Make war , not love

[Ninurta]

@ Ninurta, quoted:

"or more specifically, the real answers to the question "why are we there?""

To benefit from the spoils of war and/or colonization. USA dollar has and continues to slip. Trump's tariffs are a total failure. Money needs to come from somewhere.

Yes, that's one way of looking at it. I don't think it's the correct answer, mostly because I cannot fathom how that would work - spend billions to thump a country, but then how would we possibly even be able to recoup those losses, much less turn a profit on the venture?

We'd have to annex the country to incorporate it into the US GDP and support the charges of "colonization", and then we'd have to go to the expense of rebuilding infrastructure, restructuring it in some cases to counteract the dismal decisions of the Clerics, and then, after all the expense of the war, rebuilding, and "colonization", it would be years and years before we could ever recoup those losses in order to turn a profit.

I just can't see how that would work in the real world,instead of on paper.

But yes, that scenario would most definitely require American "boots on the ground", and lots of them. That in turn would inevitably lead to the "failure" scenario as the Iranians would eventually get tired of being second-class ciizens in their own country, and would then rebel, repeating the war cycle all over again.

There's just no profit in that.

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