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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mango_reseller powiedział(a):
More attacks on vessels in the Persian Gulf. At this point a more conspiratorial person would be saying that the immediate goal is to drive up oil prices (and cause potential inflation) making a lengthy campaign in Iran very unattractive.
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Venezuela is currently giving free Oil to the United States, like the US is not even paying for it. The money remains in a US treasury account to be used on their discretion,
 
Different overhead passes on strikes targeting ships and support facilities at an Iranian naval base in Konarak Iran.

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Hardened shelters at Konarak international airport each pinned, presumably by GBU-39's.

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Lots of sat images starting to come in now.
 
Nana Feeder 9k powiedział(a):
It's not like there's a direct comparison about a "War against an objectively evil man we can easily win in days/weeks and everyone in that country will be happy to see us and go along with our plan."

Are you guys teenagers or just inbred?
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>teenagers
buck broken boomer detected.

If the US attempts to nation build Iran like we tried in Iraq, I might agree with you. Otherwise, this is not remotely comparable. Please kindly fuck off, happenings only poster.

I know that Trump and the GOP has given the DoW a frankly absurd amount of funding, but between Ukraine and this, one has to wonder about the state of munition stockpiles.
 
lurker7274519 powiedział(a):
Venezuela is currently giving free Oil to the United States, like the US is not even paying for it. The money remains in a US treasury account to be used on their discretion,
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The US isn't really getting any oil from the middle east, this would pressure Europe first and foremost. Inflation in Europe does affect the US.
 
mango_reseller powiedział(a):
Because he's a 60 year old nepo-baby that has never held any position of note in his entire life. He is however a very good puppet for US interests, so should he actually be installed as a president or something, it might as well mean that Rubio is running Iran.
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His most important potential role - for Iranians, if any - would be a symbolic one. The Islamic Revolution was and is THE most important moment in Iran's modern history. A literal black veil settled over that country in 1979, and the Shah represents all that was lost. His son serves as the current-day representation of that - or he could, merely from being the son (and he looks a lot like his father*). Tbh, I don't think there's a huge royalist appetite in Iran, and he doesn't seem to have been able to galvanize people much over the last 45 years, but he might just be the full circle symbol people will want. And a caretaker leader is maybe the path of least friction for an interim governmentt, and US influence there would be to our obvious benefit.

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Farm Hand powiedział(a):
Oh, this just reminded me of something funny. Remember all the doomerism over old war games in which the US navy is defeated by a swarm of speedboats?
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Wasn't that essentially cheated by abusing how the game setting handled communications to happen instantaneously, even tho the meta-game explanation was motorcycles or something like that?
 
Being well versed in both AD systems and L/O (stealth) tech, I'm genuinely surprised at the complete failure of the Iranian air defenses to do much of anything against these air strikes. America and Israel should be taking if not significant at least some losses to their air power for punching so deep into Iran's IADS. To sum it up, L/O is great but it doesn't make you completely untouchable, ask that F-117 pilot who got shot down by an AD system from the fucking 50s in Serbia. And sure, L/O tech has advanced since then, but AD tech has kept up. The Iranians just suck lmao.
 
Gorton Colu powiedział(a):
I know that Trump and the GOP has given the DoW a frankly absurd amount of funding, but between Ukraine and this, one has to wonder about the state of munition stockpiles.
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Bomb stockpiles are fine, Ukraine wasn't given bombs because they didn't have much of an air force. Even now they have like ~50 planes, half of them MiGs the other half F-16s. The munitions given for those planes are a drop in the bucket of US/Yerp stockpiles, unlike artillery shells and missile interceptors
 
IrishGuy088 powiedział(a):
China is going to be thrilled with higher oil prices.
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The biggest winner is probably Russia, to be honest.
Friend of Dorothy Parker powiedział(a):
And a caretaker leader is maybe the path of least friction for an interim governmentt, and US influence there would be to our obvious benefit.
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Yes and no, it would probably be used to drive support against a non-democratic regime and create opposition that would otherwise not be there. Not to mention that people would more or less know that they're being ruled by the US, which a lot of people in Iran have a kneejerk reaction against, probably. A democracy where they (at least think they) have control would be ideal.
 
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