Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North

I said this a fucking week ago and all of you shouted at me for it.

Are we at a point where we can start to blame Iran for their slow ass reaction times?

I'm glad you are the one saying it, because if I or any other westerners had said it, we be accused of "DoOmErIsM" by a bunch of people in this sub who have sounded like Jehovah's Witnesses over the past 2-3 months.

There's a lot of things between sitting on their hands and total war that Iran could have done in response to these attacks, and they sat on their hands instead.

they should blow up the oil rigs in the gulf and have this fucking fight they know is coming. I see no path to deescalation after today, either its war with the demons of empire or Iran gives up the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon. Europe would be left reeling from such an energy attack with Russia already cutting them off, and precious fucking yanks will have a societal meltdown if gas prices go up by $3. Enough warnings, retake the inititive and punish the west for their arrogance. I hope Iran is mobilizing whatever is necessary for full scale war because it is coming now.

yes I agree. especially since it was just confirmed that Nasrallah did die.

seems like the ayatollah is suffering from putin-syndrome. drawing red lines and doing jack shit to enforce them.

Eventually they will start bombing Iran and all this trying to walk the fence on international law will be for naught. It already has been.

I am very much a subscriber to the thesis of strategic planning and attrition and waiting for the right moment to strike even if it takes weeks or months, but I do hope that Iran has some more public show of support planned in the coming days or weeks. They don't have to flatten cities or anything like that, but y'know, Yemen of all countries, emerging from a genocide not unlike the one seen in Gaza, has risked its ass more than Iran has in the last couple months. They have similar PR/propaganda issues that Russia has where their weekly proclamations about how Israel/Ukraine is doomed and should surrender, but those statements just make them look kinda silly when it's just the same attrition of a dozen villages named variants of Vohreshitfuckizye that we've seen for months on end. I guess for Putin himself it's always been an issue, saying that THIS is DEFINITELY the last and final straw for REALSIES this time each time an eastern European country joined NATO.

I do wonder if the Resistance had something planned for October 7th this year but didn't expect Israel to actually start shit to this extent this soon. It would be a convenient (if rather obvious) date to co-ordinate a Grand Response™ for the entire Resistance Axis, and a two-month wait for an operation, from early August to early October, is fairly short in retrospect compared to operations in other wars, historical and recent. Like, nobody reads like "It took two months for X country to plan and proceed with Operation Y against Z country..." in a book on a war and goes "Two months! What an agonizingly long period of time!" it just feels like an eternity living through it today, where every hour that goes by, another residential building full of civilians is hit by a bomb equivalent in size to the Beirut Port explosion. That's just a total guess from me though.

The Syrian Civil War, however devastating it has been, is not even close to the scale of the conflict that is about to erupt. This is threatening to turn into a full scale regional war where many more innocents will die with full US backing. Maybe they’re secretly coordinating with Russia or something for a response, but I feel like everyone tries their best to avoid direct confrontation, and choosing to pretend as though Israel will stop on its own once it has tasted enough blood, that cooler heads will somehow prevail.

On the other hand, it is clear that the deterrence has failed and the Zionists have realized that their ethnosupremacist project is doomed once the Iran and Syria eventually obtain the newer Russian air defense systems. It really is a now or never situation for Israel, which is why they are willing to risk it all, because if they don’t fight now, even a losing one, that chance is even slimmer give it another decade.

I understand this sentiment But I am telling myself you and everyone with these doubts are wrong. They will come through. What other choice do they have? The west will never let accept them and the BRICS nations wouldn't ever forget if they betrayed their allies and let isisrael and usa crush the resistance.

Iran has to do its part and we just don't know what it is yet.

The main problem is Israeli nuclear blackmail and the inability for Iran to protect itself from an Israeli air campaign. But yes, this is very disappointing I agree.

Correct me if I'm wrong, we also still don't know what shoigu has told and/or given the Iranians

You are absolutely right.