Gulf War No.37: Iranistan

[CXRAndy]

From very early on they mentioned 4 weeks. But as you know war isn't like baking a cake.

The Canadians are too woke these days, liberals waving placards

 

[Pross]

Re the US coverage of the 'double tap' bombing that killed 168 people, mostly 7-12yo girls...

https://www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-media-buries-story-of-us?utm_medium=web

"It’s difficult to scientifically measure relative media importance or emphasis, but there are some benchmarks one can use as a reference point for objective media priorities: Sunday Morning News shows, the front page of major newspapers, and Nightly News broadcasts. These aren’t exact metrics, but they’re a useful window into corporate media priorities, not just what is covered but what is highlighted, blared at media consumers, what is deemed worthy of national attention.

Using these as a guide for what US media finds important, it’s clear that the US-Israeli airstrike on a girls’ school in Minab, which, as of now, has the exact same death count as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, is of little importance.

The February 28 US-Israeli attack did not merit a single front-page story from February 28 to March 4 in The New York Times, The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal. These outlets did cover it, but relegated the story to the back pages, as in A11 for The Times. It was an afterthought to a much grander narrative of “Decapitation strikes” and “Iranian counterattacks”."

If 168 people, overwhelmingly little girls, were killed in a school bombing in Israel, there is little doubt it would have been plastered all over major newspapers, led nightly broadcasts, and been asked about on the Sunday News programs. But—as the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm—Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children’s deaths are simply factored in, they’re collateral damage in a noble War on Terror, a perhaps regrettable “claim” that’s always “being investigated” but never held to account, much less elevated to moral outrage or sustained media scandal. The box is checked, a reporter does a write-up, aspersions are cast with “Iranian state media” or “Hamas run health ministry” qualifiers, and everyone moves on. Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East “wars.”

The US doesn't seem to care about its own schoolkids being shot in multiple mass shootings each year and accept it as a price of the 'freedom to bear arms' so they're obviously not going to care about the schoolkids of an enemy nation.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Trump said it would only be a few days then a day later he said a few weeks and then a day later, 'a forever war'.
Can't the Iranians take the fukker out? Perhaps Canada should invade the US whilst their military is occupied elsewhere and attack ICE to do a regime change?

Funnily enough I had the same thought just yesterday.
Far fetched, I know, but fun to think about.

 

[Pross]

It's the other way around. Iran have been supplied Shahed drones by Russia. Oh and BTW, the drones factory is manned by very young men and it's high on the list of primary targets. Ukraine has hit munition dumps and recently, an ammonium factory essential to making munitions.
By the same token, though we don't have much clarity, how long before allies run out of defence missiles? Seems as though the US are depleting their stockpiles quickly.

Shahed drones originated in Iran and were supplied to Russia who now make some themselves.

 

[Pinno718]

Funnily enough I had the same thought just yesterday.
Far fetched, I know, but fun to think about.

'fun' ?! 😲

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Oh the irony, just as the US runs out of Patriot missiles which could have been put to very good use in Ukraine...

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Don’t tell me that the mighty US are having to go cap in hand to a war torn, barely European country? Their cupboard seems as bare as the UKs.
All rather pathetic, isn’t it?

 

[C R]

'fun' ?! 😲

The same kind of fun you'd have when you find two unlabelled bottles full of liquid and you wonder what would happen if you mix the liquids.

 

[C R]

 

[briantrumpet]

An excellent statement-by-statement debunking by BBC Verify of the US claims about the reasons for the Iran offensive (sorry, I can't find the video on the Verify page)

https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3mgcfx57lm22p

 

[Pinno718]

Shahed drones originated in Iran and were supplied to Russia who now make some themselves.

The debris from drones recovered in Dubai had Russian manufacturing inscriptions.

 

[Pinno718]

The same kind of fun you'd have when you find two unlabelled bottles full of liquid and you wonder what would happen if you mix the liquids and drink it.

FTFY

 

[briantrumpet]

The debris from drones recovered in Dubai had Russian manufacturing inscriptions.

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This is being questioned, apparently.

 

[Beebo]

Trump said the attack on Iran would only be a few days then a day later he said a few weeks and then a day later, 'a forever war'.
Can't the Iranians take the fukker out? Perhaps Canada should invade the US whilst their military is occupied elsewhere and attack ICE to do a regime change?

China must be laughing.
Russia and USA are both depleting their respective resources via pointless wars.
If China decided to take Taiwan or extend their positions in the south China seas no one could stop them.

 

[AndyRM]

FTFY

Beat me to it. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Pblakeney]

Trump said the attack on Iran would only be a few days then a day later he said a few weeks and then a day later, 'a forever war'.
Can't the Iranians take the fukker out? Perhaps Canada should invade the US whilst their military is occupied elsewhere and attack ICE to do a regime change?

Unfortunately, Canada is supporting the US on this one. Don't know why, yet.
Edit:- Please see my follow up post below/next page.