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by i_love_retros 43 days ago
Pointlessly attacking Iran doesn't really make it a war. It's just Trump doing whatever netenyahoo tells him to do and Iran not being too bothered. Not really a war. Trump could stop anytime.

As for Russia, hardly at war with them either. Trump is Putin's bitch.

So basically what the fuck are you talking about?
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Bender 43 days ago
Regardless of who is president next the war with Iran will continue. I would absolutely love to be wrong. This has been in the planning for a very long time and he just happened to be the first one to assist Israel. We could speculate why, probably some level of narcissism and wanting to be in history books but the reason won't matter. It's too late, the deep state will not let anyone back out after a taste of funding.

If you would like some deeper discussion on the topic there is a halfway decent talk from Professor Jiang on DOAC. [1] He had many of the same predictions I had mentioned here on HN some time back which nobody here agreed with and they have all come true. We are just getting started in this quagmire.

Don't let Fox news mislead people into thinking that air strikes will do anything to end this.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw [video][2 hours, 11 minutes]

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i_love_retros 42 days ago
Why would any other president with a few brain cells go to war with Iran when the Obama administration had a deal with Iran to not acquire nuclear weapons in return for lifting sanctions, which was working?
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Bender 42 days ago
which was working

Yes the US was paying extortion money. Billions. Iran wanted more. It's all moot at this point, Israel attacked Iran and the US agreed to assist them. Trying to bully Trump was a mistake as they found out. For what it's worth it was not "working". Iran was still enriching Uranium and would have eventually become a nuclear power which nobody in the middle east or Europe wants. Iran has missiles that can almost reach Europe and they were not far away from extending that range. It was time to put the bully down, though I do not agree with the way it is being done. Air strikes are like playing whack-a-mole. Boots will be required on the ground to take over the under-mountain missile cities and that will be a shit show. I can completely understand their hesitation to do it.

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i_love_retros 42 days ago
It stopped working because trump tore it up
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