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US deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid preperations for Iran invasion

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US deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid preperations for Iran invasion
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US deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid preperations for Iran invasion
The USS George H.W. Bush, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, departed Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on Tuesday alongside its accompanying warships
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Inevitable_Butthole Mar 31, 2026 +7853
Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip -step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz" Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours." "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We are giving them more time." Mar 24: "The war is nearing its end." Mar 25: "We are still negotiating." Mar 26: "Iran is begging for peace. They gave us a gift. We will give them more time." Mar 27: "Talks with iran are going very well" Mar 28: "War will be over soon" Mar 29: "Maybe we take Kharg island, maybe we dont" Mar 30: "Open the Strait or we will obliterate all energy infrastructure and oil wells" Mar 31: "We dont need the strait, we got plenty of oil. Get it yourself UK." Looks like I need to update the past couple days as we still rolling here Edit: updated last few days
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ch4ppi_revived Mar 31, 2026 +1197
Trump basically went to most of those statements in like a 15 Minute speech
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cheerioo Apr 1, 2026 +278
And many will say its all part of some intentional 200IQ Chessmaster plan he concocted
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ColinStyles Apr 1, 2026 +196
When you have 70 IQ, all statements sound like 200IQ chessmaster plans, even other 70IQ statements.
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doneandtired2014 Apr 1, 2026 +25
Definitely explains the drooling dipshits that voted for him.
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SickeningPink Apr 1, 2026 +10
The rest can be chalked up to racism, transphobia, and good old fashioned misogyny.
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Postmeat2 Apr 1, 2026 +9
70 IQ is generous af.
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blueye525 Mar 31, 2026 +619
Thank you for this. I did a similar thing of his quotes during COVID. It is wild to see the flip flopping laid out in plain text. This man has zero credibility.
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Wondrous_Fairy Apr 1, 2026 +152
It's like I've always said, Trump is the best human example of a multi-vibrating semi-stable electronic flip-flop circuit.
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SemiHemiDemiDumb Apr 1, 2026 +48
Yeah I've said that a lot, why don't you go ahead and tell people that don't know what that fully means. Like I would but I just don't think I could do it justice.
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Wondrous_Fairy Apr 1, 2026 +30
Basically it's a circuit that has two modes, 0 and 1. Depending on the input, it will "vibrate" meaning it's function is to "flip flop" between those states because that's part of the function of the circuit it's in. You can use those little buggers for so many useful things, but the premise is that if a flip flop circuit isn't altering states on a regular basis, it's not useful. Now, this is in the scope of micro-electronics. I'm sure you can imagine the analogy in the real world application of it in terms of politics. And yes, if anyone on Listnook has a better explanation for this, please chime in. The more detailed it gets, the more beautifully absurd the real world comparison will be. Just like the man himself.
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iamfondofpigs Apr 1, 2026 +24
Ah, well why didn't you say so! For those who didn't understand the electronics explanation, here is a simpler one: Trump is like a ligand-gated ion channel. Basically it's a molecular gate with two modes, open and closed. Depending on factors like pH, ionic concentration, and presence of ligand molecules, the behavior of...
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strangemedia6 Apr 1, 2026 +32
Remember the good old days when flip flopping on something over the course of weeks or months could cause a politician an election, or even a career?
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Mr-and-Mrs Apr 1, 2026 +118
Mar 3: "sell stock." Mar 7: "sell more stock." Mar 9: "sell all your stock." Mar 12: "get ready to buy stock." Mar 13: "log onto E*Trade and wait." Mar 14: "buy stock." Mar 15: "buy more stock." Mar 16: "buy even more stock." Mar 17: "hold stock." Mar 18: "hold stock even longer." Mar 19: "keep holding stock" Mar 20: "keep holding stock." Mar 21: "sell stock now." Mar 22: "wait until Monday." Mar 23: "ok, buy stock now." Mar 24: "buy more stock." Mar 25: "keep buying stock." Mar 26: "hold your stock." Mar 27: "hold your stock." Mar 28: "sell your stock." Mar 29: "wait until Monday.” Mar 30: "ok, buy stock now." Mar 31: "buy more stock." Looks like I need to update the past couple days as we still rolling here Edit: updated last few days
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estamachin Mar 31, 2026 +154
This makes George W. Bush's"Mission accomplished" not that bad
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GuyWithPants Apr 1, 2026 +51
To be completely fair, the banner was to celebrate the end of that particular ship's mission. But the speech teetered on suggesting the war in Iraq was largely over, even though Saddam was still at large and the insurgency would only grow from that point on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
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Hosni__Mubarak Apr 1, 2026 +21
George bush may be a lot of things, but he’s not insane. I don’t especially think he’s a sociopath either. Certainly not a rapist.
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skiabay Apr 1, 2026 +8
> certainly not a rapist He was a Yale frat boy in the 60s. Let's not jump to any conclusions here.
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litokid Mar 31, 2026 +117
It actually makes more sense if you read backwards.
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BoiseXWing Apr 1, 2026 +8
“This won’t be the last time you hear my name…” commercial irl
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VanceKelley Mar 31, 2026 +32
Great work! Reminds me of back during COVID when someone on Listnook put together a timeline of all the things trump had said like "It's just a flu" and "It will go away like a miracle" as the country descended into the lockdown.
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DaftPump Mar 31, 2026 +51
You need to start a sticky somewhere and be our daily war reporter. This is excellent. Bravo!
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RiseOverRunDMC Mar 31, 2026 +51
Please do, this is great.
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St00p_kiddd Apr 1, 2026 +37
Fills me with pride that we can still count on selfless citizens like u/Inevitable_Butthole to speak truth to power 🫡
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BigCountry314 Mar 31, 2026 +62
Great list but Mar 27 is taken out of context, he was talking about how bad it would be to be the leader and it was how he would answer if they did ask him. Leaving this one in dilutes the others actually insane comments.
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Inevitable_Butthole Mar 31, 2026 +32
Good catch thanks, fixed
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Oghier Mar 31, 2026 +2087
When the US invaded Iraq, it involved 160,000 troops. It went very well, at first.
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big-papito Mar 31, 2026 +1184
They needed a SURGE. Who remembers the f****** SURGE?
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YouCantSeeMe555 Mar 31, 2026 +327
I do! The surge was such a weird time for talking heads. They couldn't help snicker at all the double entendres.
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Available_Front_322 Apr 1, 2026 +18
like what
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liverpoolFCnut Mar 31, 2026 +565
While it is true that US needed a surge, it is also true that the 3rd infantry were in central Baghdad by april 3rd, exactly two weeks after US started bombing Iraq. US wrapped up all ground offensive by 4/15, 4 days shy of one month. At that point had US decided to turn let more agreeable Iraqis takeover the administration and walked away, it would've been one of the greatest military victories. Thanks to idiots like Cheney and Rumsfield, US decided to stay in Iraq while searching for weak puppets. Many senior leaders from Saddam's Republican Guard were initially in contact with the US to negotiate a ceasefire and then takeover the administration, Cheney did not agree and the rest is history.
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Illustrious-Ice6336 Mar 31, 2026 +264
Don’t forget the brain surgeon that fired all of the Iraqi police. And former soldiers. Who then went to join in with malicious and other tribes to kill Americans because they needed to eat
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freegb1 Mar 31, 2026 +137
I feel like this genius move isn't talked about enough. Depending on the source 387,000 to 1,000,000 Iraqis became unemployed due to Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2, which disbanded the military, security and intelligence infrastructure. Perfect for joining an insurgency.. Almost like the results were intended, like what the f*** did they think was going to happen?
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_Thick- Apr 1, 2026 +39
> Almost like the results were intended, like what the f*** did they think was going to happen? Exactly what happened. Millions directly impacted, billions indirectly. The MIC got huge amounts of money, and the GOP got to push all the anti-freedom shit they wanted under the gise of "protecting the homeland".
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liverpoolFCnut Mar 31, 2026 +74
In april 2003, i was visiting a friend in the Phillipines. I remember one of my friend’s acquaintances commenting, after watching the riots and looting erupt in Baghdad, that “Islam will show the way.” His words stayed with me later, when I saw Muqtada al-Sadr and other clerics recruit former soldiers and intelligence personnel into militias that went on to fight coalition forces. It was a catastrophic error on the Bush administration's part to not think of a succession plan post-Saddam, just like it was dumb to stay on in Afghanistan once OBL escaped after tora-bora.
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Meepox5 Apr 1, 2026 +23
Im not sure who to credit the saying to, but i heard it in reference to the taliban way of thinking when NATO was f****** about there, "They have the bullets, we have time"
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the_dolomite Apr 1, 2026 +18
Paul Bremer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bremer "As the holder of the "most powerful foreign post held by any American since Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan,"[15] he compared himself to MacArthur as well as General Lucius Clay, who was in charge of the American zone in Germany following its defeat in World War II.[16] As the top civilian administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Bremer was permitted to rule by decree. Among his first and most notable decrees were Coalition Provisional Authority Order 1, which banned the Ba'ath party in all forms,[17] and Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2, which dismantled the Iraqi Army.[18]"
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CoffeeSubstantial851 Mar 31, 2026 +255
Well the point of the operation was removing the "weapons of mass destruction". They couldn't leave until they found evidence of them which they did not and a couple months after the end of the initial phase... is when the road side bombs started. Turns out laying off the entire military and police force meant there were tons of angry men with access to weapons around every corner.
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Professional_Net4147 Mar 31, 2026 +109
The point of the operation was to make Chaney and pals richer via Haliburton
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korben2600 Mar 31, 2026 +65
Cheney minted some billionaires pumping his company's stock +500% in the two years after the invasion. All in exchange for 4,400 KIA and saddling future generations with trillions in debt.
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Johannes_P Mar 31, 2026 +13
Likewise, dismissing civil servants because they were forced to join the Ba'ath Party didn't help the Iraqi economy.
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wowaddict71 Mar 31, 2026 +18
And most formed, or joined ISIS.
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SvedishFish Mar 31, 2026 +64
Wasn't just searching for weak puppets. A big portion was setting up access to resources, and of course searching for justification for the invasion in the first place. There were no WMDs to find, so the goalposts shifted from 'imminent threat' to 'preemptive war' to 'regime change' and finally to 'building democracy and stability' as the administration desperately grasped for a retroactive purpose for being there in the first place. Not too dissimilar from the current situation to be honest. Edit: goodness I completely forgot that the 'original' original justification for the invasion was that Saddam was supporting AL Queda and financing terrorist attacks against the United States, which is why we 'had to' divert resources from Afghanistan to launch another war there, for the Global War on Terror (cue jaded laughter). Of course, everyone knew that was bullshit before the invasion even happened.
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Destinys_LambChop Mar 31, 2026 +20
They decided to remove all Baathists and Suni from government and civil roles. So they basically removed every competent person from any position in the country and let everything descend into chaos. With no plan of rebuilding or maintaining civil society. They also targeted civil infrastructure. Schools, hospitals, energy grid centers, etc. That's my understanding. Similar to what they're wanting to do now by the sounds of it.
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Yardsale420 Mar 31, 2026 +48
Oh yeah I drank that stuff all the time.
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CoffeeSubstantial851 Mar 31, 2026 +44
The surge was only 20k troops. We never had more than 180k in Iraq so the total number of troops stayed more or less the same.
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MagicSPA Mar 31, 2026 +15
Yes - and the "surge" mostly simply returned the troop levels to what they'd been before some of them had been rashly pulled out.
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MagicSPA Mar 31, 2026 +11
The infamous "surge" was almost pure spin. All the "surge" did was replace troops that had been prematurely and over-optimistically withdrawn, which had led to a deterioration of the security situation. The "surge" brought troop levels back to around what they'd been before they got unwisely pulled out in the first place. It wasn't so much a troop "surge" as a troop "resumption".
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American_PissAnt Mar 31, 2026 +15
Instead of McNamara’s Morons, we will have Hegseth’s Halfwits
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Jayken Mar 31, 2026 +26
One of the guys I knew in high-school died because of the Surge. Got stoplossed and had to go back. Came back a month later in a coffin.
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I_Roll_Chicago Mar 31, 2026 +155
Iraq is flat. Iran, not so much.
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John_T_Conover Mar 31, 2026 +180
Iran also is 3x the size with about 3x as many people. And with a lot more coastline and proximity/control of strategic areas. There is no way to occupy or control things there long term without massive, Vietnam surge level operations. And we all know how that goes.
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I_Roll_Chicago Mar 31, 2026 +79
Im not even worried about the occupation here. I dont see how we can even reach that stage unless we are going to commit 350-500,000 ground forces. The mountainous terrain will require that much more redundancy to be able to get a fighting force from one valley to the next. And thats the iran war, valley hoping with mountains in between. If we go in with a force comparable to iraq, i dont see the regime falling. this will become like russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We will be fighting the regime years later, not an insurgency, the Islamic republic army and irgc. Tl;dr This is a bad idea
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DopplerEffect93 Apr 1, 2026 +26
It won’t be good but it won’t be Russia’s invasion of Ukraine level of bad. Russia has more deaths than all the conflicts US has been involved with since WW2 combined.
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MK_Ultrex Apr 1, 2026 +23
Iran is also 92 million people, Iraq was ~25 at the time.
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Vietzomb Apr 1, 2026 +33
Generation Kill is a pretty accurate representation, or account, of what a cluster f*** the initial stages looked like. HBO made a show off of the book of the same name, written by the Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright who was imbedded with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps from the jump. It documents all of the bravado, competing, infighting, disorganization, lack of regard or coordination between other departments, units etc etc all the way up. It’s a very raw take on how all that is felt at the ground level on Iraqi soil during the invasion.
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TeaAndLifting Apr 1, 2026 +12
Also spreading awareness of the USMC sword and lava monster recruiting commercial.
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Topgun58ge Mar 31, 2026 +119
It went well because they actually had some semblence of a plan.
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Third_D3gree Mar 31, 2026 +65
Don't worry, we have concepts of a plan
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Nick_Gio Apr 1, 2026 +8
They asked if I had a plan for a theoretical invasion of Iran. I said I had a theoretical plan for an invasion of Iran. They said welcome aboard.
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toggiz_the_elder Mar 31, 2026 +59
Not really. I deployed to Tikrit in 2004, replacing the guys who’d done the initial invasion. There was no plan at all. Once the Iraqi army was defeated we just kinda drove around getting shot at.
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Topgun58ge Mar 31, 2026 +48
I was moreso taking about the initial invasion. not what happened after the Iraqi army was defeated. It was in reply too the statement it went well "at first". This entire Iran thing from the start has been a shit show.
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toggiz_the_elder Apr 1, 2026 +12
Fair. I’ve just seen a big uptick in folks trying to retcon Iraq into a success story recently. I jumped the gun a bit homie.
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morbie5 Mar 31, 2026 +141
The Iraq war was a disaster and a mistake but it would have gone a lot better if instead of disbanding the Iraqi military we kept them around and freakin paid them
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Fantastic-Corner-605 Mar 31, 2026 +106
They're going to repeat the same mistakes except bigger. I don't expect Trump to keep paying the IRGC either. And in case you forgot, the US has taken Baghdad by this time in the Iraq war. The US is still gathering troops and there's no allies with them now.
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mentaljobbymonster Mar 31, 2026 +34
He will get bored in the first twenty minutes
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caseyanthonyftw Mar 31, 2026 +49
Pretty sure there's already been reports that Trump is bored of the war and ready to move on. The man really doesn't give a single F about people's lives and thinks everything is a TV show.
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cafedude Apr 1, 2026 +13
He's ready to move on to Cuba.
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whosthatcarguy Mar 31, 2026 +35
The IRGC are wholly different from the Iraq military and should actually be disbanded. They are a religious army and are much less loyal to the paycheck than the Iraq army was. They will be the next Al-Qaeda if we invade.
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phryan Mar 31, 2026 +8
Depends which one. Iraq round one (when they invaded Kuwait) went well. Round two, not so much.
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Darkone539 Mar 31, 2026 +63
And the tens of thousands from other countries. 450k+ and then the 50k from the UK, plus other countries support. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003\_invasion\_of\_Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq) The USA doesn't want to admit it, but they can't do this alone without it being a bloodbath,
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Oghier Mar 31, 2026 +12
Good point. I am embarrassed to have forgotten that.
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Seagull84 Mar 31, 2026 +44
Iraq was objectively a smaller area, and highly asymmetric. Iran has China/Russia backing, and incredibly advanced military technology that's extremely c**** to produce (e.g. drones). That's not to mention it has ICBM capabilities, and what the CIA itself has dubbed as well-trained ground forces. Iraq is also one-third the size, and doesn't have as many logistics concerns, nor mine laying capabilities. Additionally, Iraq is pretty flat, while Iran has many mountainous and hilly regions that are difficult to advance on. Any ground invasion will take many months to years to finish, regardless of numerical superiority and strength of forces. So all in all, Iran is a very different theater.
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GRAND_INQUEEFITOR Mar 31, 2026 +17
Yep, and beyond the theater level, the geopolitical situation was starkly different as well. Our military was not meant to be pivoted toward the South China Sea like it is now. We weren't burning through the missile stockpiles that are meant to deter a near-peer adversary from taking over the one island on which so much of our current economic growth relies. We had 5 CSGs support the whole Iraqi operation: could we really afford to divert 5 CSGs to Iran today?
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arobkinca Mar 31, 2026 +49
Ukraine hadn't happened. Old style tactics are suicidal. It is the age of drone warfare now. It will start bad and get worse.
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rinkoplzcomehome Mar 31, 2026 +8
It also used 5 carrier strike groups
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mlody11 Mar 31, 2026 +3742
But stock market says "We'Re ClOsE tO a CeAsEfIRe"
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 +531
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WavingWookiee Mar 31, 2026 +241
You can't really declare victory after achieving zero of your objectives and leaving the place in a worse state, he'll try, but the international community needs to then isolate the US
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Remarkable_Beach_545 Mar 31, 2026 +41
Especially the gulf coast states who are expecting the u.s to protect them who are being bombed/drones rn. They only accept dollars as payment for their oil for a reason, and if they stop doing that.... hoo boy...
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liguinii Mar 31, 2026 +10
They've been asked to take care of the mess left behind by Trump, why would they stick with the USD?
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EricAndersonL Mar 31, 2026 +149
He’s just gon lie that he achieved everything and leaving.
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Damaniel2 Mar 31, 2026 +86
That might work with his stupid base but not for the rest of us (both in the US and abroad).
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EricAndersonL Mar 31, 2026 +75
He ain’t fooling no one except his stupid base.
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SoCalThrowAway7 Mar 31, 2026 +29
It doesn’t matter, it just matters that the rich people all agree it’s fine and keep trading like everything is fine
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jellyhessman Mar 31, 2026 +19
That's all he needs. The rest of the world has completely lost faith in America and it's institutions. It would be the best look to end this nonsense as soon as possible. We expect him to lie about it, we know the reality.
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rabidrooster3 Mar 31, 2026 +14
Welcome to the insanity if you think us not being fooled means anything.
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scottgal2 Mar 31, 2026 +23
Pigeon Chess: Trump's approach to War is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut about like it's won anyway. It's not about winning or losingc for him it's about keeping the overwhelming evidence of his multiple paedophillic rapes out of the headlines. It's worked.
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mfbrucee Mar 31, 2026 +8
You can’t, but he can.
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TOMC_throwaway000000 Mar 31, 2026 +24
All depends on how long it takes Israel to stabilize the land they’re stealing in Lebanon / be satisfied that Iran’s offensive capabilities are sufficiently depleted, at this point we’re just running cover and pulling fire from that situation
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Jimbobsupertramp Mar 31, 2026 +425
Don’t worry.. they can’t ignore the reality of the situation for too much longer
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HP844182 Mar 31, 2026 +608
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent 
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emaw63 Mar 31, 2026 +116
Believe it or not, calls
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ManWithASquareHead Mar 31, 2026 +60
##There goes Jerome Powell WITH THE CHAIR
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pablocael Mar 31, 2026 +15
Unless you lack brain mass (e.g: youre a MAGA).
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Oceanbreeze871 Mar 31, 2026 +29
Stock market is just daily feels
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kekehippo Mar 31, 2026 +83
They are close to a ceasefire. It'll just be till one side is tired of shooting.
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PayneTrain181999 Mar 31, 2026 +68
Algorithms and people trying desperately to keep the money up so they can sell before the bottom falls out.
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pdevo Mar 31, 2026 +33
End of the quarter. Hedge funds manipulating and making their money. Tomorrow will be deep in the red again.
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TJ-LEED-AP Mar 31, 2026 +24
The market will rally behind the military industrial complex when the meat grinder starts up.
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Leftoverofferings Mar 31, 2026 +20
Only if the strait opens. If it remains closed, nothing will save the economy.
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Accomplished_Age7883 Mar 31, 2026 +6
What does kalshi say?
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Shiftymennoknight Mar 31, 2026 +559
toilets working on this one?
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RtlsnkSteve Mar 31, 2026 +204
Actually not that great. First two deployments of the ship were plagued with similar issues the Ford is having. I've heard it's only gotten marginally better.
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oivaizmir Mar 31, 2026 +73
Yep, same system on Ford was pioneered for the first time on the GHWB.... and it was even worse. There has been an improvement, but there is a lot of chatter about how fast the GHWB was approved for deployment and many thinking that it was a bit rushed, and is also being thrown into the action.... not the sort of system you'd use for your lawn mower, certainly not your aircraft carrier.
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Oldnbold22 Mar 31, 2026 +52
Do American lawnmowers really have a toilet? 
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Meepox5 Apr 1, 2026 +19
If made by DoD contracts aye, and lobster wheels
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doughball27 Mar 31, 2026 +31
The good ones yes.
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Token-Gora Apr 1, 2026 +12
Ford was being actively sabotaged by its own crew. It is true that the new system is very fragile. Disgruntled crew members were flushing heavy cotton t-shirts and 4 ft lengths of rope to deliberately break the system. The fire that started in the laundry area that ultimately forced it out of theater is also believed to be arson/sabotage. Morale is at rock bottom.
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angelus14 Apr 1, 2026 +10
Can't say I blame them. No one wants to go to war for this shit. War to defend the country, sure. War for oil prices, not really. War as a distraction for a corrupt politician back home, f*** that.
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Navy_MSC Mar 31, 2026 +20
Toilets breaking on a ship is a matter of when, not if. But thats every ship I've been on.
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LastingTheory Mar 31, 2026 +445
Remember no more wars? Yeah me either…
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ThaddeusJP Mar 31, 2026 +114
*No, more wars!*
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TesticleMeElmo Mar 31, 2026 +338
Maybe we shouldn’t have elected the “you’re fired” cheesy reality TV guy because he made epic lulz during the debates. No wall that Mexico paid for, no swamp drained, nothing to replace the ACA because it’s too complicated, higher prices on everything, yes boots on the ground, more forever wars, hmmmm 🤔
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Chuck_Raycer Apr 1, 2026 +32
Yeah, but like how many libs did he own? So I mean crashing the entire global economy was kinda worth it right?
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roller_coaster325 Mar 31, 2026 +104
There a a long history of governments that have fallen because leaders got them into unpopular wars without public or other branches of government support.
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shorty12345678 Apr 1, 2026 +30
Being part of potentially notable history is not very fun right now
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Infinite-4-a-moment Apr 1, 2026 +11
They don't have overwhelming public support but they do have the other branches support to unfortunately.
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BeeKayDubya Mar 31, 2026 +127
Billions of dollars spent at a potential cost of thousands of lives. All to distract because the pedo in chief effed children.
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Plenty_Beautiful_547 Mar 31, 2026 +715
When they invaded Iraq they had like 100K troops. Not even close to that now against a much stronger foe. What are they thinking?
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yunus89115 Mar 31, 2026 +32
>If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions. -Famous fake quote from WWII American leader
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Fancy_Yak2618 Mar 31, 2026 +310
They aren’t fully invading Just the island and coast if anything.
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neontetra1548 Mar 31, 2026 +803
"Just the island and the coast" aka concentrate all the soldiers and equipment in a tiny killbox in range of Iranian missiles and drones that has no effective ability to be resupplied.
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HCAndroidson Mar 31, 2026 +156
"Just 3500 US Marines landing at Da Nang to secure the airbase".
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__Yakovlev__ Mar 31, 2026 +42
"just a handful of specialists to take hostomel and the special military operation will be over"
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Johannes_P Mar 31, 2026 +32
"We'll only send advisors, not fighters!"
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korben2600 Mar 31, 2026 +20
[Salami slicing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics): for when full invasions are about as popular as AIDS.
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Bluebabbs Mar 31, 2026 +235
D day only took a week of planning im sure
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neontetra1548 Mar 31, 2026 +278
Imagine D-Day with Shaheds and satellite-guided precision missiles that can easily take out the landing party and all their supply lines/bases. And planned by Pete Hegseth between drinks.
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Soft_Author2593 Mar 31, 2026 +142
tom hanks would have never found ryan
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neontetra1548 Mar 31, 2026 +94
Tom Hanks getting taken out by a FPV drone.
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Soft_Author2593 Mar 31, 2026 +28
That would have made a shitty movie. 10 minutes in, hanks dead, the end, curtains closed
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Arcaneboltz Mar 31, 2026 +32
Tom Hanks in this reality never makes it to the beach
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Overwatchingu Mar 31, 2026 +19
And with only 2 out of 5 beaches since the USA decided to threaten and insult their allies before demanding their help in a conflict they had nothing to do with.
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mishap1 Mar 31, 2026 +8
I'd expect Hegseth would request an IV drip of Gentleman Jack to save time for more warfighting.
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Grundlestiltskin_ Mar 31, 2026 +21
There’s a movie coming out this summer that focuses just on the weather/tides aspects of the d day planning lol
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neontetra1548 Mar 31, 2026 +23
Don't worry they've got ChatGPT doing that part.
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AnyBug1039 Mar 31, 2026 +54
They will no doubt have prepared themselves well for all the lessons of modern drone warfare that Ukraine has learned. I'm sure Iran won't have prepared anything like fibre optic FPV suicide drones. I have complete faith in the current bunch of military leaders Hegseth is working with.
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lethargy86 Mar 31, 2026 +32
Sarcasm detected successfully I am good at internet
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Nero92 Mar 31, 2026 +13
That and I'm sure it's going to be a f*** up from day 1 because they're just acting on impulse, not a plan. Imagine even a thousand troops on an island, prepping defenses and digging in but they have no toilets or showers. 
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glorious_reptile Mar 31, 2026 +7
Yes, but that’s a problem for tomorrow
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ineyeseekay Mar 31, 2026 +19
Which will be a disaster as neither will be able to be sustainably held if it's just left at that.  
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lordsteve1 Mar 31, 2026 +17
Imagine getting deployed to that island where you’re barely a stone’s throw away from a bajillion Iranian $1000 drones which they can endlessly lob at you. That is assuming they can actually take the thing in the first place and hold it. That’s not going to be going well for some poor bastards. Might as well take plenty of paint with them so they can paint a f****** huge target on themselves to speed up the slaughter.
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anotherblog Mar 31, 2026 +34
Just the tip
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user745786 Mar 31, 2026 +32
Sounds just like Vietnam except there was public support at the beginning. Trump’s Iran war is starting off much worse and getting bad fast. Doesn’t help to have a White House staffed by morons who are competent only at grifting. I don’t see how the Americans can come out on top in this war.
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nuadarstark Mar 31, 2026 +11
You don't just invade that though, that's still a massive area that's also mountainous and a literal shooting range for any system Iran has from mortars and Grads all the way to drones and ballistic missiles. How do you expect to hold that when the interceptor stocks are at all time low, allies are all alienated or have to defend their turf and US still doesn't have any effective SHORAD? And going for the islands alone is just asking to get bombed into oblivion.
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Opening_Total7711 Mar 31, 2026 +59
There are close to 50,000 troops in the CENTCOM AOR. Still not enough for a fullscale invasion of Iran but I just wanted to mention that it isn't like 300 Marines ready to recreate the Battle of Thermopylae against the Persians.
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MephistoHamProducts Mar 31, 2026 +46
> There are close to 50,000 troops in the CENTCOM AOR. Still not enough for a fullscale invasion of Iran but I just wanted to mention that it isn't like 300 Marines ready to recreate the Battle of Thermopylae against the Persians. You're misreading that number though. The US Military has a "Tooth to Tail" ratio of about 1:8 - One combat arms type service member and 8 service members to support them. That means, broadly speaking, out of that 50,000 about 5,500 would be the door kicking invasion force with about 44,000 there just to support them. It's less "Battle of Thermopylae" and far closer to Marines being asked to recreate the [Battle of Peleliu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peleliu) during WWII.
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Johnny_Deppthcharge Mar 31, 2026 +38
True. It's a bigger deployment. However - it's also true that Iran is a country of 90 million, with around 1 million people in their armed forces. You can't conquer them and hold the territory with 50,000.
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ARazorbacks Mar 31, 2026 +86
Is it just me or does it feel like the goal is to get the United States military completely bogged down in Iran by mid-summer? 
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LittleBoat9295 Mar 31, 2026 +64
Gotta cancel the elections somehow..
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Magnon Apr 1, 2026 +38
Oh no guys, iran totally did a terrorism on US soil, we gotta declare martial law! We can't have elections until we "secure" the elections, come back later
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Angeleno88 Apr 1, 2026 +12
It wouldn’t surprise me to see the US stage a false flag attack during the World Cup.
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cb148 Mar 31, 2026 +36
So we can’t stop Iran from firing their missiles at their neighboring countries, so how the hell are we going to be able to stop them from firing on our troops we deploy into their country?
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Magnon Apr 1, 2026 +23
Don't worry about it, I'm sure the videos of drones blowing up 18-20 year old marines in live action color won't make anyone upset. I mean it's not the epstein classes kids, so why would they care?
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copperblood Mar 31, 2026 +435
The US Iran War is going to rewrite the playbook on asymmetrical warfare.
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TheUnderCrab Mar 31, 2026 +129
Ukraine/Russia already did that. 
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snaketacular Apr 1, 2026 +62
Yes, but someone wasn't taking notes.
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Key_Ant6473 Apr 1, 2026 +7
They were playing cards though.
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moral_mortal Mar 31, 2026 +277
I think Afghanistan set the playbook in 20th century....it was rugged, mountainous country 1/3 the size of Iran. Iran if their trajectory remains the same might induce a regime change,  on the other side of ocean.
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Overwatchingu Mar 31, 2026 +312
The USA didn’t tell their allies to go f*** themselves before invading Afghanistan, and the Taliban didn’t have FPV drones.
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korben2600 Mar 31, 2026 +77
Taliban would've won a lot sooner if they had IEDs that could fly and loiter.
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Yvaelle Apr 1, 2026 +51
Also the Iranian people are highly educated, an order of magnitude more wealthy on average, have the high ground, control the strait, the IRGC is the strongest military in the middle east, Qudsforce are potentially tier 1 special operators, China and Russia are both providing intelligence and ordinance, and their win condition is only that the regime itself survives. They also have a hilariously massive tunnel network that has been continuously expanding for over 100 years using mining equipment - not the hand-dug bunny holes the Taliban and Hamas use - and their underground network is packed with ordinance waiting for precisely this day. It's very likely that the US carrier groups will literally run out of ammo before the IRGC does, and resupply is complicated when all the US former allies won't help. An actual ground war in Iran is ten Afghanistan's worth of shit.
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moral_mortal Mar 31, 2026 +30
Yup, seems like US played themselves into this.
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RonBurgundy449 Mar 31, 2026 +19
Yeah, there's a reason that Afghanistan is known as the Graveyard of Empires.
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copperblood Mar 31, 2026 +70
The Taliban never had the ability to lob missiles like Iran has been doing on neighboring gulf states. Iran also has ability to lob missiles into Europe and will start targeting big US tech data centers scattered across Europe. Also because Iran has been building missiles non stop since 1979 and has been building drones non stop for the last 15 years, Iran can continue with this bombardment for a long long time. Iran also sells A LOT of sanctioned oil to China to the tune that at a minimum 8% of China’s total energy comes from shadow fleets. The US unfortunately is walking into a gigantic trap. Iran is also the size of Alaska and is surrounded by very tall mountains. It is going to be an absolute blood bath when US troops put boots on the ground.
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No_Basket_9192 Mar 31, 2026 +51
So far Iran seem to be playing it safe with Europe. They seem very aware that Europe are making a point of not joining this war and I would hazard a guess that they know missiles into Europe might change that
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achilleasa Apr 1, 2026 +12
This, I will be very surprised if they attack Europe in a time where multiple European nations are denying America the use of their bases, airspaces etc.
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Falsus Apr 1, 2026 +9
Iran is not going to send rockets into Europe since that would cause Europe to join the fight on USA's side since we they forcefully included Europe into the war. Like Europe is hurt indirectly anyway, but Europe can't really do much about Trump being a f****** idiot, but direct harm is different. Iran just needs to make USA hurt as much as possible for the midterms and then see how it changes in the aftermath.
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__dying__ Mar 31, 2026 +61
The American public is not prepared to see their soldiers blown up in 4k by drones with lawnmower engines.
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InsanelyAverageFella Mar 31, 2026 +41
I seriously think Iran is begging for Trump to send in troops. They know that they will be able to inflict huge casualty numbers if that happens and are goading Trump. I am sure there are heated arguments between generals and Hegseth/Trump about whether to send in troops. I really hope the generals tell both of them to f right off.
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Zealot_Alec Apr 1, 2026 +9
Months attacking allies WHY WONT THOSE COWARDS SUPPORT AMERICA!!!!
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Zulmoka531 Mar 31, 2026 +169
Haha, and the market gets f****** played again. Oh, I’m not laughing out of humor. I’m just absolutely going insane.
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CoyotesOnTheWing Apr 1, 2026 +11
You may be going insane but the market has you beat on the insanity scale. How can they still buy any bullshit that he's selling...
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Taconinja05 Mar 31, 2026 +171
Sounds like a war… Congress where the f*** u at??
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Cambot1138 Mar 31, 2026 +114
Both houses voted to not restrain his war powers. I wrote an angry letter to my rep and got back a letter of full throated support. The legislative branch is all in.
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Magnon Apr 1, 2026 +28
It's not their kids that will die, and war is great for their defense oriented portfolio.
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Falsus Apr 1, 2026 +12
They are completely fine with Trump acting like a dictator and robbing them of their entire purpose.
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cafedude Apr 1, 2026 +7
They're so far up Trump's ass they haven't been seen for the last year.
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DrNick2012 Mar 31, 2026 +30
Well there goes another $8,000,000 dollars or so a day just for it to be there (probably low balling it as its deploying to a hot-zone) but come on, what else are you gonna do with that money? Feed school kids? Use it in healthcare? Lol
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TriXter69 Mar 31, 2026 +30
Surely his rich friends can cover the cost of these expensive deployments
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pocketjacks Mar 31, 2026 +25
I love how the news is split between "Trump wants to quit the war despite the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed" add "Trump sends yet another 10,000 troops to Iran in preparation for a land war".
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StructuralFailure Mar 31, 2026 +29
just one more carrier bro! it will finally solve the traffic in the interstate of hormuz!
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Conner14 Mar 31, 2026 +18
Can we just f****** not, my god
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ColonelSandurz42 Mar 31, 2026 +42
Fuckin crickets over at the conservative sub right now
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bottomstar Apr 1, 2026 +31
Ex-navy here. This is pretty normal for the Navy to have the amount of carriers deployed in the area and adjacent area. This isn't a 3rd carrier on scene like the title implies. One has already left the fight and this one will replace it once it gets there.
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coolitdrowned Mar 31, 2026 +26
They raised the enlistment age to 42. That means Ben Shapiro will be joining to fight the good fight right? Nah, his rhetoric is meant for others. Him and his kind have never been in a fight, and that is how he can be so blasé about bloodshed.
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dnight22 Mar 31, 2026 +341
They really start a full scale invasion to distract from the files, don't they?
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nordik1 Mar 31, 2026 +193
i don’t think they have to distract from the files. If the mayor is a criminal but the sheriff is in on the crime, how is anyone ever held accountable?
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DaveShadow Mar 31, 2026 +54
People still think that Trump, who gets away with everything and never is pulled up by his base for anything, is starting global wars, sending thousands of troops to die and alienating every ally the US has to detract from the files his base have already dismissed. The war isn’t a distraction for the files. The files are a distraction from all the evil shit he’s getting away with. He’s hoping people are so distracted from the idea the files will be some gotcha that turns his unturnabke base, he’s allowed real havoc across the world unopposed…
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ATangK Mar 31, 2026 +44
Send in Reacher.
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Overall_Affect_2782 Mar 31, 2026 +40
Reacher despises Trump in real life, and the neighbor that tried to beat his ass was a Trumper. That went as well for the neighbor that a ground invasion will go for Trump.
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Crypt0Nihilist Apr 1, 2026 +13
The end of this war has certainly come to its middle.
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machines_breathe Mar 31, 2026 +9
Is that carrier also going to have a suspicious fire that takes it out of service?
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Medical_Arugula3315 Apr 1, 2026 +6
Republicans really called everyone a pedophile and then voted in the king of pedophiles. Now we're going to war and bombing children just to distract from it. Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.   
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Raspberries-Are-Evil Mar 31, 2026 +24
This is a major commitment of our forces that are now leaving other areas exposed. Trump is about to get thousands of US kids killed.
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ThrowawayColli Mar 31, 2026 +29
thats a big ol typo
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Farrudar Mar 31, 2026 +6
Wonder what type of washing machine fire will take this one out of commission…
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og_jasperjuice Apr 1, 2026 +6
He needs to stop calling it a war. Congress didnt approve a war. In his own words it isnt a war its a special operation or whatever the hell he wants to call it to avoid congress approval. But yet he still calls it a war. Im confused at this point.
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YesImHarry Apr 1, 2026 +5
All of this to defend a group of child molesters
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