It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
Iran will be taken by complete surprise, since they didn’t expect it.
Just a couple of helicopters with some special forces guys who go in at night, and in the morning Iran’s leadership will surrender, apologize and build a Trump Hotel in Tehran.I’m sure of it!
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
For sure, it’s not like America has a long history of fucking up amphibious landings or helicopter based airborne operations. Grenada had like 1500 dudes armed with sks defending it and they only lost like 10 helicopters. Surely it won’t be worse than that…right?
To be fair, there are also examples where a daring helicopter raid lead to an end of the war -
Like Mogadishu.Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
– Harry Reasoner
helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Nowadays helicopter pilots seem to just be riding the copium that is autorotation.
Ain’t nobody getting me to fly in something that relies on a “Jesus nut”.
Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn’t have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that’s significantly younger than the airframe… What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it’s not an osprey?
Fuck it. Send in a squadron of BUFF. We’ve never lost any of those.
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I told you it was always about oil . It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
I mean… Israeli colonial interests and American imperialist interest are kinda the same thing.
Most people at least those vocal on lemmy claims that it’s only about Israel colonial interests. It is about both
I guess it can be a bit confusing considering Israel is basically a vassal state of the US, but at times it can be hard to tell who is the tiger and whose is holding it by the tail.
I told you it was always about oil
More broadly, it is about western imperial expansion. Control of the Red Sea. Control of the Suez Canal. The ability to cut China and Russia off from international markets (specifically, trade with India and West Africa).
Oil was a big part of it, but not the whole.
It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
They’re joined at the hip.
Who was arguing with you?
Obviously they’re doing this to protect the world from Iran using nuclear weapons. I cannot think of any other reason. Just like Venezuela.
Good luck with that one. Even if they do go through with this threat, have fun holding it.
Reverse Gallipoli.
Unopposed landing, then, a week or so later, 2,000 shahed drones a day untill I guess something like a quarter of the 82nd airborne ceases to exist.
He’s going to get a lot of service members killed to gain nothing
Not at all. Their lives will delay any consequences Trump may face for raping all those children.
Oh there will be gains, it just won’t be for the american people.
Oh look another round of stock manipulation for profit.
Someone in the Whitehouse making bets!?
What a joke.
enough to distract with operation epstein fury again.
Iran has been given 24 hrs to respond before they get another 72…
Incoming diesel at $10 a gallon at the pump!
Damn I picked a good time to jump on the EV bandwagon…
Aaaaaaand he’s chickened out. In other news, water is wet.
6hrs mark: TACO!
Taco Thursday it is!
Ah yes, the sent of bitch is in the air today. For trumps once again being a little piggy bitch that bitches out of things like a weak pathetic loser.
Attacking, then stealing.
I really wish Bonespurs McFuckUp would go to the Middle East for once just to oversee… That’d be nice, don’t you think? I’m sure it’s be safe.
Great OpSec. Giving away our military plans? The Iranians won’t see it coming.
Who needs signal leaks when the commander and chief just tweets it
I’m tired boss.
That’s the plan. It’s been the plan all along.
Ahhh. 😌 Another fine example of the United States liberating a country. Long live democracy!!
Trump says
fuck him, I don’t care. He lies more than he breaths.
He ever wants to stop either, I’m good with that.
