Am I the only one who thinks that the US military commandment intentionally allows the enemy to strike them for now so that they will have more excuses for continuing the war and also have more enraged soldiers willing to go killing? Thus looks awfully similar to what the Israel was doing before the genocide in Gaza.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
48 points (96.2% liked)
World News
54464 readers
3032 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Israel's definitely using the same playbook, they're even targeting hospitals and schools in Iran. Remember a few days ago when a girls elementary was hit? It's been verified that those were precision airstrikes, though it hasn't been confirmed if the missiles were US, Israeli, or even Iran but my money is on Israel because that's exactly what they did in Gaza and what they're doing at other locations in Iran and Lebanon.
Iran has been divided into two BMOAs (ballistic-missiles operation areas) with Israel responsible for bombing Tehran and West/Central Iran, while the US deals with the coast and south eastern Iran.
Tehran is squarely in Israel’s target zone via Syrian airspace.
Also the lack of Iranian air defences mean almost all the weapons used are precision bombs via planes, but the US is testing out their own knock-off drones.
I was joking that he was ordering the old F15 to be vulnerable so they can shot down and then have the excuse to buy the shiny new ones.
Alternatively I was thinking the F15s that keep getting "shot down" are really just the pilots "refusing" illegal orders by ditching the jets.
i wish them well on their quest
I really hate to see more death and destruction, except for that one, and a few is his buds.
As wild as it is, and as much as I've despised Iran and talked about the USA's potential to become something great:
I hope they get it.
If they keep striking the gulf states they might bring them into this war
A lot of them are running low on air defense as well.
They basically already are. They're not attacking because they can't, not out of measured caution.
The RSAF has in the neighborhood of 400 fixed wing attack aircraft, they can strike Iran at will.
The UAE has 120 fixed wing combat aircraft, they can also strike Iran at will.
The Emirates and Israelis have worked together a bit in Africa so they should be familiar with earth other’s tactics and since most of their planes are American they can refuel using US tankers
Then why don't they attack already? Given their posturing and the overall situation I highly doubt they're expecting cooler heads to prevail.