Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East
Looks like they changed up the headline on you:
“Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East”
We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.
This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.
They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.
Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked “live” updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don’t even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.
Sounds like a problem automation can fix. Maybe a bot that periodically check the source material’s headline and revise the headline on Lemmy while keeping a history of changes. Might have it check the headline for a day so that it’s not checking the same post forever.
Yep, a check box so OP can consent to the bot doing it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
It’s a serious problem with anything marked “Live Coverage!” too. Every update changes the headline.
Which is why I always give OPs a chance to fix it. When I post one myself, I’m re-checking it every time I go in to read new comments.
The only thing really forbidden are headlines that are obviously editorialized.
Doesn’t seem fair to put that onus on the user.
Least we can change post titles here.
Sounds fair, its insane news articles read like Twitter feeds these days.
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Thanks, fixed
i heard they were sending more today, and apparently US is unlikely able to defend karage island , its a fools errand. also wasting anti-missiles missile defense to destroy cheap drones and iranian missiles, also taking away AA resources from israel.
In the language of the risk assessments and wargames analyses done in this scenario, we shall refer to these troops as “chum”.
Desert people in their desert.
They are severely underestimated.
never get involved in a land war in Asia
I’m sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
As you wish.
Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.
And he must finish the announcement with “Now watch this drive”.
As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.
That is the protocol.
If we can get Trump to say “Now watch this drive” then maybe things won’t be too bad…
Trump can only wish he were as slick as Bush
That’s gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They’ve been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment…
This is not going to be a full scale invasion. For that they need way more soldiers. 5000 is enough to take some islands, run some raids on the coast or do some special ops bs. If they send more we maybe see something bigger.
Oh they might be intending to capture that strait to minesweep it and open it back up. Which will probably continuously cost lives of those holding it while boats get targeted by drones anyways.
Kharg is the most likely. 90% of Irans oil exports go through that island and the US has just bombed it hard, while the units currently moved are specialized in taking islands. Other then that in the Strait of Hormuz Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs are decent targets, as the UAE claims them and taking them would be useful to secure shipping a bit better.
If you wanted to secure the Strait somewhat Hormozgan province would have to be taken. With a population of nearly 2million, that is not going to happen with 5000 men. Maybe raids though.
It’s fucking grim how predictable all of this is.
And they are mugging us off as if we can’t see exactly what this is.
5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.
Damn, what a way to go.
I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred… But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That’s going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it’s going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.
Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.
It sounds like what you are saying is that this administration is going to get even more than 5000 marines killed.
More than 5000, yes. Marines? Not so sure.
Like missile defense systems that are being canibalized out of Asia to serve Israel, this is Japan “defensive” assets that will be kamikazeed onto Iran.
It’s Vietnam all over again.
afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.
Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;
it’s government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;
there is no “South Iran”;
and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;
unlike boomers and those older, young men haven’t been drafted for 50 years;
oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;
but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.
Persia is also the 2nd oldest civilization that survives until today, after China. I think they know how to fight in their land better than anyone else.
both china and india gets free passage from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.
Vietnam v2.0: Iraq
Vietnam v.3.0: Afghanistan
Vietnam v.4.0: Iran
Then sucking will continue until the Americans learn!
WRONG. Iran is desert, not jungle, dumbass.
(I hope it’s clear I’m being silly at you. Because I am. Being silly at you.)
Battle group, USS Tripoli, is 2400 marines and 2600 sailors spread around 5-8 ships.
Iran will heavily commit to a Waterloo event, and 99-1 that will be outcome if they go beyond Oman, and they are still strikable in Oman.
There is literally no way this can end badly
Mission accomplished
Right?
Oh hey it’s that time again
I thought for sure this would be “Bomb Iran” or “BYOB”, but Tom Lehrer is a welcome surprise XD
did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.
all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a “reason to do it” and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.
Americans don’t learn.
Ah ha! The clever way of helping Putin by letting him invade when not president, then getting him to blow up his own pipeline and bridge, then getting sanctions put on him, to cleverly let Putin have a few crumbs years later…
Indeed, the perfidy knows no bounds.
You “Russia Russia Russia” people realize we can’t even predict weather a few days in advance despite immense computing resources, but you think someone can predict human actions like Hari Seldon?
Jesus fucking Christ we’re a hopeless species.
Well, the Asimov reference was a pleasant surprise in there, just want to say. heh
The president is conpromised by Putin, nobody with their head outside of the billionaires’ ass should be unawares of that at this point. The above commenter however didn’t mention that the Israelis also have him, and his pals, compromised.
It really is like that.
They learnt only from the Iraq war as defined by the period the W defines as the war
Or the 90a
Or the 00s
Here’s hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags
Maybe a new flag could be designed and made especially for them. A gold one with the words “Lol, I died to distract you all from the Epstein files!”
Or something like that.
