• FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    It’s been really funny watching Americans publicly expose their ignorance all over social media

    They all assume it’s an inevitability that America wins this war and successfully deposes the Iranian government

    The notion of us failing to achieve our goals in any capacity is unfathomable to them

    • BattleshipPokemon [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      1 month ago

      Imo it’s not contradictory to think that the US is probably incapable of achieving it’s aims in the region, but that its perfectly capable of causing the collapse of any unified state, the deaths of tens of thousands of people if not more and ruining the lives of tens of millions while trying

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      28·
      1 month ago

      Yet another thing is that Trump is the head of the military yet so many libs are working so hard to pretend it’s no problem at all. It’s so weird to me. I posted the following a couple days ago…

      Why a Democratic Congressman Is Supporting Trump’s War with Iran - The New Yorker

      Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope [to Isaac Chotiner] that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

      This bit is surreal.

      I just meant that it seems like we were trying to effectuate regime change, which the President himself has said, rather than just knock out military targets.

      Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general.

      You are trusting him on this, though, right?

      No.

      You aren’t?

      I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies.

      You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President?

      Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah.

      He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right?

      Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.