2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]
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Countries need to learn that rules based order never existed, us hegemony will do whatever it can for itself and its interest, every tactic is on the table.
My two cents: when an 86-year-old leader is assassinated, the younger successor almost always adopts a hardline stance.
They do it to "avenge" their predecessor, appease the base, and solidify their own authority.
While Hezbollah was too crippled and isolated to manage that, Iran is a different beast entirely.
Regarding casualties, it’s hard to swallow the narrative that after so many successful strikes on their bases, U.S. regional forces have still suffered literally zero casualties.
They lie with impunity because they control the global media narrative: they claim total immunity while their enemies supposedly crumble.
If people still swallow this garbage without question, that’s on them.
They do it to maintain internal political stability, then have the audacity to claim they’re a "free society."
Regarding a successor, the idea that Iran would suddenly install an Israeli puppet is delusional.
The leadership isn’t chosen by a popularity contest; it’s selected by 88 vetted clerics.
With that many high-level religious insiders, a traitor doesn’t just "slip in."
They’re going to pick someone with decades of ideological track record, not some unproven youngster.
And do people really think the rest of the power structure are fools who would watch their leadership orbit the U.S. and Israel after everything that's happened?
After killing their leader and more than a hundred innocent girls?
You’re falling for the "decapitation strike" movie trope.
Iran is not Hezbollah or Venezuela; their state structure is fundamentally different.
And frankly, the U.S. lacks the staying power to keep up this killing of new leaders.
Eventually, they’ll be forced to back off when they face sufficient attrition and retaliation from a fierce Iranian response.
They do it to "avenge" their predecessor, appease the base, and solidify their own authority.
While Hezbollah was too crippled and isolated to manage that, Iran is a different beast entirely.
Regarding casualties, it’s hard to swallow the narrative that after so many successful strikes on their bases, U.S. regional forces have still suffered literally zero casualties.
They lie with impunity because they control the global media narrative: they claim total immunity while their enemies supposedly crumble.
If people still swallow this garbage without question, that’s on them.
They do it to maintain internal political stability, then have the audacity to claim they’re a "free society."
Regarding a successor, the idea that Iran would suddenly install an Israeli puppet is delusional.
The leadership isn’t chosen by a popularity contest; it’s selected by 88 vetted clerics.
With that many high-level religious insiders, a traitor doesn’t just "slip in."
They’re going to pick someone with decades of ideological track record, not some unproven youngster.
And do people really think the rest of the power structure are fools who would watch their leadership orbit the U.S. and Israel after everything that's happened?
After killing their leader and more than a hundred innocent girls?
You’re falling for the "decapitation strike" movie trope.
Iran is not Hezbollah or Venezuela; their state structure is fundamentally different.
And frankly, the U.S. lacks the staying power to keep up this killing of new leaders.
Eventually, they’ll be forced to back off when they face sufficient attrition and retaliation from a fierce Iranian response.
Iran has no working airforce and will continue to get hit by IDF and USN aircraft.
Its missile producing facilities will get shut if not shut already.
What exactly is Iran's long term plan? It showed that the US is far from invincible, in fact it's more hopeless than anyone expected. Allowing basically most missiles to slip through and hit US airbases and naval facility.
Iran will eventually run out of missiles and it has no airforce or navy that can stand against even a small US or Israeli force. What is their strategy exactly? Fire missiles and then take the off ramp?
Its missile producing facilities will get shut if not shut already.
What exactly is Iran's long term plan? It showed that the US is far from invincible, in fact it's more hopeless than anyone expected. Allowing basically most missiles to slip through and hit US airbases and naval facility.
Iran will eventually run out of missiles and it has no airforce or navy that can stand against even a small US or Israeli force. What is their strategy exactly? Fire missiles and then take the off ramp?
They’re betting that they can inflict enough damage on gulf countries so that they will force us and israel to back down
Cant wait for the day when israel decide to backstab saudi. Damn Arabs are just pathetic
What exactly do you think Iran should do?
they wouldn't do anything, after Soleimani and all other Generals, you still think Khamenei will make difference?
Drive oil prices high enough to destabilize the U.S. economy, which is uniquely vulnerable to inflation, and tank the stock market, the very foundation to which the U.S. is more comically and dangerously tied than any other nation on Earth. The pressure starts from Monday.
The administration will face immediate heat from all sides: political opponents, its own base, a huge part of them disapproving of this war, and the severe economic strain forced upon Gulf Arab states lobbying fiercely for the de-escalation. Meanwhile, the cost for Israel also continues to climb. Every missile fired now is one the U.S. cannot easily replace, draining a stockpile they were reserving for far bigger adversaries.
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