Trump faces a bloodbath as he prepares 10,000 more troops to confront Iran

Even during his 1st term, before Jan 6. 1.2M+ Americans died from COVID. Per capita US had **more than 4x the avg global rate** of COVID deaths. Millions more Americans are still suffering from long term health effects (long COVID). I think it's fair to lay the blame for a lot of those deaths at Trump's feet. He downplayed, denied, fantasized, and promoted conspiracy theories and woo BS about COVID from Day 1. There's no doubt in my mind that more sober, sane messaging from a different executive could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Instead we still have millions of anti-maskers and COVID denialists today, and even more vaccine conspiracy theorists than we started with.

Seriously. Current studies show that as a direct result of his USAID cuts at least [600 thousand people have died](https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_minutes&order=asc), and if the closure of USAID isn't reversed there will be [an estimated 14 million preventable deaths by 2030](https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/USAID-cuts-global-impact-14-million-deaths).

Ha! Yeah, good luck with that. We also have 2nd amendment protections, and they're not going to draft transgender people while they're fighting through the courts to keep us out of military service. If they did, they'd quickly learn the same thing that true-believer officers found out in Vietnam.

Do they ever shown a video of a human being blown up by a drone before deployed? If I would to get blown up like that, for sure it wasn't for a pedo.

We have seen him deescalate several times recently on tariffs and other issues. In the most childish ways possible. He chickens out and then tells absurd lies that it never happened or he never meant what he said.

His whole cabinet is full of loyalists that lack experience. Take hegseth for example. He is more of a high school jock than secretary of war. He likes to throw out catch phrases like "we negotiate with bombs".

Points for the correct understanding of the song

Well the US won’t be able to do much in Iran without a draft. Good luck Americans, get ready to die for Epstein.

Didn't he lift Iranian oil sanctions to help lower oil prices too? I mean if you're gonna do that maybe just... don't attack Iran? Seems a little backwards to have sanctions on a nation, attack it, then go "Oops that fucked things up, here let's remove the sanctions."

Trump doesn't care about those suckers and losers (his words, not mine)

Yeah it's a life line for now, but longer term it's probably bad for Russia, and it's already bad in the way the Russia and Putin looks weak and irrelevant as they cannot help their allies to any serious extent, ie with military presence. For dictators and empires, it's all about looking strong.

Iran is a major ally, basically a vassal state but if losing some assistance from Iran that equals a complete failure and fall off of America happens as a result, then Putin will be content with Iran getting set back.

Iran gave Russia the rights and designs to produce their own version of Iranian Shahed drones with upgrades Russian equipment and functionality... which they are now shipping back to Iran to supplement Iran's own stocks and damage American interests.

Vietnam was televised, this will be streamed real time into your pocket

I find it hard to fathom how the US could ever win in Iran short of just straight nuking them. The IRGC is like million strong standing, the geography of Iran is far far more rugged and mountainous compared to Iraq which is a lot flatter. The IRGC is also better equipped than Iraqis were. At to that they have been prepping for 40 years, have extensive tunnel networks and a population of 90m people who could be called up. Adding that the US would have to maintain long extensive logistical networks and the sheer expense with the state of US national debt, I just can’t see what win condition they could set themselves to achieve and do it. They can’t just walk into Tehran is like 1100m up surrounded by mountains, you’d have to slog troops through constant kill one valleys that they aren’t trained for and lacking heavy armoured support. If the ultimate goal of the IRGC and Iran is not die, they have a hell of a lot to throw at the problem to do that.

>In Iran even the conventional part of a war could kill thousands of US troops. Try hundreds of thousands. Russia has over a million casualties in four years fighting a population that's less than half of Iran's.

Iran is also 2.5x the size of Texas with the altitude of Colorado. It’s massive, mountainous, hot, and cold. Have you driven across Texas? 8 hours in and you’re still in Texas. That’s a lot of land to secure. The Coalition destroyed Iraq because it was like punching a dying man in the ICU. This time around it’s more like an old bodybuilder with some dad bod strength still left. It’ll be a much harder, dirtier fight.

About 1000 years ago and about 2000 years ago, they’re due! /s

Yep, saved by just having a giant ass country and a brutal winter.

Very true, but they still managed to endure the losses of entire armies and rebuilt them. With what the Germans were doing to the Soviet and polish people, NKVD keeping the soldiers motivated was a better fate than if they surrendered. Virtually all war prisoners between the two were killed in one way or another.

Math is hard.