The remarks differ from what Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is said to have told the president in high-level White House meetings.
President Trump said on Monday that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believed that any eventual military action ordered against Iran would be “something easily won.”
But that is not what General Caine has told Mr. Trump and other senior advisers in recent high-level White House meetings on Iran, people briefed on internal administration deliberations said.
Instead, General Caine has said that the United States has amassed forces in the Middle East to carry out a small or medium strike, but that there would be a potentially high risk of American casualties and that such an operation would have a negative effect on U.S. weapon stockpiles. General Caine has also underscored that the operations under consideration in Iran would be much more difficult than the successful capture last month of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
That Onion article about Iraq, but both sides are the same guy.
The US always invades and easily wins, it has done so since WWII
At also only really invaded small countries with small or badly trained and maintained armies
Iran has a considerable army and probably would be around the biggest for it ever fought against. Add to that that trump just had his Stalin army generals purge, so I’m wondering how combat ready it’s armed forces even are.
I’m not trying to underestimate the power of the US Military, I’m saying that the Cheetos is probably overestimating what it can do right now and that sounds like a great recipe for disaster
The war will start right before the March primaries.
History is full of easily won wars that went on for decades. Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin’s war on defenseless Ukraine.
Everyone in this administration is either dumb as rocks, or pure evil. Mostly both.
Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin’s war on defenseless Ukraine.
Ah yes, the famous 3 day special military operation in Ukraine that ended February 27th 2022.
“Mission Accomplished”
How many more people have to die unnecessarily before someone does something about Trump and his inhumane regime?
A lot.
If it’s the same useless chuds that get hired at ICE, then I’m fine with it.
Those cowards won’t go to the military or else they’d already be there
They probably tried but got rejected for being fat and/or stupid. Well now is their chance. 😂
ive seen in other forums about joining, that trump boosted more recruitment for joining via budget increase and laxing on disqualifications. they are just going to keep using cannon fodder. When obama was downsizing it was difficult to join.
Yes the US army historically has performed superbly against countries they deemed small easily beaten opponents.
Iran is not so small, what 80 million people, a large country with mountain ranges, which lend themselves to guerrilla action, and hiding forces that it’s hard to bomb them dead, as afghanistan could tell you. Flat countries like Iraq they can just get bigger bunker busters, they have communications corrupted so can see where these guys are more than they think the US can see them too.
But Iran will not be seeing regime change, and it would take millions of troops to occupy it properly, even if our leaders weren’t too corrupt and mean to do it properly. We were too corrupt and mean to do Iraq and afghanistan well, this new administration would take it to a new level. They never set up an economy under an honest system. Never set up and fostered smallholding farmers and helped give them the tools and machinery to feed the country and make a base of support for a new government. In iraq they could’ve set up families with new farms they could split off for instance. They could’ve set up some industry, and made good solid jobs that pay for a dignified life.
Instead they paid off warlords that spent the entire time in a game of thrones type power struggle. Supremely corrupt, no one wanted or liked that government, and it predictably immediately collapsed when we pulled out. The taliban may be religious extremists, but they are honest. They don’t tolerate that level of corruption and graft. If they said they didn’t do an attack, you could believe it, if they did an attack, they would claim credit. Meanwhile the puppet government lied systematically, even about provably false stuff.
So anyway, they won’t go in boots on the ground as such, but if they did it would be a massive boondoggle given an already bad leadership made worse by this administration and their blackmailers the Israelis. But they might seize pieces of land around the Straits of Hormuz, that is the likely scenario unfortunately. And of course bombing, including civilian infrastructure, assassinating their leaders, including their ayatollah. Power grids, hospitals, you name it. Ongoing, peace won’t stop the attacks Israel doesn’t care about dishonoring agreements they’ve absolute military advantage and blackmail controlling the superpower.
Nothing better will result, their islamic republic will endure, and many will die needlessly as economic harms will become worse in Iran and spread worldwide.
Actually, yes. Venezuela, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, etc. None of those were on the level of Vietnam that was supported by China and the Soviet Union
Desert Storm
Was so heavily propagandized and subjected to so little scrutiny that it’s likely impossible to know whether it was actually successful by any objective criteria.
Afghanistan
Was famously two DECADES of achieving absolutely nothing and then retreating, ending in a decisive victory for the Taliban, who are in charge again.
The situation for anyone opposing them is identical to before the US invasion AT BEST, and the US (and allies) lost FSM knows how many soldiers, civilians, and billions of dollars on that abominable quagmire.
As far as colossal military failures go, it’s arguably somewhere between the US interference in the Vietnam civil war and Hitler’s invasion of the USSR.
- Venezuela: Kidnap
- Desert Storm: civil war for years after US retreat.
- Afghanistan: give back the power to the “bad guys”
I don’t see any of them as an example.
I’ll end this easily won war in, 24 hours tops.
It’s a special military operation
Israel has a veto on everything though, this is them using their epstein blackmail while they have it, and the compromised leaders in there, to start their forever war.
They don’t want to end the war. Even if the president gets them to end the war, so he doesn’t look like a bitch of Israel, Israel will find pretexts to cross over at will and assassinate leaders and infrastructure. Every time their domestic affairs need a pick me up, every time their leaders are looking at having to admit past mistakes or lies, failures of allowing the ghetto revolt to break through, they can manufacture pretext to go kill their leaders and bomb some military installations, hospitals, whatever, and the US will be forced to endorse whatever they say, as always.
Fuck I thought they made Dean Caine a general for a moment
General Mills, maybe
his top generals is defer his advice to CHARLES kushner and wittkoff.
