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Genuinely no
This combined with the domestic unpopularity of such a decision would make a full ground invasion a very desperate choice.
Also American infantry is just not that good tbh
He could launch the invasion and use it as an excuse to declare state of emergency and postpone the mid-terms to... never.
He made several comments about how convenient it is for Zelensky that Ukraine holds no elections during the war.
He might want to do that but it's not very likely to succeed; the U. S. doesn't suspend elections during wartime. They didn't during their own civil war: no way a foreign war would have any precedent or sway anyone.
The US didn't do a lot of things until he decided they were doing it.
Who's gonna stop him?
That is correct; as I already said, I think this particular thing is very unlikely.
I think they can open the strait. Conquering a mountainous country with an intentionally fragmented and cellular command structure, not a chance.
I have been told repeatedly that the mountainous country overlooks the strait with lots of places to hide small rockets and people to fire those rockets.
The domestic unpopularity is most likely the stopping point really. If the US were to ignore a lot of laws and treaties, we could turn Iran into 90 million starving people, then walk away and offer food for drone locations.
The world doesn't really have the time or stomach for that kind of campaign, both here and abroad. People are going to be starving this winter as it is, just because of the delays that have already happened. All we're doing now is debating how many.
Tbh I disagree. Domestic unrest won't come from the immense horror of starving millions of people into submission. We've been doing that for decades and it has never been a significant issue. It will come from the frustration of feeling the detoriation of our quality of life while we all watch hundreds of billions be spent on a war that doesn't benefit the public at all.
I wish I thought Americans would act out of moral concern but palestine alone has shown this to be untrue.
World citizens don't bat an eyelash at US/Israel starving Palestinians, Cubans, Free Korea, Somalia, or anywhere else they please.