Trump says he bombed Iran

[SteamyAmerican]

Can my cash down payment also be viewed as a mirage?

Taiwanese youth are connecting more and more with China/Chinese culture and as one Chinese leader said, we can wait for 100 years for them to come back to us.

Why do I think USA and Iran will end up back to square one where prior Presidents knew would be the only place to land? This is not about nukes, it's about Israel first, IMO. Once that genocidal Zionist maniac gets enough of whatever he thinks he wants or needs for his wet dreams to become reality, then he may stop, but I'm not holding my breath because his expansionist goals include a few other countries, yet to be invaded.

Yup. Spot-on.

I think Israel, and Bibi specifically know this is the last gasp and hurrah as they have the “most Jewish president ever”, and the veil is being lifted. The world over.

Coupled with a psychopathy that doesn’t care about what the world thinks in spite of their “hasbara” efforts.

After all, no explanation is needed when the world sees their actions in real-time 4k and the soldiers are more than happy as is their leadership to inflict atrocity after torture after humiliation upon anyone daring to stand in their way.

Hell. The sister of the Irish prez and many others just found out all too well.

Diplomacy be damned. It’s their time to shine!

[govshill2]

Does that mean I will be seeing plenty of ocean-front mirages in 50 degree heat? lol

Is Iran properly equipped by this time with Russian arms?

"Iran and Russia have deepened their military cooperation through a secret €500 million arms deal signed in December 2025, under which Russia agreed to supply 500 Verba man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) and 2,500 9M336 infrared-guided missiles over three years to rebuild Iran’s air defenses damaged during the June 2025 war with Israel. 
Beyond this specific deal, Russia has supplied Iran with significant military hardware, including:

• Su-35 Fighter Jets: A contract for 48 advanced combat aircraft to be delivered between 2026 and 2028.
  
• Mi-28 Attack Helicopters: Up to six units delivered by January 2026, despite active Russian use in Ukraine.
  
• Yak-130 Trainer Jets: At least one squadron delivered starting in 2024 for pilot training.
  
• Tactical Equipment: Spartak armored vehicles and Orsis T-5000M sniper rifles, which have been observed in Iranian military exercises and used for internal security. 
  

This military aid is part of a reciprocal arrangement where Iran supplies Russia with Shahed-136 drones and Fateh-360 ballistic missiles for use in the war in Ukraine, while Russia provides Iran with advanced conventional weapons.  Analysts note that while these supplies enhance Iran’s capabilities, the Verba MANPADS are limited to low-altitude targets and may not significantly deter high-altitude U.S. or Israeli strikes." (LLM)

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n...cle-887621

They are supplying nuke-tech too         always have been       

[SteamyAmerican]

They are supplying nuke-tech too         always have been       

Oh? Proof please.

Iran could probably figure it out themselves like some DIY hobbyists have. Ain’t that hard.

Israel just steals it. Or forces America to assimilate and share ours.

And if anyone has to say anything about their non-existent program, like JFK did with Dimona or Regan did about not supplying weapons at the time, well, they have contingencies

Samson. Ahem.

[CriticalStinker]

I have to ignore vast amounts of stupidity to know what reality is.

And what’s that, the billionaires making billions off of access to the most powerful government in the world are doing so in the best interest of everyday Americans?

It’s different this time because they are supporting the R’s? Same tech companies, war mongers, ect?

Record debt, more inflation, average first time home buyer now 40… but we’ve saved the country?

[quintessentone]

And what’s that, the billionaires making billions off of access to the most powerful government in the world are doing so in the best interest of everyday Americans?

It’s different this time because they are supporting the R’s? Same tech companies, war mongers, ect?

Record debt, more inflation, average first time home buyer now 40… but we’ve saved the country?

Definitely not in the interests of everyday Americans, so as the Colonel asks, it's "All For What?"

Ret. Col. Macgregor says it like it is.

[Orby]

It's not their land - period. They are invading sovereign nations and as you say it never brings peace, and IMO that is never the intention or prime motivation to invade in the first place.

I don't know who has a right to any land. It's all crazy really that things like nation states or human ownership exists anywhere. We can all go the hippie route and do a Nelson Mandella and start supporting the new ANC the so called human invention the Palestinians. It's all very quaint and possibly righteous. Yet you will be going against a pretty powerful state in Israel and a movement that is pretty successfully carving out a home in the eastern Mediterrannean. Nothing will stop it. Too far down the line. The Jews have recovered from the disaster of living in Europe and are a force once again. Half in their homeland and half in the States. As long as the USA is the worlds policeman and half the worlds Jews live there, I promise you, nothing will change.

[SteamyAmerican]

Definitely not in the interests of everyday Americans, so as the Colonel asks, it's "All For What?"

Ret. Col. Macgregor says it like it is.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgYdurDEmA]

Hey now.

These powerful rich men that are gonna take us to the stars understand that clean air and water, the ability to feed one’s family, and the personal quest to find meaning in this life is small price to pay.

I mean why should plebs and eaters everywhere even find a reason to gripe about inflation, rising energy prices sneakily attached to their personal utilities, or war even need to have a say on this planet anyway.

Good thing if you speak up about any of this (looking at you 7/10 Americans), just know your local and federal authorities are now deeming you a violent domestic extremist. And you don’t even have to belong to a militia or gun-club. Your concerns online for your grandchildren are duly noted as was the locker-room talk and sewing circles post-9/11. It’s for your own security that you don’t express your 1A right to dissent against progress and the Greater Israel Project.

I digress. Really Big Tech and their surveillance temples, er um data centers are gonna super-charge AI so that the life of luxury we are living gets exponentially better. Just like the Underpants Gnomes in South Park.

Sure they may be used to target you in a drone strike in the future, but it’s a small price to pay to ensure our security right meow!

”Something, something about Liberty and Security….”

[SteamyAmerican]

I don't know who has a right to any land. It's all crazy really that things like nation states or human ownership exists anywhere. We can all go the hippie route and do a Nelson Mandella and start supporting the new ANC the so called human invention the Palestinians. It's all very quaint and possibly righteous. Yet you will be going against a pretty powerful state in Israel and a movement that is pretty successfully carving out a home in the eastern Mediterrannean. Nothing will stop it. Too far down the line. The Jews have recovered from the disaster of living in Europe and are a force once again. Half in their homeland and half in the States. As long as the USA is the worlds policeman and half the worlds Jews live there, I promise you, nothing will change.

Not much debate from me here. Time will tell how much the world can be shoved.

I’d just advise that you may be unfortunately more right than you think.

And not in the way you do.

[quintessentone]

I don't know who has a right to any land. It's all crazy really that things like nation states or human ownership exists anywhere. We can all go the hippie route and do a Nelson Mandella and start supporting the new ANC the so called human invention the Palestinians. It's all very quaint and possibly righteous. Yet you will be going against a pretty powerful state in Israel and a movement that is pretty successfully carving out a home in the eastern Mediterrannean. Nothing will stop it. Too far down the line. The Jews have recovered from the disaster of living in Europe and are a force once again. Half in their homeland and half in the States. As long as the USA is the worlds policeman and half the worlds Jews live there, I promise you, nothing will change.

It seems to me that the imperialism/colonization/invasion way of governing and leading the people of a country has and always will be alive and well, damn the genocide of other cultures, damn following international laws about torturing and killing civilians, damn the torpedoes. It does sound like insanity, doesn't it?

I'm not too sure that nothing will stop Israel because all the USA has to do is stop supplying them with weapons of war, I mean really, what other countries are allies with Israel enough so as to fight their wars for them, unless they are being blackmailed?

Nothing will change, in that, everything will revert back to how it always ends up, with Iran signing a nukes agreement, but not really, and Israel keeping whatever land they managed to acquire by invasion and genocidal means - until their leader has another wet dream that he wants to make reality and can coerce the USA into joining them again because....the terrorist boogeyman is at it again.

Edit to add:

What the hell does 'tone down the fighting' mean between Israel and Hezbollah, as is in the news?

[Orby]

Not much debate from me here. Time will tell how much the world can be shoved.

I’d just advise that you may be unfortunately more right than you think.

And not in the way you do.

They're on a mission and I don't think the whole world combined can stop them. By transplanting half their people into the most powerful country in recorded history there is nothing anybody else can do. As long as they control parts of the the political and economic sphere then expect lots more of the same. Those 'birthright' programmes, brainwashing young kids from New York that the land was given to them by G-d and it is their right to recolonise it. It's something to watch. Hundreds of American kids being brainwashed by the instructors. Next stop IDF service. Who knows they for themselves are doing the right thing. I don't know. I just observe. Yet it's unstoppable. They are literally on a mission and as an observor its inredible to watch. They're up for it. Really up for it. A few backwards militaries and stone throwers are not going to stop them. Nothing is going to change.