• THCDenton
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    641 month ago

    How I sleep during this shit after watching nearly 40 years of proxy wars unfold

  • @sbv
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    451 month ago

    Oh wow, this is the first news I got on Lemmy before MSM.

    They say you always remember your first. 🥲

  • clara
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    261 month ago

    oh god they’re actually doing it

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      It was going to happen eventually. Netanyahu fucked around and now we’re in the find out territory.

  • nukeOPM
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    1 month ago

    First wave of Iranian drones are in the air

    Second wave

  • clara
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    201 month ago

    citing abc news (link here), us official says 400 to 500 drones

    unconfirmed reports of ballistic missiles in the air too, it’s all osint right now so no good source on that yet, if i get one i’ll add it as a reply

    • @[email protected]M
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      71 month ago

      update 2: these were confirmed, but only later. ultimately, it was: 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, all intercepted outside israeli airspace, and 120 ballistic missiles, most intercepted outside israeli airspace. some noncritical damage to nevatim AB (east of beersheba)

    • clara
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      71 month ago

      okay, here’s al jazeera reporting on the ballistic missile, it’s a one liner but it’s something

      this is a saturation attack imo, the question is, at what target?

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        At this point I believe the shaheds are manufactured in Russia. I know at minimum some quantity of them are.

        • @[email protected]M
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          91 month ago

          if you’re refering to facility in alabuga, then they’re making hulls, but not sure about the entire rest of the drone. russians are also clearly capable of making warheads

  • Icalasari
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    161 month ago

    2024 oddly feels like the right year for WWIII to start

    • @[email protected]
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      -41 month ago

      How many more concurrent wars do we need before we call it ww3? Some would argue we are already in ww3.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 month ago

        There are currently no superpowers (US/China) actively engaged in conflicts with boots on the ground.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          Technically only US is a superpower. China isn’t quite there yet.

          We can be in ww3 without US being involved.

          • @[email protected]
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            91 month ago

            I’d argue that China has achieved superpower status at this point. But I agree with you that there could be a third world war without the US, just like last time. However, it’d be difficult to have such a war without a superpower. Last time, we had a few more of those.

            • raktheundead
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              I think the PRC lacks something in the soft power stakes; they’ve created some degree of good will outside the West, but they suck at projecting cultural output that doesn’t stem from the imperial Chinese era.

  • JoYo
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    151 month ago

    not true i was taking a nap. the missiles look cute tho, 7/10

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      I mean, of course the missiles look good

      1. They fly; and
      2. They were produced by a military industrial company
    • lad
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      251 month ago

      With that username of yours I’m pretty scared already

      • nukeOPM
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        291 month ago

        Me? I’m innocent

        • @verity_kindleM
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          51 month ago

          That’s the Elephant’s Foot with googly eyes stuck on it.

  • @verity_kindleM
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    111 month ago

    Oh shit, I put down my shit to go learn about fruit tree grafting in the meatspace and that’s when the boogaloo kicks off.

    • @verity_kindleM
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      21 month ago

      Someone downvoted this. It is the fruit, then, sirrah? You dislike my grafts?

      • @Vendetta9076
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        41 month ago

        I think they were upset about meatspace when you should be using the far superior meatrix

      • @verity_kindleM
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        11 month ago

        Another?! Have at thee, varlet! From NCD’s heart, I spit at thee.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    I’d stay awake if there was an actual fight like an air skirmish.

    spoiler

    You know kind of like the one in 2019 when the PAF shot down an IAF pilot

    But noooooooooooooooo

    They spent 200+ drones and rockets to hit some AF trashcans and called it a success.

    mfw Israel is just gonna air strike inside Iran with impunity because they don’t have a competent airforce.

    At least they got the USA to say they won’t get directly invovled :/

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    Iran bought into their own propaganda and thought they can actually do something this stupid and achieve any kind of success. LMAO at Iran. They should pray there wouldn’t be any severe repercussions and I don’t believe there wouldn’t, Israel and US have been waiting for a reason to cripple that totalitarian hellhole for years, it would even help Ukraine too as Iran is the best buddy of Russia these days.

  • @anticurrent
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    51 month ago

    Me, waiting eagerly to see a huge spike in oil prices once trading resumes.