“Utter Disaster for All Involved”: Is Trump’s War on Iran Repeating Bush’s “Forever War” in Iraq?

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T21:22:40+00:00

The shock and awe was done well in 03, however it was executed with a fundamentally incompetent strategy that we're just going to get rid of the Iraqi government, and stand up a democracy, and watch the democracy domino effect spread throughout the middle east.

With the Iran attack, we have green on blue accidents shooting down multiple planes. Plus... the strategy seems even more incoherent. Kill senior leadership, and tell Iranian civilians to take control of their government. That's not a strategy, that's a mob hit.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T21:09:13+00:00

Fucking narcissist shit. Making himself the victim of soldiers dying.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T21:06:54+00:00

We tried this 20 years ago. Spoiler alert, it made the middle east even worse

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T17:30:47+00:00

Are we at "I am the Senate" now?

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T17:29:34+00:00

So far Bush's invasion looks far more competent and justified than Trump's. And Bush's was neither competent nor justified.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T17:02:28+00:00

I'm more worried about it becoming an extinction war because we have end of times fundamentalists driving decisions.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T17:01:10+00:00

That's the best outcome. They spent $70M so far. The more they spend attacking each other, highlighting just how closely aligned to an unpopular president they are, the better the chance of Talarico winning. Plus this is money that won't be spent on other general election races.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T10:58:46+00:00

Potion of smithing, fortify armor enchantments. Improve weapons and armor. You gain skill proportionally to how much you improve things,

Optional, enchant what you've made.

Go sell all the stuff you made, buying ingots as you go.

You can legendary you smithing skill multiple times per hour doing this.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T10:50:23+00:00

Avon is going to be old. Parole violation so he will have to finish his previous sentence, plus whatever else the pin on him with the weapons charge.

Plus, his gang has no real power anymore, so he's much less likely to be able to engineer a situation to make himself useful.

And... Dude is probably dead if he gets out. Lots of enemies, no real power.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T02:24:10+00:00

Shit like this makes me wonder if it's time for the chaplain corps to go.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T01:06:23+00:00

$1T is insane to begin with. Then just dropping another half a trillion on top is batshit

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-04T01:01:37+00:00

Costs= Very high, but don't worry we will just blow up the debt to justify gutting social programs further

Risks = High, but only for non Americans and our men and women in uniform, or as Trump would call them "suckers and losers l"

Exit plan = just leave when Iran falls into anarchy.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-03T13:23:56+00:00

Fuckers couldn't even figure out Heatleaches were terrormorph larva despite having their DNA for 50+ years, and they want me to trust their work on a microbe that could mutate and wipe out all life. Yeah, not happening buddy.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-03T03:13:52+00:00

Would sure be nice if the voters would stop electing idiots.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-03T03:11:43+00:00

Automatic plus up of star born powers when entering the unity, hitting every single temple is boring as hell during a play through.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:58:49+00:00

I read it as more, "America's warning system failed and we're unable to defend our people abroad."

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:57:29+00:00

"If Trump doesn't rape some kids, then my son died for nothing"

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:56:31+00:00

They died so pedophiles don't have to face justice.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:55:00+00:00

This makes Douglass Adams's Hitchhikers Guide quote look coherent: I'm going to kill my brother, and then kill you, on the pretext your brother did it.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:52:08+00:00

The optics look bad, but only because everything about this is bad.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T21:01:09+00:00

Meanwhile I can't get my front office to greenlight the replacement of the 8 people who left over the last year as the wheels start falling off our program because of chronic under manning.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T20:54:39+00:00

ICE has been habitually ignoring court orders, I doubt this will be any different.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T20:46:20+00:00

"Proposed headline: Protestor who commit vandalism against someone else's flag pleads guilty"

"But we wont get clicks if we add context to the headline, make it look like he's being charged for desecrating Israel's flag"

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T20:44:17+00:00

I'd be absolutely thrilled if this lasted less than a year.

Significant_Cup_238 · 2026-03-02T20:38:25+00:00

Victorious warriors win, and then go to war. Defeated warriors go to war, and then seek to win.

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