The US-Iran War Has Begun

[Innula Zenovka]

Is that...

Is that real?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display

What China can learn about the limits of American military capacity

www.theatlantic.com

 

[detrius]

I got to visit the Air Force museum in Dayton once and had the same experience there as I have looking at that picture. (I'm pretty sure I saw that very thing, since that looks very much like the interior of the museum.)

It was like I was in a recursive loop of,

1 PRINT "Holy crap, that's amazing";
2 PRINT "Holy crap, that's a horrible, ruthless machine for making people dead";
3 GOTO 1;

Then you walk into the hall with the ICBM's and the loop just gets more intense.

Well, the A10 is specifically designed to take out armored vehicles, AKA tanks.

And to use it, you need pilots, mechanics, airfields, fuel depots etc. Not to mention the deleted uranium rounds it uses for ammunition, which come from nuclear power plants. So it sits on the top of the entire industrial base of a functioning country, complete with colleges, infrastructure, factories, power plants etc.

The same thing goes for tanks, of course - albeit on a slightly more limited scale. And those are designed to take out fortified positions.

I think the A10 costs about $18 million per unit. Not sure if that's pre or post inflation, but for the same amount of money, you should be able to purchase about 28,000 M16 rifles. Again that's without ammo - so let's say one A10 equals 14,000 M16 rifles plus ammunition.

But when you have 14,000 assault rifles, then you also need 14,000 soldiers. And unlike A10s or tanks, light weapons aren't well suited for going up against tanks or fortifications - they're made for eliminating soft targets, like soldiers or other people. Warlords in Africa and elsewhere found an easy solution to that problem: just raid some schools, kill the teachers, kidnap the children, sell the girls as sex slaves and turn the boys into child soldiers. You have no need for a stable society, so while you're at it, you also destroy farming equipment, bridges, the power grid and so on to make sure you have a constant influx of new recruits.

So while the technical specs for the A10 sound impressive, the real killers are the small arms and light weapons, which is why it's so nefarious to flood a conflict zone with these types of weapons.

And guess what Trump just admitted to have done during the mass protests in Iran last year.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Is that...

Is that real?

It was real. I found it on Truth Social myself.

I do know one thing, if President Obama has posted "praise be to Allah," even in the same context Trump did, the sound you would have heard would have been the heads of every single Republican in the country exploding in unison.

 

[Casey Pelous]

It was real. I found it on Truth Social myself.

I do know one thing, if President Obama has posted "praise be to Allah," even in the same context Trump did, the sound you would have heard would have been the heads of every single Republican in the country exploding in unison.

It would have been worse than the tan suit. Even worse than the Grey Poupon!

 

[Cristiano]

Iran is definitely winning the propaganda war online with their videos:

 

[Cristiano]

Here is yet another one - they are churning these out fast and they are high quality.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Who will be left to clear up Iran when Trump goes home?

The contenders to run the country once bombing stops are divided and discredited - and civil war looks a distinct possibility

thenewworld.substack.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I never thought I'd see "friendly" and "Iraq" in the same sentence. But, I guess "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.

Iraq was verrrryyy good friends with America under Saddam Hussein, as long as Iraq attacked Iran. America happily provided weapons and ammunition to Iraq in masses. Despite the sheer overwhelming equipment gap, Iraq failed and there were about 1 million dead people.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Most Western countries did everything they could to prolong the Iran-Iraq War to weaken both sides.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is apparently genuine

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)

JUST NOW: Trump on Truth Social. “A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” JFC. Can no-one stop him?

bsky.app

 

[detrius]

Is that...

Is that real?

Honestly? That post feels a bit like it was written by a 14-year-old apprentice who thinks Trump is King Théoden from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". You have to be that deluded to work in this administration.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Twitler unhinged - which regime change btw?

 

[Cristiano]

Why is no one stopping him??

 

[Noodles]

Why is no one stopping him??

Because her emails.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

This should be talked about a lot more.... their blatant corruption is just amazing.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This is absolutely fucking insane.

 

[Free]

"God Bless the Great People of Iran!"

Who, being the civilization he was speaking of, will...die tonight? ffs...

We need our own Complete and Total Regime Change. Like, right now.

 

[Sheera Khan]

The american people could absolutely benefit from a drastic regime change - they just have to make it happen... (at home)