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republicans love making up scenarios to get mad about. no one’s saying they want it to, but it might happen with the global trust lost bc of trumps dementia
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Leftist will tell you they want to see the dollar lose status as the global means of exchange. You will be fucked if that happens even if you’re “on the right side of history” or whatever
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Anonymous 23h

Unwinding the us military and protesting kinetic action to keep valuable global trade routes open is directly counter to maintaining US dollar supremacy. We could whip the shit outta Iran if we really wanted to but the American public can’t stomach what it would take politically. It’s the same gamble sadaam made in both of the gulf wars. He figured he didn’t need to win he just needed to kill a couple thousand American troops and the us public would cower. It didn’t work but the logic holds.

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Anonymous 23h

Also, are you not aware of the armies of pro Russia tankies that believe that Russia is leading a “axis of resistance” against the west.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

His whole strategy was literally to draw America into “the mother of all battles” and make it bloody enough for the American people to lose resolve. Only reason we saw it thru the second time is we were still riding a wave of post 9/11 nationalism so our acceptable casualty rate was higher. And yes destroying sadaam was just (see Kurds and marsh Arabs)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

He even smugly stated this to the press in a meeting with our ambassador to his regime.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

why do u think we could beat iran

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

In every metric we are a vastly more capable. We could win easily if we weren’t so risk averse to casualties. If we were willing to suffer 100k loses we could take Iran

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

In essence we have the ability but lack the will to do what it would take

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