Redditsux@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoPanicked Pentagon Sends Land Invasion Force to Middle Eastwww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down15cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squarecircuscritic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up42·edit-21 month agoThat might be enough troops to take Kharg Island, but I’m no military planner. All I do know is that 2,200 marines is not a ground invasion force for mainland Iran. Edit: corrected marine count
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 month agoUmm ya it is. Its the perfect amount. They all dead or captured and paraded around worse than the US embassy hostage crisis in the 70s. Iran will be very happy.
minus-squareWizardofFrobozz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoIf they’re following these orders, it would be no less than they deserve. A pre-emptive “womp womp” for every cowardly US soldier that goes along with this and gets domed.
That might be enough troops to take Kharg Island, but I’m no military planner.
All I do know is that 2,200 marines is not a ground invasion force for mainland Iran.
Edit: corrected marine count
Umm ya it is. Its the perfect amount.
They all dead or captured and paraded around worse than the US embassy hostage crisis in the 70s. Iran will be very happy.
If they’re following these orders, it would be no less than they deserve.
A pre-emptive “womp womp” for every cowardly US soldier that goes along with this and gets domed.