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Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an "unprecedented mass deployment" to Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Anyone else get the feeling WW3 has already started but we just haven't realised it yet?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Imagine starting WW3 the weekend after 3% of your population came out to protest for other reasons. Your war weariness debuff will hit 100% in one turn.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

It's not a world war if it's not from the Austrian region of Germany, otherwise it's just sparkling aggression.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ueah. Yeah its pretty fucked.

The shitty thing is: this mother fucker woild love iranian culture. It's super good at all the shit he fakes like gold plated shit.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The silver lining is that this will accelerate the decline of the US Empire which in turn will weaken Israel. Although this will be too late for the millions who have been or are still to be killed because of these psychopathic regimes.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

WW3 Here we go! 🎉🥳

/s

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (25 children)

Are people surprised? Republicans are war hawks even more so than the Libs.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I discovered this on another post comment but I think it belongs here more:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=nCP3LZoxABs

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Trump is after Iran's eggs, I guess. He promised the people of the US lower egg prices, he will get them from Iran.

How can people in the US be okay with this? Their quality of life has only decreased since Bush 2 started his wars of terror. A propagandized population driven to hate others and rally behind the president.

As unlikely as it may be, I hope the US loses quickly and decisively against Iran. Not in 20 years from now like in Afghanistan, but soon. I don't know what cards Iran has, what leverage they may have, but I hope they have something that enables them to inflict pain.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m bringing peace to the Middle East! The peace president! 🫲🍊🫱

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wonder where we'd be today if Trump didn't pull out of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Might not have made a difference, who knows.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Israel would have scratched their butt, then made up another reason to bomb them.

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