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flashman13

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30. None of the three options in the article have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 04:51 PM

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They will just get more Iranians and Americans killed. They have the potential to render the Gulf states uninhabitable.

I short, they are planning to break the rest of the China. We will own the disaster. Iran will still own the Persian Gulf and the weapons grade nuclear material.

For those too young to remember, we tried all of that and more in Vietnam. The Communist Party of Vietnam still owns Vietnam. We just refuse to learn from our mistakes.

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