US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

As you say quelle surprise. Imagine sending two real estate developers to negotiate on behalf of the U.S with Iran. Abolsutely bonkers. Of course the negotiations were a ruse to prepare for war. This has done the American's enormous damage on the diplomatic front.

Surprised at Bibi. He's on the political merry go round in the M/East to know regime change was a fantasy. What came out last year after the 12 day war was that Israel took a hammering and Bibi asked Trump to get the Iranians to agree to a ceasefire which they did. I suspect that what happened last year will resemble sparring when the true extent of the carnage caused to Israel this year comes to light.

It is estimated 2m Israeli's have fled Israel. I'm assuming that's since the 12 day war last year. How many more will flee once conditions permit it?

I wonder if the US or Israel will immediately try to assassinate thr new leader, given they seem to be fresh out of new ideas.

I guess they just have the Gaza playback out.

You lost any sort of credibility with your defence of Trump and Bibi. You are only against genocide when it's not against Israels enemies.

Going scorched earth policy and turning Tehran in to a toxic smog hellhole isn’t really going to help an uprisings chances. Surely it’ll even piss off Tehran residents who despise those in charge and rally those who already support them behind the flag. It just doesn’t make any sense unless your only tactic is to be as bitter as you can be.

New supreme leader choice makes US-Israel war ‘even more senseless’

The choice of Ayatollah Khamenei’s son as Iran’s top leader has raised questions about the decision to attack by the US and Israel and replace one hardliner with another, an analyst says.

“It’s a real finger in the eye of Donald Trump who previously said he didn’t want Mojtaba Khamenei,” said Barbara Slavin from the Stimson Institute.

“So it makes the whole US-Israeli war even more senseless, to kill Ayatollah Khamenei and simply get his son in his place – somebody whose going to be furious, of course, at the murder of his father, his mother, his wife, and one of his children in the Israeli strike just a week ago.”

Slavin noted Mojtaba has been ruling with his father for years, “and given the existential threat that the Islamic Republic faces, it seems quite logical to put [him] there because he knows everyone and everything”.

However, she added, “he’s not someone who seems likely to bring more human rights and democracy to Iran”.

This is so characteristic of everything Trump does. He - and obviously his whole entourage - are uttery incapable of carrying out any kind of realistic risk-analysis. They're so obsessed with their own greatness, their thought process simply cannot take account of any other party potentially - or probably - having a separate agenda and the means to pursue it.

As said by many posters before, Israel's objective is complete chaos in the misguided belief that it will benefit Greater Israel. However all that has happened in the last 2.5 years is that many millions have seen their true nature - a racist, pariah, lying, ethnic-cleansing, genocidal, terrorist state … and now the US has joined them in that cesspit.

Honestly when you look back at it all Hamas attacking on October 7th was a major fúck up along with Iran helping them, had that attack not happened, Gaza wouldn't be ruins today, Netanhayu wouldn't still be in power driving all this bullshít and possibly Trump wouldn't have managed to get elected again. If those nihilistic idiots hadn't kicked the proverbial hornets nest back then things would be very different now, the consequences are likely to be studied in years to come of how much of a power shift that single event caused beyond the region.

I find it disturbing that 5 people thanked this post which is complete fantasy.

Two million people have not left Israel. That's a comical figure pulled out of absolutely nowhere.

And then an insinuation that Iran battered Israel in the 12 Day war making them beg for a ceasefire and is now battering them again.

Are you actually this blinded by loathing of Israel that you can't just criticize them on the things they have done rather than be just making up complete nonsense.

Anyone who has to make up such outlandish stuff (about either side) when there's limitless ammunition from the reality of it..…it's just sad.

Watching Anderson Cooper on CNN and there is a growing realisation that the war may already be going seriously pear shaped for Trump. We're heading into the ninth day of the conflict, a new hardline Ayatollah has just been installed and with no indication the Iranian government is in the slightest danger of falling.

The Iranians with russian assistance struck US radar installations around the UAE quite successfully its expensive kit and not easily replaced

The US soldiers who died where at one of these sites.

This is a war that wouldn't have happened if trump was in jail.

Bellingcat, known for tracking the BUK missile that shot down flight MH14 over Ukraine to Russia, says the evidence in the case of the elementary school points to a Tomahawk missile, despite Trumps denials.

Also ties between Hegseth and Apocalyptic Christian theology centered on an "American Crusade" (a book he wrote was called that in 2020) and the "End Times".