r/politics • u/Strong-Hippo9043 • 2h ago
Possible Paywall U.S. troops and diplomats evacuating Middle East posts, sources say
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-troops-diplomats-evacuating-middle-east-posts-sources-say-rcna604867•
u/belikethemanatee Missouri 1h ago
Fuck everyone who voted for this.
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u/Thesinistral 1h ago
Hear! Hear! The damn fools did it twice. TWICE!!
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u/lokoluis15 1h ago
Some of them 3 times, even
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u/dognameddaisy 58m ago
I’ve heard some bragging they voted for this 6 times… including the primaries.
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u/NarcolepticMan Ohio 1h ago
Don't forget the people who didn't vote
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u/Beneficial_Jelly 55m ago
But how else would they teach the democrats a lesson??
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u/No_Foundation16 1h ago
Also fuck everyone that sat at home on their asses and didn't vote at all! They far outnumber the MAGA scum that voted in orange antichrist!
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u/rakerber 46m ago
And everyone who told us the Democrats weren't good enough to vote for
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u/BiggieBigs34 36m ago
And the people who didn’t vote either, we had an abysmal ~65% turnout rate of all voting aged Americans.
With 30% of all the non-voters being ages 18-29 despite only making 15% of the voter bloc.
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u/IllRest2396 Florida 2h ago
We are about to see one of the most stupid decisions this country has ever made.
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u/AusToddles 1h ago
So far
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u/DrCigarettes_MD 55m ago
This is the stupidest day in American history. A record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.
Matt Christman tweet from Trump's first inauguration day.
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u/ReasonablyRadical 47m ago
Don't know who that is, but is he a prophet?
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u/DrCigarettes_MD 34m ago
I hope not, since he’s not exactly an optimist. You can be the judge though. Here’s a rant he went on after Charlottesville:
> And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide.
> And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
> On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
Then you look at how the rhetoric and actions of Republicans and European far-right parties have evolved since 2017, and you can see that they are indeed moving toward “machine gun them at the borders” as an immigration policy.
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u/hyterus 1h ago
You just wait, the Orange Leader still has two more office years
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u/QuotableMorceau Europe 1h ago
considering the pace of his cognitive degradation, and how his administration is turning US into a kakistocracy ... it's a diminishing threat really ... it will suck for people in US ... and some former allies (Canada, UK, EU, Taiwan, Korea, Australia) will need to be on their diplomatic A-game to hedge against what will come... but oh well , this is life ...
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u/aerost0rm 1h ago
Problem is his veto and pardon power.
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u/Upset-Manager-2029 1h ago
One last desperate attempt to save his sorry ass.
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u/randomluka 1h ago
He's going to get more people killed for sure, and his ass definitely won't be saved.
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u/gascyl 1h ago edited 1h ago
If Trump actually nukes Iran, gas prices will shoot past $10 and never return. The fallout alone would spark a massive crisis that shuts down gulf refining permanently, as the Saudi, Bahraini and UAE governments are not prepared for a radiological disaster. It would be Chernobyl but much worse. And that's the best case scenario whereby Iran's military is actually disabled and the Strait of Hormuz opened. More likely, Iran will keep wailing or worse preform a nuclear counter-attack that actually destroys the oil wells permanently. Even if Trump succeeds in ending all 94 million Iranians' lives, the counterattack alone is sufficient to make gas completely unaffordable for most Americans.
It would be our suez moment and the US would literally never recover.
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u/loungesinger 1h ago
The real fallout would be having the death of innocent civilians on our conscience. The real fallout would be setting a dangerous precedent for the post Cold War era. The real fallout would be the U.S. becoming an international pariah for generations.
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u/Honest_World_3561 45m ago
This. It is the stuff of nightmares. We can't do that to all those innocents.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Michigan 24m ago
It would also throw world order into chaos. The world power, who only up until 10 years ago could (with only moderate mental gymnastics) claim to be the key to world peace, becoming a rouge nuclear power would probably cause multiple bloody and drawn out wars. It could even cause doomsday. This is bone chilling stuff.
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u/foco_runner South Dakota 1h ago
Yup day goodbye to hosting the Olympics or World Cup ever again. The UN would need to move as well.
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u/Hefty_Musician2402 Maine 16m ago
Idgaf about the Olympics but fwiw didn’t Russia host recently? And didn’t Nazis participate in the 30s?
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u/sakumar 10m ago
The price of gas would be the least of my concerns if my government perpetrated the most heinous mass murder in history. Doesn't matter who I voted for, I bear responsibility. And blistering retaliatory strikes on our homeland will keep happening. I doubt any of our erstwhile allies would care.
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u/sylbug 1h ago
dude the moment a nuke goes off the taboo is over. It will be a race for every nation on earth to get them, and only a matter of time before we glass ourselves.
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u/homerjaythompson 1h ago
Russia will nuke Ukraine within days if there isn't a unified international response against the USA if they nuke Iran.
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u/sylbug 55m ago
If? We have all seen the limp-wristed global response to Trump so far. People won't grow a collective spine in the face of nuclear threats from a demented madman.
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u/No_Foundation16 1h ago
I mean if the world hasn't figured out by now that the only safety they can have is a credible nuclear threat they sure as hell are not paying attention in the age of Trump, Putin and Netanyahu!
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u/LouQuacious 1h ago
I live overseas I imagine in this scenario I’ll be killed by a mob in the anti American riots that follow when the starvation starts to hit.
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u/Own_Error_007 Australia 1h ago
Rumours has it that you are all tasty.
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u/Indubitalist 1h ago
I mean, I'd like to think I am, but I'm also pretty bitter from this whole situation. I'm not sure if that would be confined to metaphor, but I guess you could find out.
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u/No_Foundation16 1h ago
I guess American voters should have thought about things like this before we elected a fascist coup leader, traitor, crime boss pedo into the highest office in the land huh?
As the saying goes: Elections have consequences.
The after effects of Trump will be on our children's heads far into the dark future that has been forming since 2016.
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u/ofWildPlaces 22m ago
Which is precisely why myself and millions of others voted against him and continue to work against his policies.
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u/Working_Committee575 22m ago
There is absolutely no justification for nuking any country this current year. The US main land is not under attack and our citizens are not under attack. We will not nuke anyone even with the wack job citing office
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u/Locke66 1h ago edited 1h ago
The fallout alone would spark a massive crisis that shuts down gulf refining permanently, as the Saudi, Bahraini and UAE governments are not prepared for a radiological disaster. It would be chernobyl but much worse.
This is not how radioactive fallout from a conventional nuclear weapon works. Most of the fallout would be gone in 48 hours and the most dangerous effects that could persist longer would only be localised to the explosion. Chernobyl was exceptionally dangerous because it was a massive amount of nuclear material that was exposed at ground level - far more than is present in your average nuclear weapon.
It's unclear how effective an Iranian counter strike would be but it could certainly do a huge amount of damage to Gulf oil infrastructure which would be very very bad. They do not have a nuclear weapon by all known estimates including the CIAs thankfully.
It would be our suez moment and the US would literally never recover.
It would be far worse than a Suez moment.
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u/AssignedCuteAtBirth 1h ago
I don't think Iran has to have nukes to launch a devastating counterstrike. An American nukedrop means all rules are out the window. There could be chemical or biological attacks, attacks by unconventional delivery on nonmilitary targets, attacks on nominally neutral US-aligned states, so on, so forth. If we break the kayfabe of the international rules of war, we hand what's left of Tehran a blank check in justified reaction.
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u/foco_runner South Dakota 1h ago
Iran could just order one from Russia there’s probably an app for that
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u/ShubberyQuest 14m ago
National security experts say Iran already has sleeper cells in the US. I’d expect terrorist attacks.
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u/gascyl 1h ago edited 38m ago
There is only 2 targets Trump and Israel really care about. The Arak Nuclear Complex, which Israel itself hit six months ago in the initial strike. The other target would be the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. A highly visible, fragile, strategic object. Taking out the plant would very visibly wound Iran, which is what Trump personally wants. Complete, total, utter devastation of these sites would immediately make Israel the tallest and most powerful nation in the region. Both could end up as a meltdown if the American bombs (nuclear or not) only damages the reactor without fully destroying it. And Iranian authorities could deliberately instigate a meltdown too.
For the counterattack, Iran doesn't even need a working bomb. Even just a dirty bomb is sufficient to cause a disaster so large, the target is devastated. Iran has proven they have the capability to hit the entire Arabian Peninsula and Syria, the only thing stopping them would be their own personal desire to not harm innocents. Which crazy religious people don't have.
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u/No_Foundation16 1h ago
I have read it takes ten years to build some of those oil and gas facilities. And that's with no radioactivity all over hell.
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u/danarchist 15m ago
They may not have the ability to go critical but they could dirty bomb the fuck out of all the infrastructure.
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u/Canadian_Border_Czar Canada 1h ago
I'll preface this by saying I am firmly in the no nuke anyone ever camp...
You are VASTLY overestimating the fallout from a nuclear bomb. Chernobyl is a different type of nuclear reaction.
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u/kingofcross 1h ago
I think the price of gas will be the least of the world's problems at that moment
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u/Squirtleswetbed 25m ago
It’s crazy because when you say if Trump nukes Iran the first thing you think of is gas prices and not the millions of innocent Iranians who would die for absolutely no reason…
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u/boofles1 1h ago
Worse than electing Trump twice? I don't think that can be topped.
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u/SG_wormsblink Foreign 53m ago edited 37m ago
Well, allowing trump to start a full blown invasion is equally stupid.
Your military is required to refuse illegal orders, and the war isnt authorized by your government. Why are they following along?
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u/well_thats_obvious 25m ago
Kegsbreath has been purging military leadership ever since he took office. Gotta make sure the ranks are full of yes men before barking illegal orders and committing war crimes.
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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 1h ago
hard to top — so many other decisions this country has made…but you may be right. electing trump a first and then second term will never be topped though
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u/Logical-Simple-4825 1h ago
Dictators and wannabe-dictators often fall because they don't realize how unpopular their decisions are since they are surrounded by yes men. A dramatic expansion of the Iran War will be insanely unpopular.
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u/brain-in-the-jar 1h ago
But it'll cost a lot of money and kill a lot of people (perhaps even a handful of Americans). And further burn bridges with the international community.
And in two years it'll fall to someone else to fix it, and when all these problems can't be fixed in 2-4 years 30% of the country will insist that the only fix is doubling down.
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u/Agile_End_3049 1h ago
This is the reason why it’s super important to turn out to vote in overwhelmingly big numbers in November for candidates like Abdul who will actually work hard for constituents instead of the Epstein class.
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u/snowman_M 38m ago
Trump goes to his rallies and gets his dick sucked by all these adoring fans, that’s all that matters to him. The cult loves everything he does.
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u/MaximumEffort433 Maryland 2h ago
Gonna' get the war heated back up?
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u/brain_overclocked 2h ago
All the while Trump funds the Russian intelligence Iran relies on to attack said troops and diplomats.
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u/AccordingBedroom8167 2h ago
It’s too stupid and blatant to be real, man. I can’t believe we’re watching it happen live, too
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u/ciel_lanila I voted 1h ago
It's what we get for having half the fed government appeasing Dementia Don's whims and hallucinations and the other half believing they must rush the coming of Armageddon because the United States is God's chosen holy land that will be blessed once we nuke the Middle East into oblivion.
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u/QuotableMorceau Europe 1h ago
people forget Stalin , the "all-seeing" dictator, that kept tabs on everyone and was briefed on everything, only accepted that the Nazis were planning an invasion when they were half way to Leningrad ... and he was not a dementia riddled geriatric ... pathological narcissists tend to be quite easy to dupe.
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u/mysterious_jeffrey 36m ago
Keep in mind that Stalin died after a movie night with his “friends” and was found in a puddle of his own urine.
Still makes me smile whenever I think about it.
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u/YNot1989 52m ago
This looks a lot more like cutting and running to me.
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u/Late-Boysenberry1471 21m ago
I really hope you are right but a 3rd Aircraft Carrier is on the way there
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u/Infamous-Sky-1874 Illinois 2h ago
He's going to nuke Tehran.
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u/AusToddles 1h ago
Been saying it for a while, he is just itching to be a "big strong man" and "push the red button"
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u/No_Foundation16 50m ago
I'm sure his cult pastors are laying hands on him and praying for Iran to be turned into a glass parking lot. Bibi probably on the phone everyday to pump up the ego of the "great leader sent from God" to smite the enemies of Israel with hellfire and brimstone.
Trump and his cabinet were stupid enough to be talked into an unwinnable war against Iran in the first place. I don't doubt that Netanyahu can talk him into nuclear war as well.
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u/citizen42069101 1h ago
That's just one bridge I can't see getting crossed
That would start an avalanche no one could predict with any certainty. I don't even think Hegseth would go for that yet.
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u/GGXImposter 1h ago
Hes been getting angry at every little annoyance lately. There’s nothing in the books to stop a nuke from flying if POTUS tells it to fly.
Im not saying the line I’ll be crossed, but I’m saying dementia is making Trump violent.
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u/joehalvs7 1h ago
Don’t give hegseth too much credit. He was the mastermind behind executing a paraplegic on live tv.
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u/LangyMD 1h ago
Yeah, but would Trump go for it? Absolutely. And unfortunately he's the only person who legally has a say in it.
I do think the plan to use a MOAB that was floated a few weeks ago is purely because Trump wanted to nuke Iran and they're trying to convince him that the biggest non-nuclear bomb would be an acceptable substitution. Not sure whether they've succeeded though, of course.
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u/Locke66 1h ago
I do think the plan to use a MOAB that was floated a few weeks ago is purely because Trump wanted to nuke Iran
This is almost certainly what they did in 2017 when Trump wanted to drop a nuke in Afghanistan. They randomly dropped one on a cave complex which doesn't make much sense from a military perspective given it's not a penetrating weapon.
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u/jackal_actual 1h ago
Moabs are like 1500 times less powerful than Hiroshima was and we have like 10-20 moabs. I don't see it working out long term if Iran doesn't immediately capitulate.
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u/HansBrickface 1h ago
Plus MOABs have to be dropped from big, slow, decidedly unstealthy transport planes like C-130s. I’m no military expert but that would be a suicide mission anywhere much past Iran’s borders.
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u/MourningRIF 1h ago
Hegseth has been preaching bringing about the end times for awhile now. They don't care what happens. They are preparing for a "reset" of everything.
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u/Imaginary_Scene2493 South Carolina 1h ago
Which is so utterly perverse from a Christian perspective. One of our principal values is humility. Anyone who thinks that they can control “the end times” in any sense has to be incredibly arrogant. The reset needs to be removing this administration from power.
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u/TCTInnings 1h ago
It's something that won't be "solvable" even with a complete change in administration so that's exactly why I think it's not impossible.
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u/No_Foundation16 59m ago
Americans will be the most hated people in the world for generations to come. My God the death and destruction that would/will cause has not been seen since WW2!
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u/FlySyde_Gaming 1h ago
More likely they all rendezvous in Megiddo and does a false flag and nukes there. Fulfills the prophecy.
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u/Late-Boysenberry1471 23m ago
This was my thought and have no doubt, the eagles will fly all over the world after that.
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u/SonOfMcGee 1h ago
War must be going well.
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u/No_Foundation16 11m ago
We will never know. Just like we don't know what the actual unemployment rate is, how safe/unsafe our food supply is and a hundred other things no doubt.
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u/Lomak_is_watching 1h ago
Netanyahu is getting nervous that a new Congress will shut this down, so he’s told Trump to escalate, which will make it harder to shut down later.
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u/SFCAFOX 54m ago
Is this the national crisis that will cause midterm elections to be stalled, halted or postponed to avoid massive GOP election loss embarrassment?
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u/ofWildPlaces 16m ago
States conduct elections. There is no mechanism they can use to prevent states from continuing not hold elections.
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u/erikhow Michigan 1h ago
I wonder if Trump really just knows that he’s finished or that it’s all crumbling down. His presser the other day was outrageous with all of his vitriol and his tone (I know it’s very normal) it was like… exceptionally combative.
I bet he knows the only thing he’s got, and the only thing he THINKS he’s got, is this war. It’s not a war that’s causing him to lose because it’s unpopular, he’s only losing because WE don’t like it. He just does whatever he wants and others have kissed his ass all the way to the top, so he expects everyday people to do the same.
I’d say bombs’ll be dropping well after the midterms no matter what.
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u/MourningRIF 1h ago
He knows it's over. Couple that with paranoid dementia, and the whole world will be holding its breath for the foreseeable future.
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u/giant_bones 1h ago
A couple that with narcissistic collapse and he could even become more volatile and dangerous.
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u/Main-Water4503 1h ago
If he wants to throw tantrums that yellow bellied piece of shit ought to go to the Middle East himself to sort it all out. Hidden inside of a food cart if he wants…
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u/Elendel19 38m ago
Iran is refusing to surrender and is demanding what would be a total US surrender. They are willing to accept immense pain in order to take down an American president.
There is no way a malignant narcissist like Trump could back down from something like this, so his only choice is to escalate. The US can absolutely win this war decisively, but it’s going to require a full scale invasion which will cost thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of American lives, and possibly trillions of dollars.
But that’s the only option Trump has that won’t cause a mortal wound to his ego. Unless he goes for nukes.
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u/WhyDidMyDogDie 1h ago
Honestly, because of the orange idiot this country needs to just strip the presidential office of many powers. It has been proven that congress is too corrupt and too weak to stand up for citizens so maybe all acts of war should be by popular vote only.
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u/Bigweld_Ind 1h ago
We're really going to nuke a country so a pedophile president can try and win over enough bloodthirsty voters to save him from facing justice.
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u/black_flag_4ever 1h ago
Or maybe nothing. Or maybe something really terrible but not a nuke. Or dolphins will fly out of Trump’s ass. We have no idea and there’s no checks and balances anymore. Just a crazy old con man with dementia doing whatever he wants.
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u/AaronfromKY Kentucky 1h ago
Ceding US hegemony in the middle East just because we wouldn't lock up some damn pedophiles #JustMAGAThings
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u/RollTide16-18 34m ago
I know a private military contractor called out to the Middle East just a few weeks ago.
There's no shot they'd be bringing in civvies only to remove diplomats and troops, right?
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u/sour_altoids 27m ago
Dead troops and diplomats is a bigger headline than dead contractors
Easier to cover up
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u/RollTide16-18 21m ago
Well the person isn't a mercenary, they're a tech. They'll be working on a base or military installation most likely.
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u/MuddledLucidity 15m ago
Iran has been bombing the shit out of bases in the area. Troops getting killed in the bombings is a national scandal, contractors getting killed can be covered up. Sorry to say that about your friend, I am hoping for the best for them.
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u/bluegill1313 25m ago
Just impeach and remove him so we can move on.
Gonna take us a generation to recover.
Nationalize Starlink, haul Musk up and ruin him.
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u/MourningRIF 1h ago
If he ends the world, people are gonna be pissed at themselves for not trying to stop it.... I guess there won't be many who need to worry about that though.
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u/JFJinCO 1h ago
Whoever stops whatever they're planning will be heroes.
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u/DogeAteMyHomework 38m ago edited 35m ago
They're planning for either (a) post-election domestic deployment, or (b) the apocalyptic event which the Dead Kennedys predicted 40 years ago in this relaxing little jingle...
Ladies and gentlemen, Gone With My Wind
It could also be both. Bomb and then declare martial law. Unfortunately, nothing should surprise us.
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u/Old-Information3311 1h ago
Americans, please make some attempt to stop trump doing nuclear war.
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u/Wakimarusin 9m ago
I am afraid there is little the american voters can do to dissuade american president Netanyahu
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 2h ago
Another carrier group with 10,000 troops is on the way.
Trump is going to invade Kharg, a lot of people are going to die.
Honestly, Its hard for me to feel bad about any of them, they are choosing to follow illegal orders.
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u/tierciel 2h ago
So Iran can hit moving ships, if Trump does invade Kharg, and Iran decides it's lost, that's a stationary target with a lot of American troops in it...
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u/GloryofSatan1994 1h ago
Only like a 1,000 if those are infantry. Doubt theres an invasion of kharg.
Edit: its normal to deploy marine infantry when a carrier group goes on deployment. There isnt anything unusual about the numbers of marines
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u/xenolithic 1h ago
My understanding was this is a MEU (Attached to the CSG) that's meant to relieve the MEU that had been in place since this whole thing kicked off rather than a plus up.
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u/AusToddles 1h ago
Invade Kharg, Iran flatten it, US uses nukes
I feel sick knowing that this is a distinct possibility
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u/jackp0t789 1h ago
If the US uses nukes on Iran, it opens the door for Putin to use them in Ukraine...
Which honestly may have been Putin's play from the start.
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u/AusToddles 1h ago
Honestly I don't think Putin is dumb enough to use them. But it gives him the ability to say "the US, your allies, used them so nothing to stop us"
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u/jackp0t789 1h ago
Dumb enough ? No... but 5 years of a war that nets Russia maybe a couple dozen km of shelled to shit wasteland a month at the cost of thousands of casualties might make him desperate for a nuclear powered breakthrough
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u/ErgoMachina Foreign 1h ago
Before midterms the US will plunge the entire world into chaos. I wouldn't put past Trump and his cronies to just start throwing nukes at Iran....
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u/Time-Wolf 1h ago
Is this what living through the cold war felt like?
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u/desslox 36m ago
Actually, I don’t recall waking up everyday to this much madness. Everyday something new or a new version of whatever it is. There wasn’t really a “fear” but we knew stuff could happen. But again, not this much madness. We also did not have the (political) news. It was much more tame. No clicks to click. The ad revenue wasn’t set up like today. lol, just a slightly different view of those in office and the government doing the moral things. Yes some thing we’re shitty but, even if you were to compare like wages are compared today, I think the madness of today is greater. IMHO
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u/MRtokeALOT420 2h ago
I guess this is how they will end up canceling elections.
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u/koi-lotus-water-pond 1h ago
They are run by the states. There is no way in hell, my state, MI, is going to cancel the election over Trump doing something stupid.
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u/BatterMyHeart 37m ago
Trump aligned states will. With them not participating there is a crisis and no change in senate or house leadership, so still no check on the executive. I think they could delay elections for at least 6 months to a year without swing voters punishing them, buying time for more attacks on Iran, a new war or other distraction. Also this is what an LLM strategy module would absolutely greenlight, and all of them have AI psychosis and will do dumb and crazy things with LLM advice.
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u/ofWildPlaces 13m ago
Any state failing to hold elections would simply lack representation in Congress.
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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out 1h ago
There is no mechanism in the US Constitution that allows for elections to be cancelled by the federal government, let alone a single branch of government.
Even less so for a war in the middle east.
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u/ImADataCenter 30m ago
oh yeah the constitution has really held up well so far. y’all are delusional if you think anything about midterms wont be unfair or violent. he can completely call to cancel elections and no it won’t directly cancel them but yes it’ll create a cluster fuck with multi month to multi year delays in rendering them…
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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out 19m ago
He cannot call to cancel elections and if he did states would ignore him
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u/gquax 1h ago
The Civil War didn't even stop elections. People need to stop saying this shit.
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u/Kerfufflefluffles 25m ago
People also need to stop acting like we can predict anything right now because of the way things have historically been. Trump doesn’t give a flying fuck about whether he can or can’t do something, he does what he wants because no one stops him.
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u/mytren 54m ago
We went through two gadam world wars and never once ceased any local or federal election.
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u/AusToddles 1h ago
Nah the election will happen, but it will be absolute fucking chaos... voters will get intimidated, mail trucks will magically disappear, results will be challenged and then ignored
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u/kevonicus 1h ago
I called this the moment I saw him get giddy about Ukraine not having elections during wartime. Wouldn’t be surprised if we see some terrorist attacks on U.S. soil as well.
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u/MaverickBG 1h ago
I think this is the only pathway to their "cancel the election" strategy. A war somewhere else (especially just a midterm) won't be enough. A terrorist attack? Absolutely. "You don't change the coach in the middle of the game" will be blasted on the airwaves. Doubly impactful if it's a terrorist attack in DC that threatens Dear Leader personally.
Will I think it will work? No. We'll still have an election. But I could see the plan being taking the fear and chaos to 11 which I think is an environment that conservatism thrives.
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u/CrawlerSiegfriend 1h ago
US elections don't get cancelled. We will be having our election even if the whole world goes into mutually assured destruction protocol.
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u/WisePresentation7976 21m ago
Nah, the second they realized they weren't going to win the elections, they just stopped trying to be popular lol.
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u/No_Foundation16 5m ago
They ain't going to cancel shit! The states have sole authority over elections.
Now maybe the GOP traitor scum in Congress will refuse to seat the huge blue tsunami that's coming their way. Then we will have a constitutional crisis and who knows what happens then.
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u/OrganicDoom2225 1h ago
Fuck Bibi for dragging our degenerate president into this fucking useless war.
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u/cableguy316 1h ago
It’s not easy for me to say this, but President Donald John “The Toilet” Trump might not be the best guy for the job!
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u/OccidoViper 1m ago
Here is how it going to play out: 1. Democrats win both House and Senate 2. Trump decides Fuck the World and nukes Iran. Let everything fall where they may
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u/HandsLikePaper 1h ago
So either Trump is preparing to escalate or, as Iran did demand the US leave the middle east, Trump is preparing to capitulate.
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u/Pxlfreaky Illinois 39m ago
The big orange turd is gonna push the big red “easy” button if Nov 3rd doesn’t play out in his favor.
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u/Ryan_e3p 10m ago
Pulling troops back for a twofer? Nuke the region, and use troops here stateside for citizen suppression?
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u/Confused-Lemonade United Kingdom 2m ago
I can’t read the article because of a paywall. Why is everyone talking about nukes? I assumed this was Trump gearing up to attack Kharg Island.
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