• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    That’s exactly what I think would happen. Ukraine has eaten up the surplus of the things we’d need to fight a protracted war against Iran. The US Navy’s urgent priority is East Asia and they barely have the ability to cover that in peacetime. Support for Israel is becoming increasingly unpopular with the electorate, while Zionist liberals have been so weird and disgusting that I would never consider voting for a John Fetterman or Bernie Sanders. Only the US Marines are currently reaching their recruiting goals, and the first month of that war is going to produce drone videos that immediately turn off potential volunteers.

    Iran would be such a serious near-peer war at such a bad time that I don’t see the US being baited into a general invasion to support Israel. Maybe they’re stupid enough but that’s the kind of war that would break the empire.