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Okay. And for those of us that haven’t served what does it mean? Fucking gate keepers, man.
Such good food is served to boost morale and mood of soldiers before the battle. In this case, before a new war. To be more precise: before war between the USA and Iran(and Israel as an ally).
Ally? The US is subservient to Israel.
Cute, you think it's a country in charge? HA
The USA and Israel serve the same master
Holy shit, I don't want another needless war in the middle east but my god do I want to see Berserker Blobby go absolutely ape shit and start wailing on everyone in his path.
Blobby!
BLOBBY!
BLOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBY!
What master would that be?
The 0.1%!
If I’m in the wealthiest fraction of humanity, how does Israel help me? I must be missing something because I’m not aware of that connection. Are we just talking about arms dealers?
As an ally against Iran
Or less charitably we can say the president, and congress, are Israel's bitch.
It's more like Israel is our unsinkable aircraft carrier next to the gas station
I would have expected this admin to serve McDonald's and diet Coke
War is coming tomorrow.
Edit: again, I would like to add that this is wild speculation.
Right now is when the situation in Iran is ripe though with their protests.
Ripe for what?
Not a fucking chance that happens. We could assassinate a string of their leaders, they won't let a puppet take over, not a fucking chance. If anything hardliners will get in after they kill their leaders, which is what Israel wants, to keep the war going, for cause to come back and hit them again and again after peace is remade, for years. It's a forever war Israel is buying with their blackmail so they don't have to face their domestic failures in the ghetto uprising, and elections.
They cut and ran in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and that was when the U.S. was a global hegemon at its absolute peak. No way they can regime change a country that is more populous and developed than both neighbors put together.
Especially not after they have spend the last 9 years destroying their international power structures.
I mean, sure, they kan kill a few hundred thousand people, declare victory and fuck off, but they can’t do much to actually change anything for the better long term.
You do realize most of that is a concerted effort to drum up support, that the protests aren't nearly as widespread as they would have you believe, and that this is 101 for manipulating people into war?
Truthfully I think a new war now would destroy them. If they let midterms happen
People didn't even show up for their own human rights, they won't show up because of Iran. Trump will just bomb them to hell and leave it a mess, so no boots on the ground imagery.
Not really doomerism when we literally had the DHS secretary on mic in public say "we're going to have ICE making sure the right people vote for the right leaders".
When the enemy tells you their plan, believe them the first time.
You are forgetting 2 very big reasons why Bush was able to start that war
I believe it's a 9/11 reference, with the "two very big reasons" alluding to the Twin Towers.
Sure, but let me get ahead of what you're going to say. 9/11 provided the justification. As of right now, we have not had another 9/11 like event to justify invading another country. Citing a vague threat used to work immediately after 9/11, but that faded after about a decade. All you have to do is look at public opinion of the war in Afghanistan. The vague "threats' of danger stopped working.
Of course as with all horrible things about 30% of the dumbest demographic will support it no matter what.
Loyal tribal members, they aren't neccessarily dumb, though many are, they trust their tribe knows what they are doing. You can call that dumb, but how many people trust the democrats to know what they are doing? How many trusted kamala being anointed without a contest?
We all trust the wrong people, they just trust the worst people.
This isn't the wrong conclusion. I'd say about 30% of people believe that fully. 30% is enough to swing a primary when those 30% make up the majority of the Republican cacus.
Then you have another 15% of the population unwilling to switch parties, vague reasons on culture war issues or "fiscal conservatism".
The final 10% votes on shallow issues. Things like Biden being perceived as old, the economy doing poorly, abortion, or whatever they saw on Facebook last week.
I did not say that, I just don't think it would be recieved favorably.
Neat, I also didn't say that. I undertake that even pre-Trump the US president could invade any country any time they wanted. They had the authority under law to do so.
What I did say was that if elections happen then a random foreign war would not be favorable for the majority party to retain their seats.
You've crafted a very passioned response, but I think you're saying it to the wrong people. Like I agree with most of what you're saying, it just doesn't fit the conversation of the effect a foreign war would have on elections.
I'm well aware the current government is fascist and will do fascist things.
Idk, it will spike gas prices presumably, one thinks Iran would shut down the straits of hormuz this time, I can't believe they didn't last time though so what do I know. But it will supercharge inflation, and gas prices, 25% of oil moves through there.
Plus once a ship gets blown up, insurance pulls their coverage, and those tankers are worth like a hundred million or more, they won't risk them in a war zone without insurance.
One would think between mines, and missiles they could have dug in and pull out and shoot off then disappear, that they could shut down the straits, and that maybe last time they were holding back to wait it out and not escalating. Which was a mistake as it guarenteed Israel would want to get some more cost free hits in.
But close to the election the hyper inflation could hurt, now they've plenty of time to calm it down, assuming they can keep Israel on a leash enough to keep the gulf ships going through after.
You think Iran could control the Strait of Hormuz against two US carrier strike groups?
The US navy can't secure the Bab-el-Mandeb strait against less well equipped yemani rebels
I think they could with mines, and missiles, and drones, be able to hit oil tankers well enough to shut down the straits of hormuz.
You don't think so? I thought they were going to do it last time and they didn't, so maybe I was mistaken.
There are certain things people can reasonably criticize the US military as being bad at, but I don't think anyone can credibly claim it isn't excellent at achieving air superiority. I mean, maybe it could turn out that the Navy is "fighting the last war" and unprepared for drones, but I don't think that's likely. Especially not against Iran (China I might give more credit to, what with their hypersonic missiles and all).
I just looked up the original tweet. It was sent out on Friday. (20 Feb 2026)
The Pentagon Pizza index shows a weeklong 160% spike in afternoon activity at the Papa Johns 2.3 miles from the Pentagon.
The 5 closer pizza places are currently showing a bit busy, but nothing outside of the ordinary.
It's like in games when there is suddenly a room with lots of healing items and ammo you know there is a hard fight coming up
You know how they feed a death row inmate a last meal before sending them off to die. Kinda like that, only more fucked up because our troops are going to die for the machinations of billionaires and warlords.
The US won't be suffering that many casualties. Iran is powerless to respond to most of these aerial attacks and guided missiles and advanced drones. That's why they are doing it, well that's why Israel is using their epstein blackmail to get the US to do it for them. Then Israel can always find another pretext to bomb and assassinate them even after peace is declared. Forever war, a permanent foil for Israel, their bogeyman their media has crafted, despite their lack of advanced weapons systems.
The military isn't well known for their cuisine. The exception is when they're about to deliver some bad news. Steak and lobster means you're about to get shipped off to war.
Or Christmas dinner.
Every time unscheduled good food showed up, shitty orders followed.
Gotta be well fed before you kill people.
It means that it's steak and crab legs day in the meal rotation. Or that anyone outside the immediate chain of command is visiting for any reason.
In other words, it means nothing.
Oh they meant served as in military service. Given the context, I read it as anyone who has been a server/waiter and served food.