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.

  • Auth@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

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      15 hours ago

      No, Israel is at war with Iran, not the other way around. Don’t try and Ukraine invaded Russia this shit. They’re in violation of international law and should be unanimously and globally condemned like the sick rabid little terrorist state they are.

      They have nukes by the way. And we’re apparently A-OK with that! Fuck the USA for enabling that infected boil on humanity’s progress.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah and the little green men that showed up in Crimea in 2014 definitely had nothing to do with Russia! That’s what Russia said and we all believed them, right?

        Are you pretending Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis are not Iranian proxies or are you actually that uninformed about these things? Iran regularly calls them their “Axis of Resistance” if you didn’t know. Iran’s proxies have been definitely attacking Israel for a long time.

        How long can Iran have to send endless waves of Arabs to die as canon fodder before someone puts a stop to it? All of the Arab countries are too authoritarian and corrupt to do anything about Iran, so here we are.

    • the_wiz@feddit.org
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      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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        15 hours ago

        How come your analysis of escalation only includes enemy states of the USA? Escalation has happened already twice because of Israel, and the US literally threatened to invade Greenland and Canada, and is considering joining a war against Iran.