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The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Donald Trump choose to escalate. Any potential ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, said the officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly sensitive military plans that have been in development for weeks.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Yeah right, with what fucking free cash? Everyone screams “buy EV” but I can only afford to get $2500 used vehicles and put sweat equity into them. There are no used EV’s in affordable price brackets that aren’t full of tracking electronics. Plus I can’t move landscaping equipment, trash, or like 90% of the tools I need with one like I can with my 32 year old Chevy truck.

    With careful managing two barrels of gas will get me 5 months. I’ll figure it out after that.

    • Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world
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      With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.