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TheModerateTankie [any]
TheModerateTankie [any] @ TheModerateTankie @hexbear.net
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  • Anyone remember or have heard of Project for a New American Century?

    Here's what wesley clark said about it back in the 2000's:

    Six weeks later, I saw the same officer, and asked: "Why haven't we attacked Iraq? Are we still going to attack Iraq?"

    He said: "Sir, it's worse than that. He said - he pulled up a piece of paper off his desk - he said: "I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defense's office. It says we're going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years - we're going to start with Iraq, and then we're going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran."

    Iraq being a clusterfuck delayed those plans, but It looks like we finally worked our way up to Iran.

  • I'm pretty confident Trump is going to attack. You don't build up forces to bluff. I think the ambivalence is about preventing Iran from taking action until we get the first hit.

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  • I'm old enough to remember the Bush administration floating the idea of using tactical nukes. The Us has been wanting to legitimize their use for a long time, and now there is a perfect opportunity.

  • The Zionists might just be mad enough to pull something like this.

    If Israel did use nuclear weapons what possible consequences would they face? A shrug from the rules-based international community as they strengthen sanctions against Iran when it comes time to rebuild?

  • As long as the US sticks to missiles and bombs, I don't think there will be any political consequences.

    And if we do major airstrikes and Iran retaliates and kills some troops, public opinion can flip like a lightswitch.

  • And Trump would get to brag about the heinous new nuclear weapon he launched, while hiding behind the "tactical" part to pretend it's not a horrifying escalation.

    At this point, what is stopping the US or Israel from using them? Western allies won't do shit about it.

  • "You give up your nuclear ambitions and we wait 3 months before we rip up the deal make up an excuse to destroy your country."

  • Israel has stated that they started this war because the possibility of Iranian nukes was an existential threat to Israel, and by doing this they have greatly increased the possibility Iran will develop nukes. There is a non-zero chance they will strike Iran with nuclear weapons, and why wouldn't they when the "rules based international order" will condone everything they do?

  • If I didn't want Iran bombing me I would simply not start a war with them.

  • I mean, the US has sanctioned every rival at this point that it just becomes background noise, but Iraq was hit pretty hard, and we knew damn well their military was crippled before we invaded.

    Right now Iran is in a much stronger place than Iraq was, so we will probably not invade, but I wouldn't rule out military strikes.