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Israeli conflict
| June 17th, 2025 at 4:34:24 PM permalink | |
| DoubleGold Member since: Jan 26, 2023 Threads: 34 Posts: 4239 | Remember Hussein sending pallets of tax-payer cash to folks that want Sharia Law? Did you ever wonder why it was in literal cash? Does Hussein hate women? Does Hussein hate life, other than his life? Or is it possible he's just ignorant? Did Iran use the cash for Uranium purification? Is Hussein hiding? Where is he? $1,700,000,000 poof! ($1.7 billion)  From Duck Duck Go's fake AI (just a fast searcher): ------------------- "Iran's legal system is based on Islamic law, or sharia, which governs various aspects of life, including personal conduct, family matters, and criminal law. The implementation of sharia in Iran often results in significant restrictions on women's rights and freedoms." ------------------- |
| June 17th, 2025 at 6:02:59 PM permalink | |
| DoubleGold Member since: Jan 26, 2023 Threads: 34 Posts: 4239 | These are the lunatics we're dealing with: Pure psychopath warmongers. -------------------- Sean Davis Jun 17, 2025 . . . A lot of people don’t know this, but if you say “nuclear weapons” into a mirror three times, you can ignore every lesson of history—the corruption and incompetence of the Western intel apparatus, the failure of Middle East military interventionism (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine), the cost in lives and money of failed wars based on lies—and you magically won’t have to deal with any of the consequences. I mean sure—Western interventionism in Iran in the 1950s, or Vietnam in the 1960s, or Iran again in the 1970s, or Iran again in the 1980s but this time with drug cartels, or Iraq and Bosnia in the 1990s, or Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, or still Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2010s plus Libya and the whole moronic Arab Spring thing, or Ukraine in the 2020s—those were disasters that cost trillions of dollars and countless lives. And yes, our military-intel-industrial complex lied about Vietnam, and killed Kennedy, and ran a coup against Nixon, and then killed another Kennedy, and tried to get MLK Jr. to kill himself, and ran drugs all throughout the Americas to fund shenanigans in the Middle East, and funded bin Laden and the Taliban, and missed 9/11, and lied about Iraq WMD, and got an ambassador murdered in Benghazi, and turned Libya into slave market run by terrorists, and created ISIS, and ran the Russian collusion hoax, and tried to overthrow Trump with the Ukraine hoax, and weaponized a bat virus that killed millions of people and lied about it, and used the virus they made to steal an election, and arrested Trump, and tried to bankrupt him, and tried to make him die in prison, and when that failed denied him adequate security leading to him being shot in the head. Yes, they said and did all those things. But you can trust them now. Because if you just say “nuclear weapons,” all of that history goes away and the war they’re demanding will be totally awesome with no downsides. . . . https://xcancel.com/seanmdav/status/1934823451346227641#m ------------------- |
| June 17th, 2025 at 6:22:27 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 | At the moment there are about 50 large military aircraft in the air heading from the U.S. to the middle east. It looks like C-130's, C-5's, and aerial tankers. I don't know if it is for intimidation or if something much bigger is planned. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| June 17th, 2025 at 7:09:34 PM permalink | |
| missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 160 Posts: 5484 | Could be Trump's way of "paying back" the army for not marching in goose step during his birthday parade. |
| June 18th, 2025 at 12:28:10 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22938 | Israel's biggest problem is solved if the Iranian people did choose to overthrow their own government. Or at least it wouldn't be any worse. Netanyahu would love to see American troops invading and Iran forces melting away in a short time. Seems most likely he's going to keep bombing the hell out of their military, and possibly infrastructure and get Trump to drop the big bombs. Trump doesn't have a "coalition of the willing" and neither does Israel. So, it's all on our and Israel's decision making. Or at least appears to be. Trump has a coalition of the watching. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| June 18th, 2025 at 5:09:15 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 165 Posts: 6375 | Dirty bomb is my guess.
re economic impact, just in cost, I can imagine the cleanup price if it happened in the US would be many billions of dollars, would Israel be any different? I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| June 18th, 2025 at 5:13:19 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
I think a coalition will develop if the Iranians mine the Straight of Hormuz At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| June 18th, 2025 at 8:04:25 AM permalink | |
| GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023 Threads: 5 Posts: 2831 |
There was no coalition the last time Iran tried to shut down the straight. There's no reason to think there will be one now. |
| June 18th, 2025 at 8:21:41 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22938 |
Just the fact that they try to run everything through proxies means they at least pay a lot of attention to managing how they make themselves vulnerable. I guess, no self-respecting evil regime would last very long otherwise. If you don't have ultimate power, you have to balance it with more cleverness to survive. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| June 18th, 2025 at 8:35:53 AM permalink | |
| Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 30 Posts: 5255 | Sounds like Trump is on the cusp of authorizing attacks on Iran and is denying meetings with envoys willing to come to the Whitehouse. This is not boding well for people who think we should stay out. For all of Trump's bluster he seems terrified to say no to Israel or even be slightly critical. Strange position for him, because he is the same way towards Russia (who is against U.S. intervention in Iran.) |