I fear Donnie boy is being forced/manipulated by "our greatest ally" to sacrifice hundreds of marines' lives in order to fully commit us to staying in a long war against Iran. Those soldiers and the USS Tripoli are being placed in extreme danger as a sacrifice, not because they can take Kharg Island and keep it functioning.

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I welcome comments from users with word word 4 number user names, 2 month old accounts, hidden account and comment histories, and that promote America's shared interests with our Greatest Ally.

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not gonna happen even if it’s the most sane thing to do at this point. this war is going great for a certain ally that shall not be named

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I wonder how they would benefit from their ally not backing off from a war they started 🤔

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Of course, because Iran is a stalwart and dependable ally and always will be.

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I believe the house and Senate have great power to stop the President. They can refuse to fund anything and everything. They can call in any and all members of his administration for questioning and public accountability. They can reject the President's appointed officials for pretty much any role, including the Supreme Court. They can actually remove the President from office completely. The only catch is, the body must act with different levels of cooperation in order to perform those acts. Some symbolic things can be done by a single person, such as making a speech on the floor, or denying unanimous consent. But those things can only publicly shame someone, or temporarily delay an action which is otherwise inevitable. Most real actions to permanently enact or deny something require a majority in one or both houses. The most impactful things, which essentially override even the will of the people, require two-thirds or larger majorities. Real power is derived from holding both the presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress. And to a greater extent, holding those positions for a majority of the time over decades, so that more entrenched institutions are also turned over. THAT is what Republicans have successfully done. Partially through bending some rules and ignoring decency and decorum, but mostly through simply winning votes. They were very strategic about winning the right votes, in the right places, at the right times. And they did not care one bit about what they had to say to do it, who they had to ally with, how many times they have to contradict themselves and go back on their own promises to voters, because they knew that voters emotional decisions today will always outweigh their memories of past hardship. At the end of the day, it was the voters that chose this government off the menu of choices they have had for the last few decades.

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Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania was always at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was always our trusted Ally

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Why care about Iranian lives when your military-ally has killed multiple thousands in Gaza without any remorse or consequence. At least the people killed in Iran were rebelling against an authoritarian regime, that's an expected consequence. But Gazans were largely helpless souls who became victims of a callous and evil ideology. Picking and choosing which atrocity to respond to is something only cold, calculating, and manipulative psychopaths excel at.

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Not enough folks nation that. It’s aggravating. They had what 2 negotiations and they got bombed and killed one in Qatar if memory serves and Qatar is allegedly a US ally yet Israel bombed them and the US was like we didn’t see anything. It’s wild.

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Yea, even if this war ends today, the economy is going to feel ripple effects of this idiots decision making for a long while. Imagine letting a country of 10M people with no useful resources drag you into paying for their imperialism campaign. We've completely shafted every ally we have and caused a needless economic crisis because AIPAC go brrrrrrrrrrr. That said him closing up shop and letting the economy cut its losses is probably best case scenario at this point. That said I'll believe when I see it and still believe this likely ends with boots on the ground en masse. Maybe electing the guy famous for bankruptcies and reality TV to the presidency wasnt the best idea.

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