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.
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