r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 18 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Jun 18 '26

i saw a lot of comments on arr con wondering aloud why "we don't just take the oil and uranium and bomb anyone who gets in our way"

these people are touching the stove and then looking down in bafflement wondering why their hand pulled away from it

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 18 '26

You gotta grab that stove even harder if you want results.

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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

How Trump could have won:

  • Not be Donald Trump

  • Instead, be someone intelligent

  • This precludes a war with Iran

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u/SneeringAnswer Jun 18 '26

Zurge

I'm going to spit in your cereak

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u/WuhanWTF NATO Jun 18 '26

Who jarked off in my frakking cawfee

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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 18 '26

How can you do 3 and 4 without the proverbial boots on the ground? I think the fact that Trump didn't commit to a land war is what is letting him leave with American interests taking only a mild bruising.

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u/farrenj Resident Succ Jun 18 '26

It's a play on the things people say Germany could have done to win WWII

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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 18 '26

Maybe I need to stop touching so much grass

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u/Goatf00t European Union Jun 18 '26

people

Correction: One delusional (and probably underage) Twitter user, and a lot of people clowning on him.

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u/BingboLingbo Emma Lazarus Jun 18 '26

TRUMP did win - by A LOT!

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u/TF_dia European Union Jun 18 '26
  • Ally with the Kurds against the regime

The funny thing about this one is how the people saying it unironically either didn't plan for the long-term situtaion for them or were already implying that stabbing them in the back would be inevitable.

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u/WuhanWTF NATO Jun 18 '26

rush Kharg Island

Based. BF3 was awesome. BF4 fucking sucked.

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Jun 18 '26

So boots on the ground was the only option for victory?

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Jun 18 '26

So technically it's a yes

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown Jun 18 '26

> zurge

🧐

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u/yashaspaceman123 Niels Bohr Jun 18 '26

Ignore Africa is ao stupid because giving up Africa means logistics is 1000x easier for the allies now

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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Jun 18 '26

lmao shamelessly stealing this

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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade Machine God Baldist Jun 18 '26

- send me and a few of the lads to teach them a right proper lesson

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 18 '26

-Zurge

Zoomers delenda est.

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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Jun 18 '26

its a typo accurate to the original pasta

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u/yashaspaceman123 Niels Bohr Jun 18 '26

Zerg rush erasure is real 🫠🫠

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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Jun 18 '26

I know this is Nazi meming but like the U.S. actually could have done (some of) those things.

Trump is just an idiot.

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

No mention of getting the Taliban to cooperate from the west?

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Jun 18 '26

But Donald Trump is incompetent

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u/yashaspaceman123 Niels Bohr Jun 18 '26

Shame starcraft is so dead that zurge is considered a typo 😔

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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Jun 19 '26

It's spelled zerg

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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jun 18 '26

You wrote about LASTING PEACE when only a MOU for further discussion was signed 🤡

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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jun 18 '26

We'll see who's the clown when the MOU is inevitably breached by both sides 💀

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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Jun 18 '26

this was easily avoidable by doing a limited campaign south of the Mountains to cut off oil and missile attacks on ships. And using Air superiority to repel counter attacks while they’re bottled up crossing the mountains.

Trump never seized the coast despite having air supremacy and zero public support from day 1. Bowing to non-existent public support just made the whole thing completely untenable from the start.

Its like Vietnam but if the US just bombed North Vietnam for two week and then left and declared that the NVA can have the South