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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Blumenthal states Trump regime just briefed them on sending US troops to fight in Iran.
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BREAKING: Senator Blumenthal states Trump regime just briefed them on sending US troops to fight in Iran.
Boots on the ground.
A reminder that him & Netanyahu will not send their sons, but they expect your sons and daughters to go die for them so they can stay out of prison. Are we great yet? 🤔
hookaleft
(1,084 posts)kick
OhioBlue
(5,169 posts)This is Iraq on steroids.
Bread and Circuses
(1,877 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,709 posts)They have to authorize this... take it to court, pull every fucking lever available to them. STOP THIS INSANITY.
This is proxy war paid for by our soldiers' blood for Israel - I cannot fathom the grief that the families of our lost soldiers must already feel....
Bread and Circuses
(1,877 posts)USS_Dauntless
(266 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,691 posts). . . let him lead the charge.
Meanwhile, let's not forget the maxim: Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
WTF does "boots on the ground mean?"
Drop in a battalion of 82d Airborne Division troopers?
Each troop will be carrying 100 pounds of gear, most of which they will ditch once the get on the ground. Then comes the problem of providing them with: ammo, water, food, spare parts. And how do we get this to them and where does it come from?
Airborne are light infantry. They have little or no protection against armor (tanks) or armored vehicles.
Remember: Iran is manufacturing at least half the drones Russia is using in Ukraine. If we have learned one thing from the war in Ukraine, it's the lethality of simple drones. Just wait until Iran unleashes drones on exposed infantry.
Land a few armored or mechanized infantry battlaions?
Where do they come from? The States, of course.
How do they get there? The troops fly in but the equipment comes by SEA. Oh, yes, I know -- an Air Force C-5 can haul a tank. But we will need a hundred tanks, not to mention the armored personnel carriers.
How long does it take to get the troops and their equipment into Iran? Weeks. That is, weeks unless Iran decides to shoot down the aircraft and sink the ships bringing in troops and equipment.
No matter what "boots on the ground" means: They still need mountains of ammo, water, fuel, food, spare parts, more ammo, more fuel, replacement personnel . . . .
But, hey, who gives a shit about reality? This is Trump and Hogsbreath we are talking about. Two batshit crazy, dumb-as-dirt amateurs, trying to act tough.
Mysterian
(6,340 posts)Any commitment of ground troops would mean multiple divisions. Probably try to grab a port city. But this is the imbecile regime with Kegbreath as SecDef so anything is possible.
Dan
(5,073 posts)Think, Armies, something like a couple hundred thousand per Army.
Mysterian
(6,340 posts)Dan
(5,073 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,877 posts)superpatriotman
(6,850 posts)And all the other fortunate sons first.
Lets try a war that way for a change.
TheRickles
(3,300 posts)He's 6' 9", and the upper height limit is 6' 8". So that's at least one Trump with a valid medical exemption from serving.
orangecrush
(29,869 posts)dflprincess
(29,307 posts)Like his sire, he may be lying about his height.
Ms. Toad
(38,495 posts)Reports of his height at younger ages would likely be shorter than his current height.
orangecrush
(29,869 posts)He'll be useful looking over the top of a foxhole
Renew Deal
(84,904 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,399 posts)Where did he try to enlist?
orangecrush
(29,869 posts)
ChicagoTeamster
(766 posts)Are there key objectives that have to be seized? occupied?
BidenRocks
(3,119 posts)where would the objectors go?
Canada is out. I don't think they would take kindly to being invaded regardless of the reason.
Red Mountain
(2,307 posts)and Greenland.
Skittles
(170,924 posts)WOULDN'T THAT NEED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL???
WTF
OGBuzz
(204 posts)He is now Supreme Leader, the Emperor of America, and he can do pretty much anything he wants. Who's gonna stop him? Demolishing the East Wing and plastering his face on the Justice Department headquarters was a sign of things to come.
Bread and Circuses
(1,877 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,423 posts)possibly criticize the war because that would discourage our efforts. It would be your fault for not giving this war effort your full throated support.
At least that's how they'll spin it.
dflprincess
(29,307 posts)Just curious.
OGBuzz
(204 posts)Botany
(77,035 posts)Just asking.
U.S. troops on the ground in Iran? This has bad idea written all over it.
DallasNE
(7,994 posts)Trump doesn't have the military assets in place to invade such a large country, so clear, hold, build my *ss. So bungled, so soon.
Crowman2009
(3,487 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,211 posts)
Deuxcents
(26,449 posts)Seriously, we need to be calling our representatives and senators tomorrow
IcyPeas
(25,321 posts)Oralè Resister
— Ruben Garcia (@gorubenruben.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T01:00:10.300Z
Operation Epic Fury:
3 US Servicemen were killed and 5 seriously wounded in Kuwait in the Trump Netanyahu
War on Iran!
This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair, poolside in Miami chilling. And not one of DJT
Children is anywhere near the Middle East today!
pfitz59
(12,594 posts)pure insanity
DFW
(60,040 posts)If we had spent the same money that the attack cost on covert operations helping the domestic opposition in Iran, we might have had regime change by now without expending our own resources.
It sure worked for Putin in the USA.
LudwigPastorius
(14,530 posts)What is the fucking objective? Take Tehran?
OK, that'll need half a million troops with pre-staged, adequate supply lines which don't exist and won't exist any time soon.
And, say that works and you take the capital, what then?
Sounds like Trump is going to half-ass a ground invasion and get a bunch of soldiers killed for no reason.
ForeGoneLegsBirne
(26 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,733 posts)If every country passed a law like that, imagine how much more cooperative the world would be. Throw onnthe children of the financial elite, and you might get world peace.
nikatnyte
(343 posts)More will die needlessly because of this insanity. I hope troops keep the image of the young girls Trump raped in mind when they face the "enemy."
Liberal In Texas
(16,186 posts)WestMichRad
(3,177 posts)I had hoped it would not happen in my lifetime.