US military has launched ‘major combat operations’ in Iran - Trump

Trump says the US military has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, saying the country had attempted to rebuild its nuclear programme.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    The strikes on the Houthis did, at some level, have some restraint compared to this shit.

    Like that residential building y’all bombed to get that Houthi guy hanging out with his girlfriend? Whatever restraint was exercised in the Houthi bombings was strictly performative; the real difference between these two cases is the possibilities of US boots on the ground.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      I mean, I thought that was super fucked up and almost certainly illegal too, and I am by no means trying to excuse or justify it when I say the following: there is a significant difference of degree between a targeted strike that kills the target and the target’s girlfriend, and bombing a school and killing 51 children (which is the last count I saw).

      Both are bad. One is a lot worse than the other.