If they did this then yes that’s war. I think it would be incredibly foolish of them to kill khamenei but not hit military targets at the same time though.
If you are gonna just kick off a war, might as well hit a bunch of high priority military targets at the same time. If Israel was aiming to assassinate the leader with bunker busters one would think they would launch an all out strike and not just a couple? Israel hasn’t acted strategically or rationally though so who knows
We make jokes out of dire situations to relieve the burden on ourselves, like laughing when you face cognitive dissonance, but I understand the point and it’s taken
So far this looks like a limited strike and indicative of Israelis backing down to Iranian deterrence?
Hopefully I haven’t spoke too soon, I think only a small amount of targets so far.
The Iranian general spoke of two outcomes. A large strike from Israel that will be met with a return fire of 1000 missiles and all proxy fronts activating, or a limited symbolic strike to save face while backing down.
Which do we think it is? It benefits Israel to be ambiguous and make it seem like a small strike at first either way.
Israeli jets have been confirmed over Syria and Jordan. It was most certainly them.
Explosions have been confirmed in Tehran and west of Tehran.
Bezos refusing to endorse either genocidal candidate is one more point towards my lathe prediction that he’s becoming a Tate follower
Nah it was probably some salty DPR psycho who flies a USSR flag on his turtle tank
According to Newsweek, occupied Korea is posturing at sending troops and “advisors” to Ukraine to counter the North Koreans. Absolute clown stuff. Acting like there will be a ton of DPRK prisoners when there are just some DPRK “advisors” currently and Russia is winning and taking prisoners at a way higher rate.
Occupied Korea wants to send troops and involve itself in a losing war where there advisors will get killed and captured as Ukraine collapses? It’s a clever way to get more troops to Ukraine without NATO involvement I suppose.
Something of this scale would surely trigger a war right? It’s not just a symbolic reply, it’s a full on offensive that would require an immediate response
Russia isn’t interested in anything west of the Dnieper except along the southern coast. There will still be a rump state for all the fascist losers to seethe in, possibly landlocked, totally demilitarized.
Mayor Adams has fulfilled his protocol. Awaiting new orders from the Turks
It was leaked on the Middle East Spectator telegram which is a chud telegram and really unprofessional. Pretty funny, like if The Duran leaked documents or something.
Actually on 2nd thought the Duran is too professional to compare to these idiots, who dropped the r-slur and n-slur after CNN started reporting on them to be edgy.
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If NATO loses in Ukraine and then tries to pivot to the Middle East and helping Israel, that might just be enough to drive Turkey away
Especially if the EU admits the Ukrainian rump state and still doesn’t admit Turkey, the insults and white supremacy will be too much to conceal.
I was thinking about this. If anything, it’s the opposite because when invading your neighbor you will have to continue to live with them (especially if you plan to annex the territory) so you don’t completely destroy everything and disregard all consequences. Sometimes you have to invade a neighbor to stabilize a chaotic situation or end a genocide or something like that (see: Vietnam invading Cambodia).
When an imperialist is invading on the other side of the world, they are incentivized to cause as much chaos as possible and destroy as much fixed capital as possible. They do this on the doorstep of their rivals to cause them problems (see: Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, etc) so more destruction and death is encouraged.
When an imperialist is invading a neighbor with intent to annex them, they are incentivized to stabilize a situation and try not to destroy all of the productive forces.
Neither imperialist invasion is good, but one is clearly worse than the other and more nakedly about self interest instead of self defense.
First set appears to be real, US govt and Israeli govt freaked out about it. Could have been leaked on purpose as a psy op of some kind