• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    • 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.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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

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

          Iran holds all the cards.

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          You military has always been extremely capable of attack.

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

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

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