This is one of those things where like if you bet nukes wont be exploded... you win money. If nukes go off... well who cares if you lost the bet lol. There's ones on Jesus coming back too
I think literally they thought it would be a weekend series of strikes and then done
Apparently they killed an opposition leader in jail, they really just tried to kill anyone who could possibly be a unifying figure (except the one shah guy lol) because the point wasnt even regime change
The description reads like a Planescape Torment × Disco Elysium thing
"Excuse me I have to charge my cigarette back at the ConApt" wouldve been a piece of dialog in a PKD novel
Wow they should call you Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Kinda feels like Iran has been preparing for 20 years for this one
Same as it ever was. Same plan for Vietnam, which I guess was based more in reality. Same plan for Iraq.
But I guess the real plan is to just bomb as much as possible. All that capital literally exploded and cleared away, pay contractors to make more and bomb that too. The perfect hole to throw money in. Any blowback is perfect, more reason for them to bomb other places.
Prices go up in the imperial core and it sucks for sure, itll be harder. More people will be impoverished. Prices going up in the imperial core though means more food gets shipped there (thats where prices are up) which means there will be less in the global south for any price.
Canada has plenty of oil, fertilizer, agricultural land and Mexico (and the US depending on tarrif regime) are nearby too for ag products. But even for us its gonna suck, just not as bad as the global south.
The violence is channeled into stochastic spectacular targets with no particular ideological end. The people who did that i the 70s grew up when mass politics was more a real thing in the 50s and 60s and there was a sense things could be changed. We've almost completely lost that today
Cuno doesnt care
To take me to the fair
To change my underwear
It seems he doesnt caaaaaaaare