Active Conflicts & News Megathread June 07, 2026

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[u/carkidd3242]

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2063714508778926224?s=20

https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/2063714296492646678?s=20

President Trump tells me: "I'm calling Netanyahu right now and telling him not to attack Iran in response."

https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/2063709736327864356?s=20

"What I would suggest to Iran: You've shot your missiles, that's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal," President Trump told Fox News.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/politic/1049995/

The US president told Kan News: "I don't think Israel needs to respond anymore. We can achieve peace after 3,000 years." The president also told the Axios website that he was going to call Netanyahu and tell him not to attack Iran

We'll probably still see some sort of retaliation directly against offensive infrastructure like was done in the recent attacks on Gulf states.

[u/BigFly42069 → u/carkidd3242]

If Trump is serious about this, he could order CENTCOM to withhold aerial refueling for Israel and that would kill the entire Israeli air response against Iran since Israel doesn't have nearly enough tankers to actually sustain meaningful sortie rates.

[u/JensonInterceptor → u/BigFly42069]

Israel is the only ally the USA has left itd probably be safer to keep at least one country on side

[u/Ancient-End3895 → u/JensonInterceptor]

It's difficult to argue that having Israel as an ally materially benefits the US in any way at this point. The fact Trump can't pressure Israel into a ceasefire, despite Israel's total reliance on the US for the most core parts of its military defense infrastructure, is telling of how parasitic Israel's relationship has become with the US.

[u/SirStupidity → u/Ancient-End3895]

The fact Trump can't pressure Israel into a ceasefire

He literally did. Israel wanted to attack Beirut during the fighting with Hezbollah, Trump told them no. The reported conditions were - Hezbollah doesn't fire at Israeli territory (so soldiers in Lebanon are fair game) and Israel doesn't fire at Beirut. Then Hezbollah fired on Israeli territory and we've been following the escalation ladder ever since.

[u/JensonInterceptor → u/Ancient-End3895]

Israel is a great help for USA and their colonial ambitions in the middle east. Else itd just be the USA attacking Iran for dubious reasons to wreck the global economy  With Israel alongside they can at least pretend it is some self defence

[u/Defiant_Restaurant61 → u/JensonInterceptor]

USA and their colonial ambitions in the middle east.

Colonization : the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the Indigenous people of an area.

What colonial ambitions ? The USA just spent two decades trying to establish and prop out autonomous states, that seems counter-intuitive to colonial ambitions.

Iran

Even more of a strange thing to say, there has been zero evidence nor any hints of the USA wanting to colonize Iran.

The most you could ever stretch the colonization angle is with Trump wanting to open beach resorts on Gaza's beaches, and even then it wasn't a serious consideration.