Trump is now caught in the oldest trap of modern warfare – believing a swift, surgical military operation will yield quick, enduring political results. The Soviets did it in Afghanistan; the US in Iraq in 2003; Putin did it in Ukraine, and is still fighting. Whatever force a military fails or succeeds in applying at the start, the people it is attacking have greater commitment to defending their lands and homes.

The White House may have rushed into this, seizing the opportunity for a decapitation strike, provided by Israeli intelligence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very different objectives regionally, and a long US involvement against Tehran suits his desire for an Iran in rolling collapse that is no longer a threat. But the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has caused as many problems as it has solved.

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    It is pretty endable. We just give them our republican leaders and any democrat leaders that were in favor.

    There will be some sort of financial reimbursement.

    Might be able to spin it around and offer college admission to their students to help bridge the damage.

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    Well, now we all know what happens when you make a felon rapist pedo the most influential person on the planet.

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    How did the Iraq war yield quick results? Wasn’t the U.S. military there for like 9 years?

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      Nevermind the article, are you seriously so lazy that you won’t even read the summary? You don’t even have to click on anything. It’s right in front of you! Just read it!

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    Calling it now, when striking military targets fails to get surrender, we will switch to war crimes, Israel and then the US will start hitting water, food, and transportation infrastructure.

    The only way to get victory from this war is genocide.

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    Iran gets a vote.

    And that’s it. This war is going to at least last through November because Iran now wants to hurt Donald politically.

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      I know the first thing I would do is stop shooting at the nation that bombed and killed my family and 100+ kids because they stopped first.

      We have radicalized an entire nation against the US for no reason anyone can actually explain. The only thing we taught every nation is that we can bomb you and take your leaders captive if you do not have nukes.

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        Not just a nation, a whole region. We did commit genocides in Afghanistan and Iraq too.

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    That fat cunt is unable to keep it’s trousers clean from it’s own shit.

    So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.

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    I’m willing to bet this is Trumps and by extension America’s 3 day special operation. And I mean that down to the expectation this would all be over in 3-4 days after the extensive bombing and killing of the upper leadership in the first day.

    Instead Iran was all “nah we’re good, we’ve been preparing for this day for 15-20 years”. And started fucking up the whole region.

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    Trump, as an individual may not have a way out. Remember, Epstein was Mossad-trained and probably shared a lot of useful dirt with Israel.

    But there is always a path to peace; and in this case it starts with the US backing off. Iran doesn’t have much capacity for war beyond protecting itself.

    Exactly the same as how there’s a way for Russia to have peace in Ukraine.