• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As Tehran residents evacuated the capital in increasing numbers, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, threatened to make Tehranis “pay the price” for Ali Khamenei’s decision to keep firing missiles at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli attack.

    This is literally an adult… saying “why are you hitting yourself”.

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      If anyone does. It’ll be Nosferatu. All to cover his own ass. Because once he’s out as pres he’s going to jail for a loooot of corruption apparently.

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      Does Iran have operational nukes? They’d probably respond in kind. If not, they’d probably launch basically everything they have at Israel.

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        Pakistan has made guarantees that they will retaliate with their nuclear weapons if a nuclear strike occurs on Iran.

        EDIT: I went to find a source and Pakistan has walked this back and are denying that they ever said it

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        Even if they don’t have any nukes that they developed themselves, there’s always the possibility they could’ve bought one or two from North Korea…

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        They do not, that’s kind of what this whole deal is about dude. And they’ve been launching what they have at Israel for a few days, it’s not much.

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          It’s not much? They broke through the iron dome, that’s a bit more than not much my dude.

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          Most countries, Israel included, don’t possess the material for a protracted war. Most Non-US countries can make war, at best, for six months.

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      I don’t think they will, but I’ve been thinking that one way Israel could get current and potential future enemies off their back for good would be if they finally showed the world that they do possess nukes and are not afraid to use them, possibly by making an example of someone. I do hope they won’t prove quite so callous.

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        If that happens (and I hope it doesn’t, but they’re crazy enough to do it), can the west stop supporting them and leave them to their own devices?

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      Yeah, he seems narcissistic enough that he really doesn’t think there would be consequences.

      Hopefully there are other people around him who doesn’t want the rest of the world aiming everything they have at them.

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    I would t call what Israel is doing as a genocide. Not yet at least. But we clearly are seeing how Russian air defenses are basically useless against American 5th Gen fighters.

    Maybe Russia needs to figure out their shit before they sell defensive systems that do nothing.

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      Hm, I’ve had this feeling that I can express thus: these missile exchanges, decoys, air defense saturation and “War of the Cities” feel like dry runs for nuclear exchanges. They are perfecting the launch and psychological warfare tactics.

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        Israel will never use a nuke. That would be the end of global economies. They care about money more than they care about nuking Iran. They don’t need to nuke them. They have complete air control. They can do whatever they want with explosives now.

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        It’s always serious and prep at the same time.

        They’re seriously fighting over resources and land, and prepping for the future wars to come because everyone knows the resource wars are around the corner