Iran Successfully Strikes West with F5!

@shavixmir said
Traitors?

The US started this war. That makes them the bad guys.

I struggle these days to identify any good guys.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
They are cheering an enemy attck on US Servicemen, they are far worse than scum.

No one is cheering attacks on U.S. service members. We are simply pointing out they were a direct and foreseeable consequence of Trump's idiotic idea to launch an unprovoked war of choice.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I struggle these days to identify any good guys.

One can, however, identify a few true and genuine friends and allies. A true and genuine friend and ally is not one who says "yes" when one is hell-bent on something stupid and wrong-headed. A true and genuine friend and ally is one who calls out one's wrong-headed stupidity, gently but firmly. King Charles in his speech to the U.S. Congress, for example.

@Soothfast said
Ho yeah—it's all working out so very, very well.

The war ended after 60 days, so sayeth Dear Leader. Results? No regime change in Iran, a shuttered strait, an upended global economy, Iran's nuclear ambitions and materials still intact, and the list goes on. Russia is giving Iran targeting intelligence and China is shipping new and improved weapons systems through backdoo ...[text shortened]... ve of this war on the day Trump chose to start it at the behest of Israel.

As you say: "winning."

One should bear in mind that ending this war was never Trump's objective. Ending it sooner is contrary to his interests. The purpose of this war is to make a few people very very wealthy, no matter what the cost to the civilian populations of the ME or the rest of the world's economies.

Trump is heavily invested in fossils. The markets dote on every message Trump posts to social media, markets up, markets down, and Trump is providing insider trading information to his fossil fuel buddies in advance of his posts--buy now, sell now. It's all so painfully obvious why he gutted the SEC and fired federal prosecutors who would investigate such practices.

@wildgrass said
Certainly this F5 incident was a strategic error that reflects a lack of basic understanding of warfare by the Pentagon right?

Is that your professional military opinion?

@Metal-Brain said
If Kamala was doing it instead would you still be condemning this unjust war of aggression? Obama invaded Libya. Did you condemn that unjust war of aggression?

You are only against wars when republicans are waging war. You condone wars started by democrats. Right?

NOBODY but Trump wants this war. This is 150 % Trump's war and no doubt about that.

@sonhouse said
NOBODY but Trump wants this war. This is 150 % Trump's war and no doubt about that.

He was badly advised, and any good advice he might have been told, he did not hear.

@AThousandYoung said
This plane has been obsolete for a half century and Iran hasn't had access to spare parts for decades!

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2026/discover-how-an-iranian-f-5-jet-reportedly-exploited-a-120-second-window-to-strike-a-us-base-in-kuwait

Like shootin womp rats in my T-16 back home.

@moonbus said
He was badly advised, and any good advice he might have been told, he did not hear.

The KING does not take advice from anyone, and goes after and prosecutes anyone who says anything about him or his wife.


-VR

@moonbus said
He was badly advised, and any good advice he might have been told, he did not hear.

Trump does not WANT to hear ANYTHING, in national security briefs he REFUSES to even read the briefs, they have to be made into a video so someone as absolutely STUPID as Trump can MAYBE understand one tenth of what is in said briefing.

@sonhouse said
NOBODY but Trump wants this war. This is 150 % Trump's war and no doubt about that.

You are forgetting Israel. Trump claims Netanyahu talked him into this war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-approved-iran-operation-after-netanyahu-argued-joint-killing-khamenei-2026-03-23/

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I struggle these days to identify any good guys.

Indeed. It’s not like I champion the Iranian regime. But in this case, it is the US to blame for the current crisis. And Israel.

One could suggest, perhaps, that the civilians dying are the only good guys out there.

@Metal-Brain said
You are forgetting Israel. Trump claims Netanyahu talked him into this war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-approved-iran-operation-after-netanyahu-argued-joint-killing-khamenei-2026-03-23/

I am talking about the US. NetanYAHOO would never have attacked without express permission from Trump.

@sonhouse said
I am talking about the US. NetanYAHOO would never have attacked without express permission from Trump.

Maybe so, but that is not what they are saying.

@AThousandYoung said
This plane has been obsolete for a half century and Iran hasn't had access to spare parts for decades!

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2026/discover-how-an-iranian-f-5-jet-reportedly-exploited-a-120-second-window-to-strike-a-us-base-in-kuwait

Weird to be among iran-lovers