Escalation trap

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not sure how. You expect the Iranian regime to just play nice? The US literally just removed the olive branch from one of their coins. That doesn’t just happen on a whim.

    This is existential for the Iranian regime and Trump nor Israel can live with the regime staying in power after this. The only option really is complete unconditional surrender or complete destruction. Guess which one is likely to happen with a religiously extreme regime and its hardline supporters.

    Boots on the ground. 100% certainty. Check back in a month latest.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      4 hours ago

      JCPOA 2.0 or buying Uranium for $50m/kg. Planes full of cash sent in 2 weeks, latest :P

      I expect Iran to get a peace treaty on their terms, as the end game. Hegseth’s new “clear objectives” are full victory has been fully accomplished other than “Iran will never have a nuclear program”. That is the easiest thing to accomplish in the world… if you don’t send Mossad Israel-first agents in as the negotiators.