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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

I hope I don't wake up to a nuclear war

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] Carl@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

In the war room when shit is going down they order in a shit ton of food. They do this at the Pentagon, at the white house, at other various agencies. The insinuation being a spike (no idea how accurate this is or how much it may or may not be a week to week variance) means they're ordering tons of stuff for their late into the night support and watching of the zionist entity preparing and carrying out an attack.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

DC pizza places are busy when they're about to start a war (or something like that)

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Late night carving?

[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

might be related to Iran's recent spying intel victory on sensitive Israeli nuclear information. If Israel does launch a big scale attack on Iran, it's absolute madness

[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

oh its apparently a little more than that

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1932606837574033415

e: replaced with xcancel link

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

thanks I replaced the link, couldn’t remember the xcancel domain

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

Iran needs to freaking release the documents. It has to be damning if Israel is going to spaz like this.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago
[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why not? Last time they did, Iran basically did nothing. Wonder if they'll respond more this time.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Iran is extremely isolated, small and has presumably less disposable resources.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iran is in the middle of ratifying a long term, comprehensive security agreement with Russia, a country who NATO can't seem to win a years-long proxy war against.

They're also all things considered, quite a large (and mountainous) country (certainly compared to other countries in the region that Western countries and Pissreal have bombed/invaded in the past 20 years, mostly unsuccessfully). They are one of the most powerful countries in the Middle East and have a massive stockpile of missiles, which they proved could quite easily bypass Pissreal's plastic dome missile defence system during Operation True Promise 2.

I'm not really sure what you're on about tbh.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have a ton of information about it and don't really know where to look for information that's not Western slanted. My apologies for being uninformed and/or insulting, and thanks for correcting me!

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Can't really fault you there palestine-heart

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Iran is the 17th largest country in the world and is very roughly a bit smaller than the part of the US east of the Mississippi (can’t find the square miles but using a tool to overlay a map of Iran onto it it looks smaller but not that much smaller). It has 10X the population of Israel (which is only the size of New Jersey)

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Most expensive war game in history Millennium Challenge 2002 resulted in Iran humiliating the west day one and them having to suspend the games, revive the fleet and change the rules.

Red (IRAN) received an ultimatum from Blue (US Coalition) , essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships: one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of Blue's six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.

Such defeat can be attributed to various shortfall in simulation capabilities and design that significantly hindered Blue Force fighting and command capabilities. Examples include: a time lag in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information being forwarded to the Blueforce by the simulation master, various glitches that limited Blue ships point-defense capabilities and error in the simulation which placed ships unrealistically close to Red assets.

Exercise suspension and restart

At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed; this was later justified by General Peter Pace as follows: "You kill me in the first day and I sit there for the next 13 days doing nothing, or you put me back to life and you get 13 more days' worth of experiment out of me. Which is a better way to do it?"

After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

The kitten woke me in the wee hours so I read that, most fascinating read. Fascinating enough I read the entries for Pace and Riper and fell asleep pondering the disparities in their career trajectory. I wasn't meaning to seem dismissive of Iran, rather the opposite. I'm aware of the Houthis' ingenuity and scrappiness and imagine Iran like the wrong smaller kid the West tries to corner. I don't like for the US to keep poking so many bears.

[–] omegathrowaway@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago
[–] sudo_halt@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Iran intercepted the main attack. Iranian defense was effective enough to deter the actual invasion (with multiple F35s), which then prompted Israel to go on a media propaganda rave to save face

They managed to hit some drones here and there, Iran attacked their air defense network and their airbase

It's not even close when it comes to conventional warfare, Israel is the size of a single Iranian Ostan

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

Iran has a right to preemptively defend itself.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 36 points 1 week ago

I hope Israel is on it's own.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

I hope they get triple of what they give

[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago
[–] sudo_halt@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

COME AND FUCKING GET IT

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

How that will go in a nutshell:

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Iraq 2.0, aren't you all excited to die for the oligarchs and israel? I sure enjoy all my tax money going to this instead of services that could benefit me and people around me