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US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    CNN’s first look Inside Iran, seems quite normal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,882 ✭✭✭threeball


    One and the same, you might like to seperate yourself from the actions of the US forces, but you're part of a murder machine. You're a cog in the wheel that murdered a million Iraqis, that assisted and assists in the genocide of women and children, that supplied the weapons that killed 150 children in a attack on a school. A murder machine that has robbed and destroyed the middle east for 80years. I don't care if you sit at a desk, load the munitions on the plane, or press the button on the other end. You're part of that.

    Mod Edit: Warning issued - other posters are not the topic of discussion

    Post edited by Necro on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭DayInTheBog


    Resorting to making up stuff now are we. No don't bother answering.. we're done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,613 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Proof that the pro-Zionist racists in the German government and media are hugely out of step with their own public. The question is who people trust as a reliable partner for Germany - the US and Israel are almost as low as Russia.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Yeah. American democracy has never been shown to be as bad a sham as it is today.

    And the fucked up thing is, Anyone who knows anything about American history knows how dark that history is.

    This isn't really about America anyway. its really about Totalitarianism in all its forms.

    Fascism, Theocracy, Capitalism, and 'vanguard communism' are all totalitarian systems.

    They all support power flowing in one direction, away from the ordinary people, into a centralised command.

    Marx himself never proposed a 'Vanguard' communist party, that was Lenin, but he did that because he knew that any genuinely equal communist/socialist society would be undermined by counter revolutionary forces from outside.

    And we see this happing in real time before our eyes. A load of powerless people arguing about who is worse, the Theocratic Iranian dictatorship, or the Totalitarian Russians, or the outright Fascists in America, or the weak 'liberals' in the American political opposition, Or the One party communist dictators in China, or the lunacy in India and Pakistan or the European leaders who are defenestrating each other to try to scrape crumbs from the 'markets' for themselves and their party….

    All of that is just a complete distraction from who is really in control. The

    0.0001% of the global economic elites who pull every string and gamble with other people's lives, limbs, presents, pasts and futures, and will ultimately sell our entire species into extinction for the half hearted hope that some day they, and they alone, will live forever…..

    Ban billionaires



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    Haha, dude you're the one talking about all the Iranians you know. I'd pretty much guarantee the number of Iranians you know is well.... **** all!

    Only one making stuff up is yourself sunshine!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    The Iranian ship probably left Iran for the conference in India / Sri Lanka before the war started?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,360 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


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    Ouch . Crazy the jump in heating oil



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭goldsparkle


    Do people remember when Leo Varadkar addressed Ireland from the White House at the start of COVID-19? I always thought that was a powerful moment because the US wasn’t really taking it seriously yet.
    It got me wondering whether something similar could ever happen again - for example when Micheál Martin goes to Washington for St. Patrick's Day. Could our Taoiseach use that platform to talk about peace or a ceasefire internationally?
    Just a thought that crossed my mind.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭goldsparkle


    There's a user on tiktok, I forget how name. I would have to look for him. He makes predictions. Months ago around about December he was making some predictions for this year. He felt March the 7the was very significant. He doesn't know what but he feels that's an important date.

    Heres hoping we are not waking up on Saturday morning to world war 3.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    They're really expensive, but Trump has no value for money.

    Thing is, Money is a proxy for actual economic work.

    It takes actual time, and workers, and raw materials, and supply chains, and logistics, and production capacity etc to produce each individual weapon Trump is pissing away in Iran

    Trump is already having board meetings demanding that his suppliers build more bombs faster..
    thats not how things work Donald

    And when the spanish refuse to let you use their base, and you have to fly 'hours and hours out of the way' its an inconvenience.

    Make all of europe and Inconvenience.
    Ban all flights through Shannon Immediately

    Iran cannot end this war, America cannot win this war. Only America can end it and make up some excuse for why they did it

    Ban billionaires



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Iran is huge, Like, very very very big

    It took Israel, and America years of non stop constant bombing and a full on siege to bring a tiny little enclave to its knees (gaza is the size of Clare more or less)

    You can not beat a country as big as Iran by bombing it
    Every bomb that falls and kills people or destroys a home/business/community creates a generation of anger that won't just disappear

    Ban billionaires



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,331 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Get off tiktok so you don't further rot your head



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭BettyS


    Geography is everything. Russia killed the Nazis in WWII. They had no idea how brutal and vast the Russian terrain would be, on the cold winter days. A fight isn’t just about weapons and men.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,360 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Trump will walk away as quick as he started, won't be a long war.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,592 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    And yet, they think they can control this. They can't, and that will be other people's problems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    He does have slick hair….I reconsider my earlier position

    Ban billionaires



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    This has been such a monumental **** up by the US and Israelis. Years of believing their own exceptionalism. Tel-Aviv taking a hammering at the moment by all accounts. What were the Israelis saying? FAFO?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Unwinnable war. This will come back to haunt the US and Israel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,613 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    US, Israel and the online warmongers were banking on the collapse of Iran and regime change. But every account we've heard suggests there is no sign of dissent or disunity in the country, which begs the question as to how Trump gets out of this conflict.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,882 ✭✭✭threeball


    But berate everyone else for not following the rules. Utter hypocrits. Cowards and hypocrits. Running around playing with their toys and destroying millions of lives and massively affecting the lives, of people even half a world away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    How would it collapse? It's a huge country, 90m proud (and friendly) people. Israel can't even defeat Hamas in tiny Gaza ffs!

    I could see another Vietnam if the US go to ground, which they won't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,882 ✭✭✭threeball


    If the Saudis and Turks had any sense they'd take the opportunity to get rid of Israel now. If they do happen to cause a balkanisation of Iran then they're next one the menu.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭malibu4u


    Iran now using cluster bombs which other countries have outlawed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,215 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Tiktok eh.

    Can it wait until after my parkrun and coffee?

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭engineerws


    https://www.jns.org/fact-vs-fiction-the-mossads-role-in-the-2026-iran-uprising/

    Beyond statements by the Mossad and Israel’s political echelon, recent reports indicate a significant level of Mossad involvement. A recent Channel 13 report revealed that the Mossad has transitioned from passive observation to active “technical facilitation.”

    The “ramped-up technical support” provided by the Mossad focuses on a sophisticated cyber-physical ecosystem designed to neutralize the IRGC’s “digital blackout.”

    According to the Jan. 11 Channel 13 leak, this involves the deployment of a clandestine firmware update to Starlink terminals that utilizes advanced frequency hopping to bypass military-grade GPS jamming, which had initially caused an 80% data packet loss

    Jewish News Syndicate covers it but says that interference may not be as extreme as Iran stated, then again maybe it was

    • Iraq 1 babies torn from incubators and thrown on floor.
    • Iraq 2 weapons of mass destruction.
    • Gaza 40 beheaded babies.

    All lies and all used by USA Israel to justify murder. You believe USA, ok....

    I'm more likely to believe Iran. Smaller states can't afford to lie like the USA.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,776 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Analysis suggests US behind school strike that killed at least 165: Report

    Evidence assembled by The New York Times suggests a strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab were carried out by the US.

    The newspaper reports that satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos indicate the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike at roughly the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval facility operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

    Iran held a mass funeral ceremony for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed in the strike. US officials have not confirmed responsibility for the strike, and no side has publicly claimed it.

    According to The New York Times, statements by US officials about strikes on naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz suggest US forces were the most likely to have carried out the attack.

    General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a briefing that US forces were conducting strikes along southern Iran at the time. A map shown during the briefing indicated an area including Minab had been targeted during the early phase of the operation.

    Caine also said Israeli forces had largely been operating farther north in Iran, according to the report.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,249 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Pretty callous quip considering the gravitas future deals may have for generations of Ukrainians.

    That said I can't see Zelensky and the Ukrainians being too hopeful of any deals made with your crowd these days.

    Shur ye're flat out going against points 3 and 4 of the Budapest memorandum whenever it takes ye're fancy over the last year and a bit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,776 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Going after Cuba next. Who else after that? Maybe Greenland for real as he grows more unhinged.

    United States President Donald Trump has renewed his threats to topple the government of Cuba, stating that US action there could come after his administration completes its war against Iran.

    “What’s happening with Cuba is amazing. And we think that, we want to finish this one [Iran] first,” Trump said. “But that will be just a question of time.”



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Perfidious Cretin




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