Good for them.
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Sucks for us though.
Sucks for all decent people, but Israel wanted this and America is their bully so...
It's funny that you think America isn't pulling the strings from the start.
There's little difference between the two at this point. They are intertwined. Fuck both administrations.
Trunk & Netanyahu teaming up for Operation Jailbreak against Iran
The people that oppress women and gay people? Good for those people? Jesus, dude... Fuck you.
Get off your stupid high horse, America doesn't get to bomb and decide who gets to be president. In fact, America is opressing people of colour right now so lets bomb them?
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I think he was talking about Iran, but I can see why you thought the GOP
I was told we didn't start a war.
Oh right uh...hang on...it's just like....hostilities?
I heard it was a special military operation, only meant to last 3 days.
Butbutbut... Trump said NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!!!! How can this be???
BUt i pAINtEd PeACe SiGnS oN OUR BunK3R bUSTers
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Reports indicate it was a muted response to indicate an intention to deescalate. They had to do something but they didn't go crazy. We'll see, I guess.
I heard they fired six missiles - the same amount the US used - intentionally. Targeted non-civilian locations. Weren’t complete dicks about it.
Same thing when trump assassinated soleimani. They rattle a saber a little bit and call it even. Trump announced a ceasefire agreement 3 hours ago so it looks like business as usual.
Evidently it's an imaginary ceasefire agreement and nobody even asked Iran, so... We'll see. The token retaliation suggests they aren't trying to escalate with the US specifically.
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Totally expected. What would be unexpected is firing at the country itself.
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How could the Iranian's do such a thing! Won’t someone please think of poor Israel who shot first, or the idiotic American president who just wants to drop a nuke to satisfy his ego.
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Why not attack the U.S. directly? There are plenty of coastal bases in the U.S.
I feel like it would hurt a whole lot more if they were to go after something on U.S. soil...not that I exactly want that. Being bombed at home sounds terrifying.
Im just curious what the logic was behind this.
Even if they wanted to, how would they accomplish that?
They do technically have orbital launch capability, which implies they in theory have the capacity to construct an ICBM, even if not with a nuclear warhead necessarily. Granted, the results of such a strike almost certainly would not be worth the costs to them so I've no expectation they'll do such a thing, but they probably could if they wanted to badly enough.
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Perhaps because if they did that, there’s a very high chance trump would nuke them. He’s been itching for a reason to use nukes since his first term, and that would give him the excuse he wants.
e: I think the fact I got 2 opposing comments (he’d do it without justification and he’d be stopped by the CoC even with justification) might be telling here. He’s a monkey with a machine gun, and who knows if justification would work on others in the chain of command? Perhaps they’d rather not risk that.
If Trump wants to nuke them, he nukes them. He doesn't need a reason, he is a demented megalomaniac with a cult following. There will be some more finger-waggling in congress and pearl clutching for the midterms after the fact and that's it. So why appease him or try not to upset him?
Iran probably just thought hitting these targets was easier.
I fucking hate the world we live in.
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This seems performative. Only a handful of missiles and apparently Iranian state TV is reporting successful strikes, but I can't find anything reputable that confirms that. Sounds like all missiles were intercepted. Iran gets to show their people that they've responded without risking a true escalation.
That would make sense. I guess from my point of view, I'd be pretty pissed if I was Iran right now. At least 9 of their nuclear scientists were assassinated last week, and now their nuclear sites have been all bombed. That's as good of a declaration of war as youre going to get. But I can understand why they wouldn't want to wage an all put war if they dont think they're prepared for one.
There's no way they come out on top in an all-out war with the US. Terrorists working unofficially are their best best. Not like there's any lack of people who (justifiably) hate the US.
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You are getting downvoted but i agree with you its obvious they dont really try to hurt the US.
Even the missiles they did fire, ALL of them were intercepted by US missile defence and not a single person was hurt.
Its just to show that they hit back a little symbolically.
Because these are short to medium range ground fired missiles? They don’t reach that far. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think they have submarines that can get close and fire missiles at the United States proper.
I have no idea. They have a nuclear program, so I assumed they have a somewhat sophisticated and modern military.
They have OIL.
That's a bad assumption, North Korea has nukes.
It's just a bigger stick.
There will be a "terrorist" attack in the near future. The something with guns during a crowded event. My money is on a 4th of July event shooting. Sadly that's the only way Iran and other poor nations have to fight back. Until Iran and poor nations get nukes they will be taken advantage of. I'm pro Iran nukes simple because them not having them is obviously not working for anyone
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The ONLY good point to this would be that it would draw the US public into action. A base in the Middle East got hit? People shrug it off, it's nothing new and doesn't affect them. A naval or army base on the East Coast gets a missile hit? At least if there was disagreement on what to do, we'd be arguing about it. Assuming that Iran can even get that far...
And to be clear, it's only a good point in that it would wake people up that shit isn't right, and maybe they'd feel threatened enough for their own welfare to do something.
Fear. And a lot more difficult to successfully hit.
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So far, reports state “fired at” but come up short of saying “hit”.
Sounds like air defenses may have intercepted all of them? At least to the extent we can trust reporting at this stage.
ngl, it’d be more satisfying to read about a successful counterstrike…
Welp…
Here we go again…
I did say it wasn't going to be chill over there for very long.
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