Fuck, can someone please tell me that they can’t be THAT stupid, right? They know they’d get fucked if they wage a war on Iran, right? RIGHT?!
they’d get fucked if they wage a war on Iran
From an accelerationist point of view, it's a pro-war argument.
There's no way they can't see the effect it would have on oil prices
Oil would jump to over $500 a barrel and perhaps, as the conflict drags on, to over $750 a barrel. Our petroleum-based economy ... would grind to a halt.
critical support to accelerationist hawks in their goal to eradicate the fossil fuel market
Evergreen reminder that the US tried to run a simulation of what would happen if they tried to invade Iran and they got so badly beaten they had to change all the rules of the simulation to just pretend they won. This was in 2002. Now, the US military has augmented their strength with checks notes the F-35 that can't fly in the rain, the V-22 Osprey that can't stop crashing, and packed with servicemen (66%!) who are overweight.
Iran knows the road to victory is creating as many dead soldiers as possible. Double edged sword right there. Americans do not have the stomach for mass casualties, but seeing Iranians cheering in the street after rinsing an aircraft carrier is gonna lead to mass calls for Brandon to use nukes. What a grand fucking failure.
wonder if american nuclear-powered carriers have reliable autoshutoffs in event of sinking or if the gulf of oman is going to be radioactive until 2200
Water is actually really, really good at containing radioactivity. That's why spent rods and stuff at nuclear plants go in massive pools, because water stops the radioactivity from getting very far. We already have almost a dozen nuclear reactors on the ocean floor from sunk submarines. So while it wouldn't be good, and debris from the carrier might contaminate some stuff, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf both would be fine.
Bush couldn't do it, Cheney couldn't do it, McCain couldn't do it - but who could? Motherfucking Joe Brandon, you're welcome.
Brandon succeeding where John Bolton failed :biden-harbinger:
The same libs who said Trump is bad because he'll start a pointless and terrible war are about to call you a traitor for not supporting this pointless and terrible war.
You're going to see headlines like "Biden is going to do what Trump couldn't: Bring Iran to Heel".
Looking forward to liberals employing the 2004 Republican Party talking point that it is irresponsible to change political leadership in the middle of a war.
The Dem line of attack on Trump 2024 will be about how Trump will end the war before it's finished, about how Biden will keep the war going for at least four more years and that's why you must vote for him.
Technically we're still formally at war with the DPRK.And we're still in the process of invading Syria, we've just been failing at it for years.South Korea is formally at war with a ceasefire, but the US is not, actually. Congress never declared war; the Korean War was always officially a "police action". no formal declaration of war has passed since WW2.
no formal declaration of war has passed since WW2.
Jesus, and the US has had boots on the ground in how many countries? It's amazing that this is the case and people still somehow think the US is a "democracy"
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Once upon a time there might have been some Kissinger ghouls telling them that this is not in the national interest of the US. I don't think they're around any more. I really hope Iran can get their hands on some nuclear weapons soon.
It might be enough to be able to deliver it to Israel. I think the US considers Israel a part of its territory to the point that that might give them pause.
Then we get to find out if the Israeli's are suicidal enough to nuke Iran in a first-strike. Which... Probably yeah, they are.
The ruthless but ultimately competent dickheads are gone, replaced by less competent and more ideological neoconservatives who are also now gone. The only thing left is the death drive
Saudi Arabia, with Chinese help, has built a plant to process uranium ore and acquired ballistic missiles.
Iran would use its Chinese-supplied anti-ship missiles, rocket and bomb-equipped speedboats and submarines, mines, drones and coastal artillery to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil and liquified gas supply.
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Really putting the harm reduction arguments to the test here.
One of the darkest outcomes would be if Biden started a war in Iran, and it made him popular.
Oh boy am I glad that we haven't been living through the worst of all futures for the past thirty years
:volcel-police: SIR, GET OFF THE LATHE AND PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM.
There's no goddamn way libs are gonna cheer for bombing iran more then they have for fighting putler. I don't know what im going to do if im wrong, probably sit in a corner and cry. :desolate:
:mao-clap: hell yeah mate give it a try lets get another million americans dead before the next election :amerikkka:
they should pray their defeat is swift, lest Khamenei reverses his fatwa against nuclear weapons
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Where are they going to land their vehicles? The jagged rocks? The sand dunes? The OTHER jagged rocks?
Don't Iran and China have multiple cooperative agreements that includes some forms of defense pacts? This ain't gonna end well for the US...
Always worth pointing out: Iran is not, in fact, building a nuke (though they should) and they haven't been for at least twenty years, if ever, and everyone, even Mossad, admits this.
