deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]
ChapotraphouseMarco Rubio says Iran doesn't have civilian infrastructure because Iran only spends money on its military. If Iran has no infrastructure, then what is the US attacking? The US attacked the largest civilian bridge in Iran, 'B1 bridge', which was constructed starting in 2015.
Pete Hegseth testified before congress yesterday to request $37.5 billion additional funding for the Iran war on top of the regular Pentagon budget. The proposed 2027 military budget is $1.5 trillion dollars, almost double the military budget of 2026.
The propaganda narrative doesn't make sense on face value. "We have to bomb Iran because Iran doesn't build any new civilian infrastructure" What are you bombing? "We're bombing Iran's new civilian infrastructure."
I wanna know where all that money goes because it doesn't seem to go to soldiers, equipment, or munitions. I know the defense industry is the griftiest grift industry but like jesus christ lol the appearance is honestly like they turn on the money printer and dump it into a fire as if that's going to beat Iran
the appearance is honestly like they turn on the money printer and dump it into a fire
Major General Cameron Holt once said this of China: “In purchasing power parity, they spend about one dollar to our 20 dollars to get to the same capability.”
https://www.twz.com/china-acquiring-new-weapons-five-times-faster-than-u-s-warns-top-official
The US is absolutely just dumping all their money into a fire.
Honestly it just appears even worse than that. Like a 1:100 ratio or even worse. It really does seem like the U.S. just burns its entire treasury every year in some sort of sacrifice to mammon and every bit of actual military operation that happens squeaks by on a shoestring budget 1/15th of the stated spending
I know the pentagon keeps failing audits and it's the griftiest shit ever, it's still just staggering to see the scale and disparity between money spent and what the u.s. actually seems to get out of it
So... i guess with the shortened amount of strikes last night and this weird attempt at tit-for-tat, we're about to enter the "Iran is fully destroyed, but we're going to negotiate with them" phase of the conflict
Again
I am so tired. I just want a decisive victory by Iran where the US can just be done with this bs and we stop killing their school girls
i don't see that happening. Iran has done incredible things, they have struck back as hard as anybody could in their situation, they are exerting massive economic pressure against their adversary, they are harmstringing US military assets left and right and Trump is still unwilling to just tell Israel to gtfo of Lebanon. He's either going to become a sitting duck after the midterms and just try to tough this out per decree while he corncobs more and more, or he will simply steal the midterms and go on thinking he can get away with anything, but regardless of this i think that this will continue as long as he is commander in chief.
when you try to view this from a geostrategic rationale, it makes zero sense to prolong this war, there is nothing to gain that is worth the losses. so there must be something else going on, either total ideological lock in running on pure spite, or the deal of letting the arms industry and Big Oil cash in on this no matter the cost to anybody else, or most likely a combo of both.
Ah, war crimes.
I know this isn't new, but it needs to be repeated, this is naked admission to targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure as punishment for wartime losses. This is not the tactic of a winning side, but a desparate loser. They can't stop Iran militarily, so they are hoping to crush them entirely.
I'm honestly surprised they haven't dropped nukes yet. The only reason i can imagine they haven't is either ChatGPT is telling them it'd be politically untenable or Russia or China or both have said "no nukes"
Edit: unless...
It’s Russia bro, and probably to a lesser extent China.
Think about those decaying old counter-strike systems that are keyed to launch when American nukes are detected in-flight, from the Cold War era. Even our idiotic Dept of War knows better than to test those by firing nukes in Russia’s general direction, because there’s a very good chance we’d get bombarded and we already blew our missile defense stockpile protecting greater Israel.
Think about those decaying old counter-strike systems that are keyed to launch when American nukes are detected in-flight, from the Cold War era. Even our idiotic Dept of War knows better than to test those by firing nukes in Russia’s general direction, because there’s a very good chance we’d get bombarded and we already blew our missile defense stockpile protecting greater Israel.
presumably they'd use a submarine-launched nuke given the circumstances
I'm curious what the treasonous Iranian diaspora have to say about this
Probably blaming Iran for not surrendering
Haven't they been doing this for a while now?
I just shidded. Thank you for your attention on this matter
