Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

UAE is joining in on the fun.

It's an Easter miracle, as Iran has managed to make basically the rest of the GCC, sans maybe Turkey and Qatar, now amicable with Israel.
Could the "Praise be to Allah" line in Trump's tweet be one of his overly cute little hints that KSA and the UAE are planning to join the party on Bridge and Power day? They've been warning the Iranians to knock off their shit for weeks now...
 
So if we really did arm up the Kurds wanting them to get the weapons to Iranians, and the Kurds just fucked off with them

You know what........ fair play, it sucks and I'd rather that hadn't happened but the Kurds avoided this rounds "fell for it again award" when we'd have ended up not answering their calls anymore the instant this is done like we do to them in every other conflict.

>be European
>don't understand the concept of No Man Left Behind
>don't understand the problem with letting a Colonel fall into enemy hands

What the fuck happened to Europeans to make them this cucked?
I was chatting with a German friend of mine earlier and he was baffled by the operation despite finding it respectable. I think for a lot of Euros it's just hard to compute the concept of losing a couple hundred millions in equipment like that. But I broke the numbers down for him and explained how those two planes we blew up ourselves on the way out only accounted for less than one percent of the money we spent on equipment procurement in 2025, and that our procurement budget alone, not even our total military budget, is higher than Germany's entire military budget.
Well we found out who our actual allies are:

Japan:
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Poland:
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Israel:
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Even Colombians are nicer than Europeans:
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A fun side note seeing that Japanese exchange, something happened with Twitter in recent times where it now by default translates tweets without you even clicking on shit, and it's been like suddenly opening a portal causing Japanese twitter and American twitter to start interacting. There was suddenly this massive wave of Japanese twitter users commenting on Texan posts about barbecue and the Japs being completely infatuated with it and asking to be shown more and asking how to cook that way.
 
Could the "Praise be to Allah" line in Trump's tweet be one of his overly cute little hints that KSA and the UAE are planning to join the party on Bridge and Power day? They've been warning the Iranians to knock off their shit for weeks now...
Yes and he's also setting up to announce who His prophet is and whether that prophet was the final one. The announcement will be Tuesday at 8 and the world is waiting with bated breath.
 
These are people who would rather live in hell then confront the slightest bit of uncomfortable reality to change for the better. America should never look towards Europe to be our moral and ideological guides, we should only get these guides from ourselves.

To quote Joe biden: there is no moral center in Europe without the United States.
George Washington's Farewell Address is an evergreen summation of how we should be considering Europe:
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
 
Then daddy America tells them he's gonna get out the belt and really bust those cheeks if they don't cut it out, and they proceed to attempt to toll the strait
They even put out a statement today saying they refuse to stop tolling until every single dollar of assets lost from the war is paid back via the tolling system.
With the hundreds of billions of dollars of damage done, they could essentially leave the system in place forever with the excuse that inflation is constantly stopping them from reaching their debt limit.
You always have the dumbest takes, Joey. Is this a bit or are you actually this retarded irl also
Not to mention that Trump was asked straight-up by ABC today whether he considered giving Iran any more extensions, and he basically said that if they can't come to a deal after all this time, it's on them.
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Never mind the fact that he's comparing pre industrial civilization war with today's remotely operated and precision warfare. We don't do meatwalls anymore. You don't need mindless ants egobroken into throwing themselves into the woodchipper because someone blew a horn.

For as much as the NAFOids and Ziggers love claiming that "the other side just launches human wave attacks!" and then using footage of a well dispersed infantry platoon in mechanized transport being attacked by drones as proof, 19th century style charges died an extremely quick death with Japanese Banzai charges, and even those only came about when the Japs ran out of ammo to meaningfully resist.

You had Mao's China in Korea or the Soviet Union, but these were the results of lacking heavy equipment that was seen as a massive mistake/consequence of prior defeats. It reminds me of stories of when Maoist officers would recite Soviet WW2 history to impress their counterparts in Moscow, they would always be corrected whenever they got to "the genius plan to give up ground for time!" or "wise usage of manpower to make up for deficincies in equipment!" by officers that served in the Great Patriotic War. They remembered the horrors of being outgunned (The Germans fired twice the weight of artillery ammo as the Soviets did through 1943) and fighting on their own soil, they would be explained to that modern Soviet warfighting was to ensure that a disaster like WW2 would never happen again, and why the USSR built endless warehouses for artillery ammo that both sides haven't exhausted yet. Of course, being Maoist political hacks, they brushed this off as the Russians growing soft, and didn't learn otherwise until Vietnam in 1979.
 
Yes and he's also setting up to announce who His prophet is and whether that prophet was the final one. The announcement will be Tuesday at 8 and the world is waiting with bated breath.
Trump will reveal that the new army chief of staff is none other than Muhammad al Mahdi who will personally be overseeing the ground force invasion of Iran
 
You always have the dumbest takes, Joey. Is this a bit or are you actually this retarded irl also
it's not my fucking fault the deadline keeps getting extended

also, just realized earlier but the fact that Trump now has to threaten essential civilian infrastructure tells me that the prospect of any revolution or a negotiated surrender is off the table now, and it's starting to look like that the only way the strait will be open is total war, which would hopefully work this time, though it's honestly looking more of a desperate situation for everybody.
 

Interception above central Israel.


USAF/IAF airstrikes near Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran over the past minutes


Footage of Azadi Square in Tehran, capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fire and black smoke in the background can be seen, following an apparent explosion on early Monday morning, Azadi Square is a major monument for Iran so this is like someone bombing a building near the Statue of Liberty or the Bass Pro Shop pyramid.

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Scenes from the US/Israeli airstrikes on western Tehran, Iran.

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The Great Satan and the Zionist Entity are battle fatigued and running out of bombs! We launched 10 missiles today! Iran will win this war by the end of the week!
 
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The Great Satan and the Zionist Entity are battle fatigued and running out of bombs! We launched 10 missiles today! Iran will win this war by the end of the week!
I don't think you can be battle fatigued over sending missiles hundreds of miles away from Iranian territory through a computer, unless the guys that are being ordered to do that are pulling 12 hour shifts, then that's just no more stressful than a regular desk job on overtime.

Now, I don't know how many missiles the US still has left for this newest Middle Eastern excursion, but isn't that a real concern over how much the stockpile is being drained lately?, even a military as large as America doesn't have bottomless resources.

But then again, maybe they are preparing for "Power Plant Day", so that might be genuinely concerning for Iran.
 
Footage of Azadi Square in Tehran, capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fire and black smoke in the background can be seen, following an apparent explosion on early Monday morning, Azadi Square is a major monument for Iran so this is like someone bombing a building near the Statue of Liberty or the Bass Pro Shop pyramid.
I really feel bad for the architect of the Azadi Square, who's been in exile ever since the Islamic takeover.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-azadi-tower-interview-architect-hossein-amanat/33681569.html
"I feel so sorry," Amanat said of his most beloved work being coopted by the same government that once put him on a death list. "They are so unjust that they use anything to give themselves legitimacy."
 
Yes and he's also setting up to announce who His prophet is and whether that prophet was the final one. The announcement will be Tuesday at 8 and the world is waiting with bated breath.
"I was surprised, very surprised, when Allah came to me while I was dreaming and told me I was the 12th Imam! I will be the best Imam ever! Those other 11, total chumps. But me, oh wow, I promise I'll usher in the best Armageddon ever seen on Earth! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
 
Now, I don't know how many missiles the US still has left for this newest Middle Eastern excursion, but isn't that a real concern over how much the stockpile is being drained lately?, even a military as large as America doesn't have bottomless resources.
Push comes to shove Raytheon and the rest of the MIC can increase production when told to. Hegseth has made it clear the days of milking billions from the Defense War Dept. without producing any results are over.
 
Push comes to shove Raytheon and the rest of the MIC can increase production when told to. Hegseth has made it clear the days of milking billions from the Defense War Dept. without producing any results are over.

It's going to take time and money to revamp the MIC to where it was before Clinton where items could be produced en masse. For some things, like how the 90s saw 7 main naval contractors get reduced to 2, I'd consider an outright nationalization or at least a forced breakup of these companies. When America had tons of contractors, you had the full strength of a market economy behind the designs, but 1-2 main players means none of the benefits of a private MIC with all of its downsides.
 
Push comes to shove Raytheon and the rest of the MIC can increase production when told to. Hegseth has made it clear the days of milking billions from the Defense War Dept. without producing any results are over.
Honestly was the most based marketing re-frame I've ever seen

Everyone was hand wringing over all of the increased defense spending, then it was like 'the LAZY and STUPID defense contractors wont produce enough missiles, trump has OWNED them and MADE THEM INCREASE PRODUCTION' and then raytheon is like 'we so sorry for being so gay and dumb' >signs contract doubling missile sales, dries tears with 100 dollar bills
 
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