They've got the tiger by the tail now, then. Either the US and Israel pursue this all the way through to full regime change, or when they finally withdraw they're going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.
I'm sure Trump thought this all through in thorough detail, though, and has a long-term plan.
Yeah about that, he already "promised" the Islamic republican guard full immunity, you know those guys brutally slaughtering peaceful demonstrators...
Ah, less than a day into the fight and Trump is already frantically looking for a way to TACO.
I'm sure that last line was sarcasm. 🤣
Well, he has a concept of a plan!
No way
they're going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.
They already did this a few generations ago.
The last time they installed a regime in Iran they created an enemy for generations.
Very long term. Maybe even Two Weeks™.
My money is on Syria but bigger.
Way to make a martyr.
I don't think an unpopular regime leader that oppressed the people for 37 years will become a martyr for very many people.
He probably will be a. Martyr for all the people that were fighting the protestors to keep him in power.
Thanks Trump! Best president ever!
You smell bad
Block the troll and move on.
Barf
us gets bogged down into a war and all they get for it is killing an 86 year old man iran had a contingency plan for
Y'all are eulogizing Khamenei over on lemmy.ml?
Did you expect different behavior from them?
Lemmy.world pretending to be against war but then celebrating it is so on-brand.
I'm anti-war, but I'm not going to lose sleep at night over a tyrannical leader getting bombed.
What about the school children?
You can be against the US and it's allies starting another war in the middle east plunging us into another multi decade quagmire AND you can be happy that that Islamist despot khomenini got the roof caved in on his ugly head
They're not mutually exclusive
"You can be against war but also for the things that happen because of war"
Correct, for some things.
Like Khomeini being buried alive for example.
The world is a better place for it.
I hope he was scared
You are sure happy the only party opposing genocide was killed.
I'm happy the guy who ordered the killing of tens of thousands of protesters, was himself killed, yes.
His stance on Genocide does not factor into my assessment of him
Hitler was a vegetarian who loved dogs... was still a cunt
Tens of thousands wow. If you believe that number there's no saving you.
Username checks out. Sure have someone here trying to justify butchering a bunch of innocent civilians
Thanks mods for blocking lm, i fear what is written on those comments
Top-level comment was framing him as a feminist and had what I assume was a screengrab from his social media picturing an "inspirational" photo of a wheat field at sunrise with a muslim supplication about being sinful and repentant and asking god not to turn his face away like he rightfully does from his other servants.
Tankies hate religion except for when it's an anti-western theocratic dictator's religion.
Maybe a concept of a plan.
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