• reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    That and his old Epstein co-conspirator Netanyahu got his cronies to whisper sweet nothings into his ear about how it would be easy and he would be a hero.

    He didn’t come up with any of this himself. That’s why there is no plan. The whole plan was supposed to be:

    Cut the head off the snake -> build golf courses.

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      10 hours ago

      Yes, that seems only logical, given what a degenerate idiot he is. However, I very much doubt that the US regime would have come up with even a halfway feasible plan if Israel weren’t using the US for its own purposes.

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        10 hours ago

        It depends. Venezuela was down right evil, but actually a well thought out plan. Kidnapping Maduro ended up turning the government into basically a US puppet, without needing a full scale ground invasion. So there are very clearly smart capable planners in high positions in the US.

        The Iran war seems like a full Israeli plan, which was bullied through last minute. They seem to have ignored or forgotten, that Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz. They are currently moving four anti seamine ships from the Strait to the US for scrapping for example and did not warn anybody that this is a big one, so they can for example fill up their strategic oil reserves. The only reason this is not a worse disaster is that the US military is very capable.

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          7 hours ago

          Yes, that’s true, but what I mean is that there are certainly good reasons why the US, despite decades of hostility, has never waged a direct war of aggression against Iran.

          I also consider it a foregone conclusion that Israel is now exerting its influence on this corrupt regime to finally bring about this war. I’m more inclined to think that Trump would likely have actively instigated it himself, even though competent military advisors - who undoubtedly still exist in the US even under this administration - would have advised against it for the same reasons they quite clearly did under all previous administrations - this incumbent president, however, is so incredibly unscrupulous that he would have ignored all warnings and tasked his own lackeys with the planning, as he would have felt his narcissistic hubris wounded if anyone had contradicted him.

          This seems to me to have happened in the current situation as well: Presumably, competent generals advised him against implementing Israel’s plan, and presumably he fired or ignored them for that very reason, which is why schools and hospitals are now being bombed and the world is sinking into chaos.