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Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an "unprecedented mass deployment" to Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Early 2000's era nostalgia goin real hard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Operation Desert Shield, redux, again. Hey at least the music of the era is relevant again

https://youtu.be/VI3C6MROOvY

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A-10 movement always preceeds ground deployments. They moved those to Kuwait at the end of March. This has been coming for a while, its not an unplanned thing like it appears.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

worry not. remember this is TACO Don... he'll chicken out again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He also said if he was president there'd be no more wars, so this obviously totally super duperly cannot happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a war, it's a special military operation.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

He openly calls service members suckers and losers. I dont know that he much cares whats done with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it seems fairly impossible he'll get fully into the war, and even lending a few bunker busters would be surprising when that's risking a blowback on American forces.

I would guess that Trump is expecting Khamenei to cave, because that's what he'd do. Most likely, he won't, Trump will be confused, and this will drag on and on until a regional nuclear exchange is on the table.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Who is exchanging nukes in that? Israel and who else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hasn't Iran been talking about ramping up nuclear weapons production since like the end of last year? I don't think they're actually a nuclear capable nation but I could see them posturing like they are

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Reciprocal nukes like Trump's reciprocal tariffs.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So NOW they want to have bases in Europe?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We need to fix the voting system. ALL pacs should be banned and campaign spending should be limited.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

US is going to be bankrupt by the time he is done his second term.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I mean, that's just on brand for him. If anything, he has shown a talent for bankrupcy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ueah. Yeah its pretty fucked.

The shitty thing is: this mother fucker woild love iranian culture. It's super good at all the shit he fakes like gold plated shit.

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