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

US military has launched ‘major combat operations’ in Iran - Trump

Trump says the US military has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, saying the country had attempted to rebuild its nuclear programme.

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Edit2: updated headline

  • pet1tdeleted by creatorEnglish
    104·
    2 个月前

    He literally called for Israel to attack Iran first so that it would be easier for the US to support them. That was yesterday, I believe? Dude’s been calling an attack on Iran for days now

      • pet1tdeleted by creatorEnglish
        13·
        2 个月前

        yeah, gotta hand it to him

        and yet I’m always a strange mix between dumbstruck, surprised and unsurprised

          • highjayhawkEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            The ones making the most money are smart enough that you don’t know about them.

    • PlaidBaronEnglish
      25·
      2 个月前

      Gotta claim a state of emergency somehow. How else is he gonna stop the election?

      • FlashMobOfOneEnglish
        92·
        2 个月前

        Honestly, this feels like a good thing for democracy (or at least the illusion of a democracy we have in the US), in a roundabout way.

        If the US military is stuck in an Iranian quagmire, it becomes harder to use it to terrorize citizens on the domestic front. I wish they’d send the donut eaters from ICE to the front.

        • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
          8·
          2 个月前

          Not really, when we are at war the rah rah crowd that believes these pieces of shit gives them more leeway, and is less likely to buck on something like pretti’s execution.

          • FlashMobOfOneEnglish
            92·
            2 个月前

            This is fair, and I apologize.

            My country has been at war everywhere for so long that I’m desensitized to it. What I wrote above was meant as an objective hypothetical, but was wildly insensitive.

            I do not support war. I am just powerless to stop it, so it’s easier for me to speak insensitively about it, and I shouldn’t.

            If I had any power whatsoever to stop this, I would.

        • MinnesotaGoddamEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          i do not think this will stop them from attacking the statesian citizenry, i think it merely opens a new front in the war on civilians