Iran carries out 20th wave of Op. True Promise 4 against Zionist entity, US bases (thelemmy.club)

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IRGC carried out the 20th wave of Operation True Promise 4 against the Zionist entity and the US bases across the region on Thursday evening.

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[-] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The more I read and think about this war, the more I think there are two ways it can go down: Either we fuck off shortly and maybe pretend we won or something, or we struggle in this mess long enough for the dollar to collapse, and then fuck off due to century-defining internal suffering and strife.

Iran is not a global superpower, but it is also not fucking around militarily, and it's run by zealots who are comfortable turning the whole region into a flaming shithole just to burn us. I am not seeing a country ready to follow the behavioral patterns our military is built to achieve victory against.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Israel is who turning the whole region into a shithole with american money

[-] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, in that they made this war happen and are attacking civilian targets in Iran. But Iran is attacking vital civilian infrastructure in countries supporting the USA, and I believe the goal is to make the entire region too fucked up to support American troops, both logistically and politically. Lots of people are going to die or be displaced for lack of water if Iran gets its way.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The hotel Iran targeted has american Defense Department personnel and the amazon center was used by the Pentagon utilized Anthropic’s Claude AI and Palantir software hosted on AWS infrastructure to coordinate the strikes

[-] Pirat@lemmy.org 2 points 6 days ago

I thought the DoD gave up on Anthropic since they won't turn over total control to DoD.

[-] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I was mostly thinking about the attacks on desalination plants

[-] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Us and Israel are trapped in similar proxy war than Russia with Ukrania.

China and Russia only needs to provide intelligent support and some ammo to make sure both countries bleed to an unacceptable level.

And us does not have the internal control that Russia exhibits.

It is a terrible mistake, honestly.

this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026

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