From what I’ve seen, a lot of their launch platforms are mobile, so they can launch from anywhere in their territory and bail before the launcher can be struck. They probably have a much wider window to do that with all the enemy radars they destroyed.

I’m sure the Trump admin do want to end the war, but my question then is: how confident are we that Iran will let them?

Iran has made it very clear that they will not negotiate until the US-Israel threat has been neutralized, knowing that, how likely is it that Iran will accept so much as a ceasefire before they finished off every last US bases in the region? Especially after so many of the previous “ends of hostilities” were ploys to buy time so that the enemy could regroup and strike again later? I think that, unless the US is willing to abandon all their bases and puppets in the region, they are in for the long while whether they want to or not.

I read the short story Company Town by Aimee Ogden which I found in Clarkesworld magazine #189. And I wanted to recommend because it was pretty good.

Basically, it’s the story of a lesbian couple. One has some secret identity as a warrior that routinely goes to a fantasy world to fight (the story doesn’t follow her there so we aren’t given much details on what her deal is) and the other, the protagonist POV character, is a normal girl who works every day for the company that owns the town. I can’t say much more without spoiling, read it, it’s cool.

Speaking of striking airports, how many US air-bases are still intact enough to launch aircrafts? And how many have been rendered unusable by Iranian strikes?

Israel when they learn the hard way that fighting an actual army is harder that fighting civilians (part 626 electric boogaloo):

I couldn’t find it in this thread but there are images of the tweets and videos in this video https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=B8yHo0QuT58 at ~6:40

There’s actual drone footage of it released by an official US military twitter account, so it’s probably real.

The only legitimate communists in “Israel” are the communist faction of the Palestinian resistance. Don’t count on Isrealis to have anything more than posers and pretenders.

Almost surely false. I seriously doubt it’s possible to train a modern multy-billions parameters LLM with less than 2 dozen million prompts, even if it’s 16M each, let alone if it’s 16M combined.

What’s the point of being glad that a tyrant is dead if the country gets even worse than under him? If the reason you want the guy dead is because of how bad the country was under him, shouldn’t you prefer things not getting worst over the guy dying and things getting worse?

I assume that the 2 balls things are either radars or the aforementioned satellite terminals, and the buildings that were partially flattened were monitoring stations where the operators sit?

Daily!? That’s 146000 a year! Are you sure of that number?

Also, most of the Iranian deaths are probably civilians, I doubt they killed many actual soldiers.

Translation:

Military cooperation: Burkina Faso deploys two battalions to defend Iran.

Do we have any way to know whether the strikes on the carrier hit or were intersected?

I saw that after writing this comment. And yes, that makes sens. Though that kinda makes my criticism worse: whichever high ranking officer(s?) though that lunacy was a good plan is a fool and has no place commanding an army.

They really aren’t the sharpest tool in the shed are they?!

Why would bombing people make them riot against their government when said government is the only thing between you(r bombs) and them? That would be like a Chernobyl worker throwing away their Hazmat suit because a few rads of X-rays still get through.

Then again the actual military officers of Israel might have let that “political official” believe what he wanted about the operation to get his bullshit off their back or he might be wrong for whatever other reason or he might be lying, so there is no guaranty that this is accurate.

Though if this is correct that would explain why these idiots wastes munitions killing civilians instead of targeting Iran’s radars and missile launchers with them.

And with no sens of how to conduct a war effort either. If the objective really is to destroy Iran’s capability to launch ordinances at Israel then this is objectively a waste of missiles and bombs, of which both the US and Israel are rather short on these days.

So, let me count score real quick to see if I understand the situation:

Iran:

• Completely destroyed at least 1 American base, heavily damaged multiple others
• Killed over 500 American soldiers throughout the region
• Cut one of the most important maritime choke-points on Earth
• Struck dozens of targets in Israel

All that in 2 days.

Meanwhile all the US-Israel alliance has to for their aggression is they killed a bunch of civilians plus a few politicians and maybe a general.

Do I have this about right? Surely I’m missing something and it’s not that one-sided right?

It’s definitely possible, historically wars have been a trigger for revolution, and the peoples of the region have all the grievances to justify starting one.