This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years. And that’s saying a lot. This administration has no idea what they are doing. There is no viable war plan. They change their goals and their aims every single day.
I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders. They are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so, it’s no surprise that this war is going horribly.
I mean he’s not wrong
It’s a war that shouldn’t be happening to begin with. Anyone who actually cares about American national security wants green energy. That’s the only way we get out of the Middle East.
No no, we’ll leave when the wells run dry.
This. I just never understood people that piss on wind and solar and EVs and just generally reevaluating our energy uses pretend to be “patriots” by simping for Big Oil.
If we can become truly energy independent, we don’t have to be embroiled in all this stuff. Sure, Israel will still be a problem for entirely different reasons, but we have all these weird dynamics with monstrous leaders, and all because of the oil.
America wants to be embroiled in all this stuff. When you’re a unipolar hegimon, it’s very hard to let go.
China creating a larger gap in renewables and robotics will ultimately be what relegates the US to the number two position and from there it’s not going to be pretty.
Oil means centralized control through imposed scarcity. You can’t stop the sun and wind…yet, but I’m sure they’re working on it.
Some of the long-term consequences of global warming are going to be absence of clouds and extreme winds. Maybe these bastards are just thinking really long-term.
Wouldn’t it be just so on brand if the instead of blackening the sky to stop the AI (i.e. The Matrix) we did it to keep people from getting unlimited free power without paying some oligarch for it?
I mean, that is the more likely scenario right now. I hate this timeline. Time to go make papercuts between my toes to see if it skips to a new track.
How else are we going to solve global warming? /S (but seriously the oligarchs are pushing for geoengineering as a way to not stop burning oil)
Montgomery Burns has an idea about that.
America does not want to be out of the Middle East.
Gubmint clearly doesn’t. The government isn’t serious about national security, they’re serious about committing insider trading. But the people? There were absolutely people who believed Trump on “no new wars.”
That and having a DUI hire that has driven out principled professionals and installed frat boys at the highest levels.
And a genocidal maniac that the remaining free world has issued an arrest warrant for
“Yeah, bu-bu-bu-but Biden! He was so old! That debate! And he was shaking hands with invisible people!”
– conservatives, reactionary centrists, Murc’s Law Media, and a whole lot of the so-called “left”.
Even before his mental decline/2025 stroke, Trump has no concern for the finer details of any military operation. He is profoundly uncurious, which makes him easy to puppet.
This war is the brainchild of fundamentalist psychopaths in Israel and the Heritage Foundation. Chaos is the goal, and the loss in life and treasure is of no concern to them because it’s not their lives or treasure.
I don’t like that I have heard a non zero number of people on the Christian extreme that are cheering this on because they think that is the start of Armageddon and Jesus is coming.
Playing out that scenario for a minute. They’ll be really fucking shocked when the Jesus that shows up is a brown hippie and not a white Republican in a suit and that by their rules, they’re all going to the lake of fire, not the rest of us.
I suggest you watch this. https://youtu.be/WFWizN3QoPg
Christian Dominionism.
Their particularly vile interpretation of several individual passages in the Bible says that if America is a “Christian kingdom” at the time of Armageddon, then the US will reign over the second garden.
It’s like believing the lord of the rings really happened… fantasy, sheesh
If there were no hobbits then why do we have golf?
If Gandalf wasn’t real then why is pipeweed?
What are you trying to say? Gandalf has answered many of my prayers.
you know, that’s fair
Why would the garden of Eden need rulers?
If you can actually answer why they’d believe that, and all the nuances of interpretation involved, you’d probably have some key insights into why MAGA is deluded in the specific ways that they are.
We all desire a strong, Domineering Daddy to tell us what to do and punish us when we step out of line. It’s a totally normal feeling and we shouldn’t think too much about it.
Obviously.
They are going to be surprised when Jesus is glowing with megatons of radiation and fire and then they are just gone.
That is literally the point of this war, that’s why nobody can give us a real reason for it - because the real reason is to appease the religious psychos who are excited for the Apocalypse so they can get Raptured, and sit with Jesus and point and laugh at the rest of us, as we get dragged to Hell.
But they can’t say that out loud, even though that’s what they told the soldiers before their first strike. We have to get some lame excuse, because if we knew it was to cause the Rapture, we might…
Do nothing. We’ll do nothing. We already know this, it was heavily reported on the next day, and it should be the ONLY story about this war - Why are we fighting a religious Holy War? - but the media doesn’t like that angle, even though it is 100% true. The media, even the LIBERAL media, doesn’t want to piss off the religious whack-jobs.
So we pretend it’s about all that other obvious bullshit, when it’s about two things: The Rapture, and stealing oil.
so incredibly tone deaf to claim sympathy for the soldiers and leaders of an aggressor, who made the conscious decision to follow those orders
so fucking tone deaf. shame on you, OP. it’s disgusting. people have agency. those following orders are equally culpable
Intellectually/spiritually/financially impoverished slaves conditioned to be as abusive as the system that reared them and still provides them their “necessities”. I like to think of imperialists as semi-conscious children with serious behavioral disorders+no early-life training for how to interact in non-hostile ways with other beings, who have been convinced by lead-poisoned racist authority figures that growing up to become a cog in an infinite plundering machine is honorable life path. All it takes is some reframing… maybe some of them end up waking themselves up to the whole mess in time to, at the very least, remove themselves from the process and re-evaluate their behaviors/priorities, begin growing their desire for truth-seeking, appreciation of nature, personal growth, or just living in the real world outside of 24/7/365 imperial conquest mode
That’s a quote of what the congressman said, not OP’s own words. I’ll admit they didn’t make it super clear with quotation marks, but OP is just sharing an article
Personally, I think this is another great example of dems “doing everything they can” by… using stern words of disapproval with instead of actually fucking doing their jobs
I hope the whole plan falls apart out of sheer incompetence on the part of the players. Because, that’s the only hope I have left. Also, it’d be fucking hilarious.
I’m waiting for a Spanish Armada moment where a single AShM gets through and sends one of our carriers to the bottom.
Thousands have already needlessly died. No matter what happens next it wil never be “hilarious.”
This is like saying “Germany did terrible things in WWII – they made grave tactical errors”. This article is more of an indictment of Chris Murphy than anything else.
He may be demented/insane, but it’s not like he’s any worse than he ever was. He’s ALWAYS been like this.
Watch videos of him from the 80’s and 90’s, there’s been a clear and steep decline.
He was always stood, yes. But he’s way slower on the uptake and even more likely to go of on tangents than he used to be. So, yes, there actually has been a very noticable decline. Plus the slurring…
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing, fomenting chaos so he can keep raping kids and stealing money. The only incompetence is the people who keep letting him rape kids and steal money.
Idk I think they know exactly what they’re doing and stand to benefit greatly.
There wouldn’t be a “war” if that “senile old man” hadn’t started it, so there’s that.
I do not know how old the original post is but we just deployed the marines on to a tiny island close to Iran which is responsible for the majority of their fuel exports. We are also monitoring the Iranian coastline and bombing it as needed. That does not sound like an invasion that isn’t going according to plan. Maybe it was a horrible plan, but it was the plan, a horrible one but it is working. Our boots are on the ground and will remain there indefinitely.
The soviet invasion of Afghanistan was also the outcome of a short sighted decision from a dying old man.
History rhymes, I suppose.
And 12 years later the Soviet Union dissolved. I wonder if we are on that same path.
No way, this is the best war of all time. The most incompetent war campaign waged.Ever. Operation Epstein Distract has to be making some type of epic impact. We’ll all just look back on this and groan one day.
