• sleepmode@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    ·
    1 day ago

    And it continues…

    • Israel now out of or very low on interceptors
    • Israel taking so much damage from Iran they’re now threatening nukes
    • Draft dodger now begging for help from allies he spent months breaking deals and partnerships with and shitting on their previous war contributions
    • Draft dodger also begging for help from adversaries such as China and lifts sanctions on Russian oil
    • Didn’t re-stock oil reserve, gets his muppet couch fucker on stage to blame Joe Biden for gas prices
    • Realizes they can’t take the Strait back, takes over their island that they use to distribute, now held at a stalemate
    • UK leadership calling him out on war being a distraction from the Epstein files

    Can’t wait to see what other fuckups he makes today.

  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 day ago

    Just read that Israel is supposedly running out of interceptor missiles, which means any attack of Iran, Hezbolla and others will result in a successful strike.

    Iran will have missiles for years to come. I wonder if this ends up in a leopards ate my face for Bibi

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    69
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago
    • lose geopolitical standing
    • run out of precision ammo
    • need China’s rare earths to build more bombs
    • switch to 1970 bombs and long ground war
    • let Iran break petrodollar by allowing Yuan
    • lose reserve currency status
    • lose all allies
    • trade deficit gets even worse
    • Yuan becomes reserve currency
    • Wall Street collapses completely

    This might be those weeks where decades happen. So many possibilities. It’ll be exciting to see what happens, from a distance.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      14 hours ago

      As someone with an inside perspective, I’ll appreciate your outside perspective for a quick laugh between cry-sessions

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      honestly, can’t believe that an Iran-US war is becoming an Iranian victory, with most of the US supporting Iran.

      US was always a paper tiger. the military isn’t designed for any sort of war, but designed to funnel public funds to military shareholders’s pockets.

      • Soulg@ani.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 day ago

        Idk, it’s possible our military just always sucked but Im more inclined to believe it’s just ineffective because the people running it are absolute braindead clowns.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 day ago

          both. it was designed to be a money sink. that’s why it’s budget is greater than basically all the rest of the world military, but lost a 20+ year war against some of the poorest peoples in the world.

          It is incredibly effective against civilians though

          • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            14 hours ago

            Yeah, the US military is only good at murdering brown agrarian peasants. Especially their ground forces; they regularly get schooled in international exercises and they have to tell the OPFOR to take it easy on them because it hurts their feelings to not be the best.

          • maplesaga@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            22 hours ago

            A lot of military is just the massive upkeep, and thats I think where the US shines, given they can export any inflation created.

        • fizzle@quokk.au
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          I don’t think its a question of skill or training.

          Iran holds all the cards.

        • marcos@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          You military has always been extremely capable of attack.

          But your defense has been destroyed by corruption since at least the 90s.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      23 hours ago

      “Uhh… uhh… But woke… and trans children… and groomers… ohh… he was a friend of Epstein…”

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    109
    ·
    1 day ago

    There have been worse wars but they’ve accumulated their worseness over a longer period of time. In terms of failures per minute, Epstein Fury is in the lead

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    1 day ago

    We can now also add to that:

    Admonish other ‘allies’ for not pre-committing their navies to the … surprise attack.

    Within 48 hrs, claim it is the responsibility of every other navy in the world to help you with a military campaign against a target that you claim you’ve already destroyed 100% of their military.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      15 hours ago

      What if they told him “the candidates are a closed set but we’ll consider you next year”? Then it would be after the midterms and hopefully both houses would push against the constitution-defying shenanigans.

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 day ago

      That fascist bitch from Venezuela “gave” him her prize, so he “has” one. And he’s still a dumb fucking moron who did this anyway.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 day ago

      Right? The rush is in the acquisition - he wouldn’t have been any different 24 hours later. Humans are conditioned to then immediately want the next thing they see, not appreciate the thing they got.

  • smeenz@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    1 day ago

    I was sure he would find a way to blame Obama for this.

    Also if a Russian asset was running this war, the first thing they would do would be to lift sanctions on Russia and force the cost of oil up …hmmm…

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    49
    ·
    1 day ago

    Refuses to admit they need ukrainian anti drone tech. Because you know zelenskyy will make jd say thanks.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      Oh that’s not bad, they get a shitload of stuff compared to russian contracts. Don’t forget all the MIC workers getting paid handsomely lol

      • RockBottom@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        You mean as long as somebody is worse off, the working class doesn’t know there’s a problem.

        • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 day ago

          No I’m saying there’s bad and there’s bad. It’s just levels to it, I don’t believe in suffering olympics

    • ranzispa@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      Are you saying that what has the potential to be the largest war since world war II is just a distraction from a bunch of documents that could eventually get someone convicted, even though most likely they have the power of not being convicted regardless?

      I’m sure there are better ways to distract people.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        1 day ago

        It’s hard for people to conceive how monumentally stupid Donald Trump really is.

        I think of it this way. He could have extorted $50 billion out of the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2017. Instead he figured that he could sell his fans NFTs.

        It’s completely on brand for him to start a war

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        Why would you deny it is a better question

        Edit: I made a mistake by responding to this trumpist troll.

        • ranzispa@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          11
          ·
          1 day ago

          Only Americans give any serious importance to the Epstein files. I don’t know if this was the case, but I’m pretty indifferent. This war is a way larger problem than the Epstein files.

          If this war is actually the result of someone wanting to take attention away from the Epstein files, then it may be better off for everyone to stop thinking about the Epstein files and prevent this kind of stuff from happening again.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            10
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 day ago

            There’s a lot of jaw dropping shit you just wrote but the only thing worth the time to mention is that, obviously, trump is the one who started the war, so it’s kind of up to his reasoning why. It is beyond clear he did this to distract from his pedophilia. People had been saying for weeks he would do it because the files were looking worse for him all the time.

            Again I ask why do you deny this.

            • ranzispa@mander.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              1 day ago

              I don’t deny anything.

              It is beyond clear he did this to distract from his pedophilia.

              It is not beyond clear to me. It feels like a huge oversimplified explanation of the causes of what could be a huge conflict. The war was started by both the US and Israel, not by Donald Trump alone.

              Did Trump get into this war just to take attention off the Epstein files? It is possible, but I doubt it is the main reason.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 day ago

                It feels like a huge oversimplified explanation of the causes of what could be a huge conflict. The war was started by both the US and Israel, not by Donald Trump alone.

                I was wrong to reply here. Because given that you wrote that, you give trump more credit than a person who can be conversed with would. 👋

                • ranzispa@mander.xyz
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  1 day ago

                  To talk with someone you need them to be convinced Trump is stupid? We are talking about the president of the United States, no matter how stupid he may be I’m sure he’s got plenty of advisors. The military had to have a plan for this.