War with Iran - DEFCON 3

[dabrockster]

Jon Stewart’s take on Iran response to attack everyone.. lol

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8CaxAFY/

[Northwestcoug]

Being shackled with ‘stupid rules of engagement’ makes killing scores of children less likely, Hegseth. But whaddayagonnado when ‘death and destruction’ are raining down I guess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...core-ios-share

[Maximus]

lamo

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[Moliere]

Oil is now at $90....I shouldn't have sold all my XOP late last year

[Northwestcoug]

From the White House account. Fundamentally unserious people:

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[dabrockster]

Oil is now at $90....I shouldn't have sold all my XOP late last year

My EV has worked out pretty well for me. I haven't gassed up my hybrid for over 6-months.

[PaloAltoCougar]

From the White House account. Fundamentally unserious people:

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That is truly embarrassing. We're way ahead of schedule on the Idiocracy timeline.

[Moliere]

My EV has worked out pretty well for me. I haven't gassed up my hybrid for over 6-months.

I’m happy with reasonably higher oil prices, it means a bigger bonus and higher stock price. I think we are getting into unreasonable levels now, which happens during war time.

[dabrockster]

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target US forces, officials say

Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

“It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,” one of the people said.

The extent of Russia’s targeting assistance to Iran was not entirely clear. The Iranian military’s own ability to locate U.S. forces has been degraded less than a week into the fighting, the officials said.

Six U.S. troops were killed and several others were injured by an Iranian drone attack Sunday in Kuwait. Iran has fired thousands of one-way attack drones and hundreds of missiles at U.S. military positions, embassies and civilians, even as the joint American-Israeli campaign has hit more than 2,000 Iranian targets — including ballistic missile sites, naval assets and the country’s leadership.

Russia’s assistance reshuffles how various countries have engaged in a proxy war since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Throughout that conflict, U.S. adversaries including Iran, China and North Korea have provided Russia with either direct military aid or material support for Moscow’s vast defense industry. The United States has given Ukraine tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment and shared intelligence on Russian positions to improve Kyiv’s targeting.

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on X that the Trump administration had requested assistance in helping protect against Iranian drones and that Kyiv would provide “specialists” in response.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ay/ar-AA1XErKf

[dabrockster]

A very interesting and good read on the history of Iran and how it got to where it is right now..



Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.

This is not how it was supposed to go for Iran.

For years, the Islamic Republic worked to build up a network of allies throughout the Middle East, widely known as the “axis of resistance,” which, in the event Iran itself were attacked, could rain down destruction on Israel, the US military, and American allies in the region.
Key takeaways

• Iran’s “axis of resistance” has failed. Built as a deterrent force meant to overwhelm Israel and constrain US intervention, the network of regional allies that included Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi militias, and Hamas has responded weakly to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

• The key turning point for the axis was Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel. While Iran may not have directly orchestrated Hamas’s attack, the war it triggered allowed Israel to systematically degrade Tehran’s allies.

• As a result, Iran is now more isolated and vulnerable than at any point in decades, giving Israel and the US greater freedom of action, as seen in the current war.

The axis includes Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Houthi rebels in Yemen, and militants in Iraq. At its peak, Iran relied on the network to promote its hardline brand of Shia Islam against rival powers associated with Sunni Islam, intimidate governments into submission, and scare off Western threats. Perhaps even more than its ballistic missiles stockpile, its nascent nuclear program, and its conventional military, these regional groups were Iran’s deterrent against exactly the sort of all-out attack we’re not seeing.

And yet, since the joint US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran began over the weekend, killing its supreme leader and devastating the regime’s military and infrastructure, the response from the axis of resistance has been fairly feeble.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which in the past has boasted of the ability to destroy Tel Aviv, fired a “handful” of rockets into Israel, which prompted a much larger campaign of airstrikes by Israel in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Wary of being dragged into yet another war, the Lebanese government has taken the unprecedented step of banning military activities by the group. Yemen’s Houthis, who dramatically shut down most global shipping through the Red Sea two years ago, have been conspicuously quiet. Militants in Iraq claimed a drone attack on a US military base in Erbil, but the attack was intercepted without any casualties, and some groups seem to be staying quiet.

The impotent response is part of a larger story of the Iranian regime’s collapse from a fearsome military power to a weakened state fighting for its survival against an emboldened America and Israel. Rather than secure it from attack, its strategy of backing proxy forces in conflicts abroad played a critical part in dragging it into the existential crisis it faces now.

And while there are a number of factors that led to its unraveling, there’s one clear moment when it all started to go south: Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Then came October 7.

The turning point


Hamas was always the odd member out in the “axis of resistance.”

It’s a Palestinian Sunni group that began in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist movement that favors government run according to strict religious laws. Nearly all the other members of the axis adhere to various branches of Shia Islam. On paper, therefore, they’re on opposite sides of the Middle East’s main sectarian divide. But the two share a common enemy in Israel. Iran’s hardline Islamic government broke off ties with Israel after its 1979 revolution, viewing it as a religious affront and Western imperialist power; Hamas is an offshoot of the Palestinian resistance movement that has existed since Israel’s founding.

In the early 1990s, Iran began providing Hamas, and fellow Sunni Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, with tens of millions of dollars of funding per year, and Hamas later opened an office in Tehran.

Hamas became notorious around the world in this period for its use of suicide bombers against civilian targets in Israel, which helped derail negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, led by the secular Fatah movement, to establish a Palestinian state. But its militancy made it an increasing regional player: In 2007, its fighters purged Fatah from Gaza after Israel withdrew its soldiers from the territory, giving it a territorial base under its direct control.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/...230000880.html

[Maximus]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...ran-rcna262176

[Maximus]

Kill kill kill

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[Northwestcoug]

Kill kill kill

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Performative war criming.

[Northwestcoug]

Just how many loser government leaders are there that are being targeted for death, before we start hitting more schools?

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[Northwestcoug]

My my Lindsey. You’ve been very busy these last few months playing the pro-interventionist diplomat to quite the mix of allies. You don’t have enough to do working for the citizens of your state?

To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency. “They’ll tell me things our own government won’t tell me,” he said. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. Netanyahu showed the president intelligence that persuaded Trump to go ahead, Graham said.

“Graham also talked to the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to make sure he was aware. “I went to MBS to say, ‘OK, I think this is going down.”

https://apple.news/A2JKOvV4IT7SeJV88dX_z3g