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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 104 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Second verse, same as the first.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's almost like America is a failed state because Americans are braindead morons who will let you rob them blind as long as you tell them they are part of an extra special freedom team.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah! Don't unsell our stupidity and failures! We've work tirelessly to be proudly ignorant. Stupid intellectuals trying to give us the benefit of the doubt are the real no brian morans!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is damage control on the the stock market and posturing for his base, Iran doesnt seem to be backing down and the longer this drags out the more certain disaster for the global economy becomes.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 9 points 2 months ago

Probably. The outlook for a long war might pop a bubble that's keeping "his" economy afloat.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 months ago

Saw the multitude of economic indicators and worried for a minute.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

So it is a war. Which means it is illegal because Congress has not sanctioned it. Arrest the criminal fucker.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

My kitchen has been pretty much finished for the last 5 years

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He had a press conference, very recently, "over soon, but if Iran does anything more, destruction of everything". including reference to shipping in Straits. Iran knows he's bluffing, and has run out of missiles, and will not put the navy within their drone range, but at any rate, Trump's Israel masters won't let him off the hook.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol the USA have not run out of missiles lol

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They don't produce that many per year, and they need rare earth material access to build more. Trump feeling the need to say there is an unlimited supply, should be proof enough that they've run out. The Quadrupling of orders could affect future wars, but is a definite reaction to limited current supplies.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Trump is full of shit first of all. And we are nowhere close to running low on munitions

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The cost differential between ballistics and interceptors (10x or more) would be one factor but doubt the US/Israel is close to running out yet.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

‘Very Complete, Pretty Much’

Almost nowhere near?

Definitely almost?

Precisely in general?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Concepts of completion

[–] j2k4@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Sounds like my colleague's progress report this morning.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

"A concept of a plan of an exit strategy."

[–] prex@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Thank fuck for taco's

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And here I was thinking that it takes one side to start a war but two to stop it. The US seems to be in a no win scenario. Either they just call it a day while publicly claiming victory, which in practice results in an Iranian victory, or they commit to a ground campaign, which is Afghanistan all over again but much bigger in scope.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

Yeh, the US opened Pandora's box here. You can't just close it again.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Either they just call it a day while publicly claiming victory, which in practice results in an Iranian victory,

That was the greatest victory US ever had. We won, and we won bigly. Iran leader was begging me not to kill him. Iranian children were hiding like dogs. Some people say we didn't win but they are traitors and communists.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 2 months ago

just another two week project gone awry

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

And we still don't even have a declared goal for this war. Uhm... Besides all the bullshit religious rhetoric, of course.

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

They are running out of interceptors and now they hope they can pull out and deescalate until they get hit where it hurts...

[–] Bopolny@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Trump will end the war, claim success and oil will be below $60 by summer. Announcement coming this week

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The good news and the bad news is this doesn't indicate the war is over.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Translation: his attention span has been exceeded, so he'll stand in front of a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, then move on to the next distraction while the war drags on.

[–] nert@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So they failed in pulling in Iran’s neighbors to fight for them and now it’s over.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Israel got to kill some children and invade Lebanon. They used this fool to gain couple of smaller and bigger wins again. Nothing else matters here.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Oh! Stop projecting and retreat already! Nobody else asked for any of this. This is on you and your moron squad alone.