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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 113 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Commits war crime

tromp Now is the time for peace!

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[bombs you]

Okay now is the time for peace.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago

Iran walking out of the convention centre with a suspiciously reactor shaped crater

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)

can someone just give Iran some nukes? the world would be much better off for it

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why are you posting this? This is a good take!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They're from the 80's when bad meant good

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least McCain died before he had a chance to enjoy it.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Now who will Bolton celebrate with, chuck Schumer???

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 65 points 1 week ago

This bloodlust death cult empire really wants to just destroy everything. Good job they're really getting that wish I guess.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago

The best that Democrats can muster is finger wagging about constitutionality

Worse than useless

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

it is time to join PSL i guess

[–] dead@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump told Fox News that "2 weeks" was a lie for "operation security".

https://xcancel.com/BretBaier/status/1936609886898679839#m

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago

"So when we were negotiating with Iran it was a lie so Israel could attack it. Then we said we wanted to negotiate but that was a lie, too, so we could bomb them. So anyways, we need Iran to stop with the aggression and come to the negotiating table."

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

Porks when they start WW3 because they're bored.

capitalist-laugh

[–] Monstertruckenjoyer@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago (41 children)
[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

WW3 has been ongoing for a few years now

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (7 children)

a now 30-year post-soviet sengoku jidai even

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[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it's Switch 2 that's out now

[–] axont@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been coming around to the historical framework that views World War 1 as the end of the world and we're living in what amounts to the apocalypse

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[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned that the US always does their major bombings after the stock markets closes on Friday so it doesn't disrupt the markets. Now what was the damage and what will be Iran's response?

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[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

we hebben een serieus probleem

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thoughts:

  1. Was this just a gesture? Did they even seriously hit Fordow with for example nuclear bunker busters? Because their conventional ones would need several hits for sure success.

  2. Also once again this proves Iran's air defenses are not good folks. They just strolled in. I was thinking originally maybe they hit facilities near the borders with glide bombs but to hit Fordow they'd have to go deep. Is it too much to ask for them to down a B2? Apparently so and it really puts doubt into my mind about those claims of shooting down f-35s from the zionist air force.

This attack was CLEARLY telegraphed. The whole waiting two weeks was such an obvious ruse just as they'd attacked them during talks that if Iran wasn't on full alert they are naive as hell. If they were it shows they're powerless against American air power. I mean WSJ leaked it was happening.

Iran is a sitting duck and it is frustrating to read this. They should have gotten a nuke. They should have expected these bombings and should have developed or bought or stolen better air defenses. They should have chosen at least one of these to do.

Let's say they moved the nuclear materials. But if they did they now have to hide them and move them and hide them and I doubt they have any places as hardened as Fordow. Mossad infiltration is pretty deep so if Iran doesn't go sicko-mode on the US and zionists in response the US will just bomb that new location and act like it's not an act of war.

At this point frankly I don't get the point of bluffing with the uranium enrichment beyond 60%. I understood it to be an Iranian tactic to threaten to get nukes and show they could in order to get concessions in negotiations but given how the west has shown their dishonesty both with Iran and Russia it seems kind of silly at this point. But perhaps they believe in great man politics and hope a Democratic politician will negotiate (and for some reason that a Republican won't just undo it like Trump did).

If it was an empty gesture, if no real damage was done to say Fordow and Trump is just going to declare victory regardless it may be tactically smart for Iran to stay mum on the failure of the strikes and let him have his win. Though the problem with this is Bibi may publicly announce it failed anyways to pressure Trump into more strikes.

If on the other hand these strikes were successful Iran needs to hit back by sinking a carrier group. Closing the strait of Hormuz is an option but one which will fuck up China's economy if maintained for any significant period of time.

Iran however may no matter how bad the damage choose to just grit and bear it. They chose the "poison pill" of the JCPOA after all in 2015 and may choose not to do more than symbolic retaliation which of course emboldens the empire to hit them again and more frequently as well. Iran frankly either stands up right now or they can kiss goodbye any hopes of reclaiming their regional power status. With Hezbollah already on the backfoot and Syria out of the picture their power projection and proxy projects were already fucked up medium-term at least. But if they let the west salami-slice their way to hitting them however they want, decapitations, strategic bombings to take out valuable assets in their borders, etc they cease to be a functioning state and enter Syrian circa 2018 failing state territory where more pushes and shoves will come until they topple them and remove them from the picture.

So I fear the US and the zionist entity slowly strangling and bombing them to death as they turn the other cheek again and again because they fear escalating and allow the salmi-slicing tactics to work.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The whole waiting two weeks was such an obvious ruse

I think an important thing to recognize is that Trump makes these highly unpopular decisions on the start of a weekend because the stock market is closed. He did the same thing with some of the tariff announcements.

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[–] Drdoom2027@kbin.earth 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Grossi confirms there is Radiological and chemical contamination leaking in the Natanz nuclear center in Iran. All nuclear sites have been leaking since the initial attack by Israel.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

He’s an Israeli shill. How would he know, anyway?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

It's just a little radiation leak folks, very minor very small, nothing to worry about PEACE trump-drenched

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My fault really, I had almost two decades to build my own nuclear bunker

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ken Klippenstein says that US troops have been briefed that Iran will likely counterattack US military bases in the Middle East.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1936589525158969686#m

https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1936585741456244801#m

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

mission-accomplished collusion

George W. Trump. Mossad cuck.

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How fucked are those of us lucky enough to be born in the great Satan, realistically

[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

We’re fine. If we start to suffer, it will be way after everyone else has it far worse.

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[–] DeathCubeK@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

WWIII just around the corner congrats America.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Would biden have done it sooner do you think?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

I'm still saying that the Democrats lost the presidential election on purpose. Trump does the things that Democrats want and then Republicans take the blame. Democrats try to preserve the party so they can keep collecting donations, while letting Republicans win and enact the interests of the capitalist class.

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[–] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well guys nuclear Armageddon is gonna suck I hope my weed shipment arrives before the bombs. Smoke em if you got em

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1936574988640714767#m

Axios Barak Ravid says that Israel was informed on the attack and coordinated the attack with the US.

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[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Al-Jazeera seems to be giving the best updates so far:

IRNA news agency quotes an official with the country’s public broadcaster as saying: “There are no materials in these three nuclear sites that cause radiation.”

The comment suggests that Iranian authorities may have removed enriched uranium from the facilities before they were bombed.

Then a little later:

“Hours ago, after Qom’s air defenses were activated and hostile targets were identified, part of the Fordow nuclear site was attacked by enemy airstrikes,” Morteza Heydari, a spokesman for the Qom Provincial Crisis Management Headquarters, was quoted as saying.

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