Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

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inetsone said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ee8WIxGCnr0
Not sure if shared already.

Rubio sounding a little manic and nervous and looking a little sweaty. Interesting comments on "imminent threat." Wonder if we'll ever get more info on the  WMDs actual specific intel.
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He outright said that Israel drug us into this war:

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Just_Somebody said:
I know the ongoing nonsense is that Americans are dying for Israel, but so far, all the US deaths have been at a US base in Kuwait.
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No, you don't understand bro. If America sat this out, and it was just a 100% Israeli OP, the Iranians totally would have gone "okay, the Great Satan is doing nothing, so we won't spaz out and fire missiles at Kuwait and Oman." 🙄

(Not to mention the UK hasn't done a damn thing thus far, and yet Cyprus is getting hit).
 
Captain Manning said:
I would if I had a destroyer or frigate escorting me through. Form up a convoy and let's fucking go. Iran is gay. Fuck them. If they send those gay Shahed things at me, even the CWIS on the warship will kill them (max speed is about 100kts, missiles are a waste).
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Put the oil in 50 gallon drums and ship it using small speedboats like the narcos do.
 
CaliforniaRaisin said:
A lot of people were very angry about the 13 troops killed during Biden's withdrawal of Afghanistan. To the point of wanting unreal repercussions. These 13 people were brought up (and still are) constantly.

Those same people seem pretty non-plussed right now that more service personnel are dying in the sandbox.
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Do you realize the difference between a complete military withdrawal when we should have been in a position of strength (and if we weren't it was a massive strategic blunder) versus an active offensive military operation? I'll give you a hint, one should have zero casualties and didn't due to a massive mishandling and with the other it's a miracle there have only been four due to an unbelievably smooth operation.
 
Just_Somebody said:
On top of that, how does Kuwait show their appreciation from being under the American security umbrella? Shooting down not one, but THREE F-15s.
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I'm just wondering what the fuck is with Kuwait that they somehow managed to shoot down three of our planes. How the fuck did they even do that? Fuck you, Kuwait. This shit country wouldn't even exist without the first Iraq war.
 
Schwarzwald said:
Do you realize the difference between a complete military withdrawal when we should have been in a position of strength (and if we weren't it was a massive strategic blunder) versus an active offensive military operation? I'll give you a hint, one should have zero casualties and didn't due to a massive mishandling and with the other it's a miracle there have only been four due to an unbelievably smooth operation.
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6. Keep up.

And we weren't in a position of strength because someone drew down forces in the region too quickly the previous couple of years.
 
Gap Hag said:
I do wonder what the coziest jobs are, probably have to be something deep in america where you just take care of filing cabinets or something, zero percent chance of danger.
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My dream job is to spend half my life in a poorly maintained nuclear missile silo doing crosswords as nothing ever happens and I earn a pension.
 
Forgive my ignorance here-but I have seen no evidence the Iranian state is collapsing, spawn camp as many leaders as you like I guess-but the actual organizational apparatus of the IRCG, the clerical body and the civilian leadership doesn't seem remotely destroyed yet.
 
CaliforniaRaisin said:
A lot of people were very angry about the 13 troops killed during Biden's withdrawal of Afghanistan. To the point of wanting unreal repercussions. These 13 people were brought up (and still are) constantly.

Those same people seem pretty non-plussed right now that more service personnel are dying in the sandbox.
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can you quantify "unreal repercussions"? idk how you can defend Biden who's a literal meat puppet and objectively did botch the withdrawal. Biden is getting actual "unreal" repercussions (read: mystical) for the last 5 years i.e he made a Faustian Bargain to gain the presidency at the cost of his favorite son dying and being left with a total screw up of a child.
 
Has the US and Israel surrendered yet?
@Catch The Rainbow you forced to convert to Islam?
I mean all the third world news media and third position telegram channels are saying the US is being forced any time now to surrender due to pressure from the gulf states and shit.
:story:
 
CaliforniaRaisin said:
A lot of people were very angry about the 13 troops killed during Biden's withdrawal of Afghanistan. To the point of wanting unreal repercussions. These 13 people were brought up (and still are) constantly.

Those same people seem pretty non-plussed right now that more service personnel are dying in the sandbox.
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The problem with the Afghanistan withdrawal was that it was horrifically handled. They just pulled out, got American soldiers killed, let the country fall back to the Taliban, and even left military assets behind for people who see themselves as our enemies to do as they please with. It also was a quick, aimless action with no messaging that made everyone involved feel like we just wasted 20 years in the sandbox for nothing (which is true, but as a leader you've got to be better at messaging).

With the Iran situation, we'll have to see how it ends up. If we end up having to put troops on the ground over there (doubtful Trump is willing to do that outside of a handful of SpecOps), and if it ends in a giant Civil War with the mullahs coming out on top, with dozens or hundreds dead, this action will be seen as a massive blunder. But we haven't reached that point yet, and, thus far, dealing with Iran has been going smoother than anyone expected it would.
 
GGSurvivor said:
can you quantify "unreal repercussions"? idk how you can defend Biden who's a literal meat puppet and objectively did botch the withdrawal. Biden is getting actual "unreal" repercussions (read: mystical) for the last 5 years i.e he made a Faustian Bargain to gain the presidency at the cost of his favorite son dying and being left with a total screw up of a child.
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lol. "Defending Biden". Objective discussion that casts criticism equally can't happen because you need to be pigeon holed into one side or the other.
 
AN/ALR56 said:
Has the US and Israel surrendered yet?
@Catch The Rainbow you forced to convert to Islam?
I mean all the third world news media and third position telegram channels are saying the US is being forced any time now to surrender due to pressure from the gulf states and shit.
:story:
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An Iranian victory would look like something like mass revolutions in the Gulf States, US bases overrun, and Israel left defenseless as US forces were forced to evacuate the theatre-that's the fantasy third worldist media is pitching. I see no evidence anything like that is occurring.
 
Ishtar said:
Forgive my ignorance here-but I have seen no evidence the Iranian state is collapsing, spawn camp as many leaders as you like I guess-but the actual organizational apparatus of the IRCG, the clerical body and the civilian leadership doesn't seem remotely destroyed yet.
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I guess the idea is to keep the president alive to negotiate with him. Either that or people go "The regime got their goons destroyed from orbit, time to take over government buildings and reinstate the Shah!"
 
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