| ▲ | burnt-resistor 15 hours ago | |
The orangutan will be fine with it so long as he gets half of it like with the Giuliani (through his assistant ostensibly) sold $2M pardons. Unfortunately, he'll need a new wag the dog war distraction from the Epstein files like Marco Rubio's dream of overthrowing Cuba militarily. Perpetual chaos and drama is required to distract from brutality, incompetency, and lawlessness. Any actual ground invasion with humans for occupation of the islands or the southern shores of Iran would be a suicide mission because Iranian artillery, short range ballistic missiles, some anti-tank missiles, fiber optic drones, and Shaheeds would all be variably in-range such that it would quickly devolve into Russian-style meat assaults. Sending "the best" troops to do it won't matter because US military counter-UAS and AMM/ABM/C-RAM capability doesn't exist at a sufficient scale to matter. It would be worse than the Bay of Pigs, Iraq 2.0, Afghanistan, and Vietnam blunders put together. As soon as the first FPV drone video of a cheap UAS running down and striking a young US Marine or paratrooper hits the interwebs, it's all over for the vast majority of people not afflicted by Trump Delusion Syndrome. | ||