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The U.S. has paused bombing Iran for a third straight night after senior Trump administration officials reportedly warned the president about dwindling munitions stockpiles. In response, Iran said it would pause retaliatory strikes against U.S. bases across the Middle East. Over the weekend, the Pentagon updated its official war casualty database, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The new figures show that 18 U.S. troops have been killed and 624 wounded since the U.S. launched its war against Iran back in February. The Pentagon is separating the casualty figures: Deaths and injuries after the ceasefire ended on July 7 are listed in a separate database labeled generically as “overseas operations casualties.”

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying one sailor was killed and another injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia ⁠of passing on to Iran its satellite observations in the Middle East, allowing Iran to launch attacks across the region. This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit the White House Tuesday for the first time since the U.S. and Israel started bombing Iran in February.

Despite the lull in fighting, Britain said its armed forces were ready to defend itself after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned the U.K. not to allow U.S. bombers to fly from U.K. bases. On Thursday, the IRGC claimed that the U.S. had flown bombing missions against Iran from Fairford Air Base in southwest England.

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If running out of munition is what ends this bullshit, that'd be hilarious (in a dark way.)

The US has isolated itself from so much of the world, destroying its own global supply chains, alienating former allies. If they need resources from another country to continue this campaign, they'll be shit out of luck.

Meanwhile, now the rest of the world knows the US is weakened. Fantastic job.

This is what happens when people with more money than sense get into power. Trump managed to bankrupt casinos - he clearly doesn't pay attention to his resources before using them. Rich people act like everything can be solved by throwing money at problems, but there's a hard, physical limit to everything - in this case, it takes time and resources to make more munitions. All the money in the world won't make that happen faster.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I mean we almost definitely need the resources in Mexico.

Everyone is saying this war is stupid, pointless, useless... but have you ever considered how important it is for Pedohitler to distract people from the fact that

HE AND HIS FRIENDS FUCKING RAPED KIDS???

[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Many of them surely still are. And will.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Trump: Boom, boom, kaboom! Keep throwing all the bombs and missiles!! Yayy!!!

Advisor: Sir, we are running out of munitions.

Trump: Did I stutter, piggy?

Seriously, that's how I imagined Trump is-- like a child he is being amazed with bombs, explosives and lights.

This is why I think China stopped buying millions of barrels of oil. They knew if the price of oil shot to 300$/barrel he would have stopped nearly immediately. The fact oil stayed relatively low meant they could keep bombing and use up all their munitions. Now China has the perfect opportunity to take Taiwan. If they buy up a bunch more oil all the sudden that means they'll be attacking Taiwan soon.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

So they used up all our ammunition on nonsense. What happens when someone else decides to take advantage of that now

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

edit: fair warning I'm not doing great so I'm more prone to doomposting. which this is. anyway:

We Balkanize, the good bits get snatched up by other nation states, and the shit bits get snatched up by private militias. Or, with no conventional munitions left to defend ourselves we start a nuclear war. Or, slim chance here, people vote against this despite Democrats sabotaging the process and then hold them accountable for consistently fucking this up for the last forever, and we reach a kind of degraded equilibrium, american empire declines, chinese empire rises, and MLs tie themselves in knots trying to justify China doing the kinds of things necessary for maintaining a global empire

Oh, and the Enlightenment dies. Like you think its dead now, just wait.

edit again: do not take this comment to be "usa good." this comment is more along the lines of "geopolitics is a delicate balance of influence distributed amongst several world powers, all of which are bad, and the sudden decline of the biggest player creates a vacuum that is sure to amplify human suffering worldwide"

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I've been on that doomer train too. I hope you can find some kind of personal peace.

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

The new figures show that 18 U.S. troops have been killed and 624 wounded since the U.S. launched its war against Iran back in February.

This right here. The United States didn't launch shit. tRUMP started an illegal campaign, unsanctioned and unwarranted. Just like he did in Venezuela, just like he did when he started murdering people in boats in the Gulf of Mexico. He's a war criminal. WE didn't launch missiles targeting a school and murdering a bunch of little girls, HE DID.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, well, the policy of spending far more money in "Defense" than any other country in the World and even more than the next 6 countries combined, long predates Trump and is totally bipartisan.

And the rules that allow American presidents to launch attacks on other countries without Congressional approval also precede Trump by several decades and were also put in place with bipartisan support.

The whole edifice of American politics from the last several decades have pretty much together given a loaded gun to a toddler and, unsurprisingly, he fired it with no rime or reason.

Countries with no such extreme cult of Militarism and Imperialism have a far, far higher barrier to end up in wars with other countries when some out of control Far-Right muppet gets elected to power - I mean, just look at how, for example, Argentina has yet to start a war with anybody even though they too have a Far-Right nutter in power.

Putting the blame entirelly on the toddler for shooting that loaded gun is bullshit.

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Too many people still treat trump like the disease instead of the symptom, the rot is there and you have to cut it ALL out to survive, not just the mole head.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

yup, it's somehow everyone but trumps fault. OK. Cool. Great point. Well thought out.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

That's not what was said, try reading it again.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

tRUMP started an illegal campaign

Oh really? Did he sail down there and do it all by himself? Or was it the US Military that did it?
Like it or not Trump is President of USA because the American people elected him!

So it is indeed true that US started the illegal campaign, and bombed a girls school, and the people of USA are as guilty in this as the German people were about the Nazi atrocities of WW2.

You don't get to wash your hands for the entire population of USA, that chose to vote for the obvious psychopath, and the about a third of the population of USA that still support Trump and what the administration is doing.

Like it or not, this is America, this is who you are now!!!

[-] keyhoh@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago

This person is right. All of America is MAGA in the eyes of the world. It will continue to be MAGA until it revolts and crushes their leaders and their families and their businesses and their way of life. Until then, every American is MAGA or a coward, and I honestly don't know which is worse.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago

The difference between the US being 100% MAGA or being 30% MAGA seems negligible, given that MAGA policy happens either way.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't take this badly, but when it comes to military aggression on far away countries, most of Americans were MAGA before that slogan even existed - this shit, spending money to enable this shit and putting in place the policies that allow this shit to easilly be made to happen was all done with bipartisan approval and that of most Americans.

The only Americans not MAGA in this sense are the ones who have always been anti-War.

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[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You just did nothing to stop him.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I voted and actively campaigned door to door and within my family against him, so not nothing.

What did you do?

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Voting stopped Hitler, right?

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

well go get to shooting then! I look forward to reading about you in the paper

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

WE didn't launch missiles targeting a school and murdering a bunch of little girls, HE DID.

Except the money to launch these things are coming from your tax dollars. Trump gives those orders, but God knows how many Americans need to listen to them so this bullshit can happen. It's America doing this alright.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

Like it or not, the US president is wielding the US like a cudgel at the rest of the world and the individual American is powerless to stop him.

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[-] matallic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

This is the equivalent of Ireland running out of booze.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago

So in theory Canada could walk across the border and grab some states?

I say that in jest of course.

[-] macaro 25 points 1 day ago

Yes, we wouldn’t want to be corrupted by their free healthcare.

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[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ok anyone making any kinds of governing decisions or military decisions should be required to play SimCity and any RTS of their choice until they are at least competent at it. Take StarCraft or AoE for example, you never attack an enemy without having your mining, barracks, and supply lines put together first.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Soviet Republic: Workers & Resources would be a good fit for your list.

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I don't think most people understand that the US doesn't have huge stockpiles of the more advanced weaponry needed to perform in a modern contested environment. Yeah, we can bomb the shit out of a country without modern defenses, but to bomb a country with advanced military capabilities (or being shadow-supplied advanced capabilities by China) you need to use the new shit, which is both expensive and slow to produce.

So I understand why a normal person might think it is simply a moral issue to start randomly bombing the shit out of another country for funsies, but the fucking President of the US, aka the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, should understand that we need those strategic stockpiles if anything else happens that is ACTUALLY important... maybe defending an invasion of Taiwan? He is actively weakening the US, and China and Russia have to be salivating about it.

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