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News & Current Events Mar 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM

As Trump Prepares Iran Ground Assault, Expert Warns He's 'Run Out of Options' for Victory

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As Trump Prepares Iran Ground Assault, Expert Warns He's 'Run Out of Options' for Victory | Common Dreams
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As Trump Prepares Iran Ground Assault, Expert Warns He's 'Run Out of Options' for Victory | Common Dreams
President Trump's planned ground assault on Iran faces expert criticism. Risky operations could lead to defeat, leaving US troops vulnerable.

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Various-Roof-553 Mar 29, 2026 +320
There’s never been a FIFA peace prize w***** who deployed ground troops before. This would break all FIFA peace prize precedent.
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Reduntu Mar 29, 2026 +35
Well since Cristian Ronaldo personally chose not to give him the Super-Duper FIFA Peace Prize, Trump no longer has to think only of peace.
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pongjinn Mar 29, 2026 +13
There's never been a FIFA peace prize president that shits his pants on the regular, either, but here we are. Setting all sorts of precedent.
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Cambren1 Mar 29, 2026 +2
Nobody can shit their pants like Trump! Some have tried, but they are losers, he likes losers they make him look good.
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Sixmmxw Mar 29, 2026 +3
He’ll have to return it or have it melt into one of the ugly looking pieces of metal hanging in the white house.
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HobbesMich Mar 29, 2026 +4
Do you think the World Cup and Olympics are in jeopardy in the US? I do....I see both pulling out of the US and maybe US being banned.
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WanderingKing Mar 29, 2026 +12
They didn’t ban Israel, they won’t ban the US They have shown how little they care for holding genociders and invaders accountable if they are Western aligned
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HobbesMich Mar 29, 2026 +1
But Isreal wasn't hosting these events.
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mywifeletsmereddit Mar 30, 2026 +1
IOC and FIFA won't do anything that would cost them money mate.
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 29, 2026 +8
Last 3 FIFA cups were Qatar, Russia, Brazil. Counties with some degree of human rights violations and it’s just normal business as usually for FIFA.
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HobbesMich Mar 29, 2026
But not actively in the middle of a war that is affecting the entire world economy and ICE on the prowel and not being friendly to our guest.
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 29, 2026 +3
I’m just saying these FiFa officials only care about making money, if you think they care about geopolitical issues I think you will be disappointed. We are talking about billionaires who put on a soccer tournament here, 0 ethics required I agree with you personally, I would love to see th games moved out of my country, we don’t deserve anything right now. Qatar built stadiums with literal slave labor and that affected nothing.
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HobbesMich Mar 29, 2026 +1
Don't disagree with that but rumors have tickets sales and fans coming into the US way down. What do you think they will do if stadium matches are 1/2 full? Americans are not attending theses matches.
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Thanks to scalpers and resellers FIFA doesn’t have any tickets left. Resellers second markets for Tickets are a huge thing so the tickets are sold out, but to what entities own these tickets right now those are the ones holding in the bag. And no one cares about the secondary ticket, sellers and their profits. I don’t, these are the individuals responsible for the rising cost of concerts and sports venues.
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HippyHunter7 Mar 29, 2026 +1
I think his point is are you going to risk getting accosted by ICE or stuck at an airport by coming here?
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Yes I understand but it won’t affect FIFA’s profits from ticket sales is my point thanks to secondary ticket markets. Cities hosting th tournament will be adversely impacted, most venues that are hosting games have scaled down the amount of security they’re having outside. We’ve had a decrease in security budget for every venue. So safety concerns, and the potential for a false flag attack done by our own government are very high. Each city playing host with the ones holding the bag for losses from loss of travelers and not the FIFA tournament officials. They have already made their billions and have sold out all tickets
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ubelblatt Mar 29, 2026 +1
I wouldn't mind seeing a bunch of resellers and scalpers getting stuck holding the bag.
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 29, 2026 +1
This makes me slightly happy too
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potchippy Mar 29, 2026 +1
The sport is awash with sportswashing money from GCC. With the permanent instability in the region it will readjust sooner than later.
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metalyger Mar 29, 2026 +2
They did the Olympics in Germany when Hitler was the dictator. I don't think there are any real standards.
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inprobableuncle Mar 29, 2026 +1
You would imagine a fine upstanding organization like FIFA would make a stand against someone making such a mockery of their coverted peace prize would you?
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Yorks_Rider Mar 29, 2026 +3
They are just football players in military uniforms. No one will notice the difference, says FIFA.
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CATIIIDUAL Mar 29, 2026 +2
I think Trump should win the FIFA Bellen d'Or!
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gavinashun Mar 29, 2026 +2
Felon d'Or.
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pasta2666 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Another major award
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Cambren1 Mar 29, 2026 +1
The greatest FIFA peace prize w***** ever! Everybody is saying it.
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111anza Mar 30, 2026 +1
FIFA peace prize, well, thats enough said.
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TransCanAngel Mar 29, 2026
I’m waiting for his proverbial dive and roll on the turf. “It hurts! Ow! Mommy!”
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Reduntu Mar 29, 2026 +54
He literally said the US won like 3 weeks ago.
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brokenringlands Mar 29, 2026 +35
Guys, I'm beginning to think Trump might not be very truthful.
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TexanFirebird Mar 29, 2026 +9
I don’t know, man. His social media platform is called *Truth* social.
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acraswell Mar 29, 2026 +6
Mission Accomplished!
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FrogsOnALog Mar 29, 2026 +2
It’s not a war /s
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Deto Mar 29, 2026 +1
Hell just declare victory and his gullible followers will eat it up 
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wubbawubba Mar 29, 2026 +57
There has to be objectives to have a victory.
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whatproblems Mar 29, 2026 +29
epstein files distraction success
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PleasantWay7 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Which is unnecessary, nobody who can actually do anything cares about the Epstein files.
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0masterdebater0 Mar 30, 2026 +2
That's because the Epstein files just pushed up the timetable IMO, this war will run until at least until the midterms so Trump can say he needs to deploy red state National guards and ICE thugs to Blue state/cities polling locations to "protect them from Iran" and "e*****" the ballots to the counting locations
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ShartingEnU Mar 29, 2026 +5
Yeah. No matter what this war won't be seen as a victory
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Senior-bud Mar 29, 2026 +3
You have to have rudimentary intelligence to attempt a victory which trump lacks and his minions all fear his wrath.
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MultiGeometry Mar 30, 2026 +1
We seem to be distracted by the DoJ not releasing the Trump-Epstein files. The bigger the war failures, the less people seem to talk about the DoJ breaking the law and protecting our pedophile in chief.
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ProfessionalITShark Mar 30, 2026 +1
US doesn't like having objectives and goals with it's violence.
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der_innkeeper Mar 29, 2026 -1
There were 4 objectives: 1) obliterate Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and production capacity, 2) annihilate its navy, 3) sever its support for terrorist proxies, and 4) ensure the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism will never acquire a nuclear weapon It seems we have completed all of them, and are now sliding into a ground invasion because... we need a regime change but don't want to actually say it.
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DifferentElevator384 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Man. I miss soft power victories.
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Stodles Mar 30, 2026 +6
>ensure the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism will never acquire a nuclear weapon The US already has nukes...
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der_innkeeper Mar 30, 2026 +1
Oi. Country that uses the Geneva Conventions as a checklist.
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Cosmic-Space-Octopus Mar 29, 2026 +34
Trump cannot seize a victory in any plausible scenario, so he is going to double down by sending thousands to their death? Some "leader".
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I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT Mar 29, 2026 +19
He's willing to make their sacrifice.
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Heavy_Milk2757 Mar 29, 2026 +3
He doesn't care what you think, because you don't have billions of dollars. Neither do those marines. Weep for them now as we all should, because they will land, take over Kharg Island and they won't have anything left to intercept wave after wave of drone attacks.
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AmericanDoughboy Mar 29, 2026 +3
He thinks they’re suckers and losers.
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IdkAbtAllThat Mar 29, 2026 +2
Just wait until he drops a nuke and makes the United States a pariah state for the next 50 years.
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Kodama_sucks Mar 30, 2026 +1
Nah, Europe and the UN would find a way to excuse or ignore it. Just like they've excused and ignored everything else
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IdkAbtAllThat Mar 30, 2026 +1
What have they excused? Nothing even 10% as bad as *nuking millions of civilians*.
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Kodama_sucks Mar 30, 2026 +1
The genocide in Gaza? The concentration camps in America? The invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of a democratically elected head of state? The threats against Greenland, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia? Whether those things are "as bad as" a nuke is irrelevant. They're all bad enough to show that Europe and the UN will just agree with anything the US says.
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gdex86 Mar 29, 2026 +1
If I thought he could plan I'd say he wants to declare a war so he can use that to prevent elections arguing that we need domestic stability during active operations like the Ukraine does.
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Fickle_Competition33 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Same that happened with Putin in Ukraine. Unachievable victory (Crimea+Donbass, or end Ayatollahs Regimen), so you get stuck in an endless conflict, but cannot accept retreat.
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wilmaed Mar 29, 2026 +13
The USA will win every battle, but will probably still lose the war.
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Leraldoe Mar 29, 2026 +10
We have already lost. Recent history has taught us regardless of tactical victory that in conflicts like this the invader loses.
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Ok_Vermicelli_6359 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Nobody voted for this war. Nobody. Just don't forget that across the pond...one of Trump's big selling points was keeping us out of Middle Eastern wars.
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phinatolisar Mar 30, 2026 +1
We all, including even his braindead cult, knew that was horseshit. The truth is the majority of them don't care about or understand war. they like that they get to sing Lee Greenwood songs and feel good and superior, go to parades when guys come home, watch them reunite with loved ones, pets, etc.
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NoSwordfish6949 Mar 29, 2026 +13
This is going to end tragically. Iran is ready to fight. They have nearly 1,000,000 service members and have been planning for this exact scenario for decades.
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mok000 Mar 29, 2026 +4
Yes and US will need to do some kind of D-day operation to get onto Iranian territory. Either amphibious assault or parachuting in. But in 1944 the allies landed 175,000 troops, and now US has at most 10,000. And unlike 1944 the Iranians will be waiting. It will be like shooting fish in a barrel for them.
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phinatolisar Mar 30, 2026 +3
The D-day assault was against a force on their heels who had already fought to secure that position. The Iranian forces have been set up and training for this for decades. There will be no Schwarzkopf’s left hook or MacArthur's Inchon landing here. We have zero high ground in this fight.
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LowerSeat2712 Mar 30, 2026 +1
A million fighters, home-field advantage, a difficult terrain they know like the back of their hand? What could possibly go wrong?
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timnphilly Mar 29, 2026 +13
Agent Krasnov is making his master Putin very proud.
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CouchCorrespondent Mar 29, 2026 +18
Victory for us would be bringing all those troops back...NOW.
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severalsmallducks Mar 29, 2026 +21
...he's going to end up dropping a nuke, isn't he?
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7figureipo Mar 29, 2026 +17
Almost certainly. He’s been itching to use one since day one. Though I think he’d prefer a domestic target like California
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Adultery Mar 29, 2026 +6
Nuking something is definitely on his checklist. He’s depraved.
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DredPRoberts Mar 30, 2026 +2
Hurricane, California, whatever the sharpe cirlces.
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fuck_ur_portmanteau Mar 29, 2026 +4
If a carrier gets severely damaged I think he will. The carriers are the symbol of America’s immense projection of power, huge, dominating and massively costly. If one gets damaged, all that falls apart, they are revealed to now be white elephants, the fact the US navy is currently unable to put one into the strait already proves that, but having one actually damaged will cause such a psychological schism in their sense of self that can only be repaired by the ultimate show of power.
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After-Smoke-3971 Mar 29, 2026 +9
False flag in America first in order to justify nuking Iran. The pretext for invading Afghanistan was 9/11
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IdkAbtAllThat Mar 29, 2026 +2
I'm thinking a few thousand Americans slaughtered in a ground invasion will be enough justification in their minds too.
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jojolopes Mar 29, 2026 +2
Or false flag to try and cancel midterms
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Cautious-Progress876 Mar 29, 2026 +2
Watch them let someone set a nuke off in a “leftist city.” They will use that for both martial law and to suspend elections.
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Blackboard_Monitor Mar 29, 2026 +2
I feel like Minneapolis will receive an "Iranian" nuke if anyone does.
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IdkAbtAllThat Mar 29, 2026 +2
That's the obvious logical endgame of this. That's the only way possible for him to "win" at this point, in his mind at least.
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throwawayhbgtop81 Mar 29, 2026 +2
He very much wants to. Only president since their invention that isn't horrified by them. Even dubya was horrified by them.
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blackmobius Mar 29, 2026 +9
Its just astounding how its taken a little over four months to go from “peacetime president” that would never do something like this, to “we are about to commit to a ground invasion in Iran” with Maga just as seamlessly moving from one ideological extreme to the other.
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Independent-Sir-1535 Mar 29, 2026 +4
I am always surprised that people think MAGAs aren't aware of this. They know bro, they always knew - they don't care.
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Stoic_cave Mar 29, 2026 +6
Trumpf has shares in body bags and weapons manufacturers
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AusToddles Mar 29, 2026 +8
He's going to start a new war to distract from his failures in this one
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Majik8ball Mar 29, 2026 +6
Cuba 🇨🇺
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neodiodorus Mar 29, 2026 +6
He does not need options for victory - as he put it weeks ago, the war was "very complete". Emphasis on very.
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KAJed Mar 29, 2026 +6
So an illegal war.
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UnguentSlather Mar 29, 2026 +3
Just more death and destruction to delay facing justice, as has been his entire legacy.
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RecordFirst1055 Mar 29, 2026 +5
Dead Americans should real boost those polling numbers
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Jerk182 Mar 29, 2026 +4
America took a huge sh*t in its own hat again when they re-elected this thug.
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Eddfan36 Mar 29, 2026 +2
Don't worry the loons will believe everything he says lie after lie.
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Bishopjones2112 Mar 29, 2026 +2
This is a man who gets his briefings as a two minute video clip. The man has the attention span of a teen on TikTok. There is no plan and there is no hope for an easy “win”. This will cost lots of lives of innocent people that it shouldn’t. Whether it’s children or American military.
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Iyellkhan Mar 29, 2026 +2
between trump's inability to tolerate loosing/embarrassment and hegseth's doomsday christianity nonsense, its unfortunately a non zero chance this will end in a nuclear deployment. and one key problem with that is its against a foe who wouldnt stop fighting after a nuclear deployment.
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Extension_Bison7576 Mar 29, 2026 +2
To be victorious one must have a brain, goal and plan.
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mrgraff Mar 29, 2026 +2
This is what happens when you have a person that doesn’t know what they’re doing and is incapable of admitting fault, and is surrounded by opportunistic yes-men.
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753UDKM Mar 29, 2026 +2
Ground assault to accomplish what..? Just reopen the strait? And then what? Or to continue to pursue regime change?
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Ok_Vermicelli_6359 Mar 29, 2026 +2
He's going to lose A LOT more MAGA support if there's reports of ground troops coming back in bodybags. Wtf are his advisors doing? Total political suicide, even for Trump.
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ClassicHando Mar 29, 2026 +2
Shooting your load as fast and hard as possible only works on epstein island, not war
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Rambaz_69 Mar 29, 2026 +2
No matter what Trump does, his main goal is to divert attention from the Epstein files. Even if the war costs the global economy trillions, Trump considers it worth it as long as it distracts from his involvement in the Epstein scandal.
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Most-Appointment-756 Mar 29, 2026 +1
He's not gonna leave and give victory to iran..
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Advanced-Wheel4384 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Rubio’s facial expression basically looks like he went through f ing war already jfc 
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Mephisto40K Mar 29, 2026 +1
“Run out?” He never HAD any options for a victory. This entire debacle is a Charley Foxtrot of epic proportion
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i_am_Misha Mar 29, 2026 +1
**Expert.** LOL
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javiermex Mar 29, 2026 +1
Chief we lost this war
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One-Ball-78 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Can you say “Epstein files”?
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BigManWAGun Mar 29, 2026 +1
He’s just gonna offer us and our kids up as fodder for the meat grinder.
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guttanzer Mar 29, 2026 +1
First they have to describe what victory would be. Until they do it isn’t an option.
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Alwaystired254 Mar 29, 2026 +1
I honestly still don’t know what the win condition is. Why are we there?
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FromDeletion Mar 29, 2026 +1
Define victory, because we've already won several times now.
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SagesseBleue Mar 29, 2026 +1
Like with so much else he wants to mimic his BFF Putin and would have no problem sending wave after wave of fodder.
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Sea-Rip3902 Mar 29, 2026 +1
We are cooked. Prepare to eat less and have no money.
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cicerostongue Mar 30, 2026 +1
It's in Iran's interest to keep fighting and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until the US agrees to close all of its bases in the Gulf. If it can hold out through the summer it can inflict unbearable pain on the US and world economy and destroy Trump's political coalition. The other loser will be Israel. The amount of animus towards Israel in the US has never been higher. From the right, from the left, and even from the center. This idiot war may bring a sea change as Americans increasingly see Israel not as a friend, but as a burden and even as a threat.
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hyperiongate Mar 30, 2026 +1
No single person has done so much to harm so many....in the history of the world.
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oldveteranknees Mar 30, 2026 +1
There goes his Nobel aspirations Hope he really doesn’t use the ground troops. This man really walked into a lion’s den for Epstein.
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oravanomic Mar 30, 2026 +1
Trump still has a chance to be less of a loser than Putin. But doesn't look like he is choosing that path at the moment.
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Taman_Should Mar 30, 2026 +1
There is no fixed concept for what the conditions for “victory” even are.
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Maeglin75 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I don't think there were any options for victory from the beginning. It seems the Trump government didn't even have defined goals that they wanted to achieve with the attack in Iran. They just started dropping bombs on them and hoped that somehow something positive would come out of it. The old school neo-cons were evil but at least they knew what they wanted and went into war prepared to make it happen. For example, H. W. Bush assembled nearly a million US and allied troops to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. For Trump to actually win a war against Iran, he would have needed an even bigger force. (But with no chance for any allies to help out, after how he treated them.)
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Beta_Nerdy Mar 30, 2026 +1
I suspect a large number of our special forces will be captured by Iran and then tortured and paraded up and down the streets. What will MAGA say about the War with Iran when this happens? Trump will be the 21st Century Version of Jimmy Carter!
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transneptuneobj Mar 29, 2026 +1
There's 90 million Iranians in a country where you bombed an elementary school. What does victory even mean..
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TwistedMemories Mar 29, 2026 +1
Are you telling that a few thousand American troops won’t be enough to take over a country?
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transneptuneobj Mar 29, 2026 +1
Don't tell the conservative sublistnooks that
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cocuke Mar 29, 2026 +1
Measuring victory will be difficult. Trump will say whatever nonsense he is going to say. All of those currently in leadership in his administration will parrot his BS and somehow try to deflect any blame for the problems that they have created. Lots of people who deserved a future will possibly die because of a draft dodging coward trying to act like what he thinks a man acts like. He is doing to America what he has done in business, ruin it. I don't know if he understands that he just can't declare bankruptcy to avoid the mess he created. I feel for the people put in harms way because of a simple minded narcissist and his lesser minded collective of ass kissers and boot lickers who want to call him daddy hoping to get his acceptance. Losers one and all. Everyone in the world deserves better than this.
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SpareAd2689 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Hold up…..he told us he won already
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Different-Fly4561 Mar 29, 2026 +1
What victory? If anything, he opened a Pandora’s box which he cannot close!!
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Pepper-Marshall Mar 29, 2026 +1
Preparem os sacos pretos e bandeiras americanas dobradas para serem entregues aos familiares.
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aerost0rm Mar 29, 2026
So he is sending bodies to the meat grinder? Iran will have no problem sending them home in body bags…
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dwors025 Mar 29, 2026
Trump doesn’t care. Any headline that isn’t either Epstein-related or about his failing health is a certified victory in his mind.
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manniesalado Mar 29, 2026
Boots on the ground is Trump's last roll of the dice. So far, Iran has taken every pot. Let's see if Trump's luck improves this time.
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airrows77 Mar 30, 2026 -5
When this war is over and America and Trump are the victors what will the babble consist of then?
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ComplexWrangler1346 Mar 30, 2026 +3
What is Trump winning ??? Regime is still in place , uranium sites never touched ……only a 3rd of Iran’s missles destroyed , straights of Hormuz now CLOSED….WTF are you smoking ?????
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phinatolisar Mar 30, 2026 +2
How do Americans win this exactly? What will you as an American get out of this?
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