The Iranian military consists of approximately 610,000 active-duty personnel and around 350,000 reserve personnel, totalling about 960,000 military personnel. This makes it the largest military force in the Middle East in terms of active troops.

Trump is going to send perhaps 20,000 marines up against them.

A very high death toll would mean the end for Trump

And that is a wicked thing for me to write

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@Geri I want to believe this, but there is too much evidence that these people are fully entrenched in delusion and are too prideful to admit they've been enormous pieces of shit for at least the past decade.

If your moral/ethical bottom is somewhere beneath financial and democratic support for child raping Nazis who bomb school children, then it's simply the case that you have no moral/ethical bottom. The Marines signed up to kill children. The children they will kill did not.

@a_phlaming_phoenix what ended the Vietnam War was the coffins being shown on TV

4,400 US soldiers were killed in Operartion Freedom (The Iraq War) George Bush was very careful to ensure their coffins were not seen on US tvs

The problem Trumo has is social media, where images of coffins will be circulated widely

@Geri Yeah, but I guess my point is that I don't think it will work on a populace that has already dug their heels into justifying and forgiving far worse crimes. Why would seeing coffins on social media sway someone who is not swayed by our existing levels of domestic gun violence or the annihilation of a child's innocence? That's what I don't understand. If we're already way past that in terms of justifying awful things, why would a less awful thing have any effect?

@a_phlaming_phoenix I understand you here

But IMHO the overwhelming feeling would be "we have fucjed up badly here with all our brave soldiers being killed"

@Geri I guess I just find that to be a really gross sentiment. Call it another reason I'm incompatible with maga, I guess.