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D_Master81

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1. This is what I have always assumed

Reply to BeyondGeography (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 07:18 PM

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I’ve been thinking that this war seems so ill thought out because Trump and Israel thought if they took out the Ayatollah the resistance would rise up. When that didn’t happen they didn’t have much of a secondary plan other than blow up a bunch of Iranian military stuff.

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