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That's what my money is on. That plus special forces plus mercenaries plus MEK, ISIS, kurds, whoever else they can rope in "moderate rebels" types proxy groups controlled by the west sent in for on the ground harassment and hit and run strikes to attempt to destabilize the government and bring the whole thing down. That plus numerous hacking attacks bringing down things like water, power, gas, internet, banking etc to further cook and beleaguer the Iranian population into either defeated submission or wanting/accepting change of government due to the sheer chaos.

Iran really should have 1) gotten nukes. 2) insisted Russia allow them to produce at least s-400 equivalent air defense systems as part of helping them with Ukraine. With a few dozen of those they could possibly inflict enough damage on the US that they'd retreat or never enter in the first place if they were shooting down the IOF air force these past few days.

but if you can't run up the score in a situation like this what is the point of organizing yourself into a party?

To keep up the illusion of bourgeois political theater. The point is not to be a party with some sort of distinct principles or even to have power for your specific team but to put on a show, fight over meaningless things and adhere like the party to the wants of capital and empire at the end of the day. What's curious I guess to me is that they manage to not know this themselves yet somehow ensure it continues to come true, perhaps the top party organizers understand it well enough to sew chaos and lousy consultants and strategies throughout to guarantee this outcome. At least I feel since the Clinton era this has been the agenda they successfully pushed with the whole "third way" stuff which is really just adhering to empire and trying to outflank the Republicans. The days of any genuine division however small ended with the cold war when capital decided it didn't need to maintain real fighting and told their boxers the truth about these fights being fixed and their need to cooperate on that. Oh the fights on things like racism, culture war, welfare are real enough but these lines of empire are red lines no one may cross without being destroyed by the bourgeois press and isolated by the structure of government (loss of committee assignments, others refusing to work with that person on their bills, being targeted by their own party to be replaced next election).

There is zero evidence Iran has shot down anything much less 3 f35s. In my opinion that is propaganda copium because Iran has very little control of its airspace and can at most chase them off or prevent them from loitering but not from attacking successfully.

All the evidence of the zionists returning again and again (and not panicking which I feel they would if they were being hit by hypersonics but could not penetrate Iranian AA because they're getting shot down) suggests the zionists and therefore probably the US can operate with near impunity in Iranian airspace.

The US would be using stealth bombers from very high altitude to deploy these bunker busters and they'd be firing them from many miles away.

More to the point losing a few planes and pilots here and there is acceptable. The entity and the US regularly lose soldiers, these are just more expensive soldiers (pilots) and more expensive hardware. As long as the losses are rare and don't start impacting ability to fly sorties it doesn't really matter.

Iran is a key piece in US hegemony for the rest of this century. It's hard to overstate how much more important destroying Iran and thus gaining complete control of west Asia is to the US than say Ukraine. It walls in China, it walls in Russia, it blocks both their paths, it prevents linking up of China with Africa, West Asia itself, Europe, etc. In "The Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski outlines the imperative for the US to prevent land power from uniting through this region by destabilizing or controlling it. They control all other states in the region as puppets, Syria has fallen, Iran is the last impediment to their dominance and with it their ability to fuck China's petro-chemical and energy supplies to say nothing of the belt and road and their desires for isolating China (and Russia) from the rest of the world and locking the rest of the world into their bloc.

If the US goes it will be with a plan and it will be hitting hard and they will have insight and intelligence and they will be able to kill leadership and hurt Iran. Even if they can't collapse them and take control via proxies just removing their ability to project power via supporting proxies like Hezbollah (out of the picture thanks to their successes in Syria and assassinations of key figures) and leave only US proxies like ISIS which can be used in the region yes but also directly against China, against Russia, against the AES states in Africa and others who dare challenge the US order and there will be no counter. Combined with their Ukrainian Nazis, the Ukrainian intelligence who have developed a fearsome ability for carrying out assassinations and even if Ukraine falls will continue operating abroad for the west for years they would have some powerful chess pieces and fewer impediments.

We must hope Iran is able to deliver surprises of its own and win because if it does the west is done for. But I've learned we shouldn't underestimate them. Everyone here said Hezbollah was going to destroy the entity, few saw Assad falling quickly as happened and yet here we are. Our enemies are smart, have been planning and moving pieces we don't even see into place for years and decades and we cannot afford to think them incompetent.

1. Nuclear strike which the entire western media lines up to justify and condemn anyone questioning it as antisemitic, most likely on the hardened Iranian mountain nuclear facility but could target a city as well.
2. Devastating cyberweapon which does physical damage to infrastructure and/or military, maybe even kind of crashing planes and trains type of deal.
3. Rapid assassination of multiple top leadership in Iran including possibly Khamenei in a decapitating strike type of move that at the very least leaves Iran a bit disoriented.

Honestly we shouldn't underestimate them. They pulled off the pager attack, they seem to know exactly where top people are hour to hour to kill them, they killed Nasrallah, and they used stuxnet and I assume continued to develop along those lines. They are also absolutely shameless and genocidal and know the western world will cover for them if they use nukes and claim it was in self defense and make up lies about how Iran was even at the moment of the strike assembling their own nuke to fire at pissrael and only nuking them stopped it and yada yada.

Guess it could also be

4. US enters war directly, starts using bunker busters and hitting Iranian launch sites. Could easily see them disable 90% of Iranian missile launch capabilities for advanced weapons capable of penetrating the zionist entity's defenses and leaves them only more mobile less sophisticated and more easily intercepted and thus shrugged off older weapons.

Pizza index is supposedly really going off right now. Add to it both the zionists and Trump in threatening but very vague ways telling Iranians to leave Tehran and I think by tomorrow evening one of these or more will be true:

1. The zionists are going to nuke Tehran and by issuing the warning they'll claim they tried to save lives and how moral they are blah, blah, blah. They told Trump and he said fine.
2. The US is getting involved and attacks tomorrow, massive planed bombings across Tehran, possibly something resembling carpet bombing which Trump has shown a past admiration for in speech at least if not actions. Even if not indiscriminate like carpet bombing likely enough massive strikes by the US on various things including infrastructure and attempts to kill leadership that they expect if people don't flee that hundreds or thousands of civilians will die.
3. It's a bluff. I don't believe this likely at this point. It could I suppose be a faint designed to make them think they'll get hit there when they intend to hit their nuclear installations first. But it seems like this wouldn't be that effective.

In either case Iran's lack of effective air defense is going to be a real problem. In either case I predict the zionists and US will deploy a cyber-weapon and electronic warfare to bring down what air defense Iran has before they start their attack whether nuclear or conventional.

They intend to kill Kohmeini as well as decapitate the military and civil and religious leadership of Iran to weaken it and finish it off. If the US is getting involved they will pound Iran's nuclear sites with bunker buster after bunker buster, they will hit them continuously for days and at least cause set-backs if not destruction. Decapitation if carried out successfully I think has a good chance of working, not next week but soon enough incompetent or compromised folks will be in charge and blunder or act the way the zionist entity and west want them to act leading to further failures eventually triggering a Syria or Libya style collapse with regional Arab puppet armies sent in along with proxies like MEK, ISIS, etc, maybe even Turkey to lead an on the ground invasion and toppling of remaining problems. This may take months or a year. Hezbollah was taken out of the picture after all by this tactic.

I was reading a piece that speculated the samson option wasn't just nuclear. That noted the zionists develop medical devices, code for all kinds of critical infrastructure and systems and the samson option could be designed to bring the world to its knees. Basically saying the only way for the world to be safe when the zionist entity falls is if the entirety of it is engulfed in multiple overlapping nuclear strikes preventing them from issuing the go code to start it. And I believe they'd do it. And because I believe they'd do that I believe they'd also nuke Tehran and get away with it.

Another speculation I've seen is the zionists will blow up the temple mount/third temple area and blame it on Iran to get the Muslim world angry at Iran and to be able to begin construction on the Jewish third temple prophesied in the bible (thus important to Christian zionists) which leads to the end times. If that were part of the package deal of nuking Tehran America's deranged Evangelicals would take it in a heartbeat as they're desperate for the apocalypse.

I hope everyone stays safe, I hope the US doesn't get involved and I hope nukes are not used but I am getting such a bad feeling about this.

Best outcome is the US doesn't join, Iran continues attacking the entity and due to internal contradictions with tons of their settlers fleeing not to return near-term it begins a slow decline and stagnation towards collapse.

Middle outcome: Neither side really wants to fight to the end if the US doesn't join and instead they agree to a truce, things go back to being very tense, Iran buries its dead martyrs, the zionists buy a shit-ton more THAAD type systems to attempt to deal with hypersonic strikes. Maybe Iran signs a poisonous deal with the US to agree not to build nukes, maybe they don't, the can is kicked down the road but this may benefit China and the global situation though it does little to help Gaza.

Worst outcome: We could be merely months or a year or so away from complete US dominance and control of west Asia/the middle east. And if that happens the chessboard has been set for the final showdown with China and China's position is not great while the west's will be extremely strong as they'll control access to nearly all the world's markets, the world's resources, etc while China will at best have some factories that need inputs from that world the US controls, and need markets from that world the US and NATO have slapped gates on. And at that point China no longer has the leverage, the US does. And China's only choice in that situation is to fight a massive, far-ranging war against a well entrenched, well planned empire on the high seas, against various islands, bases, etc in west Asia, in Africa, etc. And in the process likely have to fight a huge number of western puppet militaries who react to their US hosted bases being attacked because those bases have been intercepting/sinking Chinese shipping and the west will as always act like they were enforcing legitimate "sanctions" from their "rules based order" and act like China is a rogue bandit state. By seizing the gas supplies the US also hopes to prevent China from having the fuel to run its military as widely and wastefully as the US will be able to.

There are of course things that the west needs to do for that worst outcome to come to pass, complications like creating alternate sourcing of rare earths for their military or using subterfuge and front companies to build up a huge stockpile before such a conflict. The US does seem to be preparing its proles for worsened conditions and the return of dangerous industry. RFK is not a mistake or an anomaly he is there to sicken and poison the bodies and minds of the proletariat, to kill people sooner, to lower environmental standards and get people to believe its okay because you can just drink a toxic itself miracle purge dye or something and make yourself healthy again. Same with buying off the pharma interests with AI approval of their drugs.

One bright ray is the resistance of the Walmart heiress and other consumer brands to Trump's tariffs as its hurting their business and profits but intra-bourgeoisie infighting cannot continue forever without a winner and frankly if I had to bet I sadly feel the imperialist aligned faction will likely come out on top against concerned parts of international capital and the consumption driven interests like retail. They're in bed with the deep state, the intelligence apparatus.

Yet another war crime by the zionist regime, but this does serve as strong confirmation that Iran still doesn't have dominance/control of their airspace and puts more doubt in my mind on the claims of shooting down f-35s. Most likely I feel the zionists have pretty good ability to operate and bomb what they want in Iran while Iran has some ability to hit back with whatever stock of advanced missiles they have that can bypass defenses of the zionists. Most likely Iran doesn't have enough of an arsenal to actually really meaningfully degrade the zionist military and is mostly doing a combination of show strikes to intimidate and frighten the zionists who are used to their interceptors mostly working and hitting actual vital infrastructure in response to the zionists doing the same. But I don't believe they actually have enough stock to severely damage the zionist military machine via extensive targeted strikes or say hit the zionists with a constant barrage of strikes.

What this means is when the US enters the picture they won't be able to do a damn thing other than inflict some pain on the gulf states for a while that will yes hurt global oil markets and gas prices for a while, maybe 6-12 months but that isn't the end-all-be-all if Iran is defeated. If Iran is defeated the US will have guaranteed great oil prices going forward for decades while China will be in extreme danger of very bad oil prices if not outright being denied oil in compliance with planned future US sanctions as part of an isolate, blockade, encircle, and destroy plot by the US. And China being wholly reliant on Russia who is a fair-weather friend is not good and Russia can mainly supply nat-gas anyways and if China has no other sources the prices will be increased a bit.

I think the plan is more decapitating strikes, they have assets either witting or simply fools who they can manipulate who they want to be in power in Iran after they kill off those above them. They killed off the IRGC intelligence head for a reason. If you can kill people like that and the head of the IRGC and 14 nuclear scientists it shows you can kill whoever you want and that you are methodically working your way through a chart of heads of leadership until you have eliminated enough to destabilize and plunge your target into chaos (same as Hezbollah) and at that point they throw in ISIS fighters, MEK, other groups that are western proxies and you use them and more smuggled drones for assassinations until the government has effectively collapsed or been taken over by one of your guys.

I don't think they'd be doing this and certainly the US won't join if they don't have a concrete plan for removing the current government entirely or mostly and having a more pliant one arise. Most likely the zionist intelligence penetration is as I've said before to an extreme level. They've hacked everything plus have human-int assets that means they know where all of the important figures are at least some of the time if not possibly most of the time and can kill them at their leisure.

In other words things could get very bad shortly. I hope the leadership does move to very, very, very deep bunkers like those their nuclear facilities are in and that they have good hardlines for command and control out of those which are buried DEEP as well.

I want to just put out there that I can see Iran being successfully destroyed. Done Syria/Libya style.

The west has moved a lot of things into position for this.

And frankly, let's recall Iran isn't run by pragmatic, thoughtful people who grew up in the USSR education system like Russia, it isn't run by Marxists like China or the DPRK. Iran is run by theocratic, reactionary, religious fundamentalists. Many of their religious policies like the mandatory hair-covering are unpopular with much of the younger society. That is an inherent, deep, deep, deep disadvantage in short and long-term planning, it is a problem because it makes them unpopular with their people because of their hard line on certain things. And given many young people in Iran have grown up never knowing the Shah it'll be very easy for them to slip into thinking they can make peace with the west, or that they should join the west or at least not defend the current rulers of their country. Add on the fall of Syria, the amount of jihadists they can deploy as in ISIS puppet groups, kurds, etc into Iran as their proxies to carry out assassinations, to carry out attacks, to demoralize the society and gather intelligence, it's a really sticky situation.

Fact is the zionists have been murdering a lot of top people in Iran very successfully. Their intelligence and likely penetration of the Iranian military is extreme and an extreme problem. They seem to know where to hit down to the day or time of day to kill these people and the Iranian air defenses are not stopping them. They don't have control of their airspace, they don't have air dominance like Russia does.

Given that and nothing else besides the recent string of victories of the zionists and the US need to cement complete control of the middle east/west Asia for their coming confrontation and cold war against China I think it's very plausible. It's depressing to think about but I think they're not as strong as they present themselves as. That doesn't mean they're as weak as the zionists or US present them as but people trot out the Millennium challenge thing and that was back in 2000, Iran has suffered a lot under sanctions since then and the doctrines of warfare have changed a lot, drone warfare for example including on the seas has matured and evolved and it's possible NATO capabilities in that area plus area denial weapons would be enough to destroy Iran in a naval fight and negate the advantage of all their small swarms of missile boats. You have to remember that challenge was in an era where it assumed old school 90s carrier battlegroups with a carrier or two, destroyers, various support ships, and a few helicopters and planes. Not with that plus tons of drones operated by people in pajamas in Germany and Tel Aviv all coordinated together.

The whole "the zionist entity is on the verge of collapse" thing so repeated here honestly comes across as copium/hopium blend based off propaganda and what we would rather be true. Objectively they've scored so many geopolitical and strategic wins from Syria falling to western puppets to Nasrallah's assassination, Hezbollah's stand-down (because Syrian supply lines were cut), the pager attacks, the Gaza genocide carried out so far and opposition to that viciously crushed all across the west, etc.

Ultimately most people here are hope-casting, or doom-casting. There is the fog of war that will not lift until the smoke has cleared and by that time the situation will likely have been decided in one direction or the other. The Iranians are likely to lie about successes and downplay failures. The zionists are likely to hide the Iranian successes and downplay their own failures. I don't pay any attention at all to western imperialist propaganda "reporting" on this and haven't since the genocide flared up really as I can't stand them so I'm not really influenced by zionist claims just by the alleged facts on the ground, the history of who momentum is with (the zionists sadly), and other factors like that.

Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. The west still has a lot of strength and I fear I see a grander plan unfolding successfully. China's long-game approach to non-interventionism for example means tons of western interventions and securing the rest of the world against them by coups, wars, color revolutions, "moderate rebels", etc early on in the game right now might blunt their ability for success by the time they are ready to do that and strong enough to do that. I don't know the right moves, I just know we shouldn't underestimate them and their power at this point.

I of course hope Iran brings the entity to its knees but hope does not reality make as I hoped Assad would prevail against the west and that Nasrallah would teach the zionists a bitter lesson and we can see how those things went.

The problem is the US sends in most important things by air.

I don't think the US put hellfire missiles on a slow-ship to the zionists. Destroying the docks will only prevent delivery of goods too big to put on USAF transport planes. I'm pretty sure all the bombs in the NATO arsenal can fit in those, any munitions, usually a good number per plane delivery can fit there. Not sure if the US can supply air defense systems in those planes but I think the zionists have enough of that and just need refills more than anything else.

Let's recall this is the nation that did the Berlin airlift, a massive middle-finger fuck-you we can just supply everything by air because we have that much capacity, that much logistical power, that much money we can just burn it doesn't even matter. So I'd say sadly short of them destroying all airfields capable of taking AC-130 type transports there isn't a lot Iran can do to stop the US resupply.

Yes but sadly only in a deranged anti-Russian conspiratorial "evil Russian commies led by Putin-Stalin-Hitler are destroying our democracy, we gotta nuke em" type way not a loss of faith in liberalism or introspection about what America is type way.

I'm sorry to go to Star Wars posting but there is something to be said about the understanding that the rebellion failed to win the peace because they just reproduced and tried to bring back the same failed republic which predictably failed again. These liberals are just trying to reproduce and bring back some imagined working, utopian version of liberalism and US-American political structure they imagine existed in the 20th century until around Obama and the big reactionary tantrum and/or Trump winning. They will inevitably not roll anything back meaningfully because Democrats aren't interested in using power first of all and also because they have no revolutionary program they could use to do that so they'll win elections again then be confused and angry and ever more conspiratorial about foreign enemies such as Russia/China as to why they can't get things to go back to the good old days.

It's a reflected image of American reactionary thought, really a different strain of reactionary "return" type yearning and propaganda which will be used to justify rigid adherence to militarism, imperialism, etc because those are still strong "institutions" in the American sense and they have been taught and still venerate them and believe in venerating them those institutions will save them from the scary Trump types and their imagined Putin/China foreign antagonists.

This conveniently leads them right into red scare type thinking and fearful belief in anything the military-intelligence propaganda mill pushes about other nations. It's an antibody being created against increased exposure to how good things are in China and how bad things are in the US. A way to get them broadly onboard with censorship of any positive coverage of "bad nations"[tm] on the internet and the creation of an American firewall and internet censorship board to keep Americans in the dark or as they would phrase it "protect them from sinister Russian/Chinese disinformation campaigns" which they believe can sway elections and turn ordinary otherwise good folks into dangerous types who want to turn America into a dictatorship.

People have got to stop posting fake news here. It was all over here and lemmygrad yesterday.

TBH these claims seem a bit like war propaganda for the Iranian side.

Until we get some real proof I'm kind of skeptical.

We still haven't gotten proof of that woman pilot they claimed they captured for instance. Why hasn't she been paraded in front of the cameras? The photos shown for the alleged wreckage have been AI or not what's claimed so far.

At this point if the Iranians got hit bad and their nuclear facilities are damaged (likely given claims of radiation leak in one) and they want to make peace with the zionists after some missile hits it helps with their own population to be able to claim that they did things like this and then use some AI to fake up the proof. It also means less humiliation that their air defenses may be very ineffective against the zionists. I mean imagine the repercussions if it were true that their air defenses are still unable to take down any of the zionist intruders? It would look really bad. The first 8 hours they get a kind of pass on for being hacked and electronic warfare taking it down but what if they've been firing blind since then and still aren't scoring actual hits? People would be angry and there would be demands for heads to roll. Make up some lies like this however and the anger remains directed at the zionist entity and maybe some people keep their jobs.

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They often have sales so around and through the 1-4th of July they might have a "summer" sale or something. Black Friday is another time they always have sales. On sale you can probably get 2 years for $90 so you might want to consider buying only 6 months or something at this time and then re-upping during the sale.

I'll state for the record that I don't think any VPN should be trusted for truly sensitive things that interest intelligence agencies. If you're an activist you should consider using a VPN plus tor or l2p but if you're just using this website it's probably fine.

Israel has shown us some of the absolute worst that humanity is capable of. The cruelty and sadism even normal Israeli civilians have displayed towards the Palestinians has been appalling and shocking. But I don't want to believe that the majority of people in Israel are ontologically evil, irredeemable psychopaths, I want to believe that they are normal people at their core. The inhumane hatred they feel for the Palestinian people isn't some unique phenomenon exclusive to Jewish settlers or Republican congressmen, but something any of us could experience for another group of people under the wrong circumstances.

True and yet also true of Waffen SS. Of Auschwitz guards, of many leadership in Nazi Germany so it rings a bit hollow and academic. In the sense that they were not born this way and if plucked by time travel at age 6 into the USSR and the red army they would have been entirely different individuals. These aren't demons summoned from beyond but humans. But their choices make them monsters as do their thoughts and support of these criminal acts.

Our hate for them is pure. It's not a hate born of who they were born as but who they chose to be. As Marx said, we will not apologize for the terror.

The only innocents are underage children, perhaps those under 24 or so as well as you can't necessarily instantly leave a place once you hit 19, you need money, resources, job prospects. But you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, empires don't fall without good people suffering too. Blowing up the death star may have killed some slaves or janitors who didn't even want to be there and were just trying to work through yet it was the correct thing to do. Shelling Berlin resulted in some kids dying, some people who probably hated the Nazi regime dying, yet it wasn't avoidable, their deaths, their blood is not on our hands and should not be on our conscious, it is on their neighbors and those of the majority around them who supported and created this. We are blameless for taking action to put them down and should feel no guilt over the matter. We should feel relief at the deaths of the fascists and should shrug at the few innocents lost among them, writing them down not as victims of us but of fascism.

We, I, will save pity and sadness and empathy for Gazans, for the Palestinian victims of the genocide, for Iranians now suffering and probably going to suffer more from this war, for those in Lebanon, for the resistance in Yemen and elsewhere. There's not room in my heart for sympathy for the perpetrators, for the aggressors.

Why? Larger numbers of people are not more amenable to re-education but less. Re-education requires significant resources including the especially rare well versed in theory cadre class as well as many guards and can only be practically applied to small numbers relative to the total population and resources of the post-revolutionary society.

Additionally it's less effective when they are as infected with brain-worms as these types. They are literally stronger together and will not mentally budge because of their numbers and a sense of that strength and consensus and validity which you will not break by placing them in camps of several tens of thousands who they can rely on for support and strength. All you will do at most is teach them how to effectively lie and trick the instructors into thinking they are reformed enough before releasing them so they can carry out terrorist attacks and counter-revolution.

No one has ever forcibly reformed people with the kind of anti-communist indoctrination and counter-programming these people have. I will remind you that comrades have tried to show the light to captured American pilots in Vietnam and Korea and universally to my knowledge they all called their experience torture and were not turned, swayed or shamed but endured it and lived to go on tours talking about the commie menace. Not to mention how many of them are axiomatically convinced of Evangelical Christianity's truth and that communism is godlessness, they will not be swayed. At best you can beat them into lowering their heads but that only works so long as there are only a few of them and they feel isolated. And these people are organized, they have been organized for a long time and their entire community and identity is built around white supremacy, Evangelical Christianity, and reactionary politics. These are not some treasonous Chinese officials who joined with Japanese fascists for money or because they got swept up in some temporary fervor and ultimately betrayed their people in a plain way, their identity, their national mythology, their being, their community, their afterlife are all contingent on this way of being.

Yeah they're in an unfortunately good position. With the fall of Syria to CIA jihadists (are there other kinds?) their supply routes to Hezbollah in Lebanon have been cut so Hezbollah is not in a good place. Add on that they decapitated Hezbollah by killing Nasrallah and injuring or killing many other top leadership in the pager attackers and their proxy forces and position is not in a good place. The Egyptian side into Gaza is closed so it's hard to say how much further the resistance can fight on there without resupply and they can hardly strike out at the zionists either, only attack them when they enter Gaza and lately they've been sending in ISIS proxy forces instead and killing Hamas who respond to them attacking food shipments with missile strikes. A full war that really weakens the zionists could yet occur but more than likely it would just deplete NATO stockpiles and leave the zionists even more supported and propped up by the west. Iran can't really turn the other cheek here but if it keeps escalating the US/NATO could get drawn into a war with them at which point they're removed from the board for some years/decade as a serious resistance to the occupation and all you have left then is Yemen who without Iranian support may not be able to do as much.

This could also be seen by empire planners as good, as part of isolating China (and Russia to a degree) from oil and petroleum and from using the crossroads that is west Asia to access via land Europe, Africa, etc. Thus geographically isolating both of them and solidifying the US hold on west Asia in the coming confrontation with China where it/NATO tries to pull as many countries into its bloc/sphere as possible in order to isolate, choke, pressure, and cook China.

Israel's primary concern is that a nuclear Iran would provide dirty bombs to Hezbollah or other militants and bypass the iron dome.

That's propaganda. Their concern is the same as any unhinged settler nuclear power. Namely they want the right and power to destroy with nuclear weapons their enemies at a time of their choosing without those enemies being able to hit them back. It's the oldest want in warfare and empires: to be able to hit an enemy in a way they cannot hit you back. As genocidal settlers they know deep down the wrong they work and how the region is full of people who rightfully hate them and they fear those people and need nuclear weapons to deter and intimidate them. It's the samson option, the bluff that they can and will take out everyone around them if they fall.

that cowardly fucker should have just countermanded Trump, told the national guard to return to barracks

There are a lot of reasons to shit on Newsome and the Dems but picking on something they legitimately even in theory have no power over is not the best choice.

The national guard was federalized. He has exactly ZERO power to stop that. He can't tell them to return to barracks anymore than you can the moment that happens. Once federalized they're under the authority of the federal government and his power over them is overridden as they're effectively acting military under the commander in chief. Regardless of what Fox News says Gruesome Newsome is not a charismatic strongman and they're not going to listen to him when they have other orders.

The law is very clear on this. Look up the Little Rock Nine, another case where in that case the state guard was nationalized and ordered back to barracks against the wishes of a racist governor trying to use them to stop black kids from going to integrated schools. That was angry white people trying to stop black kids from being in school with white kids, if it was that simple they would have done it.

We must strive to build our arguments on solid ground, ground that liberals cannot pick apart. Let's rest our case on how Dems did nothing to prevent this, on the Biden incompetence, on his handlers and Dem media hiding his senility and letting them run him again, on how they funded this, passed laws to enable this and compared to Republicans offer nothing but words to resist. The Republicans are showing right now what you can do with power, the same things the Dems refused to even go near which should be used to make clear to liberals that the Democrats are not on their side, that its kayfabe, that there aren't even any good ones. We can look to Gaza and the genocide there and Bernie and AOC who are supposedly the progressive good ones enabling that, defending that. That's where our case is ironclad.

Same with the cops. The cops are funded by blue states, blue cities. They gave them even more money after BLM and did nothing substantial to force reforms (among other things he could have tried to bully the LA board of supervisors into disbanding the Sheriff dept who even compared to notorious LAPD are just completely out of control and have thwarted all efforts at reform) but they did nothing. They could have left Trump with less friends in blue states but they are not on the side of the people and this can be driven home and there is no riposte possible.

On his part, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed "Israel" took “unilateral action against Iran,” warning that Tehran should not target the US in response to the Israeli attack.

“Our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for [their] self-defense,” Rubio stated.

“President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners,” he added.

“Let me be clear: Iran should not target US interests or personnel."

Oh? Word? Cool so it's just between Iran and the zionist entity calling itself 'israel'. So if Iran decides to shoot a bunch of missiles and drones at this entity, US naval forces will not shoot those down or attempt to disrupt their course right? RIGHT? RIGHT?!?! Because that would make you a party to the conflict wouldn't it. Fucking special privilege demanding fucks.

I mean critical support for Iran of course but why are they so bad at this after all that has happened? After Soleimani, after they got Nasrallah, after the pager attacks, after years of zionist agents on motorbikes machine-gunning their scientists. You'd think op-sec would be higher priority.

They can't stop them from flying their old f-16s or whatever junk the IOF has into their airspace. They can't detect them in time to shelter important people. And worse than that they are so compromised despite knowing in advance for a near fact that attack is imminent via this very means that they can't hide their people properly from these attacks from the air meaning the zionists either have intelligence that knows where they are day to day (possibly hour to hour) and safe locations or that they continued going about their business in the most obvious places despite this threat and knowing they cannot stop it.

I know it's a bit armchair general but if you know you can't stop their air force, you know they're coming to attack you. You even have signals of warning like silly nerds on this site posting about increases in pizza orders at DC places the military planners and late night intelligence meeting ghouls like 6 hours ahead of time. You have the US evacuating personnel from bases and embassies in the region. You should at least shelter the people they're likely to target yes? The top leadership, the scientists? And keep that location a secret.

Honestly the zionists, I hate it, but the zionists have been doing incredible lately on a strategic level. They've taken out all their enemies save Iran and Yemen and depending on how bad this was and how many top leadership were killed they might have done a lot of damage to Iran. They are objectively in a stronger position than they have been since the modern resistance formed with Hezbollah as part of it.

And I predict Iran's retaliation will not be that spectacular. That the US will shoot down most of it with their advanced aegis cruisers parked off the coast (which is why tactically Iran should target those with their most advanced weapons as they're de-facto combatants but they won't).