• [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    From a different article:

    “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr. Trump said, telling CNN it was unclear who was now leading Iran.

    “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,” he said.

    What’s your actual fucking goal? I don’t get what they intend to hit here. They’re making it actually impossible for Iran to do the thing they want.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      The goal is to keep war going until at least November, so it can be used to cancel or ignore midterms. Having no defined goals is essential to that.

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        If we start seeing a bunch of “Don’t change horses midstream” political commercials soon, then I know we’re in a simulation, and the creators are just lazy, pulling from “Wag the Dog” because they’re out of ideas.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          Rhaedas! Rhaedas! Wake up! We’ve been trying to wake you up for months now! Come on, man, wake up! You gotta be hearing us in your dreams, man, come on, man, wakf09234r 5tKT23 #:$LT #$@# $J% $R# $J#$DO NOT CHANGE HORSES MIDSTREAM. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP TRUMP IN POWER SO THE WORLD IS SAFE AND PEACEFUL. DO NOT VOTE AGAINST TRUMP OR WE WILL DO BAD THINGS TO YOU. AGAIN. DON’T YOU REMEMBER? DON’T YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME?

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      The thing they want is an external distraction so people will quit paying attention to domestic issues. Bonus points if Iran actually manages to become enough of a problem to “justify” emergency powers for the president. They don’t actually give two fucks what the final outcome for Iran is.

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      Ultimately bullies just want to bully. They don’t want anything from their target except to reflect back to them an image of their desired power.

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      The only thing they want is for Iran to be a distraction from the Trump-Epstein files and from the midterms in the fall.