Trump Team Weighs Options, Including Airstrikes, to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program

[u/200-inch-cock]

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-plan-nuclear-weapons-def26f1d

[u/Flatbush_Zombie]

These are Israel's plans. Trump will do their bidding. So much for avoiding World War 3.

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Flatbush_Zombie]

Ah yes, WW3. US and allies versus Iran and.... Shi'ite militias?

Iran has no friends. A war against Iran would have no impact on the lives of most Americans. Park a Carrier Strike Group in the Gulf and let 'er rip, we win.

[u/Flatbush_Zombie → u/Sabertooth767]

You've never heard of Russia? They were fighting side by side in Syria for the last decade and Iran has given them plenty of weapons for use in Ukraine.

Even parking a carrier strike group, as you say, would still risk substantial American lives and likely result in heavy losses: Iran is not Iraq circa 2003. But I shouldn't be surprised, I don't think any Trump voter actually cared about the risk of war.

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Flatbush_Zombie]

>You've never heard of Russia? They were fighting side by side in Syria for the last decade and Iran has given them plenty of weapons for use in Ukraine.

Yeah, how are Syria and Ukraine going for them? I'll tell you: they just lost in one and are stalemated in the other.

>Even parking a carrier strike group, as you say, would still risk substantial American lives and likely result in heavy losses: Iran is not Iraq circa 2003. But I shouldn't be surprised, I don't think any Trump voter actually cared about the risk of war.

"Heavy losses", you say? Even if they managed to destroy a CSG (not happening) and all hands were lost, that's only ~7,500 personnel. Granted that would be more than we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan put together, but if you zoom out, that's a pretty small-scale war in the grand scheme of things.

Also, I'm not a Trump voter.