Israel’s military sounded air raid sirens across the country ‘to prepare the public for the possibility of missiles being launched toward Israel’ in retaliation
Israel says it has launched a “preventative” strike on Iran and is preparing for retaliation.
On Friday, Donald Trump said he had not made a final decision on whether to launch US strikes on Iran – but added he was “not happy” with the situation, and that military force, including regime change, remained an option.
How convenient for the Iranian government, now they can call protestors US backed terrorists, crush them even harder and consolidate support. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ayatollah is in on this.
This is just setting up for Israel’s expansion plans, they’re very open about what they want to do and what land they want to claim. Iran is powerful but doesn’t stand a chance against US and Israel combined, even if the US only commits air power.
US gets to spend trillions on a no-boots* war to enrich investors and donors and distract from Epstein, Israel gets to send its army in for more protracted, house-to-house murder sessions now that it’s nearly done with wiping Gaza off the map. That’s all they want, huge, hateful, Crusades 2.0 and US evangelicals want Israel to start World War 3 so Jeeeesus comes back, and that’s not even a joke or exageration for the most part.
Israel will probably feel emboldened by their success in manipulating America and decide they can control Iran’s dissidents and set up their own puppet ruler after they carpet bomb the cities to dust.
* just a few boots bro, I promise bro, we’ll get in and out real fast, just a few months tops, come on bro, just a couple boots. Limited operation, just support, I promise bro. Do it for a college tuition?
Definitely not. You’re assuming Iran wins the war with small enough losses that it doesn’t set up the regime’s fall. This is far from a likely outcome.
Does not need to win just needs to have some minor to medium damages.
By “win” I mean “survive without regime change” (which automatically implies dealing enough damage that they’re left alone). Even that is far from guaranteed.
The US couldn’t even beat the Houthis. I, for one, don’t feel like it’s time to be beating our chests.
There are consequences for putting legitimately incompetent people in charge.
That was very different RoE. There are reports that we’ve bombed some schools, and the implication at this point is that the regime and the military no longer gives a shit about that sort of thing. The strikes on the Houthis did, at some level, have some restraint compared to this shit.
This isn’t me “beating my chest”. I’m simply pointing out that any limited faith I had in US military leadership ultimately doing “the right thing” in a domestic context is rapidly diminishing.