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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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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

Stockpiles are low. But the TACO on all "massive/civilization threats" is about extracting concessions/subservience from colonies, though its possible that the GCC colonies get angry at US. In this case, China threats through Pakistan may have made a greater impact. China has been more publicly involved in Iran, and giving GCC advise on survival.

Whether out of munitions, or simply losing, the US is going to leave instead of finding munitions/allies next month. Likely a long hiatus from middle east wars for US.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

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 1 points 2 hours 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 2 points 5 hours ago

Many of them surely still are. And will.

[-] Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours 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 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours 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 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] matallic@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

This is the equivalent of Ireland running out of booze.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 76 points 23 hours ago

Only trump could manage to wipe out both our oil and weapons stockpiles in the same move...

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago

I'm pretty sure it was Bush who actually wiped them out. Think of how much stockpile got dropped in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm sure at that time the US had near limitless munitions stored from decades of overproduction. There was never a day where the quantity of available munitions was questioned.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think you're drastically underestimating how fast we can build munitions if you think something 20 years ago is causing problems today

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 0 points 55 minutes ago

Think of all the cold war, Vietnam and probably older dumb bombs that were dropped. The US had a stockpile like Russia did. Sure they've built more, but I think you're drastically underestimating how large a surplus the US probably once had.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 26 points 20 hours ago

Pigeon on a chess board. With an audience clapping and saying they've never seen anyone play the game quite that way. Genius.

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

And this is why you dont just hand the keys to our munitions wharehouses to Israel while making sure its not tracked.

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

What the hell are we even bombing at this point?

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Worldwide attention on the Epstein Files

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 points 11 hours ago

Trump threatened that the US would destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant any time its forces attack a ship in the Strait of Hormuz not even a week ago.

You know, war crimes.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 18 points 13 hours ago

Schools, bridges, hospitals, power plants, water facilities, etc... You know war crimes.

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

That's fucking sad

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