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.

  • RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Trump is after Iran’s eggs, I guess. He promised the people of the US lower egg prices, he will get them from Iran.

    How can people in the US be okay with this? Their quality of life has only decreased since Bush 2 started his wars of terror. A propagandized population driven to hate others and rally behind the president.

    As unlikely as it may be, I hope the US loses quickly and decisively against Iran. Not in 20 years from now like in Afghanistan, but soon. I don’t know what cards Iran has, what leverage they may have, but I hope they have something that enables them to inflict pain.

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      6 hours ago

      I’m reading this book called Heartland that actually really deep dives into why so many Americans are ok with this, the fact of the matter is huge parts of the US have been living in abject poverty since basically always and it’s part of their culture to not need much, wanting things is looked down on as weakness, it’s a cultural part of long term poverty for huge swaths of the US, that living a hard life is the only way to live, there’s obviously many layers to this but it’s not a thing you can just think your way out of (because not getting educated is also part of this culture) since culture and identity are so deeply intertwined and you see that culture being actively promoted and spread via “trad culture” which is very much popular, especially with young men, trad is just code for poor

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      The people of the US have never seen a brutal invasion of the middle east they didn’t support.

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      11 hours ago

      Iran is defending, that’s why the americans cannnot win this war. They don’t have enough bombs to kill every iranian from the sky.

      • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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        Can’t win a ground war. And they know it. Hence the 30 air tankers. Gonna be another shock and awe air campaign. Except half of the middle east or more will be taking part.

        Guess its time for the US to lose another war. We haven’t won one since the Soviets won WWII for us.

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          7 hours ago

          They have hypersonic missiles, which the US or any western country fails to make.
          They can hit targets as far as the US base in Cyprus.
          Up to now they didn’t even use their best missiles against the genocider entity, and already the Iron Sieve is failing.
          F-35’s down etc…
          US pissed off when attacked even by Ansar Allah in Yemen. And jets happened to fall in the water a few times. LOL
          This will be no Afghanistan, this will hurt.