Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is “treasonous” to say the US is not winning the war in Iran. The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world’s largest retirement community, when he made the remarks. Trump came to tout supposedly fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to remove taxes on Social Security. It came after the president told Congress that the war in Iran had already ended, despite his earlier issuing a fresh threat to Tehran.
  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
    32·
    4 days ago

    Im not going to say we’re not winning. We lost. We could not take a single strategic objective and we just called it off. We lost freedom of navigation, american lives, and any perception of military strength. All our soft power and hard power gone all at once. in 60 days. Trump did more for Irans death the America calls than any army could

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
      55·
      3 days ago

      and any perception of military strength.

      As someone who isn’t American, I assure you no one globally thinks the Americans actually have any military strength.

      They’re a paper tiger. They just have a lot of money. Their training sucks, their troops suck, their military strategy sucks… Everything about the US military is arguably terrible except for money.

      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        Why do so many non-American countries buy weapons from and train with Americans?

        Are they stupid?

        • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 days ago

          I’m ex CAF. Sometimes you need a reminder how well trained you are as a fighting force by training next to someone who is inept as fuck. Training next to Americans really reminded us how well trained we were.

          And again, the American military is just money. Buying weapons and munitions is not the same as America deploying their Temu brand of military soldiers.