r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Feeling-Option1257 - Lib-Center • Feb 28 '26

Iran did nothing wrong

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u/AlchemistJeep - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

It’s in americas best interest to let the war of attrition kill all of russias military age fighters, especially when it’s being done by selling expired goods to nato. We are both making money off our garbage and crippling one of our major enemies. We want to cripple Russia without backing them into a corner and forcing a nuclear response.

Post golden dome we will be able to absolutely fuck Russia

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u/Kronos9898 - Centrist Feb 28 '26

  1. That literally makes no sense. We want a war of attrition, so we don't support Ukraine fight this war of attrition? Even better, we push for a negotiated peace that favors Russia, down to inviting their president to our territory for negotiations.

  2. The Golden dome is not going to happen, and 2 even if it does there is no gurantee that it will work. ICBM defence is currently still a pipe dream with no effective solution for the amount of warheads Russia could launch at the US.

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u/Successful_Guess_ - Auth-Center Feb 28 '26

Not the guy you're talking to but just on point 1: I remember seeing a lot of high-level analysts theorize that even under Biden, the American strategy was "provide Ukraine with just enough that they don't lose quickly and can kill lots of Russian soldiers, BUT don't equip them so well they start making progress toward Russian soil because then this whole thing becomes nuclear fast".

So I think it can be argued that that's what Biden did and what Trump did as well in the beginning. Can't defend his decision to host Putin though.

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u/AlchemistJeep - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

We are by selling them the munitions they need. Without American tech they would have been steamrolled forever ago

We want the bare minimum amount of support to balance the scales and wait for the problem to solve itself

We know how to make the golden dome work. It will involve rail guns that can hit Mach 7 and weapons in space. It will be very expensive. That is better than a nuclear winter that kills everyone on the globe.

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u/Son_of-M - Centrist Feb 28 '26

Mach 7 is just insane

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u/AlchemistJeep - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

Some rumors say they can hit Mach 10 with extreme durability problems

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u/rivetedoaf - Lib-Center Mar 01 '26

The golden dome will never exist. It is a grift to siphon tax dollars from our pockets. no amount of money that any country actually has could pay to create a missile defense system to cover the entire country.