Israel hits Iran with 'precise and targeted' air strikes
www.bbc.com
Explosions are heard in Tehran, as Israel's military says it's carrying out retaliatory strikes on military targets.
  • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    Seems like they did essentially 0 damage, thankfully for the people of Tehran. Apparently they might have hit an essentially empty rev guard training base lol.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    6 hours ago

    I just want these fucking people to be able to live their lives. These genocidal freaks need their capacity for violence wrested from them because they are making hell on Earth by hurting vulnerable people - especially children.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      4 hours ago

      the american government has gone through great pains and effort to ensure that opec no longer has the leverage it did back in the 1970’s.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    59·
    8 hours ago

    Does anyone here have a guess as to why Israel is trying to solo the entire Arab world Middle East in the middle of an ongoing colonial uprising?

    • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      5 hours ago

      The realpolitik ghoul reason would be that they’re trying to start a big enough war that the only way the US can secure its interests in the region is to get directly involved, saving Israel from the consequences of its other aggressions.

      But I don’t think it’s actually realpolitik ghouls in charge, I think they’ve just got nazis at the helm, and nazis think that all problems can be solved by attacking the weak, and all people are weaker than them.

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      50·
      8 hours ago

      I have used this example before: imagine you have a revolver with six bullets - they will become obsolete and unable to deal any damage to your enemy in 10 years.

      While you only have a 10% chance of killing your enemies right now, it will be 1% in 10 years time.

      What will you do?

      Do you use those bullets now hoping to deal at least some lasting damage to your enemies, or do you hoard them until nobody is afraid of them anymore?

      For Zionists, this will be the end of their ideology, the end of their ethnostate project. What becomes of Zionism when it comes to that? It makes sense they have to deal damage now than later.

      (The bullets are US/Israeli air superiority, and what will make it obsolete are modern Russian air defense systems that once supplied to Iran, will end Western air supremacy altogether in the Middle East)

        • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          19·
          5 hours ago

          After the Western sanctions on Russia during the start of the Ukraine war, Iran and Russia have moved much closer in military and technological cooperation and is currently very close to formalizing a comprehensive defense treaty between the two nations.

          Iranian drones (Shahed) have already been used in Ukraine, and Russia has already obtained the licensing rights to manufacture their own domestic version (Geran-2), which has also been deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine.

          Modern Russian air defense systems, in particular the S-400s, will neutralize NATO/Israeli air superiority against Iran.

          The question is how fast Russia can manufacture these SAM batteries, since Russia already has its hands full at the moment. Ukraine, under the supervision of NATO, continues to lob rockets and missiles and launch drones into Russian territory (including along the Finnish-Russian border), which in turn forces Russia to deploy its air defense systems along vast stretch of its European border.

          The delivery of the last two squadrons of S-400 that India ordered seven years ago, originally slated for delivery in 2023, had to be delayed until 2025. It’s clear that Russia is prioritizing its own air defenses against Ukraine and does not have the production level to export to other countries like Iran at the moment. So that will take years (also likely why NATO continues to force Russia to engage in Ukraine despite the fact that Ukraine can no longer win the war - it still serves its purpose of tying Russia from sending advanced military equipments to Iran and its allies in the Middle East).

          • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            4 hours ago

            Modern Russian air defense systems, in particular the S-400s, will neutralize NATO/Israeli air superiority against Iran.

            Is there something special about the technology, or is it just that Iran has poor air defense and generic tech would fix that?

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      601·
      8 hours ago

      I can think of two possibilities:

      1. They’re copying Nixon’s “Madman Theory”, where by being violent and unpredictable they can extract greater concessions from their opponents. This is your “De-Escalation through Escalation” they were talking about a while ago.
      2. Israel now views this as an existential conflict and is trying to disable their opponents while they still have enough munitions to do so.
      • LigOleTiberal [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        US is out here using WW3 to unify it’s own citizens who are currently heading towards civil war behind jingoistic wartime patriotism, while also being a huge boon to the US economy through wartime production.

        WW2 was great for the US, why wouldn’t WW3?

    • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      8 hours ago

      They may see with the US risking getting into a war with Russia and wanting a war with China that their own time to pull the US into a conflict to settle the region’s problems in their favor using the might of the US is quickly drawing to a close and will likely not exist in a few years so why let a crisis go to waste when they can try and get the US to take out Iran and Hezbollah for them which would allow greater “isreal” to become a reality. It’s an expansionist mindset too. Also fascists gonna fascist.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      8 hours ago

      The only way towards de-escalation is coming to the negotiating table with Hamas. Negotiating with Hamas sets a bad precedent and, in the long term, compromise’s the entity’s ability to keep Palestine down. Their economy is already severely compromised as it is, so I think that going out with some kind of last hurrah and trying to accomplish all their goals at once is probably more appealing than having to back down, recover, and attempt to do it all again a decade from now.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    53·
    9 hours ago

    Here we go. Now did they have an ounce of sense and just pound the desert and a few unimportant places and claim otherwise in their propaganda so Iran has an out not to retaliate in kind? Or more likely did these deranged zionists hit important things and Iran has to hit back even harder and kill US troop scum manning their air defenses as well? At which point the US can either leave with its tail between its legs like Reagan did Lebanon in the 80s or escalate in some way including potentially war.

    I hope the people of Iran remain safe regardless of outcome. I hope the colonizers of the zionist occupation continue to feel and be very unsafe as they should be until they stop their genocide and dismantle their apartheid regime.