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

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Iranian ballistic missiles struck Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh.
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oh i'm sure saudi arabia, a country full of sunni muslims, will TOTALLY take this missile in their capital in stride, and will not IMMEDIATELY chimp out maximally at iran for this slight. the saudis also have some of the dumbest soldiers on the planet, probably much dumber than the iranians, so i wonder how well they'd actually fair in any military ops against iran they run themselves.

this reminds me of the opening of Homefront: The Revolution, except instead of America being crippled by north korean magic technology, america is flattening the state responsible for this with such overwhelming force that they can't even hit us anymore, only random regional neutral parties.

 

[BigJoey41X]

The current state of things is up in the air. China is definitely reassessing its ability to invade in 2027. This war is a huge blow for China in terms of its ability to exert strategic pressure on the United States. Shit or get off the pot was a big part of the decision calculus with Iran, it was this year or possibly next year, better to strike with initiative and while you're not being pressed on another front.

China is in a position where they have a "window of time" when it's the most ideal to invade Taiwan, certainly not now with the PLA still heavily under modernization efforts, and not in the future like beyond 2050 where the fighting age population has shrunk a quarter from now, They would closely monitor US politics to see how serious a current administration is for intervention in East Asia, how likely they are to decisively in a crisis like this, and feeling out the American population's appetite for war is at that moment.

There's a lot of variables that must just be right for China's favor in the right time for them to go, thankfully, it's not right now.

 

[JeanRob1]

Iranian ballistic missiles struck Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh.

Can any of the Iran propaganda assets ask their retarded leader to focus on the real target of Saudi Arabia ? Thank you in advance.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Can any of the Iran propaganda assets ask their retarded leader to focus on the real target of Saudi Arabia ? Thank you in advance.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE!? I could die happy if somebody struck this fucking birdshit cube with a missile.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Cluster munitions are not a cope. They're a cheap way to defeat interceptors by drastically increasing the number of missiles that they have to shoot down. This was the whole idea behind Cold War-era MIRV ICBMs. In theory the submunitions could also have guidance packages which would make them just as accurate as a single large warhead.

Yes and no.

First, cluster munitions are best used against massed infantry and/or wide "soft targets" like a staging ground or airbase.

They also (somewhat) improve accuracy (or rather mitigate inaccuracy) by shotgunning a shitload of smaller explosives over the target on the math that one or more of the smaller munitions will hit one or more targets.

What you're thinking of is more MIRVs than cluster munitions.
MIRVs are great at counter-force/counter-value in a nuclear exchange.

Where they're failing here is that releasing outside the range of THAAD/Patriot//David's Sling (lol at trying to do that for RIM-161 or Arrow) causes more munitions to come down but also increases the spread and CEP.

Why it's a cope is because of the targets (or lack thereof) Iran is hitting.
Contrast to Ukraine, where you see shit like an entire Russian company sized formation vanish into explosion clouds and get halted in its tracks by a cluster warhead off an ATACMS or a barrage by Russian Tornado rockets carrying "steel rain" type warheads repeatedly pepper defensive positions and push the defenders deeper into underground foxholes and unable to contest assault groups.
Here we just see Iran throwing a bunch of clusters and hitting targets with little strategic or tactical value, just kinda hitting willy-nilly and counting "TOTAL HITS AGAINST THE ZIONISTS REGIME!!!" rather than actual Israeli leaders, warplanes, etc. hit.

At best they're just missing, at worst their trying and failing to do a terror bombing campaign against an enemy with the ability to deliver more ordinance.

 

[account to mute dumbs]

MOFA Qatar: ‘The State of Qatar Declares the Iranian Military Attaché and Security Attaché, and All Staff at the Embassy, Persons Unwelcome

Oh didn't even think about how all the gulf countries will happily spend billions funding anti-irgc forces in iran from now on and may even be doing it currently. Wouldn't be surprised if it absolutely dwarfs whatever they spent on Syria since obviously Assad never bombed them or closed the strait.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

The Eurocucks could have shared in this glory. Instead, all they'll share is the import tariff we're gonna slap on all their oil.

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[KriegsZensur]

i would be truly surprised if the UK turned up to help poland, frankly.

The UK is no longer part of the Treaty on the European Union. Brexit means brexit.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Oh didn't even think about how all the gulf countries will happily spend billions funding anti-irgc forces in iran from now on and may even be doing it currently. Wouldn't be surprised if it absolutely dwarfs whatever they spent on Syria since obviously Assad never bombed them or closed the strait.

I wonder how long until China starts distancing themselves from Iran, especially since they've been trying to build up a relationship with Qatar and other Arab states for quite sometime. This is not going the way Iran wanted it. The terror tactic has completely backfired and now they pushed the way the only neutral faction in the Gulf into being anti-Iran.

 

[Booby Jones]

I'm behind on the times: how has this been implied/shown?

From what I can understand, while this has been doomsday predicted forever, specifically now it seems like their final chance do or die moment. Japan remilitarizing, US cutting off their balls, it will be permanently un-takeable if they don't do something now and even then their hope would be to blitzkrieg it and hope we don't find it worth it to take them out once they're already in. Maybe some weeb can explain why they fear the Jap navy so much.

Keep in mind I can be wrong and retarded but this is my understanding of it.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

so at this point this seems to be the situation:

Iran: In response to Israel's aggression, we're going to hit Qatar so badly they'll never recover!

Israel: Your terms are acceptable.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Iranian ballistic missiles struck Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh.
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Wow, they really showed Israel and America the business with this! By attacking a city in a country that is neither America, nor Israel, we are totally going to stop our military operations now. Dozens of people who are neither American or Israeli could be hurt, millions of dollars in property that doesn't belong to America or Israel could be lost, and the air defenses that are not American or Israeli could be completely overwhelmed! How this furthers the cause of defeating the Zionist Entity and the Great Satan remains to be determined.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

so at this point this seems to be the situation:

Iran: In response to Israel's aggression, we're going to hit Qatar so badly they'll never recover!

Israel: Your terms are acceptable.

I just can't wrap my head around their backwards moon logic. Qatar is probably their closest ally in the region. It's the only country that condemned Israel for striking their natural gas facilities.
And their thanks is to get rockets hurled at them? Who's even making decisions in that failed state?

 

[The Big A]

oh i'm sure saudi arabia, a country full of sunni muslims, will TOTALLY take this missile in their capital in stride, and will not IMMEDIATELY chimp out maximally at iran for this slight. the saudis also have some of the dumbest soldiers on the planet, probably much dumber than the iranians, so i wonder how well they'd actually fair in any military ops against iran they run themselves.

Considering they got routed by the Houthis, a derka militia/insurgency funded by Iran, I'd give it a month before the House of Saud would be screaming "Ya Ali!" in submission.

 

[Nice Stick]

This is a somewhat hostile source, but I've also heard that some arab countries are under reporting. (nitter)

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

I just can't wrap my head around their backwards moon logic. Qatar is probably their closest ally in the region. It's the only country that condemned Israel for striking their natural gas facilities.
And their thanks is to get rockets hurled at them? Who's even making decisions in that failed state?

the logic is muzzie logic, and it goes thusly;

we, iran, are strong. you, qatar, are weak. you let america, the great satan, and israel, the little satan, into your countries (they didn't really let israel in but whatever), so now, we will punish YOU, because as muslims, we are only able to express our culture through violent savagery such as slaughtering civilians en masse, attacking capital cities nowhere near military infrastructure, and threatening qatar with the ass-whipping we WISH we were capable of giving the israelis and americans. We will now deploy 500 more izzat posters to the kiwifarms to shit up threads.

hope that helps.

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what this chart doesn't tell you is how many of these things are being sent to each individual area, how many are being intercepted, etc.

 

[Powerhouse of the Cell]

The Greater Israel conspiracy theory is an especially annoying conspiracy theory because it ends up being a thought-terminating cliche since literally any actions Israel takes to improve its situation can be ascribed to ambitions at Greater Israel. Taking out enemies, improving diplomatic relations with neighbors, military reforms, attempts to boost the economy. All of these things would be indispensable whether you were trying to build a massive empire or just trying to maintain the existence of your nation.

Not just that, but the Israeli government, despite all their lipservice doesn't want to take over Palestine and share borders with neighboring countries that hate its existence.

The Israeli government funds Hamas via Qatar as controlled opposition.

The Israel takes over Palestine and shares direct borders with the neighboring countries that oppose its existence, you will get a situation like with North Korea and South Korea where you have two countries that hate each other's guts being in constant threat of war due to very close proximity.

The Israeli government doesn't want that, they are using Palestine as a sort of nuetral zone between itself and neigboring Middle Eastern countries, which is why Israel kept funding Hamas all these years.

There is no plan for a "greater Israel" nobody would oppose that more than the Israeli government themselves.

 

[Major Domo]

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Yup, saw that coming. lol. Lmao even.

Strategy wise it would be smart. Take Kharg island, seize the strait and have it be under U.S. control indefinitely. EU has shown it’s not gonna do shit. What’s left of the forces in Iran are either gonna randomly attack another gulf state since that seems to be their MO as of late. If someone like Obama had done this shit 10+ years ago, he would be showered and praised with the media and journos lining up to suck him off and the EU nations lining up to help. But because it’s The Orange Man in current year the pearl clutching and a hands off approach is instead the order of the day.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

yes, because saudi arabia plays nicely now.

Oh cool, the country that financed 9/11 and supported ISIS and al_Qaeda is cool, but we need to be more worried about Iran because Israel says so. Brilliant analysis.

pakistan literally started a war with india AND afghanistan in the last year, are they really who you're gonna point to for all those super peaceful dudes in the middle east?

I didn't say any of them are peaceful, I said I'd rather we spend our money fixing the problem at home rather than fighting Israel's fucking wars for them. This makes you very emotional though, as we can see here:

Explain why you ignored the entire section of my post that talks about how muslims demand that we all be fucking murdered for believing in Christ, or not believing in Allah, or pay the jizya for a time until we either do convert or simply die, and a nuclear weapon is a step toward that?

You won't, because you ARE a muslim, and this is why you're using taqqiya. until you post hands and prove you're not a filthy fucking muslim, we have nothing more to say to each other.

So I'm filthy Muslim because I don't think we should fight Israel's Wars, and I'm also a pajeet from Canada who sells teeth on the internet? lol wut

Anyway, your posts glow too hard for my taste.

Best Korea and Israel's chances of launching a nuke SOLELY based on their insane religious texts are almost 0. Whereas Iran's is about 95%. Never let goat fucking cave dwellers who think that their god can only be at peace if America is glassed have a nuclear weapon. Ever.

Why would Iran be more likely to use a nuke than Israel or Pakistan? They're all unstable warmongers.

Because China is a danger to the US on multiple fronts and they rely on these shitholes for oil/minerals and sea access

China borders the Pacific Ocean, they actually have sea access covered. And they have Russia on their norther border so you're not preventing them from getting all oil and minerals they need. If you don't like what China is doing to our economy (and I certainly don't) then you might want to look at NAFTA and it's gay replacement, and all the "US" companies that outsource their labor to make more money. China can only rape our economy if we let them. We're doing it to ourselves.

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Bro, are you some nasty canadian jeet () LARPing as an American midwesterner?

Are you more retarded than @MetokurGroomedMe or equally retarded?

What are we even talking about here?

Focusing on the real problems, not some made up distraction to fatten the pockets of the MIC.

 

[JeanRob1]

they are using Palestine as a sort of nuetral zone between itself and neigboring Middle Eastern countries, which is why Israel kept funding Hamas all these years.

Please look at a fucking map. Palestine don't block any borders with other countries.