Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to

No no, they also fuck something else!

that's like guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar.

there's at least three!

Idk what you're talking g about, he started with multiple crises and has only made them worse: climate change, health insurance, student loans, genocide in Gaza, etc.

Biden was nearly as incompetent and evil as Trump, he just hid it better and occasionally threw us a bone.

And all he had to do was make life less soul-crushing economically, and people would have gladly lined up behind him to support anything he wants to do, no matter how awful.

But they're not. They're poor and starving, so he's losing everyone, including his own coalition.

But its somehow biden and obamas fault.

His ego is his only compass, and he has tied the stock market to his ego. War and Hormuz being closed will hit the stock market. He may well want to back down when that happens, and find himself unable to.

He’s been actively destroying the US for the overwhelming majority of his presidency.

What makes Putin very happy despite losses in Ukraine.

Israel needs lebensraum.

You opened this can of worms, now lie in it.

He's already choking in them too.

And imo, ofcourse he can end this whenever he wants to. Strategically and morally this operation makes zero sense. Not that anything he's said or un-said, or started and or ( never) ended ever did. And no, I don't think Iranians will come better out of this. It's another humanitarian disaster in the making. He's a destructive asshole. # edit Iran not Iraq ofc.

He won't, he'll be long dead and we all have to live with the consequences

Except in the first US gulf war, back in the early 90s. (Kuwait was attacked by Iraq. The USA spent months preparing and then three days attacking. Then stopped when Iraq surrendered.)

Or the fall of the USSR. (Happened in about a month, no major fighting.)

Or the Russian annexation of Crimea.

It isn't that short military exercises never yield results. It's that wars persist until both attacker and defender believe peace is the best tactic.

The USA bombing a country for whom fighting the USA is essentially their national myth is possibly the dumbest thing that my country has ever done.

The implication I haven't seen explicitly mentioned in the article (which it should be! Bad article) is "there is no way for Trump to stop the war without losing face and thus his power".

The reason they keep going is because otherwise they have to admit they were wrong. And probably not only wrong, but knowingly wrong, which equals malicious. And admitting that you're malicious is bad, even with your most loyal supporters. The only way to not have that happen is to just keep going and act as if everything is fine, which is what's happening.

The actual "path to peace" is very very simple, you just have to retreat your troops. It's supremely unlikely Iran will attack halfway around the globe with their infrastructure.

We blew up a school. It was war crimes from the start.

Uh, y'all already all in on that.

You're about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.

They already have been. I know that at least one water desalination plant was hit. Civilian fuel infrastructure has been hit. The US openly stated they're going to try to cripple their industrial capacity. Seems the US has adopted Israel's Dahiya doctrine which targets civilian infrastructure. I think Trump said once the US is done there will be nobody left to surrender...

“At some point I don't think there will be anybody left, maybe to say ‘we surrender.’ They’re being decimated.”

• Donald Trump

Because bombing a school isn't a war crime in the US. It's just a Tuesday

And we know the Zionists are intensely relaxed about perpetrating genocide.

It's not a war crime is it's the first time.

Wonder what new horrors the torment nexus can cook up.

This war?

Special shoutout for all the virtue signalling sitouts

Operation Payback: rounding up all political leaders who allowed this to happen and shipping them to Iran and letting them deal with punishment.

Considering they have been shipping innocents around the world to be locked up in prisons without due process, they kind of deserve it.

Honestly I believe Iran would accept:

• Full sanctions relief
• Return to IAEA inspections
• Pinky-promise not to attack again
• Fake reparations program spread out over 30 years

The alternative is:

• The US is evicted from the Persian Gulf
• The US fucks off from Iraq, and Iraq gets an Iran-friendly government
• Bahrain gets regime change
• All goods through the strait are now controlled by Iran

The worse/better alternative is:

• Pipelines and refineries in the Arabian nations go boom
• All US/Israel trade through the Red Sea is blocked
• US is starved out of Djibouti
• Iran gets a nuclear weapon and says they're going to "test it" on Tel Aviv unless Netanyahu sucks a donkey dick on OnlyFans

Choose wisely, pedophile scum

This war can go on for years... so you are possible right. 

Except Trump will not bear the consequences. Soldiers, civilians and children, many of them on the Iranian side, will pay the price instead.

Iran seems to making it clear they will not be stopping soon, regardless of what Trump does. Trump has been trying to send Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner back in for "negotiations" (they were in the middle of "negotiations" when Trump attacked), but the Iranians have said "fuck no, it's too late."

Trump can leave, but then everybody knows for sure the USA and Trump despite all the military hardware and billions are weak and can't force anybody, can't keep trade going and doesn't have any allies left to help out. You just need some backbone and cheap drones.

Sadly it has a pretty good chance of affecting many people who never supported him as well.

I know the first thing I would do is stop shooting at the nation that bombed and killed my family and 100+ kids because they stopped first.

We have radicalized an entire nation against the US for no reason anyone can actually explain. The only thing we taught every nation is that we can bomb you and take your leaders captive if you do not have nukes.

He can choose to no longer shoot at Iran, but he can not make Iran stop shooting at the US. It takes only one site to keep a war going.

Although distracting from the Epstein files and other domestic issues likely plays a part, it is neither the only nor the main cause of this war. Saying that effectively leads political discourse away from the actual cause: capitalism and its imperialistic nature. Even if Epstein reminders have some effect at the home front, let us fight the root cause.

I dunno about all of Congress. Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Corey Bush, and Rashida Talib have stood against the regime since day 1. They shouldn't have to be handed over.

Not sure what you mean

In what way? They will experience it in the form of rising fuel prices, sure.

No, that's not clear at all. Unless you want to promote this from creepy conjecture to pointing out anything of substance..

Given how rarely any corpo media holds their feet to the fire, that's almost more interesting than whether it's true.

Both are at fault.

It's a joint failure. Israel is also to blame, as is often the case with US interventionism.

The military collapsed in a matter of days. Yet the conflict didn't end for years, which is the whole premise of the article and every conflict mentioned.