CoolerOpposide

I fear for the Iranian people that you are right. I know I have a heavy heart for the suffering that will come, and perhaps am imagining only the absolute worst case scenarios. I pray that I’m underestimating Iran because we are looking doom and gloom in the face. But alas, here we are

The ball of history is rolling now, and nobody can stop it. Inshallah Iran will prove its decisions to have been wise

I mean… maybe? It’s a real rock and hard place situation Iran is in. Risk getting struck first (devastating), preemptively attack and therefore invite being struck with cause (devastating), or test a nuke and hope it is enough of a deterrent to keep the U.S. from attacking (devastating if it doesn’t work).

All of these options have such little upside and such huge downside. It is just not a good situation at all

If Iran does have a secret nuke(s), it needs to test one TONIGHT.

This might be an unpopular opinion here, but frankly unless Iran wants to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S. and likely accept humiliating terms, nuclear deterrent is really the only way it can hope to prevent absolute devastation that will take decades to recover from and exert any outward regional influence.

Maybe my heart is too soft, but I don’t want to see Iran destroyed and a green light for increased genocidal aggression in Gaza over getting to keep firing a handful of potshots a day at the Zionist entity’s infrastructure.

A win is a win, an impact is an impact

Oh it will definitely drag out for years, but by “situation” I mean Iran’s ability to have any serious outward regional influence for a long time. The first thing the U.S. will do is decimate Iran’s infrastructure like it did in Iraq. The difference is that Iran is some of the least traversable terrain on the planet. Iran’s story will be written for decades in advance

I believe it’s already too late for Iran to pull that off, let alone technologically feasible for them. I don’t know what the answer is, and unfortunately I think the best answer might be sit down and negotiate with the U.S. now before millions potentially die and the genocide of Gaza has zero hope of being ended. If Iran strikes US bases and does not have direct material support from Russia or China, there is really only delaying the inevitable in a war with the U.S.: absolute ruin of Iranian infrastructure in some of the most difficult to navigate terrain in the world, and utter devastation of their military assets that let them have any chance of standing against western imperialist action in the future.

That doesn’t mean the U.S. will win, achieve regime change, or occupy parts of Iran, but it does mean that Iran will be fucked beyond all recognition for a long, long time. Iran either needs to demonstrate a nuclear test in a remote place within Iran TONIGHT or sit down and negotiate, and I would go as far as to say that it should not even hesitate to accept terms up to no longer launching missiles at Israel.

Turks are dickheads in the border

Unfortunately yeah, why I had to add the “if”

But definitely get her to Kuwait

If you can hold out for a few more hours, the situation might already be finished, and not in a good way

May Allah awaken the people…

Depends where she is in Iraq and if she has a place to actually go in Kuwait, but Turkey is probably safer if she can get in

First of all, I wish he wasn’t president, but since he is I at least wish he was mentally coherent to remember his “fire and fury” comments and make them again and then do nothing again

To be frank, I think any security partnership wouldn’t have been honored by either side. On paper it would have helped, but realistically I don’t think Israel or Ukraine would think for even a second that Russia/Iran would join their respective conflicts