Trump says he bombed Iran

[Sky727]

The 4th US service man has passed away from injuries he received earlier. RIP Sir 

[Sky727]

How all this can affect CHINA which may have been a certain percentage of the reason for the conflict to begin with.  Lord make it so !

[angelchemuel]

How all this can affect CHINA which may have been a certain percentage of the reason for the conflict to begin with.  Lord make it so !

[Video: https://youtu.be/P0MpfQsGt7E]

I was just thinking of the 'repercussions' further afield and particularly to China just yesterday.
Going out to fuel up my car.
Rainbows
Jane

[cherokeetroy]

"IRAN IS BOMBING AMAZON AWS DATA CENTERS"

Today, Iranian missiles hit Amazon’s main Middle East data center and went offline 12 hours later: >SECOND data center in UAE just lost power
>Bahrain also hit
>AWS Bahrain now OFFLINE
>AWS officially told customers to failover to OTHER REGIONS
>“don’t rely on Middle East infrastructure right now”

>Anthropic runs on AWS
>Claude was used in the Iran strikes

"Iran Is Waging Data War on the UAE's AI Ambitions as They Go Up in Smoke. Amazon Web Services just confirmed objects struck its UAE data centre, sparking a fire and forcing a full shutdown of one Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region. This is not abstract infrastructure risk. This is the centrepiece of Abu Dhabi's multi-billion dollar bet to become the world's AI data hub going up in flames literally.

The UAE spent years positioning itself as the safe harbour for hyperscalers and frontier AI. OpenAI announced Stargate UAE, a 1 gigawatt mega data centre in Abu Dhabi with G42, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and SoftBank, first phase online by 2026. Microsoft took a 1.5 billion dollar stake in G42 after ripping out Huawei gear under US pressure. Trump-era deals promised American-managed cloud services across the region, with Abu Dhabi pledging to align national security regs with Washington. The pitch was tax free, energy rich, geopolitically stable, outside any conflict zone...."

Cont...

[CriticalStinker]

Watching just now.

Hegseth was full of the usual pish and tosh...

"We didn't start this war, but we'll finish it"

That's going to be a hard one to sell to a lot of Iranians. 

Especially of the hard-line sorts.

Sometimes I feel like they say things that will be loyalty tests for influencers. They have to say with conviction that we didn’t start this war.

He also said that this won’t be another Iraq. That’s a ballsy statement with limited returns. Best case scenario, we are in and out of a war most Americans didn’t ask for.

Worst case scenario is this blows up in our faces, and the memory of Republican presidents from 1992-2028 will be wars in the Middle East. Of course it’s more nuanced than that, as democrats supported these wars, I’m just saying how it will play in the public, and how democrats will conveniently change their messaging, as they’ve done before.

If we are going to capitulate to 2 parties that have to represent the broad spectrum of ideology for 350m~ Americans, at least we should have two competitive and robust groups of ideas. But many decades have shown it’s a race to the bottom where they only represent the donor class.

[putnam6]

"Saudi official to Al Jazeera: America has abandoned us, and focused its defense systems on protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf states that host its military bases at the mercy of Iranian missiles and drones."

https://x.com/Mark4XX/status/2028419567362474170?s=20

FWIW...

The person in the viral Al Jazeera clip—widely shared on X (including the original post you linked from
@Timepass1656178
)—is consistently described across reposts, captions, and discussions as a "Saudi official" or sometimes "Saudi analyst/commentator." However, no credible source (Al Jazeera reports, major news outlets like Reuters, AP, Middle East Eye, or NYT) names a specific individual

so we vet our MSM but we give Al Jazeera a pass FFS

[putnam6]

https://t.me/manniefabian/55669

Mannie's War Room
The Israeli military assesses that Iran is attempting to carry out larger and more coordinated ballistic missile barrages on Israel, which has resulted in longer lulls between attacks.

Missile barrages on Israel in the past day have consisted of 9-30 missiles at a time, with long breaks between each launch, according to the IDF Home Front Command.

Iran did not launch any ballistic missiles at Israel overnight.

This is in contrast to salvos of 2-3 projectiles, with shorter breaks between each launch, during the first day of the conflict.

The IDF believes Iran is struggling to coordinate even larger attacks, of dozens of missiles at a time, as the Israeli Air Force hunts down its launchers.

The Home Front Command also confirms that Iran fired a ballistic missile with a cluster bomb warhead at central Israel last night.


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[angelchemuel]

https://t.me/manniefabian/55669

I wonder how long it will take them to start running out of missiles and a '3rd party' steps in to re-arm them?
I'm assuming 'all eyes' will be watching for such an eventuality.
Rainbows
Jane
PS.... Macron just announced that the French will be increasing their nuclear arsenal. That's disturbing. No link as yet, just breaking news.

[cherokeetroy]

FWIW...


so we vet our MSM but we give Al Jazeera a pass FFS

Here's a Link to the original interview 

I  don't know his name,  he's described as a political analyst

ETA

It's Saudi political analyst and writer Suleiman Al-Aqili (سليمان العقيلي) on Al Jazeera Arabic.

[putnam6]

again FWIW

A Saudi political analyst (Suleiman Al-Aqili) made a similar statement on Al Jazeera today, claiming the US shifted air defenses to prioritize Israel amid Iran's retaliatory strikes on Gulf targets.

It's not from a Saudi government official, and no US/Saudi sources confirm any "abandonment" or redirection. Saudi and Qatar have intercepted Iranian drones/missiles near US bases, while the US reports air superiority over Iran in ongoing strikes.

Logic suggests that if the allies have air superiority, they can track and hunt down launch sites much more quickly