Pull up Google Earth.
Look at Iran. Appreciate the size and terrain.
Appreciate that its population is that of California, Texas, and Florida combined.
Ponder what size force would be needed to compel it's unconditional surrender.
And he wants you to believe 5K US marines will do what exactly?
If history offers any lessons, it is to guarantee any invader casualties without limit or pause for as long as they remain on your soil.
Iran is a mountainous country of 90,000,000 people.
They have friends, and the have a plan.
The USA does not have a fraction of the ground forces in the region required to compel Iran's capitulation, and could not assemble them and complete any meaninful operation before the mid-term elections.
Affluent countries tend to not have high-pain-threshold cultures of perserverance and resolve.
Some, like the USA, simply cannot comprehend opponents who do. Hence, underestimation.
Why people don't capitulate after a good bombing has clearly confounded them for an entire generation.
Oh, look.
A US opponent on its home turf employing asymetric warfare tactics to effect.
America. Swinging hammers at hornet swarms since 1964...
Bargain-basement rockets and drones vs expensive interceptors.
One side shall run out first.
When your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems look like nails.
More than expected drone strikes? How could ANYONE not expect this?
Well, fuck. That was dumb.
Especially in a age when you can project whatever message you want in 20 foot high letters on the building's facade.
All. Day. Every. Day.
What's cheaper: Buying a draft exemption or a bus ticket to Canada?
A lifetime of Soviet robot programming cannot be unlearned.
What Tass says, they think.
I do hope, (in the midst of rounding up brown-skinned minimum wage workers and their kids) that the US DHS still has some people focussed on preventing the next 9/11.
Cuz this is the sort of thing that can provoke that sort of thing.
For ovee half a century, the USA has repeatedly shown that they cannot endure high casualties.
They simply can't.
Iran knows this. Hell, everyone on planet Earth knows this.
For that reason alone, Iran's best play is to suck America into a land war, in a mountainous country, half a world away.
Do unto others what they do to you.
Because that is what they want you to do...
According to the Golden Rule.
The nail through the scrotum scene. A cinematic classic.
What would that do for the price of food in the average Icelandic grocery store?
The historical scourge of the americas proposes what now?
All sentient beings who have been casually observing world affairs for the last 4 years could have anticipated this.
China is learning that their only remaining competitor is indeed run by negligent, incompetent, unserious people.
...and will not be a competitor for long if the trend holds.
It might require a generational act of atonement.
...I would not want to be an American citizen walking down any street in any country in the world soon. At reprisal time, a soft target is still a target, sadly.
Well, you can fly in...not sure if flying out requires fuel and stuff, tho.
Hate the messenger, but he's not wrong.
Saddam abandoned his nuke program and is now dead.
Quadhaffi abadoned his nuke program and is now dead.
And the North Korean regime only gets unkind words nowadays.
Even the stupidest world leaders are seeing this pattern.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
A subsonic aircraft costing about the same as a motorcycle penetrated every US air defence when US forces are at their highest state of alert.
No A.A. response in that video, at all. No MANPADs, no AAA, no small arms, no magical incantations. Nothing.
Does Iran have many more of these things?
Canada won't risk removing a malignant imbicile just to risk having him replaced by another malignant imbicile....or worse.
America, the rot runs deeper thsn DJT.
The Space Shuttle was cool. And the Grand Canyon. The NFL is a blast.
That's about it, actually.
Like the "Double Secret Probation" announcement from the Animal House movie.
A Canadian can recognize another Canadian at 50 yards anywbere on the planet, if they have this visible on them.
Three guesses whete the Trump family will be seeking asylum.
Sure sounds like a ponzi scheme.
The tax $ he previiusly collected from America's own businesses is long gone.
He needs new money to pay back the billions that he now owes to countless American businesses.
He may indeed be fucked
