In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America’s military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.
A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.
Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it’s still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.
Back then we weren’t committed to our fascism as deeply, surely this time our conviction of faith will convince God to illuminate the path forward to bombing Iran the best we absolutely can!
Oh, I’m sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn’t win wars. (Didn’t win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn’t help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)
The point isn’t to win, it is to please God.
Oh please. I wouldn’t believe this administration cumulatively attended 10 regular Sunday church services in the past 20 years.
It ain’t got nothing to do with God or any religion. They are as religious as Russia. It’s about creating a global oligarchy with themselves at the top.
It’s about creating a global oligarchy with themselves at the top.
Only because God told them that was their entitlement!
No. For gawd sakes. They ain’t talking to God, y’all.
They are looking at what Putin and the Russian oligarchs have, and looking at what the Saudis and the Oil Oligarchs have, and saying “I want that!”