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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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floofloof Mar 14

Well though luck dipshits, Iran is a whole other kind of beast.

If only every single person who knew anything at all about Iran had tried to tell them this repeatedly for years and years.

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Zos_Kia Mar 14

Isn’t that kind of their signature moves? Trying something that sounds kinda sorta like common sense but it’s profoundly stupid or has already failed countless times before…

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phutatorius Mar 17

Every policy Trump has is the kind of shite that some drunken asshole at a bar trots out, usually preferenced with “Why don’t we just…”

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Zos_Kia

that’s the kind of attitude i loathe in real life. “I’ve thought about it for 5 minutes and reached a hasty conclusion and everyone is stupid for not having thought of it”, except everybody has thought of it minute 1, some have even tried it, and we know it doesn’t work.