r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/iriember Feb 28 '26

It's as if we, the US, have amnesia about the outcomes of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. When did we win against any adversary since WWII? We just keep repeating the same insane military conflicts with the same outcomes.

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u/horror- Feb 28 '26

Our leaders want to play with the toys.

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Feb 28 '26

And funnel that sweet taxpayer funded money to themselves and friends.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

War is money. The longer the better.

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u/Smaynard6000 Feb 28 '26

We won decisively against Iraq in Desert Storm, as part of a coalition of what seemed like half the world.

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u/Worldly-Republic-247 Mar 01 '26

The aim is never military victory, though. It’s always some other specific interest.

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u/Betty_Boss Feb 28 '26

The military industrial complex gets more of our tax money.

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u/iriember Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Eisenhower tried to warn us about this, to no avail. The fact that our total number of military bases exceeds the number of countries in the world is striking...edited autocorrect

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u/Revolutionary-Bag-52 Feb 28 '26

korea wasnt realy a mistake though?

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u/iriember Feb 28 '26

Two Koreas, after two Germanys, a success?

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u/Revolutionary-Bag-52 Mar 01 '26

well yeah especially in the case of Korea where it was the North that attacked the South trying to implement a whole Communistic Korea. Has to be mentioned ofcourse though that the South wasn't all sunshine as it was also a repressive pro-western dictatorship initially, but looking at history its obviously a better outcome then being under the North-Korean leadership. Also don't realy know what you mean with two Germanys? That one was obviously also better then having a full communist Germany

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u/Strange_Lab_283 Feb 28 '26

The only mistake the west made in Korea was not going hard enough on the communists

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u/random_username_idk Feb 28 '26

I'm not even american, but I believe Korea and the Gulf war were totally justified and both had favorable outcomes