Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

[Catch The Rainbow]

Y'know I saw a supposed picture of the 4 dead soldiers and what struck me is that they were all very nice, very normal looking and very white. I just hate that this country is full of so much fucking trash.

they were in technical skilled positions ofc they're white

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Dude, you're agreeing with Fuentes. Do your parents and the world a favor and neck yourself in Minecraft. Because there ain't no fixing that level of stupid.

Well fuck me, that's a good argument. I recant.

 

[Kaakaapoo]

mma be real, giving friends deliberately broken models sounds like a strategy to make your reputation and trust drop hard

it's standard practice for all nations that export military equipment to have the export models be less effective. You don't sell to other nations the exact same model that your own military uses. the export model is supposed to still be functional of course, else your reputation (and repeat sales) take a dive, but it won't perform as good as it could, if you catch my drift. think of it like the free vs. premium versions of software. The free version works for its intended purpose, but it doesn't have all the bells & whistles that the premium does. So for the example of AD, the export model's radar might have a slightly shorter detection range, or require a slightly bigger radar cross-section to get a track, or the missile might have slightly less range, et cetera. but it still should, you know, work.

So the export models not performing as good as the Chinese-only ones is expected. them not working at all is not.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

I made a point last year during the twelve day war that none of us has to worry about being drafted. We all suffer from autism and that disqualifies us.

Not unless you're Israeli, if you're autistic they'll make you look at maps all day.

 

[draggs]

I'd be really interested to hear what crippling medical condition disqualifies him from service.

Maybe "bone spurs" like his draft-dodging father. Apparently these conditions are caused by enormous amounts of money, oddly enough.

Are you yt boi schwasted or something, calling Barron Trump a draft dodger when there's no draft is weird

 

[Cthulus Nutsack]

2026 just isent real man, we have CNN live repporting the CIAs attempt to arm a rebel insurgent group to help install a friendly regime in an oil rich country

you realize they had to put on 6-8 months of pageantry for our parents to get them to be on board with doing thi SAME SHIT DOWN TO THE SAME REBEL GROUP IN IRAQ?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hQJGVr_18Ks
btw someone remind me how did toppling Saddam go? is Iraq a bastion of peace now? The Kurds surely rose up and established a stable modern country yes?
Wyświetl załącznik 8649635

Iran and Iraq are not the same country nor the same people. I dont get why people like you dont get this. Average IQ in Iraq is 83 while it's 103 to 106 in Iran. I typed this out before realizing who I was replying to so I know this comment means absolutely nothing.

 

[Rapesputin]

the area the kurds even "claim" is rather limited within Iran
Wyświetl załącznik 8649952

Trump should just Polandmaxx, give the Kurds all of western Iran and then have the Turks and Syrians deport theirs there

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I'd be really interested to hear what crippling medical condition disqualifies him from service.

Maybe "bone spurs" like his draft-dodging father. Apparently these conditions are caused by enormous amounts of money, oddly enough.

Barron is 6'9". Army, Navy, Airforce, Coast Guard, and Space Force limit for height is 6'8", Marines is 6'6".

 

[Rapesputin]

Are you yt boi schwasted or something, calling Barron Trump a draft dodger when there's no draft is weird

Sins of the father, I guess

 

[Kornheiser]

Are you yt boi schwasted or something, calling Barron Trump a draft dodger when there's no draft is weird

He’s our East German simp that can be ok at times. This is a strange hill to die on though.

 

[RodgerDodger]

im not familiar with all the different factions but it seems like generally they want their own autonomous zones in countries where they're allowed to do their own thing. and nobody really wants to do that because they dont want a separate country in their country.

What the Kurds want is Kurdistan. Or greater Kurdistan, if you prefer. This stretches from Western Iran, across (oil rich) Northern Iraq, and includes the Eastern third of Turkey. They, for the moment, are settling for independent autonomous zones. But what they really want us the Nation of Kurdistan.

They are the thing that Erdogan and Turkey fear the most. As they have some truly bad blood with the Turks. Honestly stirring up the Iranian Kurds is probably not the best plan as it can cause our very best NATO Allies evar! To side with the Ayatollahs.

This is yet another one of those things fucked up by the British when they arbitrarily carved up the Middle East as their Empire died, that future generations still get to deal with.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

pretty sure you get automatically registered. its not something you opt into because youre a 'loyal american citizen'.
not that it matters. its impossible to think of a scenario where the government would enforce the draft.
also i dont think its something that you can opt out of because of medical conditions - think thats something that would happened if/when a draft got called and you went for military screening.

But if you're a dumbass who discloses seemingly benign shit in your medical history at MEPS you can get fucked out of OCS though...

Babe wake up new war with Iran justifiaction just dropped

Iran was going to pre emptive strike US

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3qENFK9SJg0

It makes sense.
There's multiple analyses which said Iran's best bet would have been to hit US aircraft on the ground before they can get airborne and launch attacks.

it's standard practice for all nations that export military equipment to have the export models be less effective

US routinely sells F-16 variants to other countries that are better than the F-16C the USAF & various ANGs.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

This is yet another one of those things fucked up by the British when they arbitrarily carved up the Middle East as their Empire died, that future generations still get to deal with.

And the progressive establishment is repeating the same mistake but in Europe, NYC, etc. Towel heads don’t magically change if they are conceived in Europe or America, especially if permitted to grow up in ethnic enclaves.

 

[Riverfagg1599]

Trump should tell Mark Carney to consult his dick after he bitched and moaned about the US not consulting Canada about the war.

Didn't he go into a bunker when it started? In Canada?

 

[Jayquan Ledarius IV Jr]

I made a point last year during the twelve day war that none of us has to worry about being drafted. We all suffer from autism and that disqualifies us.

 

[RodgerDodger]

GTAB Hezbollah. You should kill yourself, NOW!

"Including those without documentation"
Guy's I have the funniest idea. Start up the draft and send all the illegals over to Iran to get blown up. Two birds with one stone.

The illegals and all the student Visa holders are begging and praying that this gets called a war so they can run down and enlist.

Foreign Nationals that enlist in the US Military in times of war get Citizenship at the end of their service.

I have a Chinese friend. He was a student in the US when Desert Storm kicked off. He immediately ran down to join the Navy. Did 2 years. Had 2 cruises aboard USS Wisconsin. Got his citizenship so he never had to see his shitty village in China ever again.

 

[Chuckwagon]

So apparently we're arming the Kurds now in the hopes that they'll lead the internal regime change?

Does anyone have any context on Iranian Kurds (like how many there are, how alienated they feel from the rest of Iran, if they've had a history of armed uprising, and so forth)? Is this a viable strategy, or are we in for another repeat of Iraq/Syria?

Overview of the five Kurdish groups that just formed this coalition, last updated in December. Tl;dr:

PJAK - Iranian wing of the PKK. Queer feminist commies like the ones in Turkey (their mother party) and Syria. Strongest & most active of the five at this time.

KDPI - Oldest gang of Iranian Kurdish secessionists still active. Got buckbroken in the 1990s and hasn't recovered. Primarily Sunni-supported and still seething over the death of their founder Qazi Muhammad, who tried to carve out an independent Iranian Kurdistan with Soviet support after WW2 but failed & got raped to death by Pahlavi's dad.

Khabat - Originally Islamist & nationalist-oriented, embraced globohomo in 2003 and now has a quota for female leaders among other things. More on them here, along with shorter descriptions of the others.

PAK - Allies of the Barzani clan which rules Iraqi Kurdistan. Most right-wing element of this coalition, basically just plain Kurdish ethnonationalists. Second-weakest of the militant factions.

Komala Party - Also commies, but less openly globohomo than PJAK and claiming a Maoist orientation back in the day. Collapsed due to both IRGC buckbreaking and the famous leftist infighting. The fragment which joined this US/Israel-backed coalition are the weakest militant faction in said coalition.

All five are historically anti-monarchy and anti-Islamist secessionists. Plan's probably to use them as cannon fodder/bait to draw the IRGC into places where they can be decimated with coalition air power. Anyone who overthrows the IR, royalists or otherwise, will play the part of Syria's AJ to their Rojava afterward since even Pahlavi is stridently against allowing Kurdish secession (at most he's signaled willingness to maybe give them their own version of Iraqi Kurdistan) and literally nobody in the region wants to see an independent Kurdistan, Turkey least of all. Would be a little sad if the Kurds hadn't kept falling for this same playbook by Uncle Sam for decades, including not even 2 full months ago in Syria.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

I think third might actually be US Marines.

The Marines count as Navy equipment.

 

[Kornheiser]

While I’ve paid close attention to this thread ever since the protests kicked off and watching all the movements of military cargo planes into the Middle East I’m just amazed any time the us does something we get all people who say the draft is coming die for Israel it’s all so tiresome. On topic with b-52s now in use it’s all but for sure the us/israel have air superiority along with operation praying mantis mark 2 going into the effect it will slow down but not disappear the drone attacks.

 

[Kaakaapoo]

if you're autistic they'll make you look at maps all day.

From my experience autists don't make very good analysts. they're great at the actual craft, but abysmmal at explaining their findings to anyone not also on the spectrum, which is half of the job. They're good for sticking in the corner and having them babysit the radios that have to be manned 24/7.