The U.S. military is preparing to strike Iran as soon as this weekend, but President Trump still has to make a final decision. That’s according to CNN, which cited a White House source who said Trump is “spending a lot of time thinking about this.” On Tuesday, U.S. and Iranian negotiators held indirect talks in Geneva and left without a clear resolution. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to travel to Israel and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. Meanwhile the U.S. is sending a second aircraft carrier–the USS Gerald Ford–to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. The USS Gerald Ford carrier strike group had been stationed in the Caribbean, when the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes. This is Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Masoud Pezeshkian: “We have stated this many times; my own statements are not important. What matters from an ideological standpoint is the policy and the fatwa (religious decree) of the Supreme Leader. We are in no way seeking nuclear weapons. Whatever form of verification they want to carry out, we are ready for that verification to take place.”
  • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    I hope this becomes another Vietnam. I hope others help Iran like others have helped Ukraine. I assume that the US military has lost a lot of expertise with the purge of non loyalists… I would love to see the US military bled dry by this war like Russia has been with Ukraine. Weakened and humiliated, the United States would cease to be the “leader of the free world” and take its new place as a big-but-fucked-up country that nobody holds in any kind of high esteem. I say this as an American. I am ashamed of my country and its people.

    • markko@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I know it’s not what you meant when you made the comparison, but the US-Vietnam war was also devastating for millions of Vietnamese civilians. Unfortunately, that is also likely going to be the case in Iran.

      • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        Oh yes, of course. There are no winners in a war among the regular citizens. But it’s coming regardless and I just hope that the US takes a fucking devastating shot to the ribs that it never recovers from. It may save the free world.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    Trump is “spending a lot of time thinking about this.”

    Press ‘x’ to doubt. When has he ever thought about anything, let alone at length? Dude is pure id.

  • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Fill your gas tanks and stock up on anything else that retailers can invent a reason to price gouge. Look for countries like China to drop petrodollar usage.