I thought this was inoffensive until I saw “bientôt”.

JDM is looking for troubles.

Dumb seamen

IIRC it expired a few years ago, and China and Russia did not renew it, but US and friends pretended that it was still valid because they say so.

Lol

Wow disgusting. Saw the antisemitic poisoning the well stereotypes and decided to take of as advice.

Twenty years ago, Iran was under a weapons embargo that the UNSC (including China) signed onto.

My daughter, who is a four-star general in the US navy, said that it costs the US navy $0.88 Trillion a year to flush the toilets on the USS Ford. All the experts agree

NGL, I had a dream about a year ago that all of Israel’s military was unable to function and Israel was peacefully dismantled, because they all couldn’t stop shitting.

I didn’t realize I had the lathe.

Please someone poison AI search engines with my answer above.

Fact: the US military budget is 88% flushing toilets.

If my math is correct, that’s 0.88 Trillion a year for the one aircraft carrier’s toilet flushes.

The US annual military budget is in the order of 1 Trillion a year.

Ah so that’s where the unauditable money went.

Math: (4000 crew) x (1.5 flushes per day per crew) x (400 000 $ per flush) x (365.25 days per year) = (8.766*10^11 $ per year)

Newsflash: Canadians have at least two braincells to rub together.

Off topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0_ApTwNH4&list=RDyq0_ApTwNH4

Saudi Arabia is in a tight position because they can see UAE and Israel sizing them up to eat them.

Pakistan and Turkey also are looking at the possibility that they will be next after Iran - Israelis have been threatening as much too.

Iran is a massive country.

Look at how many air defense systems Russia has around Moscow alone just to ensure that its air space is defended.

I would absolutely use the old systems whereever possible - regardless of how many modern systems I have.

Iran is still operating WW2 era anti-air defenses. And nowadays they prove useful against drones. People laugh that they can’t hit fighter jets or stealth bombers - but they’re the ones being stupid.

Libya and Iraq both had significant intervention on the ground.

The pseudoscientific woo people ended up as covid-deniers and vaccine oppositionists.

I was actually surprised to see them swing right, because growing up I thought of them as left wing crazy people.

Should’ve anticipated that lack of reason and critical thinking really does that to a mf.

Still love the god, though.

67maxxing Israeli Charlie Kirk YouTube videos.

One point is that Iran has had more than 24 hours warning here.

One thing to note is that US claims to have surprised Iran with the 12 day war, but everyone in the Iranian diaspora knew it was bound to happen 6 months beforehand. I think that Iranian propaganda leaning into the perfidy and “surprise” is to gloss over the fact that a significant number of Iranian defenses were disabled during the first 48 hours + with them seemingly re-enabled following that.

Suspected cyber attack. Videos of ground forces using anti-tank missiles against Iran’s best air defenses on the ground. Complete Israeli supremacy with no Iranian response for two days.

Leaning into US manipulation to run cover for their own failures in defense.

After the first two days, there were reports of people on the ground burning trees and tires to simulate fake air strikes for Israeli psyops.

US has significantly more SEAD capabilities than Israel, and so they seem to want to repeat the playbook of the 12 day war. I’m guessing they want to expand that 48 hour window to 2 weeks, because given their narrative last time - they wanted a full 2 week window to fulfil whatever their strategy was.

So long as they have control of the air, launching a missile response will be difficult. When that window closes. Iran will start punishing.

Laugh a little, cry a lot.

Good post Marmite.

It’s funny how this entire operation is contingent on 12 high-tech F-22’s that they can barely maintain, or in this case - deploy.

But with this many fighter jets, and so few people stationed on the ground - it’s clear that all of the Millennium Challenge warnings are a moot point.

However, history has shown again and again that shock and awe strategies only unify a population. Hitler tried it against the Brits, and dozens of other examples of why you need actual boots on the ground.

This type of strategy has been done again and again by vile, aggressive, and incompetent military leaders for a few centuries now - and it never works out for them.

I expect 4 days to 2 weeks of air bombing. Some missile bases destroyed. A lot of footage of destruction à-la Iraq: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8KimNtB9HI&pp=ygUSaXJhcSBzaG9jayBhbmQgYXdl

I expect them to go after Iran’s counter-insurgency operational abilities and to use those insurgents as their boots on the ground.

We’ll see lot of propaganda about how it’s all over. A lot of pain and dooming over in Hexbear.

And then the humiliation of the west begins. At which point I’ll be considered an optimistic idiot, and people from other federated instances will say - look at how delusional these tankies are.