I hope I'm wrong (and might very well be), but it feels like this shit is getting more and more inevitable.
If not today, likely within the month.
I didn't vote for this. I actually voted against this.
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If the US does a strike like that, it will be a face-saving thing so Trump can look tough after promising to attack.
It doesn't necessarily have to be face-saving only. Like with Milosevich, if you target the right places, and you have saboteurs on the ground continuing to operate behind the scenes, and your goal is to actually just stop Iranian forces from killing civilians, that is a way get them to do that.
Even if regime change is the objective, as with Venezuela, why does the regime have to change this second? We yeeted Maduro, but the regime is actually still there. Truly, the urgency from both the rioters and the regime is that both are convinced the other will kill every last one of them (currently, both are correct). If you can allow an avenue of egress for the regime where they don't have to get killed, and the protestors don't have to worry about having their whole family executed, maybe a slower form of transition is possible. After all, there's still basically no one who could claim legitimacy in the opposition if the regime fell today.
Nice wall of text normalizing bombing Iran. Anything else you want to tell us Shlomo?
Nice wall of text normalizing regime change in Iran. Anything else you want to tell us Shlomo?
If Arch is agreeing with me, it means you're clearly a moron.