US military has launched ‘major combat operations’ in Iran - Trump
Trump says the US military has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, saying the country had attempted to rebuild its nuclear programme.
Edit: Gift link to the NYT live coverage
Edit2: updated headline
Israel’s military spokesman said Israeli forces had killed several top Iranian defense officials this morning. They included Iran’s defense minister, Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh; the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour; and a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Shamkhani. The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, said nothing about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
What branch of government has war powers authority, according to the US Constitution?
The amount of money that transited through “prediction markets” (I.e gambling platforms) is baffling.
522 million USD, with 25 million worth of bets placed on today, and that’s just one single prediction on one single site.
I can only imagine the Epstein class is making so much money off of these platforms since they literally control the news, meaning the outcome of each bet.
Death to America, death to Israel
Any person working for the US military reading this thread: you are attacking another country as a cover up to your president being a pedophile
but their parents are still posting pictures of jesus anointing the feet of the pedo rapist on their facebook wall, who should they believe them or you?
The US op is called “Operation Epic Fury” and the Israeli Op is called “Operation Roar of the Lion”.
These guys are so pathetic.
Operation above-average length.
Operation Epstein Fury
That’s still a reduction of arrogance from “Operation Wrath of God”
He literally called for Israel to attack Iran first so that it would be easier for the US to support them. That was yesterday, I believe? Dude’s been calling an attack on Iran for days now
Gotta claim a state of emergency somehow. How else is he gonna stop the election?
Honestly, this feels like a good thing for democracy, in a roundabout way.
If the US military is stuck in an Iranian quagmire, it becomes harder to use it to terrorize citizens on the domestic front. I wish they’d send the donut eaters from ICE to the front.
Not really, when we are at war the rah rah crowd that believes these pieces of shit gives them more leeway, and is less likely to buck on something like pretti’s execution.
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This is fair, and I apologize.
My country has been at war everywhere for so long that I’m desensitized to it. What I wrote above was meant as an objective hypothetical, but was wildly insensitive.
I do not support war. I am just powerless to stop it, so it’s easier for me to speak insensitively about it, and I shouldn’t.
If I had any power whatsoever to stop this, I would.
That’s his only good characteristic: how dumb and transparent he is.
Dunno, look at the Trump-Epstein-gate cover-up.
Yeah, imagine if they were smart how much more they could have hidden.
The ones making the most money are smart enough that you don’t know about them.
yeah, gotta hand it to him
and yet I’m always a strange mix between dumbstruck, surprised and unsurprised
it’s the Mr. Magoo of politics. It’s bewildering to witness.
And yet, some people still think he’s playing 4D chess
I’m tired boss. I’ve been putting out proverbial fires almost all week it seems. I’m a lowly peeon and besides voting, there ain’t much I can do. I did set up a cheap meshtastic repeater recently, so hopefully that helps during the fall. But mesh isn’t exactly popular in my semi rural area.
Idk, I’m going to play some game or binge taskmaster for a few days. I did just find the original RE2 at thrift store for $2 and never played it.
Putting up meshtastic nodes is very much a worthy endeavour that will become extremely useful in the near future as our nationwide communication networks are targeted. Alongside that, we desperately need to work toward enabling the use of our most powerful weapon: a proper, long-term, nation wide General Strike.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor, allowing us to directly demand real changes (Ending the war in Iran and Gaza, and Abolishing ICE should be towards the top of the list).
The General Strike was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
There are some concrete steps all of us can take toward enacting that hard-core general strike to make it more viable and bearable for us all. (the titles below expand if you click them).
Learn First Aid! ⛑️
Violence is being used against those who resist and it will only continue. It extremely important to have the skills to be able to keep yourself and others alive if they get hurt.
Tacticool Girlfriend provides a great introduction to building a personal first aid kit, called an IFAK, which can deal with things like bullet wounds and other serious bleeding wounds. I also want to emphasize her recommendation of only buying medical gear from reputable sources (not Amazon!), such as North American Rescue to avoid fakes that could cost you your life.
But you’ll need to learn how to use that equipment, too. The best resource for that is to take a local Stop The Bleed class, which are pretty widely available in most places. They may cost a small fee, but can also sometimes be free. Alternatively, if you cannot access a local class, this video by PrepMedic will give you a solid understanding of how to use Tourniquets and Gauze for wound packing.
Injuries are less harmful if they are tended to early. Learning first aid can help conserve resources when healthcare becomes unaffordable. Having several medics in case of harm by police is an extremely powerful morale booster during a protest that may become a police riot. When you become comfortable with the basics of first aid, riot medicine is the next suggested step.
Establish or join local Mutual Aid networks ✊
If you haven’t already, get to know your neighbors. Mutual aid is a willingness to support and grow your community. This can include informal networks through friends, tenant/renter organizations, solidarity groups, and industrial unions.
These are groups using direct action to solve each other’s problems. Building strong communities makes it difficult for fascism to take root. The actions of the government are going to hit every community hard, and the ones who build trust in each other and work together are most likely to survive. We’ve been building a list of resources in !inperson@slrpnk.net to help you on your way. Also check out this handy guide to find existing groups in your area.
This isn’t only for your own community protection. Your ability to organize today will change the political landscape tomorrow. When revolution occurs, the social organizations that show the greatest resilience through the regime are the ones typically calling the shots when the dust settles. When it comes to elections, get out the vote drives are useless if most of the voters are fascists. At some point, you have to do grassroots political education if you don’t want fascist candidates winning elections. Mutual aid networks are excellent forums not only for teaching each other good political ideas, but demonstrating them in practice.
Join a Union to help prepare for a General Strike! 💪
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike). A General Strike is officially planned by the UAW for May 1st 2028, but it was planned before Trump was elected, and by then may be too late, so prepare now for one that may start sooner.
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.
Adopt Security Culture and Digital Camouflage 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
We’ll start it off with some General Advice:
- Mentally wall off personal uniquely identifying info from your online presence, actively build a habit of opsec so that withholding information is your default mental state
- Be careful about who you meet online
- Use different, unrelated usernames, passwords & emails for every account. And try not to connect to those accounts with your real IP address (use Tor or a VPN)
- Be mindful that anything done online leaves a trail
- agents provocateurs may seek to find patsies willing to perform an ill-advised illegal activity in order to legitimize police repression. If someone is trying to pressure you, especially if you don’t have a long and proven history with them, be extremely wary.
For a full guide on what encrypted communications platforms to use, and how to stay off the radar, read the Digital Camouflage section within the Monthly Meta post here (you’ll need to scroll down. I’d add it here, but it won’t fit in this comment).
I’d also highly recommend Full Spectrum Resistance to anyone who wants further info on how to resist (audiobook version here).
I feel this in my bones friend. I have to upgrade servers for work this morning but then yah, going finally start Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 and try to ignore this until Monday. Keep voting and doing what we can.
You’re doing your best. Enjoy that game, and remember to listen to the birds sing when you can.
…while you still can.
Thanks homie.
The man who wanted to make peace in many places in the world and get a peace price for it, has decided to start yet another war in the Middle East…
…to cover up the fact he is a child rapist and likely a human trafficker
Good job Muricans
No, no, see it’s not a war it’s “major combat operations”. This is clearly a peace operation!! /s
We live in a poorly written satire. Nothing makes sense and the characters are dog shit and not believable.
Well you can’t make peace if there’s no war. You know full well he’s going to add this to his tally when it ends.
He stopped 87 wars in a year, so figures starting one is no biggie. 😬
He stopped the 100 years war, the 30 year war, the 7th year war, the great war(there was never a greater war) and world War Two. The greatest war stopping force that ever was.
This is the first country the US has attacked in my lifetime that can reasonably resist.
I am anxious.
This isn’t the first time we’ve attacked Iran
True, but this feels different.
If I had to guess, it’s because up until now you’ve held the assumption that the people in power know what they’re doing for the most part, and nobody was a dying felon in his last years on earth terrified of going to prison for raping children.
Now you are under no such illusions, and the people in charge ARE dying felons that rape children and have no morals, and the government doesn’t even want to try and check or balance itself.
Yep, that put it into words.
last time a CSG wasn’t in the gulf of Arabia, this time the Abe Lincoln CSG is in the Arabian gulf near the strait of Hormuz, well in range of Iranian ballistic missiles and IRCG USV swarms. It wouldn’t surprise me if they took losses of surface vessels.
Iran isn’t going to do shit. They couldn’t stop the US the last time they attacked, they won’t now.
They will not attack the US. They will strike Israel. That is all. It’s not the USA who wants to fight Iran. It’s the Zionists in the government who try to protect Israel.
They will obliterate the Israel.
Utterly deluded, and I hate that genocidal wart on Earth’s face.
No, it’s not. Iran will strike Israel very actively. Simply because it is harder to strike the US, so all the anger will be pointed towards easier enemy. While I also hate genocide wars, this one even has a potential of using nuclear weapons.
Can they though?
Pretty hard to resist a massive bombing campaign, no matter how many soldiers you have.
why are you anxious? americans voted for WWIII.
President Trump confirms the U.S. military has begun “major combat operations” in Iran. He posted an eight-minute-long video on Truth Social.
Going with the George W tactic I see
In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump has told the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms, saying “You will be treated fairly with total immunity or you will face certain death.”
Trump has accused Iran of developing long range missiles that threaten the US and others.
He said the US will “raze their missile industry to the ground” and “annihilate their navy”.
So uh isn’t the Islamic Republican Guard responsible for the extremely brutal response to the recent civillian protests?
And even a few days ago would enter hospitals to further injure and abuse said protesters now in hospital, also prevent doctors from treating them?They get total immunity?
Total immunity and jobs working for ice
There is a decent possibility that he did it cause he was jelly of the protester crackdown.
How convenient for the Iranian government, now they can call protestors US backed terrorists, crush them even harder and consolidate support. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ayatollah is in on this.
This is just setting up for Israel’s expansion plans, they’re very open about what they want to do and what land they want to claim. Iran is powerful but doesn’t stand a chance against US and Israel combined, even if the US only commits air power.
US gets to spend trillions on a no-boots* war to enrich investors and donors and distract from Epstein, Israel gets to send its army in for more protracted, house-to-house murder sessions now that it’s nearly done with wiping Gaza off the map. That’s all they want, huge, hateful, Crusades 2.0 and US evangelicals want Israel to start World War 3 so Jeeeesus comes back, and that’s not even a joke or exageration for the most part.
Israel will probably feel emboldened by their success in manipulating America and decide they can control Iran’s dissidents and set up their own puppet ruler after they carpet bomb the cities to dust.
* just a few boots bro, I promise bro, we’ll get in and out real fast, just a few months tops, come on bro, just a couple boots. Limited operation, just support, I promise bro. Do it for a college tuition?
Definitely not. You’re assuming Iran wins the war with small enough losses that it doesn’t set up the regime’s fall. This is far from a likely outcome.
Does not need to win just needs to have some minor to medium damages.
By “win” I mean “survive without regime change” (which automatically implies dealing enough damage that they’re left alone). Even that is far from guaranteed.
The US couldn’t even beat the Houthis. I, for one, don’t feel like it’s time to be beating our chests.
There are consequences for putting legitimately incompetent people in charge.
That was very different RoE. There are reports that we’ve bombed some schools, and the implication at this point is that the regime and the military no longer gives a shit about that sort of thing. The strikes on the Houthis did, at some level, have some restraint compared to this shit.
This isn’t me “beating my chest”. I’m simply pointing out that any limited faith I had in US military leadership ultimately doing “the right thing” in a domestic context is rapidly diminishing.
The strikes on the Houthis did, at some level, have some restraint compared to this shit.
Like that residential building y’all bombed to get that Houthi guy hanging out with his girlfriend? Whatever restraint was exercised in the Houthi bombings was strictly performative; the real difference between these two cases is the possibilities of US boots on the ground.
I mean, I thought that was super fucked up and almost certainly illegal too, and I am by no means trying to excuse or justify it when I say the following: there is a significant difference of degree between a targeted strike that kills the target and the target’s girlfriend, and bombing a school and killing 51 children (which is the last count I saw).
Both are bad. One is a lot worse than the other.
The websites of several Iranian news agencies are down, including the official state media outlet IRNA, which said it was hacked.
Mobile phone services have been cut in Iran after Israeli attack, according to a report from Associated Press.
A Tehran resident and local journalist, said landlines in Tehran were down and only mobile phones had sporadic reception.
This is not going to be good.
World history, 10,000 BC - Current
It was inevitable though. You don’t put two aircraft carriers in the area to just negotiate.
It was avoidable. All we had to do was elect a ham sandwich president. Jesus fucking Christ anyone but neo-hitler
