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.

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    tRUMP started an illegal campaign

    Oh really? Did he sail down there and do it all by himself? Or was it the US Military that did it?
    Like it or not Trump is President of USA because the American people elected him!

    So it is indeed true that US started the illegal campaign, and bombed a girls school, and the people of USA are as guilty in this as the German people were about the Nazi atrocities of WW2.

    You don’t get to wash your hands for the entire population of USA, that chose to vote for the obvious psychopath, and the about a third of the population of USA that still support Trump and what the administration is doing.

    Like it or not, this is America, this is who you are now!!!

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      This person is right. All of America is MAGA in the eyes of the world. It will continue to be MAGA until it revolts and crushes their leaders and their families and their businesses and their way of life. Until then, every American is MAGA or a coward, and I honestly don’t know which is worse.

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        The difference between the US being 100% MAGA or being 30% MAGA seems negligible, given that MAGA policy happens either way.

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          Don’t take this badly, but when it comes to military aggression on far away countries, most of Americans were MAGA before that slogan even existed - this shit, spending money to enable this shit and putting in place the policies that allow this shit to easilly be made to happen was all done with bipartisan approval and that of most Americans.

          The only Americans not MAGA in this sense are the ones who have always been anti-War.

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        All of America is MAGA in the eyes of the world

        Well then the “world” is wrong. Stop being so fucking stupid and abandoning factual reality.

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          You sound like that Tesseract guy. It must be everyone else that’s wrong. Not Americans. Factual reality is that Americans caused this mess and no amount of “I didn’t vote that way” whining will change how you’re viewed.

          I know my opinion isn’t popular, not even with me, but this is the way it is now.

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            I know my opinion isn’t popular

            Your opinion is wrong, factually. It is based on an incredibly poor understanding of the situation. You’re just looking to excuse your bigotry.

            Some Americans are to blame, some are not. Which incredibly simple concept are you not getting? Democracy? Or the fact that the US is made up of more than one individual?

            There is no logical basis for your bullshit argument and thankfully, no matter how presumptuous and pompous you apparently are, you don’t speak for the entire rest of the world.

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              Check the rest of the replies to your comments. Even your fellow countrymen are siding with me.

              When you commented on the Japanese deserving to be bombed, no the individuals did not. Did Japan deserve to be bombed? Yes, just not with atomic weapons. Similarly, do all Americans deserve to suffer? No. Does America? Absolutely. The fact that you can’t understand that who your country is internationally is who you the American citizen are, just further lends weight to my argument.

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          Unfortunately unlike previous decades, you Americans don’t get to ignore the other 98% of humanity. Welcome to the century of American humiliation. You chose it, you live with the consequences.

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            You’re the one ignoring a huge chunk of our population. Shove your hypocrisy up your ass.

            Oh, and also apparently we’re simultaneously policing the globe but also ignoring it entirely?

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              Ignoring the wants and agency of the globe is not incompatible with ‘policing’ the globe, especially given the style of American ‘policing’ is killing random fishermen and triple tapping girls schools.

              And who cares about a large chunk of your population that is apparently powerless and too pathetic to do anything to stop the war crimes the US has been committing every single day of every single year since its founding.

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                Ignoring the wants and agency of the globe is not incompatible with ‘policing’ the globe, especially given the style of American ‘policing’ is killing random fishermen and triple tapping girls schools.

                Well yeah it is, by definition. If we’re engaging with the rest of the world in any way, we’re not ignoring it. Don’t move the goalposts, you dishonest piece of shit.

                What country are you from? Or you another pussy on this site that refuses to divulge because you know what’ll happen? We all know you won’t.

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      the entire population of USA, that chose to vote for the obvious psychopath

      lolwut? You think his election was unanimous?

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        There is obviously election interference. There was a mailbox on fire in a blue city, bomb threats called where dem voters were. There was no evidence for interference in 2020 and it has piled up for 2024. When I voted my notification paper did not come out of the machine. They have gerrymandered everything and are doing everything to discriminate against women and black people so that it’s harder for them to vote.

        Using google, Amazon, or Microslop? Because there is a reason these assholes have all this power. That’s why I’m doing a lot to protect privacy, big corps, and fight facism that way.

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      the people of USA are as guilty

      You’re right to say he was elected. Which means it’s a really stupid oversight on your part to say it’s “all” Americans guilty for it, considering quite a few of us did NOT vote to elect him.

      You don’t get to wash your hands for the entire population of USA

      That’s correct. Neither do you get to implicate the entire population.

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        As a nation Americans as a collective of a nation are guilty.
        No one else is responsible for the American government than Americans.

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        Thanks for that. Damn. I’m so tired of getting buried under fascism and getting beat up for someone else’s shit at the same time.

        They should try being LGBT here right now.