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Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an "unprecedented mass deployment" to Europe.

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

We need to fix the voting system. ALL pacs should be banned and campaign spending should be limited.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I'm seeing a lot of posts drumming up war hype and WW3 fears but there is nothing to fight. Iran is already cooked and no one is wants to do a ground invasion of Iran. Iran's allies have abandoned them. This is american security preparing for possible counter attacks and bombing targets, not a full on war. Iran is already at war with Isreal.

[-] the_wiz@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Ways that could escalate:

  • Iran finishes a nuke (or get one from somewhere [or use some other form of WMD]) and the regime decides to go out with a bang
  • China using the moment of distraction to try something funny with Taiwan
  • A new wave of international terrorism after the regime falls

So, even if that doesn't escalate up to full on WWIII there is enough shit on the horizon to be worried

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[-] smol_beans@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Early 2000's era nostalgia goin real hard

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

commondreams.org is on my PiHole block list for some reason, is it a low quality news source, or some such? It's not a news outlet I've heard of, at least.

Edit: Ah, because it's a shell going to a CDN that scoops up data and such, seemingly.

www.commondreams.org (blocked www.commondreams.org.cdn.rebelmouse.com)

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[-] graycube@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe they are invading Greenland. Or it is a ruse and they are invading Canada.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

“How to start WW3 in 10 seconds”.

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[-] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Where can one acquire an anti air missile?

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[-] catty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I fucking hate this rhetoric which is: OIL! GAS! BUY OIL! BUY GAS! KEEP PUTIN HAPPY! OIL! GAS!

No one was taking the 'war' between Israel and Iran seriously last week after the initial surge in oil price because the USA was like... "yeah, nah". Now, after a quick call from Putin and bam, all this BS about how the US is pandering for war to drive commodity and share prices up when it's a nothingburger.

Remember kids, buy oil, buy gas and do as you're told.

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

A-10 movement always preceeds ground deployments. They moved those to Kuwait at the end of March. This has been coming for a while, its not an unplanned thing like it appears.

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[-] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Well, so much for peace talks.

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[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

US is going to be bankrupt by the time he is done his second term.

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Watching https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ and filtering by military-only is fun.

C17s flying back and forth between Ramstein and Israel for a couple hours already (not sure how many normally do, tbf. could be normal)

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[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Armchair theory is that the US large platform bombers will be used to credibly threaten repeated bunker buster hits on Fordow nuclear site. This could pressure Iran to surrender its entire nuclear program including that site.

Currently Israel doesn't have the capability by itself to destroy the site but US bombers possibly could.

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