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Ken Klippenstein says that US troops have been briefed that Iran will likely counterattack US military bases in the Middle East.
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1936589525158969686#m
https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1936585741456244801#m
Iran shouldn't do anything right now but continue lobbing missiles at the zionist entity. Then after a few weeks when the US has lowered its guard strike them. As with the zionists keep them in anticipation, make them wait and dread and spend money and lose advantages waiting for the retaliation as long as possible. Of course the western media will portray this as wild aggression for no reason and certain goldfish-brained westerners will believe this but they'd claim the same if Iran hit back tomorrow because when the US breaks international law to start a war with someone it's fine but when that someone hits back they are bad.
This is literally it. What westerners think does not matter - they will believe whatever the media tells them without thinking critically and the media will tell them exactly this. And honestly at this point what does it even matter? Western people thinking anything one way or another makes no difference, their governments are going to do the thing they want to do anyway and westerners aren't going to do shit to stop them. The opinions of westerners is worth less than dirt and should never be a consideration.