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Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by viper37 - Today at 01:08:39 AM

If there was a serious desire to seize the island I suspect they wouldn't be talking about it at all and would even express either disinterest in the idea or openly reject it if it were brought up.

Now, you're talking as if there were rational people in the White House.

You're talking about the people who anticipated the closing of the strait.

Who anticipated all eventualities but are asking for 200billion$ more in financing and have a... destroyer? ship? troop transport? rushing to the Persian Gulf at near flanking speed.

I don't know.  I'm not an expert in military matters here.  Especially not naval warfare.  I'll defer to Grumbler and Oexmelin for this, even if his knowledge is a bit... dated?

But, whenever I play a strategy game and I hit the "rush" button somewhere, or if there's a "flanking" speed option to rush units to the front, it's because there's an emergency going on and something I did not not anticipate is happening.  

If everything is going to plan, my enemy is cornered, I'm surrounding his planets/base/camps he has nothing nowhere near me and I'm pounding his building his troops with my own.

I don't need to suddenly find extra money, rush another ship to the front to plan an invasion that I already had anticipated BECAUSE EVERYTHING I NEED IS ALREADY THERE ON THE FRONT LINES.

That's why it's called planning.  Then comes organizing, direction and control.

I'm a control freak.

So I'm not going back to the planning phase to ask again for 200 BILLION $ and 50 000 troops new troops in an emergency.

Fuck, the British had more troops than that to try and subdue some rebels on the other side of the pound and it didn't work so well 250 years ago.  Who wants to do what with a trickle of troops?

What kind of diversion is this?  Everything is on Truth Social, FFS.

#2

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2026

Last post by HVC - Today at 12:43:16 AM

Nicholas Brendon has passed. We were talking about the Buffy reboot being canceled. Wonder if it's related.

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Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Tonitrus - March 20, 2026, 11:43:20 PM

I think he'd be wise (or should have already) to step back and be an "elder statesman"...and especially so he wants to stay in after 2028.

That said, I am not sure I would likely be impressed by his likely replacement.  I don't know enough about Schatz...but that is somewhat telling in itself in that he has been kind of invisible.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - March 20, 2026, 11:28:19 PM

Everyone knows the first two and people with a passing interest in Rome know the second two. No one knows  other shitty emperors like Caracalla or Honorius. Striking them from history makes historians curious about why Egyptian history has a similar phenomenon.

So wealth confiscation is best. Although I still think tiny penis statues would annoy him more

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - March 20, 2026, 11:15:34 PM

If we survive Trump, we so, so need to bring back damnatio memoriae.

We still remember the Emperors who had damnatio memoria, they have lengthy pages on Wikipedia 

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Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by viper37 - March 20, 2026, 11:13:54 PM

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Already?  At such a young age, in his prime?

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Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Sophie Scholl - March 20, 2026, 10:59:22 PM

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - March 20, 2026, 09:08:19 PM

It's more important to proscribe his family and confiscate their wealth, IMO.

Both sound good to me. As to forgetting, we still know of Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus. With someone as obsessed with their name and image being everywhere, I can think of no more fitting punishment for him than removing his impact via those methods and, as Jake says, removing his and his cohorts' wealth.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Jacob - March 20, 2026, 09:06:10 PM

It's more important to proscribe his family and confiscate their wealth, IMO.

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Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Legbiter - March 20, 2026, 08:44:38 PM

Why wouldn't you send in troops by ospery/helicopter from Kuwait?

Also very risky for no gain. Hostomel airport risky. Force buildup could also be spotted by russian/Chinese satellites and the airbase itself could be absolutely hammered like the Kuwaiti FOB was on the first day.

Again what is the strategic value? You seize it, the Iranians don't flinch but US forces are conveniently stuck on a flat exposed island now within range of a lot of Iranian weapon systems. The world gets to see American marines get droned to the sound of Yakety Sax on social media while the IRGC gloats?