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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The U.S. requested temporary access to Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base to support Middle East operations, including refueling aircraft, deploying fighter jets, and sending up to 500 personnel. Romania is expected to approve.
what i can read online, we've been using this airbase for decades, and its pretty close to ukraine border, i wonder if the news for more usa presence there is an auxillary message to russia.
theyre building a 2nd giant runway for more nato and civilian use.

 
At what cost if they are still around? They've isolated themselves in the region at this point. Im pretty sure most of the Gulf States want them gone.
ah-ah, moving goalposts aren't we? regime change is the ultimate goal of this war, because Israel (and the United States by proxy because of course they tow the agenda) wants ALL possible enemies in the middle east gone, and if it that doesn't happen, it is categorically a STRATEGIC failure for not meeting the most important military

By the way, have you noticed that the gulf states haven't joined in the war despite being repeatedly bombed by Iran?, they don't like Iran but they can't really do anything about removing the threat by themselves.
With what money?

They were broke before the war and are going out be TURBO broke now
I'm pretty sure the oil in Iranian territory is still there, they can still sell it like normal once the war is over, that money is going to rebuilding the military, they clearly don't have to care about improving QoL standards for the people at this point judging by the amount of blood they spilled on the roads of their cities.
 
Survives what? When are people going to get "it".

The US can just drop a missile on everything. There's no clear upper limit to how many times they can do this.
Israel can infiltrate every electronic communication device, and spend all its time and money watching every Iranian citizen and feed it into their AI servers for analysis.

What the fuck are people smoking seriously? What imaginary past model of warfare are they thinking exists? This is like late stage RTS gameplay where one faction has the tech tree completed and is fielding its wonder which is a floating death cannon, and the other team is like "well if I survive this, I'll just rebuild all the buildings currently being destroyed in my base with the engineer units that automatically spawn in when I'm out of units."

Considering the first side is playing like a tired old man with no attention span, no clear win conditions, and all the time "Multipolar" and "United Abominations" stop his over application of his firepower and cry nerf every second, its not far fetched.

Take Afghanistan for example. Which empire didn't die there? Genghis Khan's. Know why?

No rules of engagement. No mercy.

"I'm the emissary of the Khan. Defy me and DIE"

A literal passport made people scared.
 
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The U.S. requested temporary access to Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base to support Middle East operations, including refueling aircraft, deploying fighter jets, and sending up to 500 personnel. Romania is expected to approve. It's currently unknown if Bulgaria will join the fight.

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Romania approved it.
Trump has been bullying Europe so much more when he came back to office and even more with that whole Greenland spat, its a little pathetic to see his administration ask for help from Europeans for this war.
 
ah-ah, moving goalposts aren't we? regime change is the ultimate goal of this war, because Israel (and the United States by proxy because of course they tow the agenda) wants ALL possible enemies in the middle east gone, and if it that doesn't happen, it is categorically a STRATEGIC failure for not meeting the most important military
If it's moving goalposts it's because it's not a goalpost that was ever set by American leadership. It's instead a goalpost set by onlookers that then move it around any time necessary to say "haha you failed this goal"

US stated goals since the start have been - Fuck up their navy, fuck up their ballistic missiles, and continued assurance of fucking over their nuclear aspirations.

Regime change was always set to the side as a "yeah we'd like if this happens, and we might do what we can to assist in that if an uprising starts" but never as the goal of the operation itself. It's a second order consequence that would be nice to see but was never tabled as the goal.

People keep making their own conditions like this to say "well if you don't do this thing than you failed at what you tried to do" and will continue to just make up new conditions to say it's a failure no matter what happens. It's like the people saying because we didn't enact total regime change in Venezuela that that operation was a failure when the reality is that's just never what that was aimed at doing.
 
A cyberattack attributed to the Iranian-linked Handala hacking group has disrupted operations at the U.S. company Stryker’s Cork site in Ireland.️ The attack deployed “wiper” malware that erased data on connected systems, forcing a shutdown at the company’s site in Cork, Ireland. Network access collapsed, staff were sent home, and some work accounts were wiped from personal phones.
They have backups of everything, so this is just a temporary disruption. I will be surprised if it lasts outside 1 week.
Romania approved it.
Our greatest ally. 💙💛❤️
With what money?
If they can manage to import things, they can simply (soft) "planned economy" their existing industries into producing what they want.
There are certainly many downsides, but I do not think they will be embargoed, so it is possible short-term.
Can someone explain why Hezbollah only kills Israeli Arabs?
Allah wills it.
 
Conflict over resources transcends everything.
Conflict over ideology is more dangerous than conflict over resources, but I may be wrong about that.
I always liked Ahmadinejad
I always thought he looked like Iranian George Bush.
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If the regime survives the average person in the region will see them to be equal or even stronger than the US. In that "weakened" state Iran will then be more powerful than they have ever been.
THE TURD WORLD WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES, IN DEATH THEY SHALL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN IN LIFE
 
Trump has been bullying Europe so much more when he came back to office and even more with that whole Greenland spat, its a little pathetic to see his administration ask for help from Europeans for this war.
And both the Gulf states and Europe are staying out of the conflict, rightfully so. This entire provocation from U.S. and Israel has been a blunder from their allies' perspective.
 
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Israel tells Lebanon to cut the shit or get hit.

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Several Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburb (Dahieh).

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Continuous Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburb (Dahieh).
 
By the way, have you noticed that the gulf states haven't joined in the war despite being repeatedly bombed by Iran?, they don't like Iran but they can't really do anything about removing the threat by themselves.
It's so they can switch sides the instant it becomes convenient or advantageous. There's about a thousand years of history demonstrating this.
 

Livecam shows targeted airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force over the past minutes





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Additional scenes from Beirut's southern suburb (Dahieh).
 
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