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Trump’s Humiliating War Miscalculation Exposed

Trump’s Humiliating War Miscalculation Exposed - Lemmy.World

archive https://archive.is/6rPL5 [https://archive.is/6rPL5] Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly warned Trump that Iran would likely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz in response to a U.S. attack, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait, adding that even if the Strait was threatened, the U.S. military could handle it.

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Zos_Kia Mar 14

What’s funny is they got into this mess solely by their own crass ignorance. I’m persuaded they thought it would be like Syria or other asymmetrical wars they fought. Well though luck dipshits, Iran is a whole other kind of beast.

They already shit their pants in Afghanistan despite it being literally nicknamed “the graveyard of empires”. But Iran is not that, Iran is its own empire and has been for thousands of years. Good luck trying to get Elamites and Medes to bend the knee. You’re not the first to try.

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phutatorius

Iran has as unforgiving a landscape as Afghanistan, a population half again as large, and is not a bottom-of-the-heap, destitute basket case of a country. They may hate the mullahs, but that’ll be nothing compared to the hatred they have for a foreign aggressor.