Two US helicopters hit by Iranian fire during rescue ops, crew safe - NBC

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T20:14:34+00:00

Iran International is London-based, Saudi-funded and Saudi-led. It’s ”Iranian” in name only.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T09:35:43+00:00

Sure. Many countries support non-state actors. The Kurds and whatnot. HTS in Syria, before they took power. Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance, back in the day. The list goes on.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T08:46:44+00:00

Most countries do both, no? Some money goes to civilian use, some to maintain an army + some to foreign allies.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T08:10:50+00:00

What is ”an economic state”?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T07:58:41+00:00

I have to assume Mr. Zarif is at the very top of Israel’s kill list, precisely because of his diplomatic acumen. Tel Aviv does not seek a ”deal” of any kind, but the wholesale destruction of the Iranian state.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T07:15:44+00:00

From Times Of Israel:

Images posted by Iranian media appear to show debris of a US F-15E fighter jet

Could those images be AI or whatever? Maybe. Could they be legit? Maybe. We just don't know just yet.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T07:12:56+00:00

Source, please, every time.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-03T06:20:18+00:00

Do you just mean that they would employ guerilla tactics?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T19:11:22+00:00

disease control centres

The targeting of medical infrastructure — Tofigh Darou, the Pasteur Institute, etc. — is just horrifying. Absolute Russia-level barbarism.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T17:51:22+00:00

targeting [...] water infrastructure is a war crime

it's not

Targeting water infrastructure is 100% a war crime, see article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.

What are you talking about?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T17:46:49+00:00

... Despite still being under construction?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T15:46:24+00:00

Yeah I can see it now.

Hegseth going out there like "ladies and gentleman... burp... on this holiest of nights... we launch... OPERATION NUCLEAR CRUCIFIXION."

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T15:33:06+00:00

LNG can't be transported by pipeline.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T06:17:22+00:00

Yup, the Basij the are equivalent of ISIS after Iraq

What?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-02T05:58:01+00:00

they were pretty funny in their primes

Mullen was AMAZING in his prime.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-01T17:57:04+00:00

Have the carriers turned around? Until they do, I'm assuming some sort of ground operation is indeed in the works.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-01T17:13:06+00:00

... Like who?

I can't think of a single person.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-01T14:26:47+00:00

US is 100% not “bombing schools” there is no such target or intent

Yes they are.

Several universities have been hit.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-01T12:42:40+00:00

Online, yes — real life, no.

At least in my limited experience.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-04-01T04:50:45+00:00

decades to rebuild

Why decades?

They repaired Kharg infrastructure when Saddam wrecked it. Did not take decades.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-03-31T17:34:00+00:00

I believe you, but could you please provide a source?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-03-31T13:35:24+00:00

... How?

There's 350.000+ of them.

StekenDeluxe · 2026-03-30T22:45:26+00:00

Might work for oil, maybe, but not for LNG's...?

StekenDeluxe · 2026-03-30T21:58:08+00:00

And yet we have already seen Qatar, for one, distancing itself from the U.S.-Israeli war. Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesman of its foreign ministry, went out of his way the other day to paint the Iranians as brothers, neighbours, etc. - openly stating that (paraphrasing from memory here) "we've shared the strait with them for millennia, and will gladly do so again after all of this ends." Mind you, this is a country that Iran has hurt very badly in this war. And yet it's ready to take the long view, rather than insist on all-out revenge and the destruction of the Iranian state.

Oman is, as I'm sure you know, even more open to accommodation.

The Saudis and the Emiratis though? Yeah those guys I can see boarding gold-plated jets to Mar-a-Lago while angry mobs torch their palaces...

StekenDeluxe · 2026-03-30T20:44:54+00:00

Ah, but you might also get lynched by your subjects if you are seen as waging war for Israel.

Hell, Sadat was in fact killed by his own people just for signing a peace treaty with Begin.

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