Middle East conflict

[facthunter]

I believe it's captioned Duck Donald.  Nev

[nomadpete]

6 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

I can't let that pass. You would have to be wholly ignorant of the last 40 years of history to think that Iran has not been a threat and an ongoing disrupter of western society, and the leading global sponsor of terrorism. I am very pleased that they have been interrupted in their quest for a nuclear weapon.

 

To argue that the problem is the mullahs and not the people of Iran is a specious argument. Every society must take responsibility for what its leadership does and bear the consequences, as did Germany and Japan.

I don't dispute that Iran has that history.

 

However, I disagree about the bombing interrupting their quest for nuclear or any other weapons. 

It surely proves to the people that if only they had some nuclear bombs (just like Israel) they would be less vulnerable to a foreign country bombing them (it works for Israel).

 

I don't see a positive side to any of it.

[red750]

[facthunter]

Someone  said the Population of IRAN is 8 Million. It's actually 93.7 Million.  A lot of the water is from Desal Plants in the South.  It's also quite a LARGE area with Teheran at 9300 feet altitude. Nev

[red750]

This image shows the type of terrain around Tehran.

 

[red750]

Another view from the opposite direction.

 

[pmccarthy]

Tehran terrain from one direction, terrain Tehran from the other.

[red750]

In addition to higher prices per litre, people are reporting that the pumps are saying they put more than the capacity of their tank in the car.  eg.  One person said their 80 litre car tank showed it took 92 litres. Another said their 10 litre jerry can took 15 litres on the pump.

[Marty_d]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Yeah, I bet it's a Big and Beautiful Gold Present. A golden bomb in the shape of Donald, specially delivered to him in person, by an Iranian courier!

They know just how much he loves getting personal, gold-plated presents!

 

Do Shahed drones come in gold?

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

In addition to higher prices per litre, people are reporting that the pumps are saying they put more than the capacity of their tank in the car.  eg.  One person said their 80 litre car tank showed it took 92 litres. Another said their 10 litre jerry can took 15 litres on the pump.

Fiddling with the meter is something that has been going on for ages. The problem in mounting a prosecution is determining whose hand fiddled with the setting. Also, there are not enough Weights and Measures inspectors to do the checking.

[randomx]

14 hours ago, red750 said:

In addition to higher prices per litre, people are reporting that the pumps are saying they put more than the capacity of their tank in the car.  eg.  One person said their 80 litre car tank showed it took 92 litres. Another said their 10 litre jerry can took 15 litres on the pump.

 

 

 

 

 

Makes me sick.

And you just watch the supermarkets cashing in on this over the next 6mths now too.

And it'll take Gov - not that they even worry the supermarkets anyway but 6mths later by the time they've even noticed, the supermarkets have made extra billions by then.

[facthunter]

I Put more than the tank holds in my vehicle when it still had fuel in it. Advertised at a discount, Never went there again. There are random checks I believe.  Nev 

[facthunter]

Any ethanol in the fuel will make it run leaner. I wouldn't risk it. Nev

[randomx]

Well everyone prob knows by now but today they say the US has presented Iran with a 15point plan , Iran's knocked it back and given the Yanks their own 5point plan.

See what plans we have tomorrow eh !

[willedoo]

Plastic jerry cans have a lot of headspace above the measure mark, but I can't see anyone fitting 15 litres in a 10 litre jerry can. My 20 litre jerry can would probably take 24 or 25, but the 10 litre one would probably only hold an extra two litres.

[old man emu]

Do you think the US Navy can open the Strait of Hormuz? Histroy might be repeated.

 

NB: This video is not AI. WQell known and long time creator of some good military stuff.

 

[onetrack]

There's a huge difference between armaments in 1945 and armaments in 2026. His comparison is meaningless. The Iranians are not the Japanese and the Americans control airspace right throught to all the satellites they own.

The bulk of Iranian rockets and drones are shot down. That's an expensive drain on their economy. They may inflict some damage on American equipment, but nothing like Okinawa.

[old man emu]

Yes, today's weapons are much better, but the logic remains. Thrown enough shit at a wall and some will stick. Swarms of cheap drones can overwhelm limited numbers of expensive rockets. What is needed are Australian designed anti-drone weapons. But Trump just insulted us, so why should we sell the US any of them?

[red750]

Has the question been asked, "How much petrol did service stations have in their tanks at the old price, before it started going up? And what price was paid for the reserves the Government are releasing? Who is making a handy profit?"

[red750]

From Occupy Democrats.

 

BREAKING: Trump is left reeling after the New York Times reveals that Iran’s attacks have bombed EVERY American military base in the Middle East so badly they are “virtually uninhabitable!” 

Thanks to the Trump administration’s criminal lack of preparation and shocking understimation of Iran’s military capabilities, the US military is now working remotely in the Middle East, putting civilians in danger as they work out of hotels and makeshift operations centers in civilian areas.

“The result, according to current and former military officials, is a war that is much harder to prosecute.”

The Times reports that “many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.”

Iranian officials have even accused the U.S. military of using civilians as human shields by putting American troops in hotels.

This is sure to prompt another furious tirade from Donald Trump who we now know is not getting the full picture of just how badly this war is going for him and is instead just getting a highlight reel of war porn, watching our tax dollars blow things up for two minutes every day. 

This is a perfect demonstration of the blind hubris of the Trump administration. After two decades of watching America uncontestedly bomb the poorest people in the world, Trump and Hegseth couldn’t even conceive of an enemy with a sophisticated military and able to fight back, despite all the evidence to the contrary. 

They took no preparations, expected no reprisals. They didn't evacuate anyone from the Middle East until AFTER the war had started. They didn't bother to prepare for drones. 

They attacked Iran because they are cowards and bullies, thinking that they could impose their will on Iran by simply killing one old man.

They were very, very, wrong, and now they’ve started a fire they cannot put out with lies and bombs.