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I mean I'd argue the US occupation amounts to boots on the ground, forces to enforce (hah) the terms of their surrender

like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands

But because of their suffocating conviction that everything is always Fundamentally Normal, that America is a place where nothing ever really happens or changes, those same people are incapable of recognizing the enormity of what we’re doing, when we’re the ones doing it.

Donald Trump posting on Truth social that he won't accept no terms except for unconditional surrender, including the opportunity to select a new leader for Iran.

Who wants to buy he was shown the FDR Pearl harbor speech and felt like he wanted to cosplay?

This war is illegal from top to bottom, and littered with actual war crimes, we don't need to be making up fake ones.

Like, if this were true, it would require a attacking plane / ship / shore battery to cease fire on its Target once they ran out of ammunition.

Do you realize how absurd that is as a concept?

I do not know why it needs to be said, but no, a warship does not need to have a load of ammunition to be a legal Target in a war.

It doesn't even need to be a warship, a civilian cargo ship carrying war supplies is also a valid military Target.

The *war itself* is what is illegal here.

This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

Stop making me remember that man exists 😭

If we let these people see daylight once for the rest of their lives we will have failed.

The issue with that is that it essentially recreates the problem of the houthis in the Red Sea except this time cargo traffic can't just go around Africa. It MUST Transit the strait of Hormuz, which at a minimum will require the USAF to 'mow the grass' as long as the coast is held by unfriendlies

Idk what my maternal grandpa did but my fraternal grandpa was a high school music teacher in rural upstate New york,

he taught alongside his wife who taught English at the same school.

It's definitely relevant that as of yet there are no boots on the ground, I suspect they may have broken slightly less towards approve if they were under the impression of an invasion or occupation.

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

These are scandals that touch even the most ardent conservative.

And it's not like they're going to defect and droves, but it will certainly have an effect.

Like, for as much as we have grown used to new scandals every week, most of those were either due to attacks on people maga consider to be subhuman, not executing gun owners in the street for their rights to bear arms, or starting a new forever war that will shunt the price of gas up by a dollar

You know, I think it might just be bad for republicans for a Republican president to have a new scandal that cuts across the entire political spectrum every 8 to 10 days of the year so far during a midterm year.

It just doesn't seem correct that a week of air strikes and zero boots on the ground will entirely defeat a country 2.5 times the size and population of, say, to pick a comparison totally at random, Ukraine

And yet that seems to have been the entirety of Trump's plan

It won't be enough to complete a kill chain on time for military assets, but unless they start doing an Irish jig all of those tankers lined up are pretty juicy.

You know, while the Russian defense sector *does not* have the spare capacity to provide material support to iran, if I was at the GRU I'd be lobbying hard to do intelligence sharing, especially intelligence on the current locations of ships in the Gulf of Oman & the Arabian sea

A photo of a page from becoming supernatural showing a nonsensical infographic with a description that reads almost identically to the paragraph of text beneath it

A screenshot of an infographic from a slideshow showing a spectrum with peacekeeping on one end and thermonuclear war on the other, and terrorism in a circle beneath it with arrows pointing in both directions punctuated with question marks.

Doing some research on woo for a project and found this absolute gem of an infographic with a descriptive figure that is basically just the paragraph under it slightly reworded.

It's very much giving that one sub gorka infographic

I'm sorry is this numbskull about to give us our generation's Samuel B Roberts?

Also Lebanon being at war doesn't stop up 20% of the world's oil like an Iran that either still wants to inflict pain or, God forbid, a fail state Iran would.

Personally I’m supporting AOC because I’m not far-left and she’s an open rebuke to Bernie’s provincial herrenvolk bullshit but hey, Axios will be Axios

And that's not mentioning the possibility of a couple hundred kilos of heu getting lost or the fact that Iran has three times the population of Yemen or Syria.

An Iranian fail state has the potential to be one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of thee millennium so far.

Yeah, I don't think the administration considered the possibility of an Iranian equivalent to the yemeni civil war except the armed groups involved would be able to shut down 1/5 a global oil traffic instead of just forcing shipping to take a more circuitous route.

Do I understand correctly that after shooting down three of our own planes and murdering 50 schoolgirls, our Secretary of De- excuse me, War, bragged about there being no rules of engagement?

Credit where it's due, dem leadership finally figured out how to triangulate actually opposing Trump's use of force with cost of living, they should have had this sorted around this time last year, but I'm glad they finally figured it out.

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict