Iran loves to issue empty threats.

They’ve been crippled. Their ability to project artillery outside their borders is receding with every passing day. As soon as the US/Israel offer them a seat at the bargaining table, they’ll come rushing back just like they have every other time the US/Israel has pushed their shit in.

If you love getting rug-pulled, go ahead and root for Iran.

If you want to cheer for the team with the kind of blood-lust necessary to obliterate a civilization, you’d be better off cheering for the US and Israel.

Exactly what Israel did in Gaza.

Bomb the schools. Bomb the hospitals. Bomb the sewage treatment plants. Bakeries are next.

we should not be wasting money

Every time I hear someone complain about how much money this is costing, I picture that bloody backpack from the girl’s school we bombed.

The American value of human life must be net-negative at this point.

I mean, King Charles is - at a bare minimum - king of England.

Think this would be closer to calling Marta María Batista Fernández President of Cuba.

The end game

Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has taken aggressive steps to curb the flow of drugs from the Southern hemisphere. The administration has conducted about 45 strikes against suspected smuggling vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, killing more than 150 people.

Love to drop a kilo of explosives on some poor bastard out fishing, because I’ve got a hunch.

Noboa has courted the Trump administration over the past year in the hopes of securing assistance. He came to Washington for Trump’s second inauguration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Ecuador in September, and told reporters that the U.S. would “blow up” criminal groups if needed.

So… funny story about President Noboa

In a March 23 debate held for candidates in forthcoming presidential elections, challenger Luisa González and incumbent President Daniel Noboa exchanged accusations of corruption and ties to organized crime.

After Noboa accused González of links to money laundering, González repeatedly questioned her rival about Noboa Trading, a banana exportation company owned by the president’s family.

“They export drugs in banana boxes belonging to Mr. Daniel Noboa’s company to Croatia and Italy,” González said of Noboa Trading.

Noboa responded by tacitly admitting that there have been cases of drug trafficking through the company’s shipments but denying any wrongdoing.

If there’s one thing narco-traffickers hate, its competition.

The US has been at war 228 out of 246 250 years since 1776

So… not technically wrong, I guess.

Officials became suspicious when they spotted a gangster with this tattoo

The first people to die during a war are the children.

Distributions to power, water, and health care fall on them first and hardest

This article fixates on the Iranian federal politics while ignoring the real death toll entirely

I guess we’ll find out

I’m sure this won’t have consequences downstream for anyone

Breaking the nuclear taboo on a country that’s exhausted its ability to fight back seems like it would be buried somewhere in the Project 2025 fine print.

it’s exactly those actions that are creating ‘terrorists’

Even this hasn’t born out. We’re not seeing waves of terrorism on US soil by foreigners or radicalized domestics.

We’re seeing police brutality by state officials aimed anyone who “looks like a terrorist”, with some spycops bullshit to entrap a few useful idiots along the way.

Perhaps I’d have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets;

They’re dismantling the ability of the Iranian state to defend it’s sovereignty so they can bomb and assassinate locals with impunity.

They’re also randomly killing civilians, because these military strikes aren’t as precise or informed as the leadership wants you to believe

Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won’t surrender.

It’s a genocide. We don’t intend to let them surrender. We’re going to keep killing long after Iran has been fully defanged

Collateral Murder

Stop. Posting. On. Reddit.

Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

We were never going to hear the end of “Muslim Terrorist” rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.

There isn’t going to be another 9/11. We’re well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It’ll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we’re safer because of it.

Gotta wonder how many Chuds will post “Iranians can wear bikinis again” before the bodies are even cold

Flip to what, though?

Reza Pahlavi appears to be the current useful idiot of the West