Comment by Jamesbeam | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Jamesbeam | Hacker News Reader

Remind me again, what’s the reason to still put American soldiers lives at risk this week?

Are the Iranians days away from having a nuclear bomb again and planning to use it on the US?

No?

It is "Help is on its way" Wednesday again after the casual TACO Tuesday?

That’s not it either?

Hmm, must be that Iran wants to annihilate Israel then with the nuclear bomb Bibi is saying they are basically three days away from for the past thirty years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPfqVAQVhs

That’s not it?

Damn, must be some 4D chess, if the Doofus in Chief and the Secretary of Death are hiding their war goals from their own citizens and congress for months.

How about the Iran baddies taking control of the Strait of Hormuz?

That’s bad, right? Why did we allow them to dabble in piracy for all these years?

Oh, they did not before the three-day special operation led by the smartest commander in chief in history with an army run by loyalists instead of excellence, who have access to unlimited compute with the best LL models in the world and can’t finish a war with sand people if their lives depended on it?

Damn.

At least the president is a successful businessman. This war must have for sure been worth it if they keep putting American troops lives at risk. America first! The American people come out of this even more free and wealthy, right?

https://www.cfr.org/articles/was-it-worth-it-the-true-cost-o...

What a shitshow and you guys voted those idiots into office and power. What a shitshow.

This is a very naive take. It’s on par with the Aztecs thinking that Spain 5000 miles across the ocean has nothing to do with them. Or the USA making the same mistake again in the early days of WWII.

The IRGC has literally been calling for “death to America”, directly and through its armed proxies for decades, and have acted on that by killing Americans.

They are actively conducting nuclear weapons research and development.

Do you think Iranians are not smart enough to be able to create a nuclear weapon?

I am not the one being naive. We had a stable regime with Iran, a murderous regime, worthy of critique and diplomatic pressure and sanctions, but it was stable and predictable.

Iran was a lot more politically stable than, let’s say, North Korea, where the supreme leader had allegedly murdered his brother, who had zero interest in becoming the supreme leader, with poison at a public international airport. Better safe than sorry I guess.

Why do we allow North Korea to have nuclear weapons?

"The DIA director’s April 2026 testimony stated that North Korea’s missile tests ‘align with Pyongyang’s defence modernisation goals of improving deterrence against Washington through the development of a modern solid propellant missile force.’ North Korea has tested ballistic missiles in January, March, and April 2026."

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF1047...

I’d argue the DIA director telling Congress about North Korea preparing ballistic missiles to reach the United States with nuclear warheads is a clearer threat to the US than Iran just existing and dabbling in nuclear research besides terrorizing their own people.

We also have Israel, a nation of ,at least from my personal experiences, good people,run by warmongering far-right religious fanatics for a while now. Also having nuclear weapons, btw.

I would talk about the dirty nuclear deal Trump is pulling for the Saudis right now, but their crown prince allegedly got away with murder before, so I prefer to keep my limbs and will not challenge the man wielding the royal bonesaw.

If you think this will not end with Saudis having a nuclear weapons programme, you have more trust in the moral integrity of the president than I do.

Oh and btw, Donald Trump has the football. The sanest person to ever exist.

And you seriously think Iran having a nuclear weapon is a bigger problem than all the other maniacs having one?

I think Iranians are smart enough to create a nuclear weapon, but also smart enough to use it just like anyone else having access to nuclear weapons.

As a deterrent and bargaining chip for getting treated equally and not getting pushed around by the local far-right religious fanatics that currently threaten the whole region with disregard for the lives of anyone that is not an Israeli.

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