US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Iranian air defence engaged another F15 over Hormuz island. Best be a bit more careful with all this air superiority they gained in one day. Maybe that was another Trump lie also, you never know.

So? Whole middle east is a schitshow. Every monarchy and dictatorship there does have prisons full of disidents, deal with protests similarly as Iran does. They even routinely imprison female members of ruling elites. Dismembering journalists at embassies. Israel is giving 5 year sentences for posting videos of iranian missiles damage…

Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and UAE do have capital punishment for homosexuality and adultery too.

This war is no different from any other war in there. It is about land grab and resources grab. Narrative is always invented to cover real goals. Always something about babies, protesters and democracy.

Jesus Christ change the bloody record. Does every single one of your posts have to mention that Iran attacked its neighbours? It was explained last week to you again several times the reason why Iran were attacking US assets in those countries. Some agree with that strategy, some don’t. That’s fine

But every single one of your posts references it. Usually followed by it being a stupid strategic decision, with a load of “ifs” and hypotheticals about how it will lead to the ruination of Iran.

It might, but it also might not. There’s no way of knowing at this moment. It’s a bizarre obsession you have with pushing this narrative that “if” these counties all join up to attack Iran back it will have been a stupid decision. It’s your opinion, and there’s not really any evidence to predict it happening at the moment.

you consistently go on these crazy solo runs about the stupidity of it that has almost no basis in fact at this point in time. It’s unbelievably tiring reading the same post over and over.

It's only a few weeks since the US was on about invading Greenland. It's not Iran I'd be worried about.

Which is a good point and just furthers mine, we are living in a world where rules and treaties and conventions are breaking down

A world which is precisely that Irans little axis of resistance wanted for decades now, a world without rules and laws and concern for human rights and democracy, and now it’s not just Russia and Iran and China that are playing without rules but also Trumps America now

And we sit here on this island right on the middle between the two blocks deluding ourselves in thinking that our neutrality will be somehow respected

We can strengthen institutions like EU and try to push for a European NATO which includes UK, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine

That you are powerless and voiceless is exactly what authoritarian regimes likes Trumps, Xis, Putin’s and the mullahs of this world want you to think

While they busy slugging it out we could be building up defences and resilience while making it clear to Trumps, Putin’s etc that they can f right off

What we have learned after nearly a month.

The USA's newest most expensive air kit, the F35 is vulnerable to passive infra red detectors that are not easy to counter, so no air dominance like in Gulf War I & II.

Naval battle groups are vulnerable to land launched missile attack which means they have to retreat which greatly reduces their support effectiveness.

Iranian first hand on the ground intel has been intimately accurate with US military assets hidden from satellite still been hit, like the four Thaad radar systems that cost half a billion each. One former head of the US middle east mission described it best when he said "they know our patterns".

All the GCC members now appreciate that their security provider is now their greatest liability.

Israel's Iron Dome is now a leaky sieve and they've effectively given up pretending that they're not sustaining damage in a war they started with Iran.

Iran has been preparing for attack since 1979, and after 47 years attack came from a president in need of a distraction from revelations of participation in highly depraved sex trafficing and exploitation of minors.

So to sum up, this war was started by unprepared actors with no strategy and no obvious off ramp that will satisfy anyone. The USA's role of the western economy has effectively been incinerated by a pyromaniac POTUS.

If the GCC complies with Iran's terms for safe passage then the biggest impact will be on the USD in the long term.

Putin will probably die with his country still stuck in Ukraine. If Russia is to be a threat to us it will depend on what sort of regime succeeds him.

Very nervous for next 48 hrs. Hope there is a TACO or some sort of ceasefire.

If the US pursues a strategy that leads to the desalination plants in the region being destroyed the results could be on par with a nuclear weapons attack or worse.

Explain this comment then @Cluedo Monopoly , seem awful cheerful at the prospect of millions of refugees being created by this growing Middle Eastern war

Are all Saudis, Bahrainis, UAE citizens also actively engaged in war against Iran.

The Iran apologists on here have attempted to justify and legalise Iranian actions on the basis that they are attacking their neighbours' ordinary civilian infrastructure because the US used US bases in those countries to attack them.

That is the exact same justification that Netanyahu used to attack Gaza. It also justifies and legalises the US and Israeli war against Iran if you use the same logic.

People like to believe the F-35 sales blurb, and ignore some simple physics.

Everything that goes through the sky spewing out 700 degree C exhaust is going to be visible against a -20 degree C sky, even with cheap ass kit.

Likewise with the THAAD radars…. they use microwave frequencies which interfere with weather radars and SAR… so you can go to Maxar, pay 50 dollars are so, and make a good guess where they are if they are active.

If I remember correctly, 2 of the systems hit were stored in the open for many years.

I would call it a brilliant short-term tactic by Iran, but it is nothing more than that.

It is actually a disastorous long-term strategy. Iran's neighbours now know beyond all doubt that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted. Up until now, their neighbours didn't like Iran, but weren't bothered about what happened there. Now that Iran has attacked them directly, and made them suffer serious economic harm, they are not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They will double down on buying weapons from the US, but offensive weapons this time and they will do everything they can to destabilise the Iranian regime if it survives.

A brilliant short-term tactic by a desperate cornered despotic regime but ultimately a disastorous long-term strategy that will seal their doom.

Whereas you don't want Israel to be held to account for anything- bar the killing of sheep- that's seemingly a step too far for you. You can of course prove me wrong by condemning the IDF for killing civilians in the West Bank and blocking ambulances from attending the scene.