Man, I really hate being on the Axis side. I hope we lose.
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We already lost. Trump got bullied/suckered by Israel into this mess without a clearly defined American win scenario. Israel has one and they are getting it. The US does not, because Trump is weak and catastrophically dumb, ignorant, narcissistic, and incompetent.
Epstein was the ultimate life insurance policy for Israel. Most of the americal leaders are in their pocket because of the kompromat he collected for decades for the foreign agencies (Israeli and Russian it seems).
If Israel is around in 100 years I'll eat my shorts. They're speedrunning being turned into a crater
Israel's nuclear doctrine is the Samson Doctrine.
Basically, if they get nuked... they nuke Moscow, European capitals, anyone and everyone they can reach.
So.... yeah...
Its literally 'kill everyone'.
How the heck does the world "negate" or oppose Israel with the Samson Option running around?
So, basically what Iran does now, but with nukes?
Yeah the whole area is a hot mess. Always has been though, and always will be, unless of course it’s the nuke o’clock some day.
People who will win: defense contractors, evangelical christians with investments in Israel, oil companies that can pull the "make money" lever at whim, saudi princes and everyone who is going to shore up around the capitalist might of US/Israel's war machine.
People who will lose: anyone who needs insulin, food or childcare.

The end game
100% chance that if they did this, they'd find a reason to invade the squishy but obscenely rich Gulf to the east as well.
Hard to imagine only half of the Arabian Peninsula or just a minor sliver of the Levant would be enough. "We're here, why isn't it ours" seems like the Israeli motto.
Ah yes just casually taking the bulk of the fucking Nile…
Might as well clean up the rest of Egypt as well at that point.
They're salty about...
...being let go by the pharaoh? After writing silly stories claiming credit for natural disasters ruining Egypt? Such salty crybabies.
The amount of cultural squashing that would need to happen to make this possible is just ridiculous lol.
Ahhh so thats why we bombed iran.
Hope for lots of dead Israeli soldiers!
Why? Is there another Hannibal Directive planned I haven't heard about? Or it that mostly just for civilians?
Lebanon can’t catch a break.
Someone invade "israel", so they get what they do to others.
Three countries (and more really) tried to do exactly that, and they have still not recovered
Their militaries are woefully inadequate, they can't compete with US/Israeli doctrine directly
There are many reasons why, "top heavy" is simplest explanation; rank and file are afraid of their superiors (rightly so), so they withhold and misrepresent unfortunate news.
This makes modern military operations that depend on adaptability, communication, and coordination very difficult.
It’s been tried multiple times and the invaders always lose the war and territory.
So how much territory could they actually effectively hold and control?
Most people already fled. So it's pretty sparsely populated right now
Oh yeah, invade this christian nation once again
Jesus lives there
I heard he was deported to Mexico
Impossible! Everyone knows Jesus is a white man with blond hair and beard and shining white teeth who lives in a cloud above Arkansas or Kansas, he wants us to bomb the shit out of brown people, our pastors say so.
Watch the Lebanese army and goverment again do nothing while their citizens are massacred other than scold their opposition to stop resisting.
Here's the direct link to this telegraph story:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/03/israel-launches-ground-invasion-of-lebanon/
I swapped it out for it.
Hopefully the mods are OK with that