Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East
Looks like they changed up the headline on you:
“Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East”
We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.
This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.
They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.
Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked “live” updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don’t even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.
Sounds like a problem automation can fix. Maybe a bot that periodically check the source material’s headline and revise the headline on Lemmy while keeping a history of changes. Might have it check the headline for a day so that it’s not checking the same post forever.
Yep, a check box so OP can consent to the bot doing it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
It’s a serious problem with anything marked “Live Coverage!” too. Every update changes the headline.
Which is why I always give OPs a chance to fix it. When I post one myself, I’m re-checking it every time I go in to read new comments.
The only thing really forbidden are headlines that are obviously editorialized.
Least we can change post titles here.
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Sounds fair, its insane news articles read like Twitter feeds these days.
Doesn’t seem fair to put that onus on the user.
Thanks, fixed
Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.
And he must finish the announcement with “Now watch this drive”.
As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.
That is the protocol.
If we can get Trump to say “Now watch this drive” then maybe things won’t be too bad…
Trump can only wish he were as slick as Bush
In the language of the risk assessments and wargames analyses done in this scenario, we shall refer to these troops as “chum”.
That’s gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They’ve been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment…
This is not going to be a full scale invasion. For that they need way more soldiers. 5000 is enough to take some islands, run some raids on the coast or do some special ops bs. If they send more we maybe see something bigger.
Oh they might be intending to capture that strait to minesweep it and open it back up. Which will probably continuously cost lives of those holding it while boats get targeted by drones anyways.
Kharg is the most likely. 90% of Irans oil exports go through that island and the US has just bombed it hard, while the units currently moved are specialized in taking islands. Other then that in the Strait of Hormuz Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs are decent targets, as the UAE claims them and taking them would be useful to secure shipping a bit better.
If you wanted to secure the Strait somewhat Hormozgan province would have to be taken. With a population of nearly 2million, that is not going to happen with 5000 men. Maybe raids though.
Desert people in their desert.
They are severely underestimated.
Spare the Marines and send ICE, think millions in savings not having to pay out those deferred signing bonuses.
Putin playbook
sanctions were just lifted today on russia apparently, when the oil prices rose sky high because of the iran war. putin likely colluded with trump .
Wanna take bets that trump is getting kickbacks from Venezuela’s oil sales? Iran said they were going to make oil cost 200 dollars a barrel and I bet trump just heard a ka-ching sound and his eye turned into $$ like a fucking cartoon.
isnt it he already? that "investment account in qatar i think?
Same same
never get involved in a land war in Asia
I’m sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
As you wish.
This news always seems to come in Fridays
Supposedly less people are paying attention on a Friday.
My understanding is it also lessens the impact on the US stock market
At least I can daydrink over the weekends
/I know the work week doesn’t stop everyone from doing so
I’m pretty sure we can’t have that many without congressional approval.
Everyone make sure to stab your senators in Minecraft.
It’s Vietnam all over again.
WRONG. Iran is desert, not jungle, dumbass.
(I hope it’s clear I’m being silly at you. Because I am. Being silly at you.)
afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.
Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;
it’s government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;
there is no “South Iran”;
and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;
unlike boomers and those older, young men haven’t been drafted for 50 years;
oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;
but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.
Persia is also the 2nd oldest civilization that survives until today, after China. I think they know how to fight in their land better than anyone else.
both china and india gets free passage through the strait from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.
Vietnam v2.0: Iraq
Vietnam v.3.0: Afghanistan
Vietnam v.4.0: Iran
Then sucking will continue until the Americans learn!
Oh hey it’s that time again
I thought for sure this would be “Bomb Iran” or “BYOB”, but Tom Lehrer is a welcome surprise XD
Here’s hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags
Maybe a new flag could be designed and made especially for them. A gold one with the words “Lol, I died to distract you all from the Epstein files!”
Or something like that.
So far, we have been able to weasel out of every definition of war. I’m curious to see how that changes with boots on the ground.
The US President and the US ministry of war have called it a war many times already. They call it a war pretty much all the time. If someone is still not calling it for what it is then they‘re probably high on Russian propaganda and didn‘t read the script. Again, the US president started a war to distract from his disastrous polling numbers and he doesn‘t even try to hide it. Unlike his close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s a war. Call it what it is and not what the politicians tell you it is. Fuck their definitions. People are dying.
Oh I agree 100 percent. I’m also not worried about what politicians call it. I only want to see the administration defend their many broken laws in a court room one day.
I know. I got jokes.
Never forgive. Never forget. This admin forever deserves our contempt.
Every single republican is complicit by not voting to impeach.
Dude, just like Russia, it is a special operation.
Well you see, you’re not technically in Iran if you have boot between yourself and the soil.
I think Korea was the last time we called a war, and we never ended that either, just declared an armistace. Vietnam was a police action, all down the line, they authorized military force in 2001, never declared war, and they used that authorization for everything for a couple of decades or something.
i mean, we haven been to war since wwii. i’m just surprised no-one has noticed before this.
What do you mean, it’s a training exercise…
They’re not going to Iran. We’ve had boots on the ground at American, joint, and foreign bases around the world for decades. Not to mention actual combat deployments to places like Syria without a congressional declaration of war
The Syrian deployments were covered by the 2001 AUMF. But that AUMF has finally been repealed now. It would be a serious escalation in claimed presidential powers to send ground forces into anything longer than approximately Grenada.
“It’s not like we have troops on the ground.”
That would be called a war
Let’s see if Republicans in Congress agree.
You left out Dottie and Faye.
I’m all about Ezri Dax in Kids in the Hall. Everyone else is irrelevant.
It’s fucking grim how predictable all of this is.
And they are mugging us off as if we can’t see exactly what this is.
