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Treat it with a Mount Everest-sized grain of salt, given the source. If true, it's both based or incredibly retarded move, even if it's an accident.
 
Suddenly muslim terrorist fucks having accounts on X is a bad thing.
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Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
What is it with retards and nukes?
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They're figuring out that "civilian casualties", "rules based order", "international law", "people will hate america" and the rest of the salvo that was a checkmate in the 2000s is no longer having any effect on public opinion so they're trying a new angle. And Oppenheimer was pretty popular so why not.
 
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Seethan Ralph said:
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Treat it with a Mount Everest-sized grain of salt, given the source. If true, it's both based or incredibly retarded move, even if it's an accident.
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given Iran's history of "reporting" things like this if a warehouse was even hit, it likely contained a bunch of supplies for the IRGC and somewhere in the corner of that warehouse there was some baby formula which will now be all they will talk about to try and claim some humanitarian crime was committed against them.

Like just as a thought experiment, think to yourself "when was the last time I ever heard of a warehouse for civilian goods that was entirely comprised of one very specific and niche use product like baby formula"

The answer is it's just not how goods like that get handled but focusing on that point is the sympathy play. Like when at first the school that got hit was "an all girls school" and then they published the list of those killed and half were boys. (not that any kids is an okay thing, but just that Iran regularly shows they will twist facts to focus in on what they think will garner them the most leverage/sympathy)
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
Yeah I don't see regime change as something that's going to happen anymore - I'm a little surprised any of you are still talking about it. I don't even think the administration believes that, they shifted what they said about it earlier this week from Trump on down. That may have been the hope early on, but it obviously has not come to fruition.

I think the goal now is to leave the regime as broken and crippled militarily as possible. Trump has said as much.
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There will eventually be some announcement of "The time is now to rise up and take your country back," if for no other reason than for Trump to say he tried.
From his very first announcement at two in the morning, he made it clear that regime change was ultimately in the Iranian people's hands, not ours. If they fail to topple the government, sucks for them, but we did our job.

Surprised it took them two weeks and multiple lost tankers to realize maybe a detour would be a good idea.
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ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
There will eventually be some announcement of "The time is now to rise up and take your country back," if for no other reason than for Trump to say he tried.
From his very first announcement at two in the morning, he made it clear that regime change was ultimately in the Iranian people's hands, not ours. If they fail to topple the government, sucks for them, but we did our job.
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Fucking pussy ass shit. I thought Trump was gangsta. Now he refuses to commit. Shit or get off the pot, Trumpeltier!
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Surprised it took them two weeks and multiple lost tankers to realize maybe a detour would be a good idea.
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the hard part about that isn't getting the ships to go to the red sea instead of the persian gulf
the hard part is moving all the oil they want to load on these ships across the desert to the other side of the arabian peninsula
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Surprised it took them two weeks and multiple lost tankers to realize maybe a detour would be a good idea.
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Because it’s a bandage for a more serious wound. Ports don’t have enough capacity to ship at the same volume. Ending the problem means destroying Iran’s ability to wage attacks, which currently is a losing battle for Iran as they’re losing more assets each day, regardless of how conservative they try to be.
 
@Mr. Racewar1488 You were right about it about around 2,500. Sorry to have corrected you but the article DID say its usally 5,000 so Im not sure why the felt the need to add that when its 3 ships and 2,200 marines according to ABC
 
Fanatical Pragmatist said:
According to Hegseth, the three goals are:
1) destruction of Iran's ballistic missile program
2) destruction of Iran's navy (presumably including the IRGCN)
3) destruction of Iran's nuclear program
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These are just military objectives, though I am aware that hegseth is a mental retard who can't differentiate between that and victory conditions so I'll cut him some slack.

If this is the end goal of the operation then all this does is kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with. Days ago people in this thread were giving out hairbrained theories about how this is just preparation to get the unarmed iranian masses to rise up, overthrow their government, and bring le shah back.... somehow.... Now that it's clear this isn't happening it seems the collective goalpost has moved to weakening their capabilities for a couple years? That effectively just delays the inevitable. The only thing that puts an end to the axis of resistards is regime change, and the administration seems totally unwilling to actually commit to that because, despite all being freezer-temp IQ mongoloids, they still know that would be absolute political suicide due to the resources they'd have to put into it.

The ballistic missile program is all but destroyed, their navy got nuked, and their nuclear program is probably nuked as well, so if those were the only victory conditions what are we still doing there? Why are ships still scared to cross the strait of hormuz? Either shit or get off the pot dude.
 
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Scale Smerch said:
Do marines even still maintain armour detachments? I vaguely remember some doctrinal changes as part of Force Design 2030 where their MBTs were handed over to the army so they could emphasize their expeditionary capabilities.
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No more MBTs but they would have armored vehicles/IFVs. I should have say "Mechanized" not "armored"

LAVs, ACVs, and just checked, HIMARS & NEMESIS rocket artillery apparrently

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Only real option for any sort of conventional boots on the ground scenario IMO, but as @Ghostse gets into long-term occupation is not that practical unless you're willing to play whack a mole with artillery units. The sort of move done will be to destroy assets and strip away the island's strategic importance - i.e. prevent oil shipments through it for the foreseeable future.
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That's a very good point I forgot factor in: Sending in ground forces to smash the equipment.
I woudl think they'd use airstrikes, but they might want to be surgical. i.e. shut down the incoming pipelines so its not a massive environmental disaster.

RodgerDodger said:
He's talking about severing the power distribution system connected to the plants.
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Which I think would still have same issue @Myrtle the Turtle was talking about. Plunging a bunch of civilians into darkness.

Seethan Ralph said:
Popular uprising? I don't really see or hear about it anymore. Of course, some celebrate ACKing yet another cleric or military faggot, until they are dispersed Tiananmen-style. It's not even like loose coalition of opposition organizations.
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Nigger the guy they are professing Loyalty to tells them every 72 hours "stay in your homes and away from anything important;dont' show up for work".

WhiskeyJack said:
Has Iran shot any missiles at Chinese and Russian tankers yet?
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Yes. Russian shadow tanker was hit on I think day 2 or 3, chinese tankers just got acked.

They are just that level of retard-violent.

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Someone tell Null, he's got a way to solve his money issues.

Burnt Fish said:
>right next to IRGC base
>video shows childrens playground

every fucking time with these people
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Look man, sometimes your troops are sitting there protecting the country and they have a sexual emergency. You don't want them going to far from their post to deal with it, do you?
 
BootlegPopeye said:
He says "taking out". There are a lot more ways to do that than just bombing them.
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According to Arab media, British Typhoon fighter jets conducted night-time air defense operations over Bahrain for the first time since the war began.

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Airstrikes on Basij headquarters continued throughout the day.

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The U.S. Army has reportedly sent more than 10,000 'Merops' interceptor drones equipped with AI to the Middle East to counter Iranian drone attacks since the start of the war.

▶️ The drones were developed in Ukraine by the California-based defense company Project Eagle.

▶️ U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll stated that the goal is to intercept low-cost attack drones without expending more expensive air defense missiles.

▶️ Trump, however, denied that Ukraine has assisted the U.S. and its allies.



Cluster munitions over Tel Aviv, Israel.



Cluster submunition impact in Tel Aviv


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US/Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian Space Research Institute in Tehran.



Scenes from Tehran tonight, multiple impacts can be seen.



CENTCOM's kino of B-2s on the way to bring freedom to Iran, one JDAM at a time.

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Scenes from the Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Surprised it took them two weeks and multiple lost tankers to realize maybe a detour would be a good idea.
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I'm more surprised that nobody bothered to prepare for such a contingency. Maybe Saudi deemed it useless after they failed to dislodge the Houthis and assumed the Red Sea would be blocked too.
 
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