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3 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

I’d be interested to know Iran’s aims since ‘82. Hezbollah was borne out of Lebanese resistance to Israel’s invasion in ‘82, which of course was directly related to Arafat and PLO shenanigans. At some point shortly thereafter, Iran cozied up to Hezbollah, and later with Hamas and the Houthis. What did they hope to achieve with any of these initiatives?

Don't overthink it.  Those groups cause unrest that ties down Israeli's military (and the Houthis help fuck around with Saudi Arabia), and it extends Iran's footprint all the way to the Mediterranean and is a buffer between Israel and Syria.

Even if those groups that Iran helps support are Sunni, they are still keeping the Shiites in the conversation of which Muslim sect works against the Jews more, but a lot of this is also about protecting Syria, because if something happened in Syria, Iran starts to get really isolated.

2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

sullivan briefing: 200+ missiles, situation fluid, significant escalation, there will be consequences, will agree with israel on what and how

How about hitting some drone and missile factories that happen to help supply Russia?

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Posted (edited)

SIAP but holy crap check below if you want to see the unluckiest person in the world walking down the street in the West Bank get unalived by a falling Iranian rocket fuselage, like Wile E Coyote and a falling anvil...

Allegedly the only casulty of the attack so far...wow


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War is hell

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'm not entirely sure.

My hypothesis has long been that Iran is a heavy-handed autocratic state.  And a standard play for heavy-handed autocratic states, to keep the attention of their people on outward foes instead of their simmering dissatisfaction with the shitty regime at home, is to gin up a foreign enemy (see, e.g., the heavy-handed autocratic Argentine right-wing gov't ginning up a war with the UK over the Falklands in 82).  There's no good reason that the nation state of Iran should have such enmity with Israel.  So, the explanation has to be something like "distract the public."  I bet 956 and Inka have a more educated take on this.

Much of Iran's backing of Hezbollah was because they were a poor, disgruntled, almost entirely Shia faction in Lebanon that was pretty pissed off that the Sunni and Christian majority were somewhat cozy neighbors and were the wealthiest in the land.  They (Hezbollah) wanted no part of that, and Iran was happy to weaponize them.  

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31 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

those mountain command centers - they have entry ways and exits. they have ventilation shafts. big items had to get in there somehow. 

if you can’t blow it up, you shut them in. i’ll guess idf has it all mapped out. idf / us missiles are very damn accurate. might have on the ground help too, pointing a laser at a tight target. 

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Posted
40 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

SIAP but holy crap check below if you want to see the unluckiest person in the world walking down the street in the West Bank get unalived by a falling Iranian rocket fuselage, like Wile E Coyote and a falling anvil... Allegedly the only casulty of the attack so far...wow


NSFW

War is hell

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I should feel awful for posting that.

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Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Can we assume that was a Palestinian that got squashed?

 

this looks like a cartoon. the other video wouldn’t load for me …

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

If that's what they are telling their people, they maybe a bit scared of their people.

They will at some point in the next few weeks carry out a terrorist attack on their own people and blame Israel.

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Posted
1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

this looks like a cartoon. the other video wouldn’t load for me …

 

Picked a bad time to go for a late night falafel. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, JBJ said:

They will at some point in the next few weeks carry out a terrorist attack on their own people and blame Israel.

So it'll be like the Iranian version of the NCAA sanctioning the Appalachian School for Deaf Coal Miners because of what Alabama did?

Posted
20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

So it'll be like the Iranian version of the NCAA sanctioning the Appalachian School for Deaf Coal Miners because of what Alabama did?

You think those guys don't cheat just because they're deaf?

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Fuckers always laying on late hits after the whistle blows.

Sitting down in their coal mines the week before the game plotting all that stuff out with that Secret Sign Language like they do. Like wizards casting spells. I'm scared of em.

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Posted
40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

So it'll be like the Iranian version of the NCAA sanctioning the Appalachian School for Deaf Coal Miners because of what Alabama did?

No, I mean they'll attack their own to maintain fear/control among their own populace, but they will tell the international community it was Israel (or the US).

Posted
14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I'm not entirely sure.

My hypothesis has long been that Iran is a heavy-handed autocratic state.  And a standard play for heavy-handed autocratic states, to keep the attention of their people on outward foes instead of their simmering dissatisfaction with the shitty regime at home, is to gin up a foreign enemy (see, e.g., the heavy-handed autocratic Argentine right-wing gov't ginning up a war with the UK over the Falklands in 82).  There's no good reason that the nation state of Iran should have such enmity with Israel.  So, the explanation has to be something like "distract the public."  I bet 956 and Inka have a more educated take on this.

I think you got it, but add it is also an inner Islam fight that is going on. Iran wants to push the Shia line hard and not let those dang Sunni have all the fun and be seen as the legitimate hard line vs. Israel and the west. The Shia crescent is real yo.

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48 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

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uh, what "surly rule" was violated here?

 

36 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

Immamac'd!

Racism and repeated personal attacks will usually get your peepee whacked

Posted
1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

Imma judgement. Probably didn’t like the hijab comment. He’s too busy posting in CR to see Fantana baselessly accuse me of being a racist page ago in this very thread, using an epithet for emphasis. And Brisket baselessly accuse me of supporting genocide and effectively also calling me a racist. Imma probably happens to agree with the Russian bot bullshit Fantana responds with EVERY SINGLE TIME Prong Horn makes a post. The whole cycle is a joke as is a 30-day timeout. But whatever. 

Sounds about right. Captaincunt and Fuckbanana have been stalking Pronghorn for months calling him a russian plant/bot/propagandist, but I guess that's not "repeated personal attacks".

And the "racism" card on this is hilarious. If I tell you to "Loosen the dirndl your wife makes you wear.  You'll feel better." is that also racism?

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Posted
3 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

And the "racism" card on this is hilarious. If I tell you to "Loosen the dirndl your wife makes you wear.  You'll feel better." is that also racism?

This might not be the best example to use in this specific thread, homie. Yikes.

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