Iran War

[crazy canuck]

Source?

Just a hunch. Trump likes his military spectaculars done on the weekends.

Well, that would have to be an invasion that occurs only in the imaginations of Trump or others because as already noted just yesterday, the amphibious Marines are still about two or three weeks away from arriving.

[viper37]

Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

Non Paywall link:
https://archive.is/i2YHq

[Valmy]

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The Pentagon is supposed to be preparing for all sorts of things. Or at least it used to before we made Mr. Not-Committing-Warcrimes-Is-Woke Secretary of Def..er...War.

But the options are either just surrender to Iranian demands or send in the troops. The troops will be sent in.

[viper37]

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The Pentagon is supposed to be preparing for all sorts of things. Or at least it used to before we made Mr. Not-Committing-Warcrimes-Is-Woke Secretary of Def..er...War.

But the options are either just surrender to Iranian demands or send in the troops. The troops will be sent in.

Well, the good news is, Iran is totally defeated.


It shouldn't be funny, but everytime, he reminds me of this exchange:


Centurion Faipalgugus : Qui êtes-vous ?

Blocus : Claudius Blocus, envoyé spécial de Jules César. Voilà qui je suis. Centurion, tu avais envoyé un message à Rome pour dire que toute la Gaule était occupée. Toute ? Toute !

Centurion Faipalgugus : Le messager ! Je l'avais oublié celui-là !

Blocus : Eh bien, Jules César m'a demandé de vérifier tes dires ; de voir si tu avais vraiment vaincu ces Gaulois dissidents... Par Jupiter ! Qu'est-ce qu'ils nous ont mis, tes vaincus !

[The Brain]

So unconditional surrender was just BS, now it's about making a deal? The US seems to struggle with keeping its lies straight.

[Valmy]

The US seems to struggle with keeping its lies straight.

We don't really struggle at all since we don't really bother.

[Legbiter]

Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

Non Paywall link:
https://archive.is/i2YHq

[HisMajestyBOB]

Gonna be awfully hard to accomplish any objectives when the troops are landed every Friday and withdrawn every Monday.

[Jacob]

I mean the whole "cavalcade of contradictory bullshit" is core to the Trump method.

If he ends up reaching some sort of negotiated settlement, the whole "getting ready to attack" thing will be recontextualized as positioning to improve his bargaining position.

Conversely, if the US ends up attacking all the negotiating thing will be recontextualized as "we were keeping them off balance and using up their leadership cycles to distract them from the attack we always were going to made."

It was the same with Greenland and with basically every single thing he's ever done.

I do think it's less effective when it comes to war because the actual options are limited by what materiel you have positioned where and that doesn't change overnight. And conversely, changing your force posture carries an actual cost as well.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's all part of Trump's brilliant negotiation strategy of always keeping his adversaries "off balance"

If this strategy also appears to be indistinguishable from that of an incompetent ignoramus and pathological liar suffering early onset dementia, I assure you the similarities are entirely coincidental.

[HVC]

Is it still considered early onset dementia if the sufferer is 79? Or just regular dementia?

[mongers]

Is it still considered early onset dementia if the sufferer is 79? Or just regular dementia?

Alternatively, perhaps the US as 'concept' is going through early onset dementia?

The US as a political entity is ill, how else do we explain it being armed to the teeth, it's people being the most 'armed' in history and yet accepting matter of fact, the weekly school shootings and gun massacres?

[The Minsky Moment]

Is it still considered early onset dementia if the sufferer is 79? Or just regular dementia?

 
Early stage
That was my own early onset in action.