These ppl are so stupid. "International law," the UN, USAID, and so on were all in large part designed so that the US got what it wanted without expensive military operations. Of course it's all gender. That stuff is woman coded, while the military is man coded.

US is pretty much just treating Venezuela, Greenland, etc the way Israel treats all its neighbors btw

Getting such great ads over there.

As much as I want to jokingly say "hmm no I want that" it's really easy to say that when there aren't J-16s overhead putting ordnance down on your neighbors house and a couple of Z-21s putting rockets and 30mm down on the next block

It's a minor thing, but there's a reason the modern Iraqi or Indian military maintains a lot of British army aesthetics. The moustaches, the tucked in blouses with a belt, etc. A certain class was fully bought in.

Low key this shit is what AAA is best for. Emit and die if it's the 160th backed by Growlers and Rivet Joints and so on. Good old fashioned 20 Mike Mike and the Mark One Eyeball don't emit.

When I rob a liquor store and kill 40 civilians in the process the cops are like hey dawg I'm not sure about that, you should brief us first so we can vaguely gesture that we disapprove but not actually do anything about it.

Persistent rumors in the last week that Iran has acquired Russian Mi-28NE attack helicopters, which would be a bit strange if true. Primary use is as an anti-tank platform, but could be useful as a low-and-slow drone hunter using IGLA or R-73 AA missiles paired with the top-mounted radar.

Ultimately, I refuse to privilege the incarceration status of American (or Israeli) soldiers over the life and humanity of Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, Nigeriens, Syrians, Lebanese, Libyans, Somalis, Pakistanis, or Venezuelans

The biggest account covering Iran-related news on here keeps retweeting MEK 🤦🏻‍♀️ I left Twitter way before Elon and I’m not going back but what is this? This site seems actively hostile to anyone not in the Anglosphere; quality of info quite low as a result.

Israelification

Dear Reza Pahlavi and Maryam Rajavi: hope you're taking notes!

What if the judge is like... You guys gotta send him back

A lot of ppl in this country (and this city specifically) have never had someone else's planes overhead with weapons free and it shows

Dont want to say James Cameron already mapped this out but the basic idea of Avatar is that resource corporations have already violently extracted every useful resource on earth and are attempting to do so in space. Jake Sully paralyzed in Venezuela, Quaritch having done tours in Nigeria...

Lmao crackpot realists just getting fucking dogwalked again and again by president Say It Explicitly

I don't think any decision maker in this in the US or Venezuela gives a fuck about freedom or democracy or sovereignty. This will be the same for any action in Iran. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a class A rube.

Ok Dems, precedent is set. I expect Netanyahu blindfolded and handcuffed onboard the USS Iwo Jima on January 22, 2029.

All the smug "realists" who say that this isn't about oil are forgetting the fact that Trump is extremely stupid and is actually in charge. There isn't a secret backroom deep state, it really is these idiots. Did you forget what happened to USAID and why? These people are extraordinarily stupid!

Europe is so fucking over dude. Trump is about to hand you guys to Putin on a silver platter and you're still groveling at his pedo feet and buying his pedo weapons. Congrats, losers.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

China's focus on decentralized green energy is as much a military program as it is civilian. A robust grid that is self sufficient, paired with exceptional EW capabilities and those new EMALS trailers with stealth CCAs... Only country in the 21st century tbh. US still coasting on cold war dividends.

The imperial death state expands its zone of murder once again.

The usage of the term "Rojhelat" is such a cynical deployment of Kurdish nationalism to attempt to divide and weaken Iran. Israel doesn't want a strong democratic Kurdish state, they want Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria trapped in a cycle of civil war and mutual ethnic cleansing.

This fucking boer creep somehow got rich enough to buy his way into government and then, because he's an idiot who cooked his brain into mush on his own website, destroyed an entire international career field and millions of lives based on stupid bullshit he paid to see on the Internet.

These US military personnel are discovering what everyone who touched Gaza humanitarian aid knew from the beginning: the problem is Israel's arbitrary restrictions, not anything inherent to the situation in Gaza.

Caveat that it's unreliable to judge based on social media posts, but what I've seen of Saudi air strikes on UAE-backed Yemeni militias implies that the strikes are fairly precise and low-yield- ie not 10s of 2000lb bombs per target. Interesting to compare to recent bombing campaigns elsewhere...

I'm seeing the below image shared a lot by Iranians on Twitter, showing a screengrab from a CCTV camera in Tehran during the June war, when an Israeli bomb struck in the middle of traffic, killing only civilians. Israeli media shared this as a successful attack on the building behind.

Visited a few water treatment plants across Iraq back in 2018/2019. We were helping them rebuild for the first time since 2003, or in some cases since this mfs dad destroyed them in 1990. Schools too.

The 3rd movie could have made exactly $0.01 in ticket sales and this would still be the best selling and likely most profitable film trilogy of all time btw But it's on track for $1.5 billion or more instead A series about the colonial encounter that is unambiguous in who it depicts as the bad guy

There's videos of these from probably early 2024 or even late 2023. Telling that they're usually repurposed M113s, which are infamous in Israel for being the vehicle in which 7 soldiers were killed by a Hamas RPG-29 in 2014.

The F-15IA (a version of the F-15EX) is the sort of long range heavy strike fighter that Israel needs to deliver large quantities of heavy ordnance to targets in Iran, Qatar, and Yemen. These will also serve to replace ancient F-15 airframes from the '70s. A big capabilities boost to the IAF.

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In 2025 I helped process the last $$ USAID allocated for humanitarian aid to Gaza, while being frozen out of my accounts and told to stop by my director so as to preemptively comply with DOGE, then spent most of the rest of the year unemployed and job searching. Said boss is still at State btw.

You can't separate the destruction of USAID from how it acted wrt Gaza under Biden. An Agency hollowed out from within, bereft of leadership and purpose, filled with cowards, helping aid-wash Israel's genocide. A $40 billion Agency used to generate headlines, the facade that we're helping.

Every time the Trump administration gets decisively halted now due to facing even limited pushback I get madder at top USAID officials and Democratic congresspeople for basically just letting it happen. Yeah sure hindsight is 20/20 but come on. We're all still fucked, 250k ppl are still out of work.

Classic, love encountering random photos of J6 that prominently feature the Shir o Khorshid flag.

Pretty sure the 3rd Khordad air defense system (very similar to Buk M1) was developed with Belorussian assistance while Iran's missiles were developed with Chinese and North Korean assistance - so I'd guess air defense. But who knows Belarus and Iran have had a lot of quiet military cooperation.

The most frustrating liberal tic is assuming that because Biden didn't do something that it meant he couldn't do something. No. There were a million and one things he could have done with the stroke of a pen. The current war should have ended in November 2023. But Biden wanted it to continue.

Hear my words: the Tulkun way must change.

To be clear they never stopped

And Russia is not capable and China is certainly not willing to send large chunks of their air force and navy to provide a 100 billion dollar shield from Yemen to Iraq.

Two standout trends here: first, no mention of Palestine or Israel or Gaza. Second, almost nobody actually says anything that they think they were wrong about and instead point out what they think others were wrong about. Turns out, "media leaders" are stupid and arrogant.

God I'm sorry I'm sorry, but the "no cultural impact" thing just means that Jim isn't pumping barely-not-AI garbage "content" onto your screen explicitly in an attempt to get you to subscribe to a predatory streaming service or buy plushies with the actual artistic vision being at best tertiary.

lol he just said what everyone's thinking about Turkish F-35s but doesn't want to say. The only actual objection to Turkish (or Saudi, or Qatari, or...) F-35s is that giving them to someone other than Israel removes Israel's qualitative military advantage in the region.

An impossible conundrum for Iran as, while key sites for production of solid fuel missiles (Parchin, Khojir, etc) were damaged, they were not irreparably destroyed and also liquid fuel missile production occurs largely in underground facilities and thus was untouched.

Thinking about how the plot of Avatar 1 ends with a brave liberal RDA bureaucrat saying absolutely nothing during the genocide of the Omaticaya tribe, processing the funding to RDA-run schools and clinics, and then getting a professorship at Harvard where she advocates for a vague "peace process"

Still Avatar-posting. This sort of commentary has me profoundly depressed. What do you want? Oh give me uhh harry potter with children of men. No thought on artistic vision. Just referential derivative slop. These same ppl are always whining that James Cameron isn't making more Terminator content.

I personally managed about $1 billion in food assistance and health funding in 2024.

Middle east studies degree: get told by people that you need a middle east studies degree to understand Israel/Palestine and then get ghosted when I point out that I do indeed have such a degree