Man, I really hate being on the Axis side. I hope we lose.
We already lost. Trump got bullied/suckered by Israel into this mess without a clearly defined American win scenario. Israel has one and they are getting it. The US does not, because Trump is weak and catastrophically dumb, ignorant, narcissistic, and incompetent.
We... we lost two THAAD radar arrays, already.
We... can't intercept too many missiles without those.
They're like $1.5 billion USD each, roughly adjusted for inflation.
And... I think there were only like, 12 of these things, total. Anywhere. As of a week ago.
We reportedly have been trying to take away the one we use in South Korea, to redeploy it.
This is ... beyond completely tits up.
Trump is saying the US Navy will just escort any willing vessel through the Strait of Hormuz.
And... what, we're gonna use all our fleet defensive systems, to .... shoot down the missiles that Iran can build 10x faster than we can build interceptors?
Taiwan is now completely fucked, if anyone hasn't figured that out yet, we will now almost certainly not have enough missiles to repel an invasion from the PLAN and PLAAF.
This is... extremely bad situation, if you are generally a fan of yourself and other people not dieing a violent death.
They're moving at least one from S Korea to replace one of the destroyed ones. Hopefully it gets blown up too.
Found a link:
They are of course downplaying the certainty of it, which I am... skeptical of, I think they did at the very least try or plan to, but, I also cannot yet find an actual confirmation that it is being redeployed.
They're not only squandering their position as a global leader and the good will of our allies, but the military might and defensive capabilities too.
They're literally going to make the continental US vulnerable to attack by wasting so many resources in this pointless war of aggression.
I hope that we do an Itlay
The end game
Hard to imagine only half of the Arabian Peninsula or just a minor sliver of the Levant would be enough. "We're here, why isn't it ours" seems like the Israeli motto.
100% chance that if they did this, they'd find a reason to invade the squishy but obscenely rich Gulf to the east as well.
Ah yes just casually taking the bulk of the fucking Nile…
Might as well clean up the rest of Egypt as well at that point.
They're salty about...
...being let go by the pharaoh? After writing silly stories claiming credit for natural disasters ruining Egypt? Such salty crybabies.
Fucking psychos. Even at their peak, the biblical Israel was never that expansive. What farcical claim do they even attempt to make to this?
Their farcical claim has been pretty visible for a while now: they need not only the land they consider sacred and theirs but also a security buffer around it. If pressed, they will explain how a security buffer is not just an arbitrary distance of land but possession of key surrounding geographic positions. And that requires them to go all the way to THIS map.
Their acquisition of the Golan Heights set the template for this. Israel used to enjoy saying that they never started any of the conflicts, but even then they would admit that they annexed the Golan proactively because of its strategic positioning and key water sources in the area.
Clearly they won’t be talking about how they never started any of the conflicts anymore. They think they have more to gain than lose by letting that claim go.
The amount of cultural squashing that would need to happen to make this possible is just ridiculous lol.
You can just say genocide
Nothing like a long, cool ethnically cleansing glass of cultural squash!
Ahhh so thats why we bombed iran.
Hope for lots of dead Israeli soldiers!
Are we calling this whole situation in the middle east and Europa a world war yet?
Remember how innocent we were the FIRST time Trump bombed Iran and we thought he was starting world war 3? Such sweet summer children were we.
And now South Asia as well, with the sinking of an Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka.
Classic Israeli tactic. Big mate allowed to feel like the tough guy, whilst the little shits do something sneaky and nasty whilst the world looks elsewhere.
Its actually hell how we allow this to happen how we allowed the formation of zionist state in the first place its disgusting
Truman supported them even right after his security thwarted a mail bomb aimed at him by Zionists.
Of course they did. Israelis are war fucking criminals, bloodthirsty murderers.
Watch the Lebanese army and goverment again do nothing while their citizens are massacred other than scold their opposition to stop resisting.
So how much territory could they actually effectively hold and control?
Most people already fled. So it's pretty sparsely populated right now
Meanwhile on German media: Iran greift 10 Länder an, jetzt auch Zypern?
Here's the direct link to this telegraph story:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/03/israel-launches-ground-invasion-of-lebanon/
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