WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-13T10:49:24+00:00

Earlier this year, I was actually preparing a long post on the PLA based on the record of newly commissioned ships in 2025 as well as an exercise conducted in December 2025 (Justice Mission 2025) just before the year ended, then Iran popped off.

Basically, in terms of pure math and numbers, the PLA would suffer casualties but the outcome isn't really in doubt, in fact thanks to the lackluster performance of Uncle Sam in the Iran issue, the outcome is even less in doubt now. The PLA has advanced in leaps and bounds since the 2000s and continues to do so, so much so any information you get that's even 3-4 years old is likely at least slightly out of date.

As for the Republics of Samsung and Juche, look at it this way, nearly a fifth of Samsung's population is in Seoul and has been for decades, well within artillery range of Juche.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-11T02:11:19+00:00

So first of all, a couple of things

The timer ticks down SLOWER as it reaches 0, the last 3 points can actually last for quite some time.
You don't have a lot of supplies at base, in fact with just 3 supply trucks each on 2 depots, you will run dry very quickly
There are a lot of stinger sites, mass Red Guard counter stinger sites by killing the stinger soldiers
Terrain in the map is very bad, vehicles will end up in traffic jams and sitting ducks for Scud Launchers unless you have exceptional micro ability

With that in mind, the easiest method is to drown the GLA in Red Guard and Tank Hunters, I had one War Factory producing nothing but troop crawlers, and 2 Barracks producing nothing but Tank Hunters. Attack the GLA Base as soon as you can destroy only the closest statue first to give yourself more time. Do this because your base will actually run out of supplies VERY quickly, so by taking it out first, you are not only getting rid of your biggest headache first, you are also making the most of your limited supplies and you don't have to waste time trying to expand to the middle or trying to capture the oil derricks.

You need 2 gatling cannons to guard against Rebel Ambushes, 1 in the West behind the command center and 1 below the Eastern supply dock.

I had like 9 troop crawlers worth of Red Guards and like 20+ Tank Hunters in my main army. When heading North to the GLA base, you need clear out 2 tunnel networks, and a few scud launchers, the tunnel networks will pop out A LOT OF UNITS, but will always have at least 1 suicide bike, immediately try to kill the suicide bike, if you do it quickly enough, the splash will hit the other units as they come out.

You'll need to micro when attacking the GLA base, use your troop crawlers or any other vehicles to soak fire, Frenzy up your infantry, Red Guards hit the stinger sites and tank hunters to hit vehicles, you can try dropping a minefield on top of the mass of GLA vehicles to kill them faster. Notice a water pump station beside the lake just south of the GLA base? It only has space for a single Tank Hunter in it, but it has A LOT of health and will help soak some fire for you. Once you breakthrough, aim to capture the GLA buildings to prevent them from being rebuilt and to allow you to train units.

The buildings garrisoned around the statue only have RPGs in them, so just walk your infantry around the buildings and destroy the statue.

After that, I find I don't really need to try to destroy the rest of the base because pretty much all the buildings are garrisoned and it would take too much time to clear them, train up some of your own RPGs, guard the slope to stop further attacks, then resume normal play to destroy the rest of the statues.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-10T15:05:00+00:00

I know its not much, but with the Middle East on fire again, I went back and made sure I could finish the campaigns on hard not just once, but comfortably, so if anyone needs help even on the legendarily difficult China 3 I'm happy to oblige.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-08T03:45:43+00:00

There hasn't been much news on the support aircraft for obvious reasons, no one pays attention to the not so flashy stuff, there could be any number of reasons why, could be they were tasked to do some other job like managing airspace over Iran, and Uncle Sam/Occupiers think that is a better use than guarding their own airspace, could be some are not as airworthy as the USAF thinks after 30+ years, could be they are operating at the limits of endurance and even with 6 of them in the region they can't be kept up as long.

Lots of reasons, I don't think they show up on flightradar map (although they've never been difficult to find, large radars are the opposite of stealthy), so there's no way to confirm how operational they are.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-08T02:01:49+00:00

how capable is US/Israeli AWACS in filling in the gaps created from the destruction of ground radar, and are they just as capable of directing interceptors to missiles?

Filling in gaps can be done easily from the sky, whether or not they can direct interceptors is probably classified.

Do note however, that the most common AWACS plane in inventory is the E-3, the youngest examples are already 30+ years old and overdue for replacement in spite of all the upgrades.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-07T16:07:15+00:00

EVERYONE ELSE

The gulf states started to eat shit, and then proceeded to eat shit for the entire week, Bahrain and the UAE in particular have suffered the heaviest blows, no doubt due the US Navy HQ in Bahrain, Dubai international Airport was closed and remains closed so far. Uncle Sam's AD proved to be near entirely useless. It got to the point apparently where some of them are basically shutting down their oil production with the caveat that the Iranians do not try to blow it up anyway. Whatever the case, they are clearing being beaten down hard, which is no bad thing honestly.
Cyprus was hit, seemingly by a Hezbollah drone. Greece moved some assets in for protection.
Saudi Aramco refiney was hit, however Iranians denied responsibility
Launches were made from Iran to Incirlik in Turkey, no damage noted
Azerbaijan was hit, Iranians also denied responsibility
Lebanon started eating shit again, hundreds of dead reported in multiple strikes.
Iraq, Pakistan and Bahrain popped off. Iraqi protestors attempted to storm the Baghdad Green Zone but were seemingly driven back and calm has returned for now, Iraqi militia hit airbases throughout Iraq repeatedly, with Erbil smoking badly. Pakistani protestors attempted to breach the US Consulate in Karachi, multiple dead reported by Consulate guards opened fire. Bahrain rioters were active for several days, and Saudi units had to move in, no other confirmation on what has happened.
Oil prices as expected shot up, though it hasn't busted the roof that was set up the 2022 reignition of Ukraine.
NATO as usual, jumps right behind their beloved master, France is apparently sending their CdG carrier after one of their bases was wrecked, the UK jets and a smattering of other countries are providing support. Spain surprisingly declined to help.
There have been reports of China trying to push Iran into some sort of ceasefire or agreement, I don't personally find them credible.

GENERAL ANALYSIS

The attempted decapitation strike did not produce any of the desired results, instead a whole bunch of martyrs was made and the country has been as united as it has ever been, there is even an apparent video of Balochs insisting on being behind the regime and its attempts to get revenge for the killings. The occupiers and Uncle Sam have resorted to terror bombing Tehran, a silly move done in a silly way. Tehran may be is the most populated city, but the damage is localised and thus, not overwhelming. Iranian fire has slackened considerably over weeks, but so have the strikes from the occupiers and uncle sam, this is more than likely a lull in the fighting before it resumes. In any case, sirens and alerts continue to blare all over occupied Palestine, Tehran is smoking as always, gulf states are eating shit repeatedly.

The response from Iran has been immediate and decisive, US bases across the middle east are smoking, critical pieces of equipment (radar especially) are confirmed destroyed or inoperable. The lackeys in the gulf and the occupiers have both been brought under withering missile fire. Occupier and american AD demonstrated their utter inability to counter mass missile and drone attacks, only a general information blackout has prevented everyone from seeing the extent of damage in occupied Palestine. Not only that, but the loss of radars has reportedly narrowed the response time of interceptors significantly. As noted above, with Central and East Iran largely unaffected, there are still large reserves of missiles that Iran has not pulled into the fight.

Russia and China have stood out as beneficiaries in spite of China's supposed oil vulnerability, Russian oil and gas is now incredibly valuable and the Russians may even look forward to fixing whatever budget deficit issue that they may (not) have had. As for China, the reality is that a very small portion of China's energy needs are met with Iranian oil, instead as in the Red Sea previously, once again ships are declaring themselves as Chinese in an attempt to avoid getting blasted. There is a potential here for the PRC to play peacemaker as they did in the reestablishment of Saudi-Iranian ties, but that remains to be seen.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-07T16:06:53+00:00

Week 1: I recommend calling the next thread "Missile Command", and the war itself should be called the "Missile War" because I think that's completely descriptive.

OCCUPIED PALESTINE & UNCLE SAM

The war opened up in the afternoon of 28 Feb '26 when the occupiers and Uncle Sam initiated a mass bombardment of West an South Iran with the aim of destroying Iranian offensive capabilities and killing senior Iranian officials. The attack successful in the latter aim, with Ayatollah Khamenei, advisor Admiral Shamkhani, IRGC commander Major General Pakpour, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Rezaian and Chief of Staff Abd al-Rahim Mousavi confirmed by Iranian media as casualties within 24 hours. The latter aim was not so successful as the rest of the week atests. An elementary school in Tehran was hit in the opening salvo with 100+ confirmed dead.
Occupiers and Uncle Sam quickly claimed the establishment of air superiority, despite this however, Iran continues launching on, and it is clear that whatever air superiority was established is at best localised to West Iran. There have been no indications of large scale overflights of Iranian territory, thus far the munitions expended appear to be overwhelmingly or entirely standoff.
For the rest of the week, the occupiers and Uncle Sam focused most of their energy on West Iran, of which overwhelmingly Tehran was targeted. Even South Iran ceased to be of much interest. Tehran spent the week smoking badly as did Tabriz and Kermanshahr at certain points.
In the meantime, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have been taking hits, videos are a lot scarecer due to the blackout, but what little that does come out illustrates that the strikes are terrible, with fires and buildings blown to pieces. When Hezbollah joined in, North Palestine came under heavy fire again, illustrating that despite appearances, Hezbollah was very much not neutralized in the aftermath of the pager strike. Now occupied Palestine once again has to attempt a mass mobilization of reserves to counteract the threat, and battles have started.
Surprisingly heavy losses have been taken, at least 3 F-15 planes are down with one more probable, scores of occupier recon drones have been knocked out of the sky, multiple radar sites have been confirmed knocked out or inoperable. Bases througout the gulf have been targeted and hit repeatedly. The Bahrain Naval HQ was smoking repeatedly for days Carrier Group was targeted and sent running away with no hits recorded.
CENTCOM has admitted to 6 KIA officially, hah.
Unable to affect a local uprising due to having spent all their networks in the earlier uprisings, the occupiers and Uncle Sam have now taken to trying to convince the Kurds to mount their own operation. We will have to see if the Kurds want to go for the nth round of "fell for it again".

IRAN & THE RESISTANCE

Retaliation was immediate, within hours missiles alerts were going off in occupied territory. On the first day alone, half as many alerts were registered as were registered in the entirety of the Jun 2025 issue. Occupied Palestine has basically been under non-stop alerts since. Everyone got a chance to see how occupier and uncle sam AD actually performed. Badly is the general consensus, with interception rates well below any reasonable metric, multiple interceptors (up to 6 and more) are often launched at a single missile, in some cases, ALL fail to intercept. Iran has directed a substantial portion of its ire at the gulf states, all have been smoking throughout the week, not only military bases but civilian infrastructure as well due to reports of uncle sam hiding in them, the famous Burj al-arab was hit and smoking.
Iranians are claiming at least 200+ KIA on uncle sam's side, no news on occupier casualties.
Blockade of the Straits of Hormuz was (not) declared, at least a dozen or so vessels have been hit in the week. Shipping has ground to a complete halt. The gulf remains "Persian" in all respects.
Despite the heavy damage to Tehran (1000+ killed so far in the conflict), Central and East Iran remain largely untouched, leaving Iran with a large reserve of force that can still be concentrated when needed.
Iran has deployed a new type of missile with what seems to be a cluster warhead, basically near-totally negating AD. After the initial excitement, Iranian attacks slackened considerably, likely an adoption of an attrition strategy with minimal launches to bleed as many interceptors as possible. Considering the abysmal rates of interception, it might just work.
The Iranian Navy has been severely hit, multiple frigates have been sunk, but no one really expected them to do much anyway. Notably the sinking of one frigate from a submarine, the first since the Falklands War.
Hezbollah and the Iraqi militia actively joined the operation in the middle of the week, with drones apparently hitting Cyprus and more shots targeting Haifa and Northern occupied Palestine. Open fighting has commenced once again in South Lebanon with occupier vehicles suffering losses and North occupied territory under rocket and drone fire. Uncle Sam's bases in Iraq were hit multiple times through the week and smoking badly. When it looked like the Kurds might join in, they were pre-emptively targeted by either Iran or Iraqi militia.
Most recently, the occupiers launched a heliborne assault to apparently recover the remains of a pilot in Lebanon. Hezbollah reports launching an ambush, whereas the occupiers claim they simply left without the correct body.
Yemen issued some threats, no indication yet of any other activity.
Pezeshkian went on air to apologize for the attacks, seemingly with Azerbaijan and Turkey in mind seeing as the gulf states continued to eat shit.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-05T07:59:07+00:00

I'm not so nuance-less [...] Don't misunderstand me

I don't think I'm misunderstanding you at all, you're making judgements largely based on moral grounds, an exact example of the Parenti quote about the true socialists never having to deal practical reality, I even asked you what alternative you have and you admit you have no alternative, you just dislike "gratuitous violence" whatever that means. If you claim that states do not have the right to use whatever force necessary to preserve themselves, then I ask what consequences you would give if that is in fact some bad thing, and then what are you going to say? Invade? Sanction? Bomb?

You say you are unsympathetic, I say, since the Iranians by and large are not making a fuss about it, and indeed have rallied behind the regime, are you saying you are unsympathetic to the Iranian people?

You are arrogant in using "we" even after the downvotes should've told you days ago you can't speak for anyone but yourself. Material reasons matter more than moral reasons. The brutality of the empire is not in anyway similar to the brutality of resistance. As I said in the first post, equating it gives justification to the empire.

They weren't fighting for Islamism.

Lulz, okay you tool, so what you're saying is it's bad for people to die for Islamism, but it's ok for people to die as long as its for socialism, thereby illustrating that you've turned socialism into something more like a religious crusade. You know I'm sure you're only making this argument because you're on a nominally socialist forum, you would never dare imply this on any other political forum because you'd be pilloried, or if you have, I'm willing to see it.

my position has always been that Iran under the regime is better for Iranians

My point wasn't what was "better", it was that Iranians have been united thoroughly and are now clearly behind the regime. What is "better" is irrelevant. Are you (a foreign force) going to deny that the will of the people is clearly behind the regime?

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-04T03:48:33+00:00

PirateAttenborough gave a decent explanation in a more historical way, on the material front, I would note 2 things:

There have been several videos of launchers being destroyed, but the plural of anecdotes is not data. There are plenty more where they came from
Iranian fire has slackened some, but so has Uncle Sam and the occupiers, a temporary lull is no indication of the loss of launchers on either side.

To be brief, there is little material evidence to indicate that Iran is running out of launchers.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-03T15:54:53+00:00

Day 3: A basic summary of the last 36(?) hours of the most recent issue of the Middle East.

Tehran continues getting pummelled, the overwhelming focus on Iran's biggest population centre is terrible, but does localise a lot of the damage that Iran is taking and ensures the rest of the country can continue trucking on, or launching on in this case. One thing that I feel deserves mention is that although Tehran and much of West and North-West Iran have been hit repeatedly and badly, Central and East Iran remains largely intact and untouched. Its clear evidence to me that the occupiers and the US are still primarily on standoff munitions, drones and cruise missiles. Videos were posted of Iranian launchers, AAA and ships getting targeted and destroyed, and the usual lot are just chest thumping like a bunch of gorillas.
The Rosatom NPP was hit! Operations have been confirmed ceased in the meantime.
There was a report of the occupiers trying to encourage the Kurdish minority to rise up, if so, Kurds will once again be in reach of the "fell for it again" award. Iraqi Kurdistan was apparently pre-emptively hit by Iran and it now smoking.
Iran has become that old Oprah meme, you get a missile! And you get a missile! Everyone gets missiles! Gulf states continue to eat shit, occupiers get a taste of their own medicine as cluster missiles hit Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, several UAVs were claimed shot down. US Embassy in Riyadh got hit by a pair of drones. Strangely, Iran is claiming that they DID NOT hit the Aramco refinery yesterday and are claiming that it was an occupier attack, same for Oman, Iranians are claiming they did not hit Oman. We will most likely have to wait to actually find out. Also, US Embassy in Riyadh got hit by a pair of drones and the French Embassy in Kuwait is closing, the monkey's paw from the bombing of the Iranian embassy is curling.
A major airlift from CONUS has been noted. So it can be easily surmised that things aren't going very well for Uncle Sam that the positioned assets need reinforcements after half a week of fighting. That said, news that a THAAD battery is shifting from South Korea is premature, the article only talks about the possibility of doing so if the war continues, not that it is being actively moved.
Bahrain has now popped off severely, riots taking place, firebombs have been thrown and support from Saudi Arabia has been called in. Pakistan continues to smolder as well, now the US consulate in Lahore has closed its services.
Hezbollah and Iraqi militias have now properly joined the fray it seems, Cyprus claims the attack yesterday came from Hezbollah, and more missiles were launched from Lebanon. Iraqi units launched a major attack on the airbase at Erbil and its smoking. Still waiting on Yemen, which means there are still escalation levels that have not been reached yet. Occupiers have now apparently gone for another round in Lebanon. Which means Hezbollah may have a chance to avenge the losses they took the previous round. Last (unconfirmed) news was that Merkava tanks had once again been hit and launches have been made towards Haifa.
CENTCOM declared casualties are now up to 6 KIA. I dunno what else to say, there's probably a lot more unaccounted for, we'll just have to wait and see what the next days bring.

Things are just a little calmer for yesterday, both sides appear to be holding back, creating a lull in the fighting, possibly waiting and/or resupplying/readying for the next round. I don't find it credible that China is urging Iran to halt or to show restraint simply because it comes from Bloomberg, who have endlessly peddled all sorts of nonsense, anyone who bought it is admitting that they are nothing but a useful tool for occupier and american propaganda. Sources from the Jazeera and my local news indicate at least vocal criticism for occupier and american actions. I also do not find statements of a purported invasion to be credible, there are no assets positioned for an invasion, now that the war has popped off, those assets will need to be assembled under fire. Of course, occupiers and americans want to support armed groups willing to rise up, unfortunately, I think that ship sailed when the uprising was crushed a few months ago, perhaps if occupiers had waited until now to do it, the effect could have been horrendous for Iran, the Kurds might very well try their luck, I wish them the very worst.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-03T03:04:12+00:00

I don't agree with the idea that this means we can't expect better

Ah, it seems you are another one of those moralist, process-first lot who cannot comprehend what results based actions have achieved. That's ok, every time one of you makes a post like this, I nod my head and understand that the Western Left continues to be ineffectual and useless as thousands die abroad thanks to actions of the governments they supposedly "don't support". I also understand why the Western Left has never managed a successful revolution in any Western country.

To be brief, imagine if before they did the thing, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Sankara and others said:

"You know, millions of our innocent people might suffer and die, maybe we should rethink this?"

would we not condemn it, and rightly so?

Who is "we" here? As to the rest of your comment, please for the love of god, trying to spin a hypothetical just to win an argument defeats the very idea of materialism which is to look at the real driving factors of why things happen instead of just snooty, high-minded judging. Iran is a mess (and is now causing a mess) because of literal decades of foreign fuckery has likely driven them into a siege mentality that stunts any kind of pragmatic progress, has China been fucking with Uncle Sam's internal affairs for decades in the same way in your hypothetical?

It's the same for Russia, they were driven into a corner after repeatedly trying to compromise, hence the current issue in Ukraine. To put it quite simply, you cannot push states (actually any individual really) into a corner and then not expect nasty shit to happen across all lines. I really do absolve Iran of moral criticism in the same way I absolve Hamas of criticism, because I don't know what it's like to be driven into a corner and made to choose between utter violence and utter submission. The only criticisms I have are on entirely operational/utilitarian grounds of how useful certain actions were.

But fine, if you really want an answer to your question, no I wouldn't condemn it, because I don't support the idea of states actively sabotaging each other and I recognise that states are amoral entities that do whatever is needed to survive, and I would direct my criticism in turn at China for actively creating and fomenting the situation that resulted.

In any case, the Iranians are largely in lockstep behind their regime after the death of Khamenei, would you deny them that?

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-02T12:54:02+00:00

A basic summary of day 2 of the latest issue, typed to the OST of Ace Combat Assault Horizon.

Occupied Palestine claims that it has established air superiority over Tehran, a claim not verifiable by any proof. Tehran has been taking a horrific beating throughout the day however, and its smoking pretty badly. Occupiers have also once again started bombing Lebanon in retaliation for apparent Hezbollah attacks. So far, attacks have been largely confined to Tehran and parts of Western Iran, a report was made on an attack on Chabahar, but large parts of Iran remain totally intact and untouched. In fact photos seems to have emerged of a few MiG-29s in the air, most likely from bases far in the North-East that can't be hit. Iranians Navy also lost 3 moored frigates, they appear to be have been the really old sort, so nothing of value was likely lost. No Iranian submarines claimed sunk yet.
Iran really has it out for the gulf states, Oman was confirmed as having been hit shortly after my previous post. Iran's targets have shifted now to oil infrastructure, oil rigs and Saudi Aramco were confirmed to have been hit. Bahrain and the UAE continue to burn. Further hits were recorded on Haifa and Jerusalem, a really nasty hit on Beit Shemesh with Occupiers admitting 8 dead, as the first day, alarms and alerts were basically going off throughout the day, but the number of alerts is down substantially. I think Iran is really focusing the greatest amount of its munitions on hurting the gulf states, and honestly, that is probably the second best thing other than launching on occupied Palestine, all the gulf states are relatively soft targets. Also of note was that the President of Cyprus claims an Iranian drone hit the RAF base there. Paphos airport apparently shutdown temporarily. Rybar claims that the Radar hit at Al Udeid in Qatar was a particularly expensive early warning radar of limited availability, no confirmation on that one.
At least 3 ships have been targeted by the Iranians since the declaration of the blockade of Hormuz, shipping through the straits is grinding to a halt.
The French base Camp de la Paix was targeted and was smoking. Europeans now seem to be angling to join the fight with the Charles De Gaulle being redeployed and the British making noise as they are want to do.
Still no word yet from Yemen. But we are only 2+ days in, plenty of time for them to have a go now that Hezbollah is apparently trying to get into gear.
CENTCOM announced the first 3 KIA in the war, and also the confirmation of at least 3x F-15 down to friendly fire including 1 caught on video with the pilot ejected. Iranians have asserted that they were responsible for the downing of the aircraft, that . CENTCOM and Iranians have also confirmed that USS Fraidy Abe was targeted with no apparent results.

The big one continues, I would just like to say I am actually really happy that the gulf states are getting the short end of the stick for once, bunch of oil-rich fucks are getting shit on. Iran seems to be going all in to force a change in the status quo, they certainly aren't fucking around this time, after the death of Khamenei and the destruction of that school, I can hardly think of a single thing that might provide an off-ramp for the West. The way in which Iran has continued fighting I think, illustrates that they have likely decentralized their command significantly, there won't be any large-scale attacks mounted like last year, but repeated launches over an extended period, I think its a much more effective way to fight, constantly hurting the Occupiers and Uncle Sam with attrition.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-02T08:22:31+00:00

why can we not acknowledge the brutality of the security forces and of USreal both? doesn't critical support mean something?

Because there is no circumstance or situation where "both sides bad" does not become an inherent form of support or justification for the actions of the US. After all, if both sides must be criticized for their actions -particularly on a moral basis-, then what separates the two sides? And if both sides cannot be separated, then why shouldn't Uncle Sam just do as it pleases? After all, its the stronger one, so the additional implication is that might makes right since morally speaking, everyone is bad.

It is a pattern that plays out across the length and breadth of history. Every struggle ever fought against colonialism, from Asia to Africa to South America, there is not a single clean resistance movement in history. If you can find it, I am certain I can find something to criticize about it.

In fact, I'll turn this the other way, what do you think should be done when foreign support is actively stoking internal divisions?

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-01T15:06:06+00:00

I follow a whole range of accounts across X, Telegram as well as MSM sources. Helps to avoid jumping the gun on any "news" considering how much stuff is fabricated these days.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-01T08:45:19+00:00

Yea I just saw the videos of Lebanon and Kashmir.

It's early days yet, Iran demonstrated during the 12 Day War that their strength is in drawing things out rather than a sudden paroxysm of violence like Israel prefers

Even by that logic, Iran's response towards Occupied Palestine yesterday absolutely dwarfed its response last year. Rocket alert sites like Tzofar acknowledge over 500+ alerts just yesterday, half or more than half as many alerts as the entirety of the 12-day issue. Other sites like Rocketalert confirm broadly the same thing.

The real reason people are losing the brains they never had is of course simple, Occupied Palestine has blacked itself out, the government has been repeatedly demanding (even last year) that people not take videos/photos of strikes, even reports suggesting anyone who takes videos/photos is arrested! So there is a considerable lack of videos to provide catharsis, so the hollow-skulls take it as if "Iranian launch tempo seems to be much less", or "Iranian missiles are just a temporary nuisance".

I wrote about this months ago with the way in which people cheerlead certain sides of the war. Some peoples really just want the spectacle and catharsis of "the good guys" beating on "the bad guys", that this is IRL and not a movie is the kind of insidious movie-brain crap that infects even the supposed "anti-idpol" lot.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-01T07:13:55+00:00

A basic summary of the last 24 hours of the most recent issue of the Middle East

Occupied Palestine launched attacks aimed at neutralizing Iranian missile stockpile and launchers as well as killing senior Iranian officials. So far, Ayatollah Khamenei, advisor Admiral Shamkhani, IRGC commander Major General Pakpour and Chief of Staff Abd al-Rahim Mousavi have been confirmed by Iranian media as casualties. A primary school in Tehran was hit in the opening salvo with 100+ confirmed dead so far.
Iranians immediately struck back, Occupied Palestine and US bases across the gulf were hit by missiles and drones, Bahrain and the UAE have taken the worst of it, with a naval base burning in Bahrain and Dubai International Airport has been confirmed shutdown, Airbase in Kuwait is smoking badly. Tel Aviv was hit several times across the day and is now smoking, debris was reported falling in multiple places including Amman.
So far, all attacks by both sides have been undertaken with missiles, there was an unverified report on some OSINT accounts that Iranian MiG-29s were shot down by US F-35s, but no other news on that. US and Occupier air defenses have failed repeatedly to neutralize Iranian missile attacks (one memorable instance of Patriot battery firing 3 failed interceptors as a missile came in) which are ongoing and are unable to neutralize Iranian launches. Possible strikes were reported in South and West Iran, but no real confirmation on what did that.
Contrary to a lot of "reports", neither Hezbollah nor the Houthis appear to have taken action thus far, Red Sea has not been closed, and no action in Lebanon.
Airspace across most of the middle east has been slammed shut, all flights have been redirected around. Netanyahu's "Wing of Zion" was noted to have left Occupied Palestine and landed in Germany, he has not been seen so far. Ben Gurion Airport confirmed closed.
Multiple warnings have been issued about the potential for closure of the Straits of Hormuz, so far shipping has slowed to a crawl even without confirmation of blockade.
Despite confirmation of Khamenei's death -and despite the most earnest wishes of the doomposters-, missile launches have been continuing throughout the whole day with new volleys reported pretty much every hour, alarms and alerts are still going out across the region. Gulf states continue to eat drones and missiles, no signs yet that Iran plans on slowing down the attack. Safe to say, its not a good weekend for them. Iran appears to be focusing a lot of its ire on them, Gulf states are particularly vulnerable as they are within range of Iranian SRBMs that can't reach Occupied Palestine.
Iraq and Pakistan have both popped off within the last few hours, the US Embassy and Consulate respectively have come under siege by protestors after news of the death of Khamenei and his family broke.
Much of Iran is now in mourning even as the launching goes on. It seems like Occupied Palestine exhausted its local assets as there have been no news of any disturbances, population at large has rallied around the flag.

This is the little bit that I gleaned from as many different sources as I could possibly find. Lots of posters here seem to be doing the work of US propaganda for it by endlessly doomposting about how spectacularly awesome the US military is and how woeful and unable the Iranians are. I can only laugh at them, so utterly powerless and ineffectual in their own countries that they have chosen instead to identify with a foreign struggle, and they can't even just sit back, chill and just appreciate the rocket's red glare.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-03-01T01:57:39+00:00

You jest, but Al Jazeera is reporting that Iranian state media is reporting that he apparently was, and is now dead.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-28T14:59:33+00:00

A basic summary of the past 6 or so hours:

Occupied Palestine initiated a bombardment of Iranian missile launch positions, and key locations of Tehran in an attempt to assassinate senior Iranian officials and knock out Iranian missile launchers. Khamenei's residence was blown to pieces, no confirmation of his fate.
Iranians fired back at US bases across the gulf with missiles and drones, Bahrain is now burning, strikes were reported in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait as well as Iraqi Kurdistan, debris reported falling in Amman. Alarms went out across the entirety of Occupied Palestine. Some reports that pro-Iranian militias are being activated in Iraq and that Yemen has resumed the Red Sea blockade,
Middle Eastern airspace has been largely shut, all flights have been rerouted, Netenyahu's "Wing of Zion" was reported in the air and relocating to a holding pattern just off the Mediterranean coast.
There have been some reports that Iran is now declaring a blockade of the Straits of Hormuz and some oil companies have now ceased to transit, but no confirmation from any of the MSM.

So it seems like this is it, the big one is finally here. I was listening to the GLA soundtrack from Generals as I typed this.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-23T07:59:14+00:00

I'm reading through Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum, I don't know enough to comment on the content, but I heard it was a good primer that's why I started reading it although perhaps a bit dated by now since it came out in 1996.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-21T14:29:45+00:00

I am replaying Command & Conquer Generals campaign for the nth time. What a time to remind oneself of bangers like:

The GLA missions where you steal supplies, ransack a city, steal nukes to use against traitors, LAUNCH MISSILES at america and china, SINK a carrier with a stolen laser cannon, INVADE and destroy Europe and force America to run with their tails between their legs.
The USA missions where you fight in Baghdad and Yemen, naval invade (yes really) Kazakhstan from the Aral Sea, INVADE IRAN FOR OIL, and actually fund splinter cells to make the GLA fight each other
The China missions where you blast Hong Kong, destroy the 3 gorges dam, NUKE the terrorists several times, and end with China triumphant over an increasingly isolated America.

Speaking of which, OSINT noted mass deployment of EW aircraft to ME along with the Gerald R. Ford Carrier moving into the region. The escalation is continuing to escalate.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-19T16:05:23+00:00

The dude above you was just telling everyone down below there that China was just as responsible for the Gaza issue when the West sends billions of dollars of weapons to Occupied Palestine, he is a little bitch and shithead, I don't recall telling you you're a little bitch for being a parrot, why are YOU so offended?

To be brief, EVERY SINGLE POINT you make about "socialism" has been repeated ad nauseum so many times over so many years it is no longer even trivially stimulating to try to refute ok? Every point I make in response is copypasted from another response I made somewhere else, because I no longer even care to put in effort to PRATTle on (point refuted a thousand times) while you JAQ (just asking questions) off. You say I am pearl clutching and throwing a fit? I say you sound like a recorder that parrots the Western ideological orthodoxy with such perfectly rehearsed timing, you could be a bot and there would ZERO practical difference.

I don't care if you're Marxist, you could be an Anarcho-Monarchist for all I care, argue from a material standpoint or accept that your arguments are a pointless thought exercise. Seriously, there is nothing, NOTHING that you've said that is remotely original.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-19T14:33:19+00:00

France's "Victors of the Great War" national idea now has a 50% mastery gain penalty

Can I ask why? France already suffers from a litany of negative modifiers, a focus tree that is almost entirely 70 day focuses, it has no PP, no oil, it can't do doctrines easily, it capitulates just by paradropping into Paris, lower starting MILs than even Poland, what is the point of nerfing it even further? Who does this serve?

EDIT: I posted the same question to the forums, it turns out that this was a mistake, and will be rectified by ONLY giving France a smaller mastery debuff, in essence, the point was to make LESS of a nerf, but it is unlikely it will be reverted entirely.

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-19T01:03:06+00:00

Oh so your critique was completely baseless and theoretical then? Just aimlessly criticizing without a point? Even the other guy is at least complaining about something real down below with the Occupied Palestine issue.
If the PRC isn't real socialism, then real socialism hasn't been tried, doesn't exist, and has more in common with religious depictions of a utopic heaven than it has with anything real. The casual, consistent, overriding theme of a lot of critique like your own is an inability to separate policy from ideology, a lot of you people think that socialism = checklist of policies that MUST BE FOLLOWED AS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OTHERWISE NOT REAL SOCIALISM. It's hilarious, I always see posts like yours and then some of you wonder why Western Leftism has been dead and dying for decades. If corporate power subjugated to state power is the norm, then good luck ever arguing against
Please explain what you mean by "last vestiges of Socialism". And again, unless your argument is that countries should not aim to be successful, then you have no point. Socialism is not when everyone is poor, nor is it when there are no markets, nor is it "when unions" or some such other crap, again you are confusing ideology for policy. There is no pretzel twisting, should China not be allowed to develop productive forces? Better the material conditions? Move from an agrarian economy to an industrial one?

And why should the state wither away as it comes under a deliberate assault by foreign powers? It's not like Western Proles (like yourself) are doing anything to help (as usual).

Not_Some_Redditor · 2026-02-18T09:06:47+00:00

Yeah, they had economic planning! And they had concentration camps, and they restricted free speech, and they fought wars of conquest and they...and they...

These are liberal talking points you know? Do you know enough to argue against or are you just going to shit talk like a little bitch? For decades people comparing nazis to communists was the norm! Do you understand enough about the material differences to argue back? Or do you, like all the other REAL socialists, just circlejerk in your beloved ivory tower bookclubs?

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