SpookyVanguard64

Yeah, I think at this point if Iran attacks Israel directly (or even indirectly), then things could very quickly snowball into something that normal people will recognize as a world war. So I'd say that we're very close to the brink, but as has already been mentioned, if WW3 comes to pass then historians in the future will probably say that it's already ongoing and we just haven't recognized it yet.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking they'll have to do.

My only question is whether they'll try and leave the dirty work to their allies rather than doing it themselves, so as to try and avoid a direct confrontation with the US for as long as possible. Though with the way things are going, a significant attack by an Iranian backed militia on a US base might be seen as indistinguishable from a direct Iranian attack, so it's probably past time for trying to engage in plausible deniability at this point.

Are Iranian missiles able to reach Israel from within their borders?

Their bigger ballistic missiles definitely can, though they obviously won't be as numerous as their smaller missiles.

Is this going to be allowed to be transferred across the Iraq/Turkey border into Syria or is this just posturing?

Who's to say at this point. Iran does have enough allies in Iraq & Syria that they should be able to move their missiles into those countries if needed (or at least hand them off for their allies to use), but I'd imagine that the presence of US military bases in both of those countries will probably complicate things significantly.

Like I know its history but are they just watching the news for this info and memorizing it or are there books that go into detail with more modern events?

I don't think (mainstream) news will really tell you much about military equipment, but yeah books & shit are a lot of it.

A surprising amount of the technical aspects of a lot of modern military equipment are actually public knowledge. Unfortunately this is mainly due to the fact that arms manufacturing is a for-profit industry, but the fact that companies are trying to sell their death machines means that they do kinda have to reveal relevant technical aspects of their products to the wider world for the purposes of advertising. On top of that, a lot of modern military equipment is actually quite old, or are at least heavily upgraded versions of equipment that is quite old, and so declassified information on older models of the same equipment can often give you a decent point of reference when trying to understand the capabilities of their more recent upgraded version.

So basically, historians & military equipment nerds will find as much of this publicly available info as they possibly can, and then write books, blogs posts, Wikipedia articles, etc. on whatever piece(s) of equipment they're interested. A good example of this is The Soviet Armor Blog, which has a lot of in depth info on the history & capabilities of a lot of the tanks of the Soviet Union, many of which are still being used by Russia.

Idk what exact capabilities they have, but I would assume that all of their drones are coming from Iran, who do have some decent drones afaik.

As for why the US didn't shoot them down, could be any number of reasons. Probably best to wait and see for the moment.

I'm assuming it's Syrian and/or Iraqi militias, which are largely backed up by Iran afaik.

I know Iraqi resistance groups have previously said that they'd start attacking US assets in the region if the US gets involved, and the hospital bombing seems to have prompted them to start attacking US bases in Iraq, so they could also be the one launching attacks if the US bases in Syria are close enough to the border.

Yeah. In a just world, the second paragraph on it's own should probably be more than enough to get this guy executed for being an accomplice to war crimes, when placed in context with all the absolute monsters the US government has given arms to over the 11 years this guy was in his position.

Idk if anyone's posted it here yet, but Josh Paul, a senior US State Department official who was in change of arms transfers, just resigned in protest over what's going been going on in Gaza. He put up a letter on his LinkedIn page, which you can read here. It's obviously coming from a lib perspective, but it is still pretty remarkable that the top gun runner for the the US empire is taking more issue with the situation than the vast majority of mainstream media or "progressive" politicians.

Not familiar with Nathan Ruser, but someone I follow on Twitter quote tweeted that and called him a Xinjiang asset (his bio also says he works for ASPI), so I'd probably take what he's saying with a massive grain of salt.

Granted, I haven't seen anything that directly disproves what he's saying, but the video I saw on Hasan's stream last night (that was apparently confirmed as real by the WSJ) sounded like a JDAM, and the explosion looked way too big for it to have been anything but an Israeli bomb.

Yep. A quick look at their account showed that they just spammed out that exact same tweet like 50 times in less than a hour, and western journalists fell for it regardless.

All anyone would've had to do is just look at their account, or even just look up their name to see if they've written any articles (spoiler, there aren't any articles written under that accounts name), but at this point we all already know that western journalism exists to spread whatever propaganda that helps support the empire.

It's an "active protection system" (APS) that's meant to shoot down incoming projectiles just before they'd actually hit the vehicle. Trophy is effective against projectiles moving at less than 1000 m/s, which means it can destroy rocket/missile based anti-tank weapons like the RPG-7, RPG-29, and Kornet ATGM, but it's completely useless against the kinetic anti-armor rounds fired from other tanks, since those rounds usually have velocities in the 1400-1800 m/s range.