pulling out of the deal.
I'm confused. I thought they had 48 hours to reopen the straight, but not really because talks were going well, but still 10 days until the US destroys all the infrastructure, but talks have been productive, and the war is going to be over any day now, but it doesn't matter because we don't need the oil, but we could take over the oil fields, but Europe should help us, but we don't need them and they should do it themselves.
Dont forget "we shouldnt even be there"
Epstein files seem so long ago now
I'm sure there are plenty of other CIA/Mossad pedo-honeypots operating.
Don't worry, they're working on a sequel 🤮
No country has ever surrendered unconditionally from conventional airstrikes.
So we're either going to see boots on the ground (well, they're in the area), or more tiny hand flailing within that time frame.
Especially a country run by a threatened regime. If the IRGC give in, they’re dead. They also have established that they don’t care about the human cost.
Oddly enough, does this not also apply to the USA?
Absolutely correct. But I think the republicans are actually in worse state than the IRGC; they are the aggressors and clearly perceived that way by a lot of their base, and there’s still the idea of free elections.
That's why I always have one old unupgraded pikeman hanging around since 560BC to take over cities.
Boots are already on the ground.
This is EXACTLY what Jesus would Say!
-Trump's Faith Advisor!
Is that really a quote that you want to lean on, Donny? Not exactly a great omen.
Everything is 2 or 3 weeks. 10 years from now, it will over in 2 or 3 weeks.
Iran has simultaneously been obliterated within the first 2-3 weeks of the war and will have nuclear weapons in the next 2-3 weeks.
My guess is that Trump doesn't have Congressional support for an AUMF, which means that all Iran has to do is last for 60 days before Trump has to pull out.
So basically, if Trump wants some kind of deal that uses the military as leverage, he has to get it closed in a matter of weeks.
But what if he just ignores the 60 day limit, and then we all wait till two years later for a court to finally decide that wasn't legal and he should stop?
Right. He's technically not supposed to be able to start a war either. But here we are
Fart of the Deal.
Any miltary strategist will say that you can't bomb your way to a victory.
But you absolutely CAN bomb the news about your pedophile rape gang out of the front pages.
These idiots and their scorched earth threats. Worst B-movie villains ever.
Still don't know why.
Just know we can't have nice things here.
Because it stopped a lot of the Epstein questions
Because they have lots of oil and aren't Christian.
are brown*
And the oil markets responded appropriately, WTI is now $112.
Bye bye any economic performance for all of 2026!
If he carries on like this is going to end up getting taken out by the oil execs.
Fuck you mean? All the US oil majors are ROLLING in cash right now, they still have plenty of supply but get to profit from global shortages. They love this shit.
Oh we'll claw back into 2025 (if we aren't already). How deep will we dig?
The situation has no way out. Leaving without opening the strait ruins the Gulf States that own a large part of the American economy that would go to hell. Opening the strait without troops on the ground is impossible, troops on the ground will be a pickle in lives and material as not seen since the Second World War. I think before this is over he will be seriously considering the nuclear option, I hope they can stop him before that
I hope a clot stops him before then because there’s a much better chance of that than any of the spineless people in government suddenly doing anything about anything.
We could always fold to their demands
It's not going to happen, but paying him reparations would really be the right thing to do. Recognizing sovereignty over Hormuz no, that would not be fair or good or acceptable to anyone
Of course. It worked for Vietnam after all the combined ordinance used in WWII was dropped there and its neighbors of Laos and Cambodia. Oh no wait the US still failed spectacularly. Is the US gonna have another forever war just to hide the president's role in a massive pedophile ring?
I hope the sons and grandsons of MAGAs get hauled off to boot camp.
Just make it simpler. I hope people who voted republican find themselves homeless and begging in the streets.
With us running headlong towards Great Depression 2.0, this doesn't seem far-fetched
It's intentional, and no one with the power to stop it will. If you're an American, I hope you like living in a shack and eating slop while working four dead end gigs. That's our future.
I'm honestly just running the clock down at this point. My QoL is still quite good, so I'll press on for now.
I'm in my late 40s and saw fit to get sterilized in my 20s. I wasn't sure when shit would really start deteriorating, but I expected to see it kick off in my lifetime.
Peace prize please.
FIFA "Here is your bribe......I mean Peace Prize, President Trump."
Donald comes cheap.
Will this be like how their military has been wiped out? Doesn't he realise everyone just calls his bluff because he literally never goes through with anything he threatens.
Now now, he shouldn't get ahead of himself! He should deploy the thousands of troops he said he would, then bomb Iran. Except in his pure stupidity, he'll bomb the soldiers he's deployed to Iran, yet claim it was some 67D chess move.
These clowns and their maximalist bullshit. Were they playing paddycake for the past 5 weeks?
Bro just two more weeks I promise we'll be done we just need three more weeks to finish our goals bro just a month and we'll have accomplished this mission bro we just need two more months I promise we'll be done in Iran if we can just keep bombing them for three months bro we will have a peace deal in the next five months bro please just let us keep fighting bro just six more months bro
Praying for his speedy return to hell
Seems like it was never about nuclear weapons.
Persia was strongest in that era.
Yeah cause that worked so well to achieve American-friendly regime change against North Korea
Speech/stategy is "Iran will win war in 2-3 weeks and we are incapable of changing Iran's victory, but their civilians being gaza/stone aged will give us a sense of superiority"
Beyond pure demonic evil cruelty, destruction costs $2b/day in operations budget, delays global access to energy/shortages dry spots will occur, Iran will retaliate against future export capacity in the region. US troops are staged in GCC sharing videos of missile strikes on them.
GCC is extremely disappointing in this war. Zionazi media does keep claiming it is them instead of Israel that wants war/escalation/stone age, but they host US "ground" troops and air/missile attack sites. They blame Iran for self-defense retaliations more than US/Israel evil. Given plain strategy laid out, Iran, to survive better, needs to hit all Gulf desalination pre-emptively, and with drones sink/damage tankers that serve GCC ports every day. Tankers are massive sitting duck capital assets whose loss also means revenue/profit loss from high prices, and propaganda cannot hide the damage.
Desalination plants means GCC needs the gulf opened in under 10 days (Trump plan subject to insufficient gazafication determination after 3 weeks). GCC military/people can coup their monarchies sticking with US stone age plan. GCC is on wrong side of history here, and should all know that they are on the next domino line of Israel conquests/destruction from a weak Iran.
China could do more, if only by assuring world that they can guarantee opening the straights (with Iran cooperation) as soon as US leaves. That they can help the GCC rebuild if they have a government not hostile to Iran, and that supporting Gazafication of Iran does not help anyone in the world, especially GCC.