Trump is now caught in the oldest trap of modern warfare – believing a swift, surgical military operation will yield quick, enduring political results. The Soviets did it in Afghanistan; the US in Iraq in 2003; Putin did it in Ukraine, and is still fighting. Whatever force a military fails or succeeds in applying at the start, the people it is attacking have greater commitment to defending their lands and homes.
The White House may have rushed into this, seizing the opportunity for a decapitation strike, provided by Israeli intelligence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very different objectives regionally, and a long US involvement against Tehran suits his desire for an Iran in rolling collapse that is no longer a threat. But the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has caused as many problems as it has solved.
Well, now we all know what happens when you make a felon rapist pedo the most influential person on the planet.
“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please” - Niccolo Machiavelli
How did the Iraq war yield quick results? Wasn’t the U.S. military there for like 9 years?
The military collapsed in a matter of days. Yet the conflict didn’t end for years, which is the whole premise of the article and every conflict mentioned.
Because the entire army went home, the US wouldn’t allow them to work in security, fired many of those that were working in security, and then did a big ole surprise Pikachu when the army just kind of became an insurgency.
Ah, so you’re talking about the benefits we reap after the dust settles following the initial military actions.
That makes more sense, admittedly I did skim.
This will end the same as every other middle east conflict. We destroy the government and make 12 new terrorist organizations. But they keep trying to cut the heads off a hydra.
The man isn’t even able to prevent himself from shitting his pants.
The only thing « they » won is a larger distraction from the Epstein files of a pedophile president.
Yeah real odd the timing of this attack is the same day they released evidence of him diddling kids…
Correction: the war Netanyahu started, and Trump followed along with
Calling it now, when striking military targets fails to get surrender, we will switch to war crimes, Israel and then the US will start hitting water, food, and transportation infrastructure.
The only way to get victory from this war is genocide.
We blew up a school. It was war crimes from the start.
right out of the gate!
You’re about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.
And we know the Zionists are intensely relaxed about perpetrating genocide.
Uh, y’all already all in on that.
They already have been. I know that at least one water desalination plant was hit. Civilian fuel infrastructure has been hit. The US openly stated they’re going to try to cripple their industrial capacity. Seems the US has adopted Israel’s Dahiya doctrine which targets civilian infrastructure. I think Trump said once the US is done there will be nobody left to surrender…
“At some point I don’t think there will be anybody left, maybe to say ‘we surrender.’ They’re being decimated.”
- Donald Trump
It’s not a war crime is it’s the first time.
Wonder what new horrors the torment nexus can cook up.
This war?
Iran gets a vote.
And that’s it. This war is going to at least last through November because Iran now wants to hurt Donald politically.
EVERY war ever fought was going to be over in a month with an overwhelming victory, and yet, it NEVER happens.
Except in the first US gulf war, back in the early 90s. (Kuwait was attacked by Iraq. The USA spent months preparing and then three days attacking. Then stopped when Iraq surrendered.)
Or the fall of the USSR. (Happened in about a month, no major fighting.)
Or the Russian annexation of Crimea.
It isn’t that short military exercises never yield results. It’s that wars persist until both attacker and defender believe peace is the best tactic.
The USA bombing a country for whom fighting the USA is essentially their national myth is possibly the dumbest thing that my country has ever done.
Of course he cannot stop it now. The world and it’s history is way bigger than the current blip that is trump.
War is a choice, he could end it right now.
I know the first thing I would do is stop shooting at the nation that bombed and killed my family and 100+ kids because they stopped first.
We have radicalized an entire nation against the US for no reason anyone can actually explain. The only thing we taught every nation is that we can bomb you and take your leaders captive if you do not have nukes.
Not just a nation, a whole region. We did commit genocides in Afghanistan and Iraq too.
This dude started presidency with zero major crises, and has created at least three.
that’s like guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar.
there’s at least three!
That fat cunt is unable to keep it’s trousers clean from it’s own shit.
So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.
The plan was to distract from the Epstein files at any means necessary.
Modern? Nobody remembers the blitzkrieg?
