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Shellback Squid

(10,025 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2026, 04:02 PM 22 hrs ago

Trump says fighting Iran will go on for 4-5 weeks, I predict it will be over in a week or so [View all]

and he'll claim the short time was his incredible planning and will seek adoration and his nobel prize

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/trump-war-iran

Donald Trump has laid out four goals in Iran and said the US campaign had been projected to last four to five weeks but could “go far longer than that”.

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Trump says fighting Iran will go on for 4-5 weeks, I predict it will be over in a week or so [View all] Shellback Squid 22 hrs ago OP

Epstein files not going away. aeromanKC 22 hrs ago #1

Trump's war with Iran will be over when... Climate Crusader 22 hrs ago #2

Israel with US support is still waging war on the Palestinians Klarkashton 22 hrs ago #3

"Another war ended strongly because of Donald Trump. Now give me the Nobel peace prize" dalton99a 22 hrs ago #4

Does Iran know that Johonny 22 hrs ago #5

What are the four goals? I must have missed them being stated. sinkingfeeling 21 hrs ago #6

We know it's going to take years, and it'll be up to a Dem to get us out sakabatou 21 hrs ago #7

Why am I flashing back to Russia thinking Ukraine would be a weeklong cakewalk? Arthur_Frain 21 hrs ago #8

And how the invasion of Iraq would be a cake walk PatSeg 21 hrs ago #9

I mean, we already have the friendly fire taking out our F15s Arthur_Frain 21 hrs ago #11

It is terrifying PatSeg 21 hrs ago #13

When gasoline goes up a $1.50/gal next week, he will lose interest in being a war preznit. madinmaryland 21 hrs ago #10

You and Trump should define "over". Emrys 21 hrs ago #12