Megathread for the US war on Iran | Week 14 of 2026
(lemmygrad.ml)
This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
At this point I fully believe that the only reported deaths of US military personnel are ones they can't cover up. I will not be at all surprised if we start to hear stories about family members that haven't heard from their deployed son, brother, husband, etc but that when they call to ask about them they are either not told anything or told they are unable to get ahold of them at the time.
AI is going to be used to spoof their text messages.
Ah, yes, man made horrors beyond my comprehension
Unfortunately this is very well within our comprehension and i wish i didn't😭
I'd be pretty surprised by that. Soldiers are chatty and have access to some social media. Casualty communications blackouts aren't perfect and eventually things start to leak, especially once details make it into the family readiness groups back home. Not saying it's impossible but the odds of something like that working for more than a couple days would be pretty small.
I'm not an expert but I'm familiar with that particular mechanism.
That goes along with it. There won't be any official reports. But we will start to get stories that aren't showing on mainstream. The big sites will block them out but they will start leaking through here and there. A few posts on Reddit. Pictures of Facebook posts before they get removed. Stuff like that. People reporting they talked to their loved one but it felt off. People saying their friend told them they died but the actual military refuses to speak to it. Shit like that.
And they will be able to keep it up for a while I think. The government is good at dragging shit out and ignoring the plights of service members and their families.
Well, if the soldiers are dead they can just be replaced by bots impersonating them for a few months...