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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Captain Manning said:
The problem here, I think, is that the founding fathers didn't foresee a situation where a country goes to war, without formally declaring such. I don't think the military operations we conduct now were ever contemplated as part of their 18th century understanding of the world.

That's why we eventually ended up with the War Powers Act.
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Literally one of our first wars was the Quasi War with France which didn't require Congress to declare war. The president needed the power to mobilize troops and quickly responding to threats, Such as invaders, rebellions, or uppity natives and not wait around for congress to meet and debate the matter. All declaring war does is unlock a powerful toolbox of emergency powers to allow PotUS to handle it. If the president can make due without it he doesn't need to declare war.
 
Imperial Citizen said:
Any other rights and powers we should give up only because technology has advanced? 1A? 2A?

At the time of writing, 6 American soldiers have died because the President launched military strikes against Iran. At least 6 families are grieving. When do we, the American people, get a say in how our lives are spent in pursuit of military operations? We haven’t had a say since 1941.
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You're talking as if there was a draft, those guys went in voluntarily.
 
aphaln said:
The Iranians aren't taking these news very well, a military base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party was attacked in Erbil by Iranian militas in Iraq.


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The Azadi camp which contains families of members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was also bombed by Iran earlier today.


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Quick say that we’re gonna put turkey in charge of Iran so they bomb them too.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
All you need to know is that they're big enough and slow enough that if they're running roughshod, it means saying we have total air superiority is an understatement.
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As I have said many times before: the United States of America has been the undisputed SEAD/DEAD kings since 1943. We simply will not operate unless we have total air superiority. If you attempt to contest our air superiority you will quickly find yourself without an air force or air defense systems.
 
StudMccool said:
just to keep everyone on the planet earth for a second the IAF has f15s and f-16s with a HANDFUL of f-35s

that is IT
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48 F-35s is the most of any country with actual combat experience outside of the US themselves. The only Russian equal would be an SU-57 of which they only have 30 non-prototypes.

I do agree that I was a bit hyperbolic, but maybe I should say that the 2nd best airforce on a plane-for-plane or pound-for-pound basis would be the IAF. Japan and Korea are formidable on paper but have zero combat experience, same goes for China. Ukraine has combat experience but their airforce is in a state to where they don't even bother running CAP anywhere near the front, and brown countries are utterly inept with no exceptions.

Russia has quite a few good aircraft. SU-34s hold only 1000 KG fewer than an F-15EX, 12k vs 13k, actually having a bomber fleet makes them one of two airforces on the earth with a track record of pulling off such operations. Most of the Sukhois can and have beaten up on aircraft they are supposed to beating up on, a Sukhoi has never been killed by anything other than another Sukhoi until the Indians ruined that record in their last spat with Pakistan. Russia's issue is that they don't produce anywhere near enough aircraft for overwhelming first strikes. They've been very casualty adverse over Ukraine, which isn't a bad thing, but it's largely motivated by only making 2 SU-34s a month, as much of their production capacity is spent keeping their current air fleet afloat.


CIS White Droid said:
As I have said many times before: the United States of America has been the undisputed SEAD/DEAD kings since 1943. We simply will not operate unless we have total air superiority. If you attempt to contest our air superiority you will quickly find yourself without an air force or air defense systems.
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The term you are looking for is "Air Supremacy". Air superiority just means the enemy refuses to/can't fly their own planes over the front. Russia has that over Ukraine. Air Supremacy means you can fly with little risk of getting downed by enemy air defense, which the US has operated under since 1991.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
For the past twenty+ years B-52s and B-1s have been able to drop one JDAM at a time which turned them into loitering air strike machines for grunts on the ground. Send the GPPD coordinates to the bomber, they drop one JDAM, building go boom. Carpet bombing stopped being a thing when JDAMs were introduced in the late 90s.
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Carpet bomb with JDAMs?

We have like, 50 of those planes. Line em up!
 
Schpoots said:
B-52 bombers confirmed to be blowing shit up in Iran. I don't even know what those big motherfuckers do.
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If they are flying those big bitches around then Iran really has zero control over their air. They are to big and slow to operate anywhere near contested air space.
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They can carry fun stuff like 2000lb JDAM's
 

Canadian Communist activist Madeleine Zemek says that United States and Israel are actually conducting a Holocaust against Shia Muslims by attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran. I got jumpscared by her when I opened Telegram so you guys get to enjoy her too.



3.AM in Tehran, Iran as US-Israeli airforce drop several bombs in one go over the capital.



Sounds of Fighter jets heard over Shiraz, Fars province of Iran. According to reports, more than 30 explosions have occurred in Shiraz over the past minutes.

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Check X, see random posts, see a clearly AI image of the AN/FPS-132 on fire. Hmmm what retarded brown posting is this?
>Its joever for the US because Iran took out one of our early warning detection systems.
>The conflict is serious
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Oh.
Why are Indians so retarded?
 
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