• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.

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      2 hours ago

      Talking awfully big for a man threatening a country with arguably one of the best infiltrations of the US intelligence network since the USSR. I’m unsure how true it is since the Cold War, but time was when you couldn’t go take a shit in the Pentagon without Castro knowing about it.

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      4 hours ago

      a guy getting his ass kicked

      The Americans and Israelis have massacred an extraordinarily large number of people, demolished billions in critical infrastructure, and plunged the country into a bleak future of warlordism, poverty, and famine.

      It cannot be adequately expressed how nightmarish life will become in Iran in the next few months, without a globally organized relief campaign.

      What they’ve accomplished militarily is impressive, but it hasn’t come anywhere close to breaking the genocidal grip of the imperialist powers around their collective throats.

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        Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.