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Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i heard they were sending more today, and apparently US is unlikely able to defend karage island , its a fools errand. also wasting anti-missiles missile defense to destroy cheap drones and iranian missiles, also taking away AA resources from israel.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 15 hours ago

never get involved in a land war in Asia

I'm sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.

[-] sprack@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

As you wish.

[-] Johniegordo@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

That's gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They've been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment...

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago

This is not going to be a full scale invasion. For that they need way more soldiers. 5000 is enough to take some islands, run some raids on the coast or do some special ops bs. If they send more we maybe see something bigger.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Oh they might be intending to capture that strait to minesweep it and open it back up. Which will probably continuously cost lives of those holding it while boats get targeted by drones anyways.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 6 points 14 hours ago

Kharg is the most likely. 90% of Irans oil exports go through that island and the US has just bombed it hard, while the units currently moved are specialized in taking islands. Other then that in the Strait of Hormuz Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs are decent targets, as the UAE claims them and taking them would be useful to secure shipping a bit better.

If you wanted to secure the Strait somewhat Hormozgan province would have to be taken. With a population of nearly 2million, that is not going to happen with 5000 men. Maybe raids though.

[-] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago

Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.

And he must finish the announcement with "Now watch this drive".

As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.

That is the protocol.

[-] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

If we can get Trump to say “Now watch this drive” then maybe things won’t be too bad…

[-] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Trump can only wish he were as slick as Bush

[-] Naevermix@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago

It's fucking grim how predictable all of this is.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

And they are mugging us off as if we can't see exactly what this is.

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

It's Vietnam all over again.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;

it's government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;

there is no "South Iran";

and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;

unlike boomers and those older, young men haven't been drafted for 50 years;

oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;

but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

both china and india gets free passage through the strait from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

WRONG. Iran is desert, not jungle, dumbass.

(I hope it's clear I'm being silly at you. Because I am. Being silly at you.)

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 day ago

5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.

Damn, what a way to go.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred... But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That's going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it's going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.

Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

It sounds like what you are saying is that this administration is going to get even more than 5000 marines killed.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

More than 5000, yes. Marines? Not so sure.

[-] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago
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[-] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 28 points 22 hours ago

There is literally no way this can end badly

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.

all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a "reason to do it" and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.

[-] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 8 points 17 hours ago

Americans don't learn.

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[-] wpb@lemmy.world 25 points 23 hours ago

Here's hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags

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