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Someone needs to ask Krasnov that question right now.
We have learned nothing from history. What good was it for President Clinton to bomb Iraq? Good job destroying that pharmacy looking for non-existent WMD.
What good was in it for Shrub to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq?
What good was in it for President Biden to continually bomb the Houthis?
Bad things are going to happen when Krasnov bombs or even sends troops into Iran. Has anyone actually planned out a bad scenario before doing this? Iran has missiles and drones and every country that houses our military is open to attack.
Even if the present regime is ousted what guarantees are there that the people who take over will be better?
For certain the price of oil will skyrocket, Putin will love that. The price of gasoline will skyrocket which will cause inflation to rise even more.
I have a prediction that I am betting my golf clubs on, an invasion, significant bombing of Iran will be a huge mistake for the United States.
We have 2 battle groups just outside the range of Iranian missiles right now, surely the idiot isn't going to send ground troops in?
sop
(18,150 posts)(BBC, 2019) "Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador in the US...Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of 'diplomatic vandalism,' according to the Mail on Sunday...The paper says the memo was written after the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appealed to the US in 2018 to stick with the deal."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48978484
Chasstev365
(7,477 posts)Sadly, I think we (collective) will passively do nothing. So another option is to totally boycott Amazon, Facebook, paypal and all other Trump friendly companies. Hit theses billionaire asshole's bottom line.
This is not asking people to go without necessities, but to tell the billionaires ENOUGH!
Lovie777
(22,459 posts)no words on the secret meetings between Israeli's RWers and US's RWers....................
And to boot, US military medical ships to Greenland?
multigraincracker
(37,290 posts)What good go wrong?
PCB66
(97 posts)Trump is obsessed with Israel. Anything to protect Israel. Even war with Iran.
Guess who is going to get all the contracts to rebuild Gaza?
The same country that destroyed Gaza with the help of Trump.
gab13by13
(31,784 posts)mwmisses4289
(3,729 posts)Bookreadingliberal53
(140 posts)Hes doing Israels bidding. Israel wants Iran wiped off the map.
rampartd
(4,433 posts)i'm sure the right predictions are being made in those gambling sites.
spanone
(141,277 posts)OC375
(611 posts)I think a lot of people see Iran as an ongoing PITA and want to kick their ass. Money too of course, but I think primarily its kill your enemy vs justice or safety.
IcyPeas
(25,244 posts)[This article is from 2019]
1. Iraq is 168,754 mi2 and Iran is 636,400 mi2; that is, Iran is geographically 3.77 times bigger than Iraq, almost 4 times as big.
2. Iraqs population when invaded was 26 million. Irans population today is 81 million.
See the rest here:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/15/top-ten-differences-between-iraq-war-and-trumps-proposed-iran-war
Fiendish Thingy
(22,648 posts)Just air attacks.
What have you heard, and where did you hear it?
MineralMan
(150,999 posts)Some people hear those. Most people don't.
MineralMan
(150,999 posts)Trump don't care. It is that simple.
In any case, there are no plans to INVADE Iran. Attack it? Sure, but no invasion is in the works at all.
Words matter.