US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Unhinged despot makes hollow threats of mass murder via social media. Again. Hardly news at this stage.

Gaza isn't a town.

This is a good one from that link:

Training exercises here are meant to help soldiers and their officers distinguish between combatants and civilians, and prepare them for situations in which terrorists exploit civilians as human shields.

So basically it's to help them know when to kill anyone they see. I'm guessing too when they talk about terrorists using civilians as human shields they aren't referring to when the IDF do this. It's been a while since I've read such a level of uncritical, nonsensical propaganda.

I would say they just got the ordinance in place and thats what they had the delay in the bombing. They needed to re arm the AA weapons etc. as they were running extremely low. So they will bomb for a wk or 2 and call it a day again and rinse and repeat.

what makes you think it was Iran? The drone came from the West. Why would Iran do that during a ceasefire that they want to keep in effect. This has all the trademarks of a standard israeli false flag. Motive: they want to recommence the war.

No one outside the pentagon knows

just like the Iranians wont publicly announce how many rocket launchers they have left (not that anyone believe em) the Americans wont publicise what missile stocks they have left (no one believe em either) for obvious reasons

Pages and pages been written about missile stocks but at best it’s people guessing on both sides

Seems to be a lot of speculation that could genuinely happen this time alright

My concern is the 'lesson' Trump will have taken from the first round is he needs to go big on civilian infrastructure this time

Yes, Afghanistan, Iran and China are paragons of virtue and we should all go live there to be truly moral and enlightened, just don't bring your 12-year old daughters in case they are married off.

And where is the better moral authority?

Hamas terrorists who pull people onto the street and execute them in public?

The Chinese government who monitor, control and record every movement of their citizens?

Putin's Russia?

The countries of sub-Saharan Africa mired in numerous civil wars?

North Korea's shining example of prosperity?

South America's drug-riddled corruption?

Like it or not, the West is still the place to live, the place that respects human rights over and above all other regions of the world, that best provides its own citizens with food, housing and security. That still carries moral authority.

The West's moral authority may be damaged, but you were claiming it had evaporated.

Simply not true, as I have pointed out.

From that article, it appears that the Iraqi government knew about it and weren't too bothered.

I thought they might have drawn the line at Israel using their territory to hit a civilian nuclear facility in supposedly friendly nation UAE purely to try to pin blame on Iran.

If by "it" you meant the Israel bases rather than the drone, well, they still should be concerned if their territory is being used to attack UAE with drones regardless of source.

Either way, it doesn't really fit with your previous answer though - "the Iraqi government knew about it and weren't too bothered."

No leap, seems to be what you accepted in your earlier reply when you didn't challenge the theory that Saudi Arabia are saying the drone came from Iraq…

"Saudi Arabia are saying the drone came from Iraq where two secret Israeli bases were discovered at the weekend."

"From that article, it appears that the Iraqi government knew about it and weren't too bothered."

it = the drone.

What else can he do? that's about the only lesson (if one could call it that he has left open)....he can keep up what has come before and run the risk of Iran outlasting him and guarantee a worse outcome I suppose....

Now that the moron has gotten himself to this position.....if he resumes hostilities, what if any alternatives exist to hitting civilian infrastructure and bringing enough of the population to its knees as possible so protesting and attempting to overthrow the regime at the risk of one's own survival is the least worst option..

If he thought he would get away with it, he would take out their water, food, energy etc etc in a heartbeat imo.....

I dont know, If he is squeamish it's for selfish reasons imo.....not because he has anything resembling empathy or decency

Anyone that doesn't want to make decisions like that doesn't ascend to power in the way he has....he leaves no get out of jail clause....he corners himself with his approach...its almost inevitable he ends up where he is.....

Unless he is incapable of any logical thought or suffers from an extreme capriciousness/ a lack of patience that overrules any sort of logical thought outside of pursuing a specific goal (but thats psychopathic almost so he should be able to give the order)......somehow I doubt that .....although I do see people that admire a certain type of person and their actions are often admirers because they aren't capable of carrying out those actions themselves when it comes to the crunch (and deep down they know it)......

I just doubt it.....put it this way would you be willing to put your life in his hands if you knew not preserving it would enrich/advance him......I wouldn't trust his squeamishness tbh

Now if the squeamishness is purely selfish/selfish serving and he has fear of personal consequences...then I could get on board with that all right....I consider him to be like all bullies ...deep down a snivelling coward despite all the outward projection of strength etc .... if I'm right, talk about being out of his depth....