The U.S. has paused bombing Iran for a third straight night after senior Trump administration officials reportedly warned the president about dwindling munitions stockpiles. In response, Iran said it would pause retaliatory strikes against U.S. bases across the Middle East. Over the weekend, the Pentagon updated its official war casualty database, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The new figures show that 18 U.S. troops have been killed and 624 wounded since the U.S. launched its war against Iran back in February. The Pentagon is separating the casualty figures: Deaths and injuries after the ceasefire ended on July 7 are listed in a separate database labeled generically as “overseas operations casualties.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying one sailor was killed and another injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of passing on to Iran its satellite observations in the Middle East, allowing Iran to launch attacks across the region. This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit the White House Tuesday for the first time since the U.S. and Israel started bombing Iran in February.
Despite the lull in fighting, Britain said its armed forces were ready to defend itself after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned the U.K. not to allow U.S. bombers to fly from U.K. bases. On Thursday, the IRGC claimed that the U.S. had flown bombing missions against Iran from Fairford Air Base in southwest England.
What the hell are we even bombing at this point?
Trump threatened that the US would destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant any time its forces attack a ship in the Strait of Hormuz not even a week ago.
You know, war crimes.
Worldwide attention on the Epstein Files
Schools, bridges, hospitals, power plants, water facilities, etc… You know war crimes.
That’s fucking sad
Coming up next: Repurposing factories for wartime production!
At least 18 people have died for this bullshit. Three people were killed in Benghazi and they were all people who worked there and the republicans dragged those hearings out for years. Trump better get raked over the fucking coals for illegally using the military and getting those people killed.
At least 18 people have died for this bullshit.
It gives a rather bad impression if you put the lower bound of people killed at the number of US soldiers who are confirmed killed.
For example there is this one big position of 120 school children that should definitely also count as people who died for this bullshit.
I assume that was just clumsy writing, but I had to say something.
I agree that everyone dragged into this bullshit should count, but the morons who run my stupid country are only going to look at the one number.
Yeah I agree on that count.
You don’t win a war by bombing. How many times must the US be taught this lesson?
Oh wait. American education system. I withdraw my comment.
If running out of munition is what ends this bullshit, that’d be hilarious (in a dark way.)
The US has isolated itself from so much of the world, destroying its own global supply chains, alienating former allies. If they need resources from another country to continue this campaign, they’ll be shit out of luck.
Meanwhile, now the rest of the world knows the US is weakened. Fantastic job.
This is what happens when people with more money than sense get into power. Trump managed to bankrupt casinos - he clearly doesn’t pay attention to his resources before using them. Rich people act like everything can be solved by throwing money at problems, but there’s a hard, physical limit to everything - in this case, it takes time and resources to make more munitions. All the money in the world won’t make that happen faster.
I mean we almost definitely need the resources in Mexico.
Ok anyone making any kinds of governing decisions or military decisions should be required to play SimCity and any RTS of their choice until they are at least competent at it. Take StarCraft or AoE for example, you never attack an enemy without having your mining, barracks, and supply lines put together first.
Soviet Republic: Workers & Resources would be a good fit for your list.
Everyone is saying this war is stupid, pointless, useless… but have you ever considered how important it is for Pedohitler to distract people from the fact that
HE AND HIS FRIENDS FUCKING RAPED KIDS???
Many of them surely still are. And will.
So they used up all our ammunition on nonsense. What happens when someone else decides to take advantage of that now
edit: fair warning I’m not doing great so I’m more prone to doomposting. which this is. anyway:
We Balkanize, the good bits get snatched up by other nation states, and the shit bits get snatched up by private militias. Or, with no conventional munitions left to defend ourselves we start a nuclear war. Or, slim chance here, people vote against this despite Democrats sabotaging the process and then hold them accountable for consistently fucking this up for the last forever, and we reach a kind of degraded equilibrium, american empire declines, chinese empire rises, and MLs tie themselves in knots trying to justify China doing thebjinds if things necessary for maintaining a global empire
Oh, and the Enlightenment dies. Like you think its dead now, just wait.
I’ve been on that doomer train too. I hope you can find some kind of personal peace.
This is why I think China stopped buying millions of barrels of oil. They knew if the price of oil shot to 300$/barrel he would have stopped nearly immediately. The fact oil stayed relatively low meant they could keep bombing and use up all their munitions. Now China has the perfect opportunity to take Taiwan. If they buy up a bunch more oil all the sudden that means they’ll be attacking Taiwan soon.
This is the equivalent of Ireland running out of booze.
And this is why you dont just hand the keys to our munitions wharehouses to Israel while making sure its not tracked.
Trump: Boom, boom, kaboom! Keep throwing all the bombs and missiles!! Yayy!!!
Advisor: Sir, we are running out of munitions.
Trump: Did I stutter, piggy?
Seriously, that’s how I imagined Trump is-- like a child he is being amazed with bombs, explosives and lights.
So in theory Canada could walk across the border and grab some states?
I say that in jest of course.
Yes, we wouldn’t want to be corrupted by their free healthcare.
You get free healthcare, but you now have to speak french. Deal? :p
Just burn the Whitehouse down again.
Its already a bombsite. Better to shell that florida nonce-camp he calls a home.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Canada would not take on any US states even if we begged them on our knees.
I don’t think most people understand that the US doesn’t have huge stockpiles of the more advanced weaponry needed to perform in a modern contested environment. Yeah, we can bomb the shit out of a country without modern defenses, but to bomb a country with advanced military capabilities (or being shadow-supplied advanced capabilities by China) you need to use the new shit, which is both expensive and slow to produce.
So I understand why a normal person might think it is simply a moral issue to start randomly bombing the shit out of another country for funsies, but the fucking President of the US, aka the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, should understand that we need those strategic stockpiles if anything else happens that is ACTUALLY important… maybe defending an invasion of Taiwan? He is actively weakening the US, and China and Russia have to be salivating about it.
if anything else happens that is ACTUALLY important
Then his leadership and tactical brilliance will…
Oh, we’re fucked, right?
Yeah, the US military has been running on fumes for a while. 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan ran the US military into the ground. Lots of bad procurement decisions and profiteering doomed any adventures the US was going to get involved with, like this one.
Lol. It hurt itself in its capitalism.
Occupy Cascadia!
