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Over 85 Targets Hit In U.S. Retaliation Strikes Against Iranian Proxies, IRGC

Over 85 Targets Hit In U.S. Retaliation Strikes Against Iranian Proxies, IRGC

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So, do we get to start calling what's happening everywhere world war 3 or is there like some committee that meets on this?
- Once some major players start conscripting people I think it'd be reasonable to call it WW3. This is the preamble
  
  Hasn't russia been conscripting for a couple of years now?
- It's a world war only when western european countries are involved. Otherwise it's just sparkling conflict.
  
  TBF, we aren't even remotely close to the scale of international conflict seen in the 2 world wars. You have to be deeply ignorant to think otherwise. Again, we're not even close, not even like a tiny fraction in terms of scale.
- It's not a war until the other side is able to fight back.
- It's never a world war until it's over and the dust settles on the graves of millions around the globe.

U.S. military forces today conducted strikes on seven facilities, which included more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated militias use to attack U.S. forces. This is the start of our response. The President has directed additional actions to hold the IRGC and affiliated militias accountable for their attacks on U.S. and Coalition Forces.
- damn straight, feel the love

Hopefully, they don't lose 1/3rd of their navy accidentally... again.
- Why are you hoping that they don't? Given the shenanigans the Iranian navy has been up to, promoting much of it to submersible status would be a good thing.
  
  Well, to be honest, this was a sarcastic comment to the time the US did accidentally sink more of their navy than intended. (A little more than 1/3 if their operational force.) The original goal was only 4 platforms IIRC. It may have grown a scotch before the end.
  Which probably doesn't mean much to the sailors. Hind sight being 20/20 and all. Still a bit of an oops.

They used B-1s, lol.
That's a lot of finding out they just got.
- Need to make space for the raiders which came in early and under budget.
  
  Came in early and under budget
  Title of your sex tape!
  
  Under budget for who? I didn't think it was NG and the government already has a contract with a price.

The attacks are the first of many expected to take place.
Washington Post's Dan Lamothe has said that while the U.S. struck more than 85 individual targets in Iraq and Syria, these were spread just eight general locations in those two countries.
U.S. officials have stressed that there is no plans currently to strike targets in Iran.
- we dont need to strike Iran directly. once their international assets get frozen they've got a limited window where they can do anything, and we just blew up most of their anything.

Hell yeah we just won in Afghanistan this is a great moment to start another winnable war in the middle east. Thanks Biden.

finally Biden authorizes something.

- Good luck hitting them at 30,000 ft while they rain destruction on the assailants attacking civilian shipping.

- Turning the other cheek to these people just invites them to do worse.
- Don't fire when fired upon, then. Sounds like a good way to get hit by a second round.
  
  Don't interfere with the US or it's vassal states while they are busy comitting genocide.
  
  Bin Laden viewed the lack of response to the USS cole bombing as an absence of 'chops' of the US to strike back, hence he intensified his plans to force the US out of the middle east.
  To be fair though, Bin Laden was prepper and conspiracy theorist so it might not have influenced him heaps.

Isn't this all because the usa is supporting Israel and Iran is pushing back against countries supporting the genocide there?
- Ah yes Iran, that great bastion of human rights where they throw gay people off buildings and stone people to death.
  Iran doesn't give a shit about Palestinians. Instability in the region keeps them in relative power. Everything they do should be viewed in that light.
  
  Instability in the region keeps them in relative power.
  how is that so?
  
  Iran has politically, materially aligned itself with Palestinian liberation while the united states has aligned itself with Palestinian genocide. Your childish propagandized delusions about their motives are irrelevant. No amount of racist trope pushing is going to change it either.
  
  At least a woman can get an abortion in Iran lol. Glass houses and what not.
  Also, your country should stop supporting genocide. I believe that was the topic.
- That's a pleasant fiction. In reality Iran is a military dictatorship with Islamic window dressing. The Iranian regime is not some benevolent force acting out of humanitarian considerations. To the contrary, it's a tyrannical and authoritarian rogue nation seeking wider regional hegemony through dozens of little proxy wars.

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