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Iran live updates: 3 US service members killed, 5 wounded, CENTCOM says
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/iran-live-updates-trump-says-majo r-combat-operations-have-begun/1866 0347/entry/18664428/
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Saturday, with daytime strikes in the joint U.S.-Israel attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
On Sunday, Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed by airstrikes in Tehran on Saturday.
Iran is responding to the U.S.-Israeli operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and several Gulf nations. On Sunday, Israel said it was again bombing targets in Tehran.
Three U.S. service members were killed and five were "seriously wounded" as part of the attacks on Iran, according to U.S. Central Command.
"As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury," CENTCOM announced Sunday morning in a post on X.
"Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions - and are in the process of being returned to duty," the post continued. "Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing."
Identities of the service members killed are being withheld "until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified," CENTCOM said, adding that "the situation is fluid."
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>>1493072
It's good business.
Virtuous cycle A
Turmoil in the middle east = higher oil prices
Higher oil prices = more profit for American oil companies
More profit for American oil companies = more donations to Republicans
More donations to Republicans= more conflict in the middle east
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>>1493076
The point is that Israel wanted it done in that region so we went along with it. Iran will either turn into another Iraq war, or devolve into a civil war and this will cause multiple groups to sprout up all over the middle east who might not like the a puppet government put in place by the West (or Israel for that matter) suddenly in charge after 50 years. I can't imagine it was the best military decision we could've made, but previous countries have been targeted for similar reasons in the past. The timing is pretty bad though.
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>>1493076
I don't think there's a strategy. I think they're just blindly hoping either whoever takes charge will play ball like in Venezuela, or failing that, the country will destabilize enough that they can't invest in proxies that threaten Israel, or that anarchy leads to loss of funding/staff for the nuclear program.
Dealing with the nuclear program directly would require boots on the ground.
Oh, and a reminder that the nuclear deal Trump fucking tore up was fucking working and that up until the previous attack the Ayatollah whom we just killed actually had standing orders against the development of nuclear weapons, with enrichment just intended to be a bargaining chip in negotiations.
We've basically been undermining/killing the Iranian equivalent of doves. More likely than not, revanchists seize power after this.
All this blood and treasure is being spent because Trump couldn't fucking stand Obama.
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>>1493086
I agree.
The only time I've seen Donald Trump look happy is when he was sitting in that fire truck in his first term. This is a man who thinks gold toilets and well-done filet mignon are the pinnacle of taste. That is to say; he's a 12 year old. He thinks bombs are cool and the US should just blow up the bad guys. There's no strategy at play, just a man hold chasing whatever his id wants.
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Seriously, the US military averages about 1000 deaths from all causes per annum. 3 deaths in a war isn't even a percentage point of all deceased service members. There's actually more military murdered in terrorist attacks every year, ironically, likely sponsored by Iran.
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/summaryData/deaths/byYearManner
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>>1493096
In 24 hours they have had essentially the entirety of their air and naval assets destroyed, and we arent going to occupy them once we are done de-militarizing them later this week
What do you think the radicals in their population are going to do, launch ballistic stones at us for the next decade?
Even the overall Iranian death count has been extremely minor so far, nothing like when bush and Obama were using ground assets to murder rural farmers... The targets have all been military installations and nearly all of the dead so far surprisingly were on naval ships
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>>1493107
>This shit has been claimed every single time they've been bombed
Lolololol no it hasn't. Give me a source of anyone claiming in the last 2 decades that they've demilitarized Iran and/or they've destroyed all their military assets.
I'll wait you lying faggo
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We already blew up their leader and the group of people in charge of selecting the new leader. We won in the opening shots. Sad to see American lives lost, but that is war. The bombings will continue until morale improves
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>Trump Can't Commit to Honor U.S. Troops He Got Killed
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cant-commit-to-honor-us-troops-he- got-killed/
>Trump Dismisses More Military Deaths as ‘the Way It Is’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-first-trump-admits-therell-likel y-be-more-us-deaths/
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We lost three Alabama national guardsmen and 47 more wounded in Syria to an Iranian drone attack under the Biden admin and you and your scumbag friends in the media didn’t say fuckall.
Maybe keep our troops names out of your fucking mouth.
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>>1493148
That wasn't the result of Biden joining with Israel to start a war without congressional approval. Especially after an entire campaign of saying how we aren't gonna be going to war with Iran and losing more lives to another middle east forever war.
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>>1493149
No, instead Biden sent 12.5 times as much money as Trump sent to Israel on Ukraine
U.S. assistance to Israel for the four-year span that roughly corresponds to Jan 20, 2017 Jan 20, 2021 (i.e. FY2017-FY2020 totals reported) was about $13.95 billion (obligations).
U.S. assistance to Ukraine for the roughly comparable four-year span Jan 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2025 is an order of magnitude larger - on the scale of $174 billion-$183 billion depending on accounting rules and cut-off date.
$174 billion is about 12.5 times larger than $13.95 billion.
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>>1493182
Hey remember when a few months ago it was "Iran's nuclear program is gone, set back for decades and if you say otherwise, that's borderline treason". And now it's "we had to stop them they were like a week away from a nuke"
I refuse to believe a fucking thing this admin says about the effectiveness of their strikes. They just lie.
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>>1493186
>One reporter asked about the operation’s objectives. Another asked who Trump wanted to lead Iran since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the attack.
>Instead of answering, Trump stopped to admire new statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in the Rose Garden.
>“Unbelievable statues,” he said as reporters shouted their questions. “You’ll see. Come and look at them.”
>Another journalist asked if he had a message to the families of the three U.S. service members killed in the conflict.
>Trump just walked away.
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>>1493213
This is nothing compared to the ongoing security to Israel. I don't care if thousands of Americans die, the most patriotic thing we can do is ensure the continued existence and expansion of Israeli borders. Trump knows what he's doing!
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>>1493100
>What do you think the radicals in their population are going to do, launch ballistic stones at us for the next decade?
Set off a dirty bomb probably. Or destroy antiquated critical infrastructure.
Zionists are so fucking stupid.
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>>1493229
10 dead Jews and hundreds injured in Israel so far
plus they act like a bullet magnet for the inevitable jihad retaliation
Israel is doing its part, and will continue to do so as long as America finds it convenient
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>>1493091
To be entirely fair, bombs ARE cool and the US should just blow up the bad guys, it would make things in the world a lot simpler if everybody understood that the US is the World Protagonist and everyone else needs to sit down, shut up and get out of the way of our glorious charge towards control of the planet.
Allowing everyone their own small-minded say is the reason we go in circles forever saying and doing nothing of consequence, decade after decade.
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>>1493076
Iran has been the largest and wealthiest extreme-Shia Islam for several decades. Iran has ports on the Caspian Sea and Persian/Oman gulf allowing ocean access. They've been an oil-producing giant for a long time.
Because of that and the aforementioned religious extremism, that country has turned out and funded more anti-western sentiment than any other region in the world. Will that disappear? No. But it will probably be relocated to Afghanistan, which is a shithole landlocked desert that had all its telecommunications infrastructure built by the US who can spy on literally everything they do still.
I'm not in favor of wars of aggression, but the US (and the Sunni muslims) will probably all benefit from what's happening in the medium-term. Short term, it's gonna fuck up fuel prices globally. Long term, it might result in yet another generation of people raised to hate everything about the US and anyone aligned with them.
Israel is obviously getting way more out of this than anyone else, but that's always the case with US involvement in the Middle East.
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>>1493248
>Israel is obviously getting way more out of this than anyone else, but that's always the case with US involvement in the Middle East.
It's outrageous that the US is sacrificing its own economic standing and risking American lives to defend a foreign nation.
It also bothers me how so many Christfags are supportive of a jewish ethnostate.
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