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    Trump said on Thursday: “The problem with the strait is this: Let’s say we do a great job. We say we got 99% [of their missiles]. 1% is unacceptable, because 1% is a missile going into the hull of a ship that cost a billion dollars.”

    This concludes my essay, Reasons Why I Think I Could Win an Air War Against a Country with Warhammer 40k Titan Mountains Full of Missiles I Can’t Intercept.

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      The sheer fucking hubris of the pig empire that they think they get to control every single nook and cranny on the globe.

      What next, freedom of navigation up the 黄河?

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        Even before Afghanistan when the US military was pretending it didn’t die in Vietnam, even before Iran had most of its modern missiles/drones (Shaheds were reverse-engineered from an American drone in 2011) and geopolitical alliances, it was common knowledge that Iran couldn’t be invaded for all the reasons we’re currently seeing. The US Navy experienced Stupid Gallipoli from OPFOR speedboats in their Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise and the looming fear with Iraq/Afghanistan was that Iran would become directly involved.

        JDPON Don is seemingly about to celebrate global decarbonisation and the collapse of Middle Eastern puppet states with drone videos of his most corn-fed loyalists dying for Jeffrey Epstein. I am excited for this beautiful moment when gamblers at that Washington DC Polymarket bar are betting on that day’s drone videos like they’re race horses. Autocannibalism as a 4th stage simulacrum is going to be peak absurd to me.

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        https://escalationtrap.substack.com/

        I’ve liked this guy’s analysis a lot, seeing him mostly on youtube. An escalation trap is the only framework to understand this which makes sense to me. Israel and Trump’s sycophants convinced him it would be an easy war, kidnapping Maduro made him think that’s how strong the US military is, and US propaganda toward Iran actually worked on him. In order to seize any of its strategic objectives the US has to escalate while Iran only has to survive another day beneath mountains that the US can’t penetrate without physically raiding them. Iran matching any strike tit-for-tat, even launching one successful strike per day, demonstrates that they have the capability to and that contradicts the US goal of removing that capability.