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Miles Archer

(22,602 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 09:16 PM 14 hrs ago

This is pretty much a guarantee of the U.S. being in "a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
JD Vance: "There's just no way that Donald Trump is gonna allow this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

JD Vance: "There's just no way that Donald Trump is gonna allow this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-03T01:37:45.346Z
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This is pretty much a guarantee of the U.S. being in "a multiyear conflict with no end in sight" (Original Post) Miles Archer 14 hrs ago OP
No question. greatauntoftriplets 14 hrs ago #1
Krasnov doesn't decide when it ends. gab13by13 14 hrs ago #2
Iran's ally Russia is not coming to aid Iran in this war at140 14 hrs ago #3
Who said they won't get help? Reference? Klarkashton 14 hrs ago #5
I am following news on all major channels at140 13 hrs ago #6
You figure they were prepared for this? Klarkashton 13 hrs ago #7
The current Iranian government will likely fully collapse in the next few weeks. But... Amishman 5 hrs ago #13
There is no end in sight. C_U_L8R 14 hrs ago #4
"I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars." - Donald Trump, Nov. 6, 2024 dalton99a 13 hrs ago #8
It's an old American tradition. Woodrow WIlson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war." raccoon 5 hrs ago #14
Soooooo...what's the exit plan? Totally Tunsie 13 hrs ago #9
The exit plan is getting a Dem back in the Oval Office, Bayard 12 hrs ago #10
Part of the problem is that Trump...and the Republicans...have no stake in this, nothing to lose personally Miles Archer 11 hrs ago #12
Hillbilly says what ? Jack Valentino 12 hrs ago #11

at140

(6,226 posts)
3. Iran's ally Russia is not coming to aid Iran in this war
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 09:23 PM
14 hrs ago

Neither is Turkey or China. Iran will have a hard time to continue to fight with weapons running out as Irani ports are blocked and the attacking duo have complete control of sky's . Already number of ballistic missiles fired are lower by 50%.

at140

(6,226 posts)
6. I am following news on all major channels
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 10:11 PM
13 hrs ago

All of Iran's 11 ships have been sunk. Iran's ballistic missiles are already being launched at less than half rate today compared to yesterday. Where is Russia's help?

Klarkashton

(5,159 posts)
7. You figure they were prepared for this?
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 10:21 PM
13 hrs ago

Give it time. Give it time.

This is a long game.


"Vietnam"

"Afghanistan"

Hello.

Amishman

(5,924 posts)
13. The current Iranian government will likely fully collapse in the next few weeks. But...
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 06:04 AM
5 hrs ago

...that's the easy part.

The hard part is replacing it with something stable.

I think the likely plan is to use the Kurds as the boots on the ground, and install Pahlavi to head an interim government.

The question becomes, what will the Kurds be given in exchange? And will the rest of the country be OK with it? Not to mention holdouts who prefer Sharia law and a Shia Islamic government.

C_U_L8R

(49,250 posts)
4. There is no end in sight.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 09:26 PM
14 hrs ago

These idiots can’t even define why we're there or what the goals are. You know they have no clue what an exit strategy might look like.

raccoon

(32,337 posts)
14. It's an old American tradition. Woodrow WIlson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war."
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 06:33 AM
5 hrs ago

Then he got us into WWI.

Bayard

(29,276 posts)
10. The exit plan is getting a Dem back in the Oval Office,
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:55 PM
12 hrs ago

Who knows how to negotiate peaceful solutions.

Miles Archer

(22,602 posts)
12. Part of the problem is that Trump...and the Republicans...have no stake in this, nothing to lose personally
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 12:17 AM
11 hrs ago

Although I have seen more than a few "Draft Barron Trump" posts on social media.

But most of the Republicans cheering Trump on don't have sons and daughters in uniform that Trump will feed into the wood chipper.

It's "someone else's problem," "someone else's children" who will go fight Trump's "Let's Not Talk About Epstein" war.

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