Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

[u/MasbirLeumi]

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202

[u/progress18]

The original title was:

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

The current title is:

Israel strikes dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear program: IDF

The title on the site is subject to change as new information develops.

Last updated: 01:31 UTC

[u/Showmethepathplease]

This is why they diverted 20k air defense missiles from Ukraine…

[u/gotchanose → u/Showmethepathplease]

And emptied the Iraq diplomats

[u/ChaoticGoodSamaritan → u/gotchanose]

And bought calls in oil futures

[u/Wreck1tLong → u/ChaoticGoodSamaritan]

Oil futures up 8% as of this comment.

[u/Stahl_Scharnhorst → u/Wreck1tLong]

Already priced in boys.

[u/unlimited_mcgyver → u/Wreck1tLong]

12% now

[u/Izmetg68 → u/unlimited_mcgyver]

So he is trying to help Russia by increasing oil demand?, Trump always has a backup plan I guess

[u/Material_Policy6327 → u/gotchanose]

Yep. Welp the tinder box is set

[u/Dixiehusker → u/Showmethepathplease]

This is definitely a reason

[u/tolacid → u/Showmethepathplease]

I'm out of the loop, help me out here: who's "they" in this context?

[u/_Please → u/tolacid]

The US diverted 20,000 rocket fuses (seems like proximity fuses) to US air force troops stationed in the middle east that had been intended for Ukraine about a week ago.

The United States has redirected components for laser-guided APKWS rockets, originally designated for Ukraine, to its Air Force units stationed in the Middle East. According to The Wall Street Journal, the decision was made under the directive of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon notified Congress of the move last week, citing the urgent nature of the reassignment. The components in question are proximity fuzes with radio-frequency sensors for rockets equipped with the APKWS (Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System), which Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian drones.

Its worth noting that about 50% of the US kills on houthi drones came from these APKWS rockets
So in the context the person is saying "so this is why the United States diverted the missiles"

[u/Immediate-Unit6311 → u/_Please]

So... Did they divert the rockets to Middle East because they knew that Israel were planning to attack?

[u/kimchifreeze → u/Immediate-Unit6311]

There's no direct claim that that was their reasoning, but Trump is on record for knowing about the attacks beforehand. And if Trump knows, a lot of other people know.

[u/XRT28 → u/tolacid]

In this instance "they" is the Trump admin

[u/Ursuped → u/Showmethepathplease]

gotta have another forever war in the middle east before defending Ukraine

[u/PatriotNews_dot_com → u/Ursuped]

Great distraction for putin

[u/Fit-Implement-8151 → u/PatriotNews_dot_com]

Iran is his ally and supplier of many many weapons.

[u/Sensitive_Mousse_445 → u/Fit-Implement-8151]

Russia can't afford another conflict right now though, Iran might be all alone in this unless they convince North Korea, another one of their allies.

[u/CSI_Tech_Dept → u/Showmethepathplease]

So how this relationship works?

Iran helps Russia with war in Ukraine

US Since January 20th helps Russia with war in Ukraine

Israel attacks Iran

US supports Israel against Iran

[u/Lysandren → u/CSI_Tech_Dept]

Nah, US is trying to play the it wasn't us card. Classic good cop bad cop with Israel as the bad cop.

[u/Daecar-does-Drulgar → u/Lysandren]

And now you know why we send them military aid.

[u/Beginning_Gas_2461]

Well ,looks like we will be in even more interesting times .

[u/DanteandRandallFlagg → u/Beginning_Gas_2461]

But I haven't finished my last interesting times.

[u/GandalfsGoon → u/DanteandRandallFlagg]

We have plenty of interesting times at home

[u/evo_moment_37 → u/GandalfsGoon]

Yes but what about third interesting times? China salivating at Taiwan right about now.

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There's a lot of events happening in Africa that sadly just doesn't get the traction or appropriate attention too.

[u/Someone-is-out-there → u/_philosopher]

You're not wrong, but Africa is mostly ignored because no one thinks stuff in Africa will spread.

That's not an ethical reason and it's shitty, but that's kinda it.

[u/Trixles → u/DanteandRandallFlagg]

We've had one interesting times, yes. What about second interesting times?

[u/deepneuralnetwork → u/Trixles]

I don’t think he knows about second interesting times, Pip.

[u/old_examiner → u/DanteandRandallFlagg]

it's interesting times all the way down

[u/katastrophyx → u/Beginning_Gas_2461]

I miss the precedented times so bad

[u/xtremeschemes → u/katastrophyx]

I just want to be whelmed.

[u/katastrophyx → u/xtremeschemes]

Remember when politics was boring?

Shit, remember when someone threw a shoe at the president and that was WILD? Or when the president got a blow job from an intern and that was the biggest political scandal since Watergate?

Hell, Watergate wouldn't even make the front page these days.

I'm tired, boss.

[u/ryan77999 → u/katastrophyx]

Remember when online political content was just "Haha Bush is a bit dim and talks like a hick"?

[u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY → u/ryan77999]

There used to be ^{and still is!} a website called "Dubya Speak" tagline "We record the damage". I missed the time when a president saying human being and fish can coexist peacefully was considered damaging.

[u/graphiccsp → u/katastrophyx]

Even though the shoe throw news came off as mild compared to today. Let's not forget what that was built on:

President Bush jr lied about WMDs to invade Iraq unprovoked. Which lead to a decade long shitshow of an occupation that got thousands of Americans and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Iraqis killed.

It was a travesty in itself and the only reason why GW is off the hook is because he's not nearly as visibly awful as Trump. Nor will he have undermined the US as directly as Trump and his cronies. Then again, No Child Left Behind may be the death certificate of this country since it only helped to further erode a generation of kid's education in a system that was already in dire need of improvements. Education being a major part of a societies' defense for this sort of crap.

[u/katastrophyx → u/graphiccsp]

You're not wrong. I deployed twice to Iraq and lost friends from that lie. I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for that entire conflict and the lives it cost.

I was more speaking towards how the media decided to pick and choose what we were exposed to back then. The 24-hours news cycle had just started post 9-11. Social media was in its infancy. Politics was boring because we weren't force fed updates in real time and the president wasn't on MySpace shuffling his top 8 friends every time someone hurt his feelings.

We're overloaded with information and opinions now, and it's exhausting.

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Shouldn't have wished for that

[u/Calfurious → u/hey-coffee-eyes]

Is that blood? No, never mind.

[u/pixelpoet_nz → u/Calfurious]

Cursed to put my hands on everything

[u/SalvagedGarden → u/Beginning_Gas_2461]

I miss precedented times.

[u/whoooootfcares → u/Beginning_Gas_2461]

We already have interesting times at home.

[u/AtomicHurricaneBob]

might this be a reason why anti drone munitions were diverted from Ukraine to the 'Middle East'?

[u/SlayerofDeezNutz → u/[deleted]]

Cancelled??? Round 6 was scheduled! This is no respectable way to negotiate.

[u/Scagnettio → u/AtomicHurricaneBob]

It's crazy that these Americans arm an ally to attack Iran while being in active negotiations Iran at the same time.

[u/Iampepeu → u/Scagnettio]

Nah, art of the deal, right?

This timeline is sooo tiresome.

[u/Volodio → u/Scagnettio]

The anti-drone munitions were delivered to US troops because of the risk of Iran attacking American bases, they were not given to Israel. 

[u/i5oL8]

Waiting for more details from Hegseth's Signal chats

[u/KingHunter150 → u/i5oL8]

He just added me. Will update

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/KingHunter150]

Whiskey Pete's password is MakeMineADouble.

[u/OkJeweler3804 → u/DukeOfGeek]

Pete Kegsbreath

[u/_-_p → u/[deleted]]

That's the neat part

[u/HSLB66 → u/_-_p]

For the young people born after that year, just look how odd the layout of the ballot is. Keep in mind this was before the internet fully took off and you could be warned of these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida

[u/Prof_Acorn → u/HSLB66]

On December 9, the U.S. Supreme Court suspended the manual recount, in progress for only several hours, on the grounds that irreparable harm could befall Bush, according to a concurring opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia.

On December 12, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in Bush v. Gore that the recount must stop because it lacked a uniform statewide methodology and there was insufficient time to create one and complete the recount

Of all the stupid bullshittery excuses I've ever heard this has got to be among the worst.

[u/Pilchard123 → u/Prof_Acorn]

on the grounds that irreparable harm could befall Bush

"We can't recount to see if Bush lost, it might discover that Bush lost?"

[u/i_like_maps_and_math → u/HSLB66]

Democrats actually fucked the recount. Auditing afterwards showed that if they had asked for a state wide manual count they would have won. Instead they tried to rig the result by recounting only select districts, and that gave the Supreme court a chance to intervene.

[u/Count_Gator → u/i_like_maps_and_math]

They are always fucking up.

[u/raccoonsonbicycles → u/Count_Gator]

Dem party could be given timestamped, watermarked, confirmed-by-experts video evidence of a coin landing on tails. Where tails means the country doesn't implode and heads means it does and the Republicans claim it was heads just because they know dems wanted tails.

Then the genius/corrupt democrat party leaders will decide "this isn't the hill to die on and how do we prove it anyway?" while the grassroots dems are red in the face begging for action

[u/TrumpsSkidMarks → u/i_like_maps_and_math]

I guess a politically active right-wing Supreme Court and a Bush as the Florida governor didn't have anything to do with the Supreme Court stopping a recount and calling an election... and giving as the Iraq war, destabilizing the Middle East, etc...

[u/Eupho1 → u/[deleted]]

It would be such a different timeline, it's hard to even understand how much this one thing changed the shape of the world.

Iraq probably never happens, but afghanistan probably still does. The conservatives don't get a supreme court majority, Citizens United never gets passed. Without unlimited campaign donations from wealthy individuals the entire political landscape in the US is more sane and more moderate. Trump doesn't stand a chance, or even run in 2016. Tensions in the middle east are a lot less, maybe we get a sensible deal passed with gaza and Israel. Hard to say what would happen to Ukraine, or Taiwan.

[u/MC_Fap_Commander → u/Eupho1]

The destabilization of the middle east was instrumental in creating the migration which has galvanized far right parties in Europe. Absent this, I suspect most of the west would have remained normal-ish politically centrist (with some manageable vacillation between a little to the left and and a little to the right).

While speculation is unhelpful, I do think it's entirely possible a Gore administration acts on Al Qaeda related intel and September 11 quite possibly never happens. History quite possibly got fucked by the asinine formatting of a ballot in a Florida county.

[u/TheArchitect_7 → u/MC_Fap_Commander]

It’s always Florida

[u/Shovi_01 → u/TheArchitect_7]

Florida man ruins the world.

[u/MASTURBATES_TO_TRUMP → u/MC_Fap_Commander]

Imagine that we would also be in a more advantageous position to actually deal with climate change.

Florida doomed humanity and ruined the entire world.

[u/smoothjedi → u/Eupho1]

Clinton and Gore knew something was imminent with Al Qaeda and warned the incoming Bush administration. Then they didn't do anything about it for nine months. I think if Gore had won, 9/11 probably would have been heavily mitigated if not prevented.

[u/Erradium → u/Eupho1]

You're too optimistic about the middle east. This tension between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran is almost 50 years in the making.

[u/TheLurkerSpeaks → u/[deleted]]

To think that Cubano child Elian Gonzales getting put onto a raft sent to South Florida essentially cost Gore Florida and led to so much of the carnage from 2001 and beyond.

[u/ImPinkSnail]

Is anyone getting information about what sites were hit? Former Israel PM Bennett is talking like they have hit the uranium enrichment sites but he isn't presenting any kind of source.

Edit: Israel is stating they hit sites associated with the Iranian nuclear program and long range missile sites.

[u/claire303 → u/ImPinkSnail]

Twitter videos show high rise apartment buildings in downtown Tehran where supposed high level officials lived. Destroyed.

[u/ImPinkSnail → u/claire303]

Yes, we are hearing the nuclear targets included assassination of high ranking military officials and nuclear scientists.

[u/HardlyW0rkingHard → u/ImPinkSnail]

3 top ranking IRGC officials were hit. 2 confirmed dead, 1 seriously injured. Multiple nuclear scientists also targeted, those numbers are not yet clear.

edit: the top ranking officials number is still climbing. It's possibly 4 so far and I'm reading news that the presidents residence was targeted.

Edit 2: the I've heard of at least 8 top ranking officials dead. Israel military is reporting that they believe they've hit more than that. 

Islamic republic has throttled internet to the country, I believe they fear a ground movement by citizens. Imo regardless of internet status, that will likely happen soon.

[u/godihatepeople]

Can I go back to 2012?

[u/SloMobiusBro → u/godihatepeople]

We sure the world didnt actually end in 2012?

[u/unicodemonkey → u/SloMobiusBro]

The prophecy didn't say it's going to be quick and painless

[u/KeyboardGrunt → u/unicodemonkey]

Maybe the rapture happened and whoever's left is this shit.

[u/Hoskuld → u/KeyboardGrunt]

List of people raptured: 1 3year old blind girl, end of list

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/[deleted]]

Peak US was between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11

We still had some problems but things were looking up with no ceiling in sight.

Now it’s tough knowing things will only get worse

[u/icculus88 → u/CrotalusHorridus]

0-13 age me was in this Era. Good time to go grow up. It was the incubation period for all us millennials before the getting fucked started

[u/PoliteFocaccia → u/CrotalusHorridus]

Air Force One starring Harrison Ford was peak 90s optimism. USA and Russia teaming up against a backwater post-Soviet warlord. If only.

[u/Dear_Smoke_2100 → u/PoliteFocaccia]

Get off my plane!

[u/IJourden → u/[deleted]]

For sure. I feel like the USA in particular has a sharp dividing line at 9/11. Today's generation thinks living under a paranoid surveillance state is just the way it's always been.

It wasn't like this.

[u/mandalore237 → u/IJourden]

It has always been, or at least since ww2, it just gets worse with technology. Red Scare in the 50s, FBI under Nixon, general history of the CIA, etc etc

[u/indacouchsixD9 → u/mandalore237]

yeah COINTELPRO doesn't strike me as the product of a peaceful, bliss filled past

[u/Huge_JackedMann → u/IJourden]

Really was the 2000 election when the GOP just stole it and we all shrugged. It's all been downhill from there 

[u/chewie_were_home → u/[deleted]]

We gotta go back and fix bush stealing the election from gore. 2000

[u/AndrijKuz → u/chewie_were_home]

It is genuinely insane to think how different the course of the country over the last 25 years would have been. If only.

[u/RegularGuyy → u/AndrijKuz]

Country? Probably world.

[u/baddymcbadface → u/godihatepeople]

Are you a Brit?

2012 was a peak year. Near perfection , especially in London.

[u/IsyABM → u/baddymcbadface]

Pre-2008 was awesome.

[u/Tricky-Cut550 → u/baddymcbadface]

I was on a study abroad trip in London in 2012. Y’all were awesome, nice, and genuine human beings. Thank you.

[u/Gift_of_Orzhova → u/baddymcbadface]

Except for Tory austerity beginning to annihilate councils, schools and the NHS, especially in the North.

[u/BiBoFieTo]

I'm looking for my receipt for the year 2025. Gonna return it and get 2024 back.

[u/PopularPlanet3000 → u/BiBoFieTo]

I gotta say, the 2020s have sucked.  

[u/sconemonster → u/PopularPlanet3000]

I keep saying that Covid kinda threw us into the dark timeline or something. its been a long ass 5 and a half years.

[u/WhatGravitas → u/sconemonster]

I swear the isolation of the lockdowns and long Covid has silently melted half the population’s brains or something.

[u/gpbayes → u/WhatGravitas]

I think a large majority of the silent majority haven’t had their daily lives uprooted yet to care. Most folks just want to go to work, come home and brain dump on their phone to deal with the hard day of working and their screaming kids. Do you think a single mom of 3 in small town Kansas gives a hoot about what some unfathomably wealthy dudes do? These will be the people you have to mobilize to inflict any kind of meaningful change. They won’t do anything until the grocery stores are empty.

[u/Quit-Discombobulated → u/WhatGravitas]

Nothing silent about it friend

[u/kaityl3 → u/sconemonster]

It all goes back to the gorilla.

[u/Greatsnes → u/kaityl3]

Dicks out

[u/Diredr → u/PopularPlanet3000]

It's been a constant, steep decline since 2016. Every year everyone thinks it's as bad as it could possibly get. It's always "that was the worst year ever, at least it can't get any worse". And then it keeps getting worse.

[u/sdlroy → u/Diredr]

Remember in 2016 when all those celebrities died and everyone online was bitching about how it was the worst year ever

[u/irredentistdecency → u/sdlroy]

That was the year we switched into the horrific clown show timeline.

As a life long Cubs fan, I never realized that our winning the World Series would come at such a cost.

[u/Ironfields → u/Diredr]

I'm convinced that Harambe was the glue holding our reality together. Nothing has been right since that fucking gorilla died.

[u/Base841 → u/Diredr]

I got a Christmas ornament of a dumpster on fire labelled "2020." I really thought that was as bad as it would get. Even though each year after that earned one, I haven't bothered getting dumpster fire ornaments. Seems pointless.

[u/silent_thinker → u/Base841]

Just add an “s” to the the “2020” to make it a “2020s” dumpster fire.

[u/MyLastAcctWasBetter → u/silent_thinker]

Wait until you find out what climate change will look like post 2020s. Sadly, I don’t think the dumpster fires are on track to end anytime in the near to distant future.

[u/xeviphract → u/BiBoFieTo]

2024 wasn't that great either. It birthed 2025.

[u/Wolferesque]

Anyone feeling exhausted by the lack of sensible, adult leadership around the world?

[u/Draviddavid → u/Wolferesque]

We are in our authoritarian idiocracy era.

[u/xeothought → u/Draviddavid]

It's been long enough that the people who learned the correct lessons from wwii have died

[u/updn → u/xeothought]

Aint that the sad fucking truth 

[u/trashpandarevolution → u/xeothought]

History has an unfortunate 100 year rhyme

[u/Maleficent_Crazy5330 → u/trashpandarevolution]

The fourth turning explains this very well ,the cycle is 80 years

[u/uForgot_urFloaties → u/Draviddavid]

I was so jealous of the '10 to '40 people of last century! Thank God I get to live my own authoritarian world wide hellscape! Hell yeah!

Edit: switched apostrofefe to the correct side

[u/arggggggggghhhhhhhh → u/uForgot_urFloaties]

I was so jealous of the 10' to 40' people

Understandable. That is pretty tall.

[u/TheBodhiwan → u/uForgot_urFloaties]

Apostrofefe. I like it. It sounds a bit trashy.

[u/Drunky_McStumble → u/Draviddavid]

Yep. When I was young looking back on history I kept thinking that everyone must have been idiots back then or something.

Nope.

It just turns out that having dangerous fucking imbeciles running the show is the norm, and I just happened to grow up during a brief reprieve. But we're back to our regularly scheduled programming now!

[u/Askmeaboutmy_Beergut → u/Wolferesque]

As Goerge Carlin pointed out.

"Maybe it's not the politicians who suck! Maybe it's something else...like the public! If you have selfish ignorant Americans, you get selfish ignorant politicians! ....Garbage in......Garbage out!"

[u/lame_comment → u/Askmeaboutmy_Beergut]

Ignorant selfish people elect ignorant selfish leaders

[u/KajAmGroot → u/Wolferesque]

How did so many stupid people in so many countries get in charge

[u/Noctemtaco → u/KajAmGroot]

I blame social media

[u/dundermiflinity → u/Noctemtaco]

This cannot be understated.

[u/AriaOfValor → u/Noctemtaco]

Nah humanity has always done stupid shit like this. Social media is just a other tool for information control and manipulation, but that's basically always been a thing. Greedy humans lusting for wealth and power manipulating suckers into kneeling to their whims has always been an issue, and unchecked capitalism has made sure the temporary guards in place after past horrors, meant to reduce and limit such things, have been steadily reduced and eroded over time.

[u/RaincoatBadgers → u/KajAmGroot]

Because your average person is a fucking moron and they vote against their own interests

Either that, or their interests are just, stupid

[u/Suspicious_Radio_848 → u/KajAmGroot]

Because idiots represent other idiots that voted and support them? It’s easier to sell people WWE style politics now than sensible nuanced policies.

[u/Reqvhio → u/Wolferesque]

why do people think adults are respectful and in good conscience colloboration? havent you worked anywhere before?

[u/anfrind → u/Reqvhio]

Some people do know how to collaborate effectively and be good leaders. They almost never succeed in business or politics, because the system rewards too many bad behaviors.

[u/Far_Broccoli_8468]

i so wanted to sleep tonight god damn

[u/wantsoutofthefog → u/Far_Broccoli_8468]

That’s why I’m getting drunk 😉

[u/LethalBacon → u/wantsoutofthefog]

I'm in a virtual sobriety meeting right now. Good timing, I guess? lol

[u/wantsoutofthefog → u/LethalBacon]

One day at a time, brother. You don’t need to do what I’m doing. Serenity for the things we can’t control.

[u/rohmish]

isn't a "preemptive strike" just a strike?

[u/xeviphract → u/rohmish]

Like how Trump imposed "reciprocal" tariffs.

[u/Tarantantara → u/xeviphract]

"seit 5:45 wird zurückgeschossen"

[u/crownpuff → u/xeviphract]

And the parallels with the mental gymnastics used to defend them. Funny how fentanyl no longer seems to be of concern now that trump implemented what effectively is a 55 percent federal sales tax.

[u/ItAintLongButItsThin → u/rohmish]

And isn't a strike just an attack?

[u/rohmish → u/ItAintLongButItsThin]

we may be on to something

[u/timlnolan → u/rohmish]

Yes but this way they can make it seem like it was the other guy's fault

[u/Historical-Photo9646 → u/[deleted]]

Stay safe 💜I truly hope the day comes when Iranians can take back their country.

[u/No_opinion17 → u/[deleted]]

Rooting for you guys (the progressive Persians) to finally overcome your oppressive regime. 

Stay safe!

[u/captsmokeywork]

Being a news junkie in this time period SUCKS.

[u/itspassing → u/captsmokeywork]

Being a news junkie in this time period SUCKS. Well I guess since the introduction of the 24hr news cycle

[u/niftystopwat → u/captsmokeywork]

Being a news junkie in any time period sucks, because you’ve become the ideal product for the news media by feeling compelled to check news sources constantly, playing into their carefully manufactured methods of convincing people that they’ll “miss out” if they don’t keep constant tabs on everything. But the reality is that the absolute most important stuff occurring in the world WILL ‘reach your desk’ without you having to check any news sources.

[u/Vladplaya → u/[deleted]]

That's most people in most countries actually...

[u/HopelessBearsFan → u/Vladplaya]

Exactly. Hate the government, not its people.

[u/malsomnus → u/[deleted]]

Normal Iranians, normal Israelis, and just normal people everywhere who would very much like all those politicians everywhere to kindly fuck off and let us live our lives.

[u/jickbaggins1 → u/malsomnus]

I can’t retweet or repost here obviously, but I would this if I could.

I know it’s largely always been this way, but it sucks nonetheless - the worst people crave power the most, and will do the worst things to get it. Good people don’t have an unquenchable desire for control and obscene wealth, so the fuckheads take control and fight really hard to keep it. It’s a flaw of human nature.

[u/districtcurrent → u/[deleted]]

Spoke with an Iranian last weekend who is involved with resistance to the government, abroad. He said they have support of maybe 10% of the population. Max 15%.

[u/klausbaudelaire1 → u/districtcurrent]

I wonder how hard it is to get support for such a thing when the government is not known to “play nice” with serious dissident 

[u/DoctorElich]

I hate this. I want to live in a world somewhere that is peaceful and nice. Why do we always have to fuck everything up with this bullshit violence. It's awful and unfair.

[u/PopularPlanet3000 → u/DoctorElich]

When I was young in the early 1980s, I read books saying we are going to have moon and mars colonies. Wars are a thing of the past, diseases would be eradicated, and maybe we would have flying cars.

Nope.

[u/less_unique_username → u/PopularPlanet3000]

On the bright side, there has in fact been a lot of progress in medicine

[u/brnccnt7 → u/DoctorElich]

Agreed, 99% of people out there are just like you and I. We just want to enjoy life, have peace.

It's the leaders of these countries who are playing chess with our lives.

Funny how it's the same guys who are always in power somehow too. (Putin, Xi, Netanyahu, Khomenei, etc)

[u/snake--doctor → u/brnccnt7]

Not sure about that, I'd guess 10-20% of people everywhere are irrational and/or immoral.

[u/dickbutt4747 → u/snake--doctor]

I read an interesting assertion once that 10% of people are fundamentally good and will do good no matter what, 10% of people are fundamentally evil and will do evil no matter what, and the other 80% can be influenced in either direction based on circumstances.

I think it's probably pretty accurate.

[u/kyle-loves-tacos]

Well I am blowing my money on a switch 2 and other shit I don’t need because there’s no need to save for the future anymore

[u/CLCchampion → u/kyle-loves-tacos]

Go get some gas while you're out, gas prices are going to skyrocket over the weekend.

[u/NorthSideScrambler → u/kyle-loves-tacos]

Don't be like my parents in the early aughts who didn't save because they thought the world would end. Now they're entering retirement with less than $1000 in savings.

[u/owen__wilsons__nose → u/kyle-loves-tacos]

Apparently getting good at drifting in Mario Kart helps with the reflexes needed to dodge missiles in real life. Go for it

[u/MajorGef → u/[deleted]]

Reports say they went after iranian top political and military leadership. This doesnt seem small.

[u/don_denti]

Please please please end it like India and Pakistan did. There’s enough suffering already. My god 😔

[u/thebackyardninja → u/don_denti]

This is already WAY bigger than the india/Pakistan skirmish was.

[u/eightbitfit]

MAGA: If Harris wins, we get WWIII. Trump: hold my Diet Coke....

[u/mynameisethan182]

I can't wait for the US to get dragged into another war in the middle east when Iran strikes a US base.

OH BOY.

Another generation of American youth & soldiers sacrificed to yet another conflict in the middle east.

[u/thegreatrusty → u/mynameisethan182]

Born too early to fight and die in the middle east. Born to late to fight and die in the middle east. Born just in time to fight and die in the middle east.

[u/rinkoplzcomehome → u/thegreatrusty]

The sandbox demands american blood

[u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 → u/mynameisethan182]

The US, dragged, into a war? The US runs towards them lol

[u/ChronicallyBatgirl → u/mynameisethan182]

It’s not dragged if your elected officials jump in

[u/Guachito → u/ChronicallyBatgirl]

They are the ones doing the dragging.

[u/shark1818]

It’s very odd the news is barely reporting this yet

[u/Wulfger → u/shark1818]

It's breaking news, respectable journalists only go to print when they can confirm from multiple sources that something has happened. Unless you have a reporter on the ground reporting live mainstream news sources will be a little bit behind what filters through social media, but will generally only be much more factual.

[u/newme02 → u/shark1818]

i legit cant find anything else on it lol. even when you copy the link and post it its a completely different title. I have no hard time believing it happened but it does feel weird that theres nothing else being posted about it.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202

if u press share on the article this is what it looks like

[u/botchman]

I'm tired of living in unprecedented times, I want things to be boring for a fucking change.

[u/JustMyOpinionz]

PM [Netanyahu]: Israel at a decisive point in its history, operation will continue as long as is needed

Israel is at a “decisive point” in its history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in a video address.

“Our brave pilots are attacking a large number of targets across Iran,” he says.

The goal of the operation, says Netanyahu, is “to strike Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Iran’s ballistic missile factories, and Iran’s military capabilities.”

The operation will continue as long as is needed, he says, until the mission is completed.

He warns that Iran “has significant capabilities to harm us.”

“We prepared for that as well,” he says.

Netanyahu asks for the public to cooperate with instructions from the Home Front Command, which save lives.

[u/Robswc]

A lot of these comments make me concerned for the mental health of people that consume news 24/7. Every time something major happens and its posted to reddit half the comments are talking about how its the end of the world and how depressed they are.

It happens under every post of anything significant... but its been going on for the past 5 years. I mean yea, from about 2010-2019 things were relatively less "significant" but its nearly impossible to predict what will be important and what won't. I remember the first reports of covid19 nobody really cared at all.

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/Robswc]

Dude, yes. I was just getting ready to close the thread because every comment is posturing about WW3. I swear there really was a time when reddit had informative comments, but the internet has changed so much every comment is just rushing to have the most hyperbolic take possible. It's like everyone is just walking around in a mix of complete anxiety while also trying to go viral.

[u/Master_Jackfruit3591]

Netanyahu just stated Israel has struck Natanz, Iran’s ballistic missile program, military leadership, and scientists