Iranium ConFUSION Part 1: The costs of war and the likelihood of quick victory

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President Trump stated on Wednesday that a war with Iran will be fast and easy. Let’s hope that means faster and easier than the trade war with China has turned out to be, now a year long and getting worse.

We’re in a very strong position if something should happen. I’m not talking boots on the ground. I’m just saying if something would happen, it wouldn’t last very long.

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Only a couple of days earlier, Trump tweeted that Iran will be “obliterated” if it attacks anything American:

….Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2019

The president, of course, was royally miffed when he wrote this because Iranian officials had just said the White House is “afflicted with mental retardation.”

So, it is no wonder Trump threatened Iran with “overwhelming obliteration.” Who wouldn’t after being called a “retard?” Even though I engage my topics and sometimes my detractors here that way just for fun, it is a little surreal to see grown nations fighting like kindergarteners with threats of massive war that will annihilate potentially hundreds of thousands of people.

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