2026 Israel - Iranian conflict [TEMP LOCKED]

[klimsa]

Given the amount of flogging US domestic media is giving the war, I can only assume that the moderates at the Pentagon were infected with the same optimism that the moderate Iranians suffered from, and didn't have time to "counsel" the media on what they should be saying.
Surely the big orange idiot isn't going to willingly start this doomed losing incursion with our inventory this depleted right? Right? Right guys?

 

[neutralobserver]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030311134017019954

 

[enroger]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030285674528616916

I wondered which side will cross this line first, unsurprising it is the US. Guess Israel's desalination plants are fair game then

 

[ForcedTrend]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030292895262199922

 

[sheogorath]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030310110296166530

"We need air defense systems"

 

[siegecrossbow]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030292895262199922

Where are the Wanwanese who always boast that they can help? This is their chance to shine.

 

[siegecrossbow]

I hope china learns from this and always have fk3000, hq13,11 and it's ciws ,hq17 and hq16 such surrounding the long range sams like hq9,22,20,19,29

Real lesson is actually that no amount of air defense can help against saturation attacks. The best way to guard against this is overwhelming preemptive strikes against enemy assets.

 

[neutralobserver]

I wondered which side will cross this line first, unsurprising it is the US. Guess Israel's desalination plants are fair game then

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030328999679803778

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Real lesson is actually that no amount of air defense can help against saturation attacks. The best way to guard against this is overwhelming preemptive strikes against enemy assets.

Real lesson is actually even simpler: never hold back due to diplomacy. Don't ever worry about mutual defense treaties or any other nonsense, if you are powerful enough they will look for 1000 cope reasons to not jump in.

Iran struck multiple US treaty allies. Did they jump in? Did they form a coalition of the willing? Or were they too scared and called deescalation immediately?

Did US escalate? No, their escalation is ability constrained not willpower constrained. Did they increase sorties to hit Iran harder and punish Iran? No, because their capability to launch sorties was decreased.

 

[Jaroslav]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2030214631671619686

Let the chems start to flow!

I doubt this. Iran is far away and just to fly one mission takes few hours. If we count only rearm, refuling and regulary after flight and pre flight check they doesnt have that much time left to do high sortie rate. This could be case for Lebanon, maybe, but for Iran certanly is not true.