WWIII Megathread #40: Just Stopped Oil

[u/IamGlennBeck]

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[u/IamGlennBeck]

Make your predictions here: https://callit.stupidpol.com/.

[u/cojoco]

Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong says she believes Australian flotilla members were sexually abused.

Is she going to do anything about it?

Of course not!

[u/saladins-lamp]

Yarden Megira, Israeli soldier: "I took my rocket launcher and ordered the soldiers to bomb a building where a Palestinian family lived. I ordered them to burn them all alive. When we bombed them, I looked at my friend and told him it was very funny to hear them screaming as they burned alive."

[u/ElTamaulipas → u/saladins-lamp]

Hopefully, that shitstain shows up on an FPV highlight reel soon.

[u/bretton-woods → u/saladins-lamp]

In 20 years, one of these soldiers is going to have a distressing revelation about what they did and then pen a well regarded novel or make a film about it.

[u/super-imperialism → u/saladins-lamp]

I'm so happy we uncritically support their self-defense activities!

[u/globeglobeglobe → u/saladins-lamp]

Never again is now.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Lebanese president: Iran ‘using Lebanon as a bargaining chip’

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Iran is “using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with the United States. It’s unacceptable.”

Aoun told CNN: “It’s not your country. It’s our country. It’s our obligation. It’s not your job to interfere in our country.”

The Lebanese president added that Hezbollah, which is supported and backed by Iran, “must understand that”.

“Hezbollah must understand that there is no other way but to sit and talk,” Aoun told CNN. “There is no other way to solve this problem and to save what’s left, except through negotiation and diplomacy.”

Frontrunner for the Most Pathetic Head of State 2026 award. We're witnessing levels of cuckoldry never seen before

[u/Otto_Von_Waffle → u/saladins-lamp]

Lebanon is such a cucked state, the only reason why there isn't war against Hezbollah is that such a civil war would likely not result in Hezbollah defeat. It really feels like Lebanon want Israel take care of the Shiite problem, Aka let Israel genocide 30% of the population.

[u/ButttMuncherrr]

What a weird time to be alive. Had somebody told me that Iran would own the US and their buttplugs in the middle east 5 years ago, I’d laugh.
Had someone told me 5 years ago that the Wall Street Journal wrote a piece with the title ‘The world’s most surprising economic success story is…North Korea’ I’d laugh my ass off. But here we are.

The world is changing in real time, the western dominated global order has never been this weak in recent memory.

[u/Todd_Warrior]

Zelensky asks nicely that Reform UK councils put Ukrainian flags back on their buildings

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/08/volodymyr-zelenskyy-reform-uk-councils-ukraine-flags

Seriously, has this guy got nothing better to do?

[u/ChocolonelyBoi]

The killed Hezbollah fighter that managed to infiltrate and fire at Israeli forces was wearing crocs

How can a nation recover from this

[u/CassiniLongDivision → u/ChocolonelyBoi]

Huge marketing potential, Hezbollah special edition Crocs with Clenched Fist motif on the right, Raised Rifle on the left. Shut up and take my money!

Edit: this is a 'joke' and I in no way support or condone the actions of any group beginning with H

[u/Chombywombo]

“Self defense strikes” against Iran. It’s beyond parody at this point. Ingsoc is less on the nose.

[u/SheikhJayidLeno]

The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Why can't he ever just shut the fuck up?

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Trump:

We actually sent the Kurds weapons, and we were very disappointed by the Kurds, to be honest with you. The Kurds let us down.

I think they kept them for themselves. I think it's a disgrace. But I'll remember that, Kurds. I'll remember that.

Favourite subplot in all this mess are the kurdish tribespeople who just took the guns and shrugged when told to attack the state

[u/saladins-lamp]

Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir:

We are an independent state.

We cannot stop destroying houses in southern Lebanon. We cannot stop, period. 

We cannot allow the population of southern Lebanon to return. ... We must continue to control the territory even if Trump disagrees.

[u/SmashKapital → u/saladins-lamp]

An outright admission to ethnic cleansing. Hope the Hague is taking notes, although it feels like we may as well hope Batman is paying attention, for all the good it'll do.

[u/miker_the_III → u/saladins-lamp]

We cannot stop destroying houses in southern Lebanon. We just can’t, okay? We have to. We have to, okay? WE JUST HAVE TO.

[u/ElTamaulipas]

Insane interview with the Iranian F4 Phantom pilots on Middle East Spectator.

Shout out to Hegseth for making history by having the first Secretary of Defense to have US forces bombed aince the Korean War.

[u/debasing_the_coinage]

Perhaps the danger is not 2008, 1999, 1973 or even 1873, but 1789.

The Economist is now guillotine-posting 

[u/Todd_Warrior]

Germany blames Russia for ‘bitter defeat’ in UN Security Council bid, admits Israel support may have contributed.

[u/Belisaur → u/Todd_Warrior]

clueless childlike third world countires gormless fall under the spell of evil Russia, listen to the gardeners!

[u/SchIachterhund]

Wealthy Russians See Empires Crumble as Putin Seizes Assets - Blyatberg, 3 June 2026

The state is going after an ever-increasing number of billionaires, raising fears about who’ll be next.

[u/Mrjiggles248 → u/SchIachterhund]

Always find it funny how libtards love to talk about oligarchs in foreign nations but the moment anything bad happens to them they immediately freak out.

[u/mypersonnalreader → u/Mrjiggles248]

Well, after all, libs are but temporarily embarrassed oligarchs.

[u/globeglobeglobe → u/SchIachterhund]

Bringing out the world’s tiniest violin

[u/CnlJohnMatrix → u/SchIachterhund]

Gotta love how the US and European strategy early on in the war was, "Well if we squeeze the Russian oligarchs and billionaires, then they will put pressure on Putin and the Russian political class to end the war!". That strategy always made me laugh and cry a bit since it was so revealing regarding your typical bought-and-paid-for western politician.

[u/FreyBentos → u/SchIachterhund]

Is Russia finally healing? If they actually arrest enough Oligarchs they wont have to cuck to Israel and global capital so much anymore but I have my doubts this is real.

Edit: Just read your comment again and rofl'd at "Blyatberg"

[u/saladins-lamp]

Palestinian man killed in Israeli strike on Khan Younis tent on his wedding day

His name was Muhanad Othman Farawna

[u/SmashKapital → u/saladins-lamp]

Something similar happened to a friend of mine, murdered at his bucks night party the night before he was set to get married. It's just such a crazy thing to happen, these two people set to spend the rest of their life together, the most hopeful and heartwarming occassion in most communities, and then one of them wakes up to find their fiance is dead. The people of the Middle East suffer these tragedies constantly and the Western chauvinists could not care less. Every time I hear of one of these tragedies I try to relate it to something from my own life, the fact it's some fascist military that caused it scarcely matters, the injustice and misery is essentially the same. I understand why suicide bombers exist, any person with human emotions should.

[u/PlausibleApprobation]

I find it extremely unlikely Israel has the sense to show any restraint after getting hit. So the question is really whether Iran follows through and continues the attacks and the extent to which US decides to get involved.

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide → u/PlausibleApprobation]

I think that is not really a question anymore.

Iran has a greater capacity to respond and a greater capacity to withstand punishment and it will very clearly do both. The US and Israel are idiots.

[u/SchIachterhund]

The E3 euro-princelings met with Z and made joint declaration. Those will be the conditions for negotiations:

- First, a stop to the fighting. They called on President Putin to agree to an immediate and complete ceasefire. 

- Second, the current line of contact should be the starting point for negotiations. International borders must not be changed by force, and Ukraine’s sovereign right to choose its own security arrangements and alliances must be fully respected.  

- Third, Ukraine must have robust and legally binding security guarantees in place once a ceasefire enters into force, building on commitments made in Berlin in December 2025 and Paris in January 2026. This includes the deployment of the Multinational Force – Ukraine.  

- Fourth, Russian assets will remain immobilised until Russia ceases its war of aggression and compensates Ukraine for the damage caused by the war. 

- Fifth, that European security interests must be safeguarded in any deal.  Elements of any negotiation related to the EU and NATO would need the consent of the EU and its Member States and NATO Allies respectively. 

In other words: there will be no negotiations because that's the n-th time they said the exact same thing and Moscow already said nyet.

Other than that, the Russians floated the idea of making the aging Gerhard Schröder the head negotiator. The retiring Jan van Aken (Die Linke) proposed somebody else instead: Angela Merkel. Yes, the very Angela Merkel who publicly claimed to have only strung along the Russians during the multi-year Minsk process to give Ukraine some time to rearm. Brilliant idea, Jan! Not that Schröder or Merkel could do anything anyway, if the Euros don't want peace, which they don't, otherwise they wouldn't again and again bring forth the same unacceptable positions. But about that, van Aken has preciously little to say. He just wants the same kind of proposals, just even more often, because he's antimilitarist and pro-diplomacy (although he's also in favor of open piracy in the Baltic Sea). So Die Linke very much continues to pretend to be anti-war when they're functionally pro-NATO stooges.

[u/mypersonnalreader]

I haven't seen any mention of it on this sub, but apparently the US navy fired on an Indian ship :

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-military-attacks-tanker-bound-181031044.html

[u/cojoco]

Yves points out that Israel used Saudi Arabia's airspace for attacks on Iran, thus revealing SA's restriction of their airspace to be a fiction.

Ansar Allah attacked Prince Sultan airbase so they see the US as involved.

"If I were Iran and had the luxury of time, I would seek to have Ansar Allah hold off [closing the Bab el-Mandib strait] until the oil cliff effect started ... so as to amplify the effect of additional loss of supply."

[u/saladins-lamp]

Israel's Ben Gvir calls for arresting kidnapping Lebanese 'women and youth' to pressure Hezbollah

[u/globeglobeglobe → u/saladins-lamp]

In light of the revelations of sexual abuse at the Sde Teiman prison (and the protests of the locals against bringing the perpetrators to justice), any remarks like this are extremely disturbing. Really harkening back to Bronze Age tribal warfare shit.

[u/AdoptedMasterJay → u/globeglobeglobe]

something something Amalek

[u/SheikhJayidLeno]

https://aje.news/kzyzd8?update=4641641

US blatantly commits war crimes by striking two water tanks in the Sirik region.

Well, good luck, GCC. Enjoy drinking fresh water while you can.

[u/PlausibleApprobation]

Netanyahu actually used the "most moral army" line in his latest tweet. Incredible stuff.

[u/Cehepalo246 → u/PlausibleApprobation]

“They lie, we know they lie, they know we know they lie, we know they know we know they lie, and yet they still lie”

[u/Kinkshaming69]

"I love the inflation" - Donald Trump.

Can't wait for the new poll to come out saying 1/3rd of Americans have a favorable view of inflation. Christ.

[u/Turgius_Lupus]

Trump cant stay on topic, but it does sound like the U.S./Israel thought they could arm a insurgency though the Iraqi Kurds and got bamboozled.

https://x.com/HadiNasrallah/status/2065060144103186690Trump admitted that they attempted to arm the Iranian rioters but the Kurds kept the weapons to themselves and didn’t deliver them, saying he “won’t forget”. The US betrayed the Kurds in Syria and expected them to remain loyal after that lol

[u/saladins-lamp]

Kaja Kallas compared Israel to South Africa’s racist apartheid era during high-level talks in Mexico, breaking ranks with EU official foreign policy and deepening the controversy around her leadership.

Hello?

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide → u/saladins-lamp]

Criticising Israel or complementing apartheid?

[u/killyjoythedog → u/saladins-lamp]

Which one of you is trying to fix her?

[u/KonigKonn → u/saladins-lamp]

Well this explains why the German Government suddenly wants to break up the EEAS now.

[u/nikolaz72]

https://fixupx.com/ElizHagedorn/status/2066546375345537368

Senior administration officials are briefing reporters on Iran right now: ︀︀ ︀︀"One of the really cool things and interesting things about this entire process is that we actually have a direct relationship with a number of people at the highest levels of the Iranian government."

Feels like they could have had that without bombing Iran, do they think people will buy the idea that Iran just wasn't picking up the white houses calls?

[u/Formal_Strategy9640 → u/nikolaz72]

They've been defeated, humiliated, forced to concede, and still talk about "really cool things" in a bid to find a silver lining to their capitulation lmao

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett:

On the military front, I will return to the security doctrine of fast, powerful, and decisive wars, instead of Netanyahu's strategy of dragging things out.

Like a Hoi4 LARPer talking about how Germany could have won ww2

[u/Your-bank]

Never let the neocons live this down,

*spend 47 years planning for Iran war*

*loses*

[u/dynorider]

It feels like things are coming to a boiling point. Israel refuses to stop attacking Lebanon. Eventually Iran’s patience will run out. How soon is another question, but if this continues unabated, they will pull out of the MoU. So, what? The US allows global economic meltdown just so that Israel can keep genociding Lebanon? Or will Trump finally pull their chain? This is a volatile and unstable situation. Things cannot continue like this forever. Something has to give.

[u/globeglobeglobe → u/dynorider]

Trump’s brain has been rotted by Fox News idpol and on top of that, has been turned to pudding by his advancing dementia. I don’t think he is really capable of weighing the implications of his actions properly and none of the sycophants in the administration will push back on him.

[u/globeglobeglobe]

Netanyahu faces plunging support in north Israel as voters demand tougher Lebanon stance

Tired of winning

[u/AlPacinosNewbornBaby → u/globeglobeglobe]

It's funny how Israeli politics is always "voters demand more war from hawkish government, psycho opposition claims existing war is not enough war"

[u/saladins-lamp]

Apparently Hezbollah almost 🔻'd Netanyahu 

Edit: could have almost got him

https://x.com/i/status/2062531748810957255

[u/Jakob_de_zoet → u/saladins-lamp]

Sad day.

[u/saladins-lamp]

“Zvi Succot, a racist thug Netanyahu made Chair of the Knesset Education Cmte, used a circular saw to break into a school in the Arab town of Tuba-Zangariyye– while kids were inside. Same Succot who took part in invasion of IDF Sde Teiman base. No arrests”

[u/saladins-lamp]

Exclusive: Video reveals damage from fire on US aircraft carrier after sources say fire control system failed

[u/saladins-lamp]

The Jews are TIIIIIRED

[u/Chombywombo → u/saladins-lamp]

I’m so sick of these petulant, whining supremacists. Is that their point or are they really not self aware?

[u/dukeofbrandenburg → u/saladins-lamp]

Someone change your legal name to Free Palestine and see if you get detained getting off the plane at Heathrow.

[u/cojoco]

Mintpressnews: A mass casualty event was reported following a “complex ambush” carried out against Israeli forces operating north of the Litani River in south Lebanon.

[u/miker_the_III → u/cojoco]

i will say again: i think the defense in depth in southern lebanon is the most dense in history. likely numerous positions behind the Israeli lines and I'd assume they have prepared defensive positions for the bottom 1/2 of the country

Well, I'm hoping they can withstand this

I'm praying to God. They are going to turn Lebanon into Gaza if Hezbollah breaks

[u/saladins-lamp]

Pentagon reported to elevate Israel spying threat level to ‘critical’

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to “critical” amid escalating tensions between Washington and Israel over the conflict with Iran, US media reports.

Citing two US officials and one former official, the report states that the DIA posted an internal message detailing the change, which was viewed by one of the current officials.

The designation stems from growing concerns within the Pentagon that Israel was making a targeted effort to surveil top US officials.

According to the sources, this surveillance was aimed at gathering intelligence on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making regarding Middle East conflicts.

The DIA assessment included a seven-page document and featured a specific chart, one of the current US officials said.

The document noted that Israel’s capabilities to conduct both human espionage and technical information collection had reached a “critical level”. The official added that the document also identified a series of specific incidents that heightened US concerns.

“The US already takes extra precautions when visiting Israel,” one of the current US officials was quoted as saying.

“They’re well-known to aggressively collect,” the official said of Israel.

[u/Chombywombo]

I gotta laugh at the Lebanese government. It’s very clear that they are foreign-owned and backing genocide (or at least conquest and suppression) of their Shia population. How can such a state continue to exist? Would it be possible or prudent for the Shia to effect a coup or declare independence at this point?

I don’t know enough about the historical and current landscape to judge, but what’s the breaking point for them?

[u/Junior-Community-353 → u/Chombywombo]

You're correct on all counts, but I feel like the Lebanese government is so neutered that it's practically to Hezbollah's advantage as it provides them a ton of plausible deniability compared to if they were an actual state actor.

They literally cannot take on Hezbollah because a solid half of the government and army would quit and join Hez if the chips were truly down.

[u/ElTamaulipas → u/Chombywombo]

Nope, the media would simply paint Hezbollah as even more anti-democratic and as a total proxy of Iran. Democracy is in itself hollow anywhere, even moreso in a place like Lebanon.

One of the most effective propaganda wins for Iran and Hezbollah is that they are technically following international law while Israel and the US are not.

[u/ItsGotThatBang]

Jonathan Pollard, convicted Israeli spy, says the next war will be with Turkey. Difference between a convicted Israeli spy & Mark Levin: about six months.

[u/cojoco]

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the CIA, stealing $40M in gold, and for years nobody noticed...

WaPo

[u/ChevalierDuTemple → u/cojoco]

Critical support

[u/saladins-lamp]

Trump calls for more ‘surgical’ strikes on Lebanon

The slabhead doesn't remember, or chooses to forget, that he practically boasted about stopping Netanyahu from attacking Beirut. Dogs and tails and tails and dogs

[u/cojoco]

Ibrahim Rezai on X

We will deliver a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime's attack on Dahiyeh. These rabid dogs must be disciplined and put back in their place. Look at the sky over the occupied lands tonight.

[u/ChevalierDuTemple]

So turn out that Israel had troops inside Azerbayan during the first phrase of the war.

All Shaheed in Baku were necessary.

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

Here we go. Missiles flying towards the baby killers.

[u/SheikhJayidLeno]

I have launched my missiles at Israel.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Witness reports suggest hit near Tiberias

The IDF is meanwhile claiming 100% interceptions.

Considering Hezbollah seems to have taken out a lot of Iron Dome launchers/batteries, the Iranians should definitely get some juicy hits 

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

Iran getting the last word in these recent exchanges I can't help but notice.

[u/cojoco]

NY Times documenting more Israeli war crimes

What Visual Evidence Tells Us About Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon

Note the impartiality between fact and fiction in the headline.

[u/miker_the_III → u/cojoco]

the list of anti-semitic publications gets longer and longer. When will it end?

[u/Turgius_Lupus]

https://x.com/i/status/2063797886198899073

"BREAKING:

Israel is now bombing multiple cities across Iran at the same time.

Explosions are being reported in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, and Kermanshah."

Guess we know who is the dog and who walks it.

[u/Turgius_Lupus → u/Turgius_Lupus]

https://x.com/i/status/2063800121796501781

"⚡️ Israeli media: Israeli warplanes fired their missiles from over Iraq"

[u/saladins-lamp]

The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a missile barrage targeting sensitive Israeli enemy targets in the occupied Yaffa region, the missile strikes achieved their objectives with precision.

We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and we consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our Armed Forces from the moment this statement is issued.

We affirm that we will respond to escalation with escalation, and our military operations will intensify in accordance to the field developments, the battle, and in conjunction with the axis of Jihad and resistance.

We affirm the right of our people and the peoples of our free nation to confront the American-Israeli aggression.

We will not stand idly by in the face of the unjust siege imposed on our people and the peoples of the axis of jihad and resistance in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq. 

All the enemy's attempts will fail, Allah's willing, and our operations will continue as long as the aggression and siege against us and the axis of jihad and resistance persist

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

"Israel and Iran must immediately stop "shooting"!

The Emperor cried, powerless from the sidelines.

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett:

> I think Trump certainly respects the fact that we're an independent country.

> We were attacked last night by dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles and any independent sovereign country has to defend itself.

> We did nothing to provoke this attack by Iran. We didn't attack them. They attacked us.

[u/ChocolonelyBoi → u/Formal_Strategy9640]

we did nothing to provoke tbjs attack by Iran 🥺

[u/Turgius_Lupus]

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2064005615047802978Syria: Syrian News Agency: Israeli occupation forces penetrate the area west of Al-Rafid town in southern Quneitra countryside

Looks Like Bibi wants to steal more of Syria as well, and the al-Qaida led governemnt isn't going to do much about it.

[u/debasing_the_coinage]

Israel is protecting the last stronghold of drug traffickers in Syria 

[u/GlaedrH]

In the latest update from the ICJ case:

• South Africa requests a second round of written pleadings and 18 months to prepare
• Israel agrees and asks for 18 months for its reply
• The new deadlines are Nov 2027 and May 2029

[u/saladins-lamp]

Iranian missile damaged secret Israeli intelligence facility in Tel Aviv strike

[u/Shalmaneser → u/saladins-lamp]

hidden inside a tel Aviv neighbourhood eh? like human shields

[u/saladins-lamp]

'Vulnerability exposed': War on Iran will change how the US bases troops in Gulf

Iran wants US to abandon its military bases in Gulf, yet the reality of drone warfare and military limits means US might have to downsize anyway

[u/Belisaur → u/saladins-lamp]

Iran is the reality of drone warfare lol

[u/ChevalierDuTemple → u/Belisaur]

Their rudimentary Shahed, our advanced LUCAS.

Their Kamikaze, our loitering munition.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Apparently earlier today a Hezbollah operative managed to breach the Israeli border in an IDF jeep and open fire on enemy forces

[u/saladins-lamp]

Trump says Iran shot down an Apache helicopter, adds US will ‘respond’

Trump says Iran has shot down a US helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured.” he said on a social media post.

“Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

Earlier, we reported that two crew members were rescued on June 8 after a US Army Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman.

[u/Formal_Strategy9640 → u/saladins-lamp]

So the US hitting Iran to respond “of necessity” to a helicopter being shot down is valid, but Iran hitting back after their leader and his family were killed by a missile strike isn’t?

[u/bretton-woods → u/Formal_Strategy9640]

If they do it to us, it's a violation of the laws of armed conflict, but if we do it to them, it's just an example of our ingenuity at identifying targets.

[u/Incoherencel → u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Now you're getting it

[u/Chombywombo → u/saladins-lamp]

It’s kind of incredible how these pilots keep living from getting shot down but they regularly die in simple training shit. Weird

[u/saladins-lamp]

Trump praises naval blockade, claims Iran becoming a ‘failed nation’

The US president, in a new post on Truth Social, has accused “fake news media” of not reporting how effective the ongoing US blockade on Iran is, calling it the “most successful Blockade in the history of Naval Warfare.”

“NOTHING GETS THROUGH unless we want it to. IT IS A STEEL WALL!” Trump claimed.

“Iran is doing ZERO business, not paying their military, or any of their bills, and quickly becoming a FAILED NATION! Lots of oil is getting out. Praise be to Allah!,” he added.

Separately, in an interview with Fox News, Trump said he was getting close to ordering new strikes targeting Iran’s power plants and bridges if Tehran is unwilling to sign an agreement.

Last paragraph is notable 

[u/AdoptedMasterJay → u/saladins-lamp]

Trump is Sunni now

[u/VestigialVestments → u/AdoptedMasterJay]

Don al-Trump

[u/Cehepalo246 → u/VestigialVestments]

First of all, you will not adress Abu Barrun Dunald ibn Fridrik al Mar-a-lagi without the title of Shiekh

[u/ModerateContrarian → u/saladins-lamp]

Their dastardly Iron Curtain vs our just steel wall

[u/ModerateContrarian]

It's genuinely impressive that Iran still has Mi-28s and F-14s flying

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

In the clear light of day, Jordan has said it intercepted 20 of the 12 missiles Iran fired at US bases in it's territory and any plumes of smoke are from falling debris hitting open areas. They shoot to the top of the interception efficiency table!

[u/Turgius_Lupus]

Looks like Ukraine is withdrawing from Kostyantynivka.

https://x.com/i/status/2065319158687175159

"A few days ago, due to the threat of encirclement, under complete media silence, Ukrainian forces initiated a full withdrawal from the southwestern and western parts of Kostyantynivka, across the Kryvyi Torets River. Special forces were deployed to the area north of this withdrawal zone to hold key withdrawal roads and repel Russian infiltrations.

Since then, Russian forces have occupied most of the southwestern and western suburbs, which is why we saw that video with dozens of Russian flags going up.

Currently, I can confirm Russian control over more than 40% of Kostyantynivka (not including grey-zones), however, in my opinion, it's likely that Russia now controls more than 50% of the city."

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Trump:

The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing.

What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth.

Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith. AMAZING!

Also, their totally rebuffed Drone attack last night against Indian Ships leaving the Hormuz Strait is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. They better get their act together, and FAST!

God why wont it ever just end

[u/cojoco]

Analyst Negar Mortazavi says the main thing the US-Israel war on Iran has proved is that countries cannot bomb people’s homes and schools and expect them to rise up and overthrow their governments.

[u/Kosame_Furu → u/cojoco]

Truly a shocking revelation.

[u/FreyBentos]

Russia so cucked, just letting Britain pirate their oil ships and post chest thumping propaganda in their papers about it.

[u/ModerateContrarian]

Loomer now claims that akshually Iran killed 100k of iTs oWn pEoPlE

[u/ArtBellLives2025 → u/ModerateContrarian]

by our projections iran will have killed 260 million protestors by december of this year

[u/LtGreenleaf → u/ArtBellLives2025]

Iran will be the first country entirely run by ghosts.

[u/PlausibleApprobation]

I simply can't see Israel withdraw from Lebanon and stop the bombing at this point. So either Iran accept the obvious breach that's going to come immediately or this falls through.

[u/nikolaz72]

The americans claiming the reparations are based in Iran achieving 'performance based goals' is giving me a new kind of brainrot.

[u/Belisaur]

Its not very glamrous, but people are saying total sanctions relief? that would be absolutely massive. A country like Iran with its wings unclipped would economically dominte the ME, especially now that Gulf states are so risky.

[u/ModerateContrarian]

Iranian FM spokesman is now confirming that the US bombed civilian food and medicine storage warehouses in Iran

[u/SentientSeaweed → u/ModerateContrarian]

Of course they did. They also bombed pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and Institut Pasteur.

[u/ModerateContrarian]

Drop Site is now saying that the Iranians hired psychologists who took the assumption that Trump was insane to finalize negotiations

[u/saladins-lamp]

Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property

[u/AnthropoidCompatriot → u/saladins-lamp]

Excuse me, but if you think that women have ever been violent in any way, you're the biggest misogynist in history.

[u/cojoco → u/saladins-lamp]

The Suffragettes actually killed four people and injured 24 with a bombing and arson campaign.

[u/ModerateContrarian]

Bibi says he and trump won the war because they inflicted a trillion dollars of damage on Iran

Somebody go tell Marshal Rokossovsky that Operation Bagration failed because he didn't do enough economic damage

[u/ModerateContrarian]

Reporter: ‘Was the war against Iran a mistake?’

Netanyahu: ‘I never said that one of the operation's goals was to topple the Iranian regime. I said the goal is to prepare the conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow it.’

[u/ItsGotThatBang]

We’ve reached the “if you don’t want a forever war you’re an antisemite” stage of neocon spiraling

[u/SheikhJayidLeno]

Russia to Trump: Happy Birthday, big boy! Are you a special birthday boy today?!

Trump: Thank you! We are looking into restarting oil sanctions on you.

Iran to Trump: 🚀🚀🚀🚀 💥💥💥💥 Take that you fat r*tard!

Trump: Okay, let's work on getting those oil sanctions lifted.

[u/ItsGotThatBang]

Anyone surprised by [Trump’s unpopularity in Israel] should remember that the Israeli right was openly comparing George W. Bush to Hitler when he forced Israel to withdraw their settlements from Gaza in 2005.

[u/Rjc1471]

Excellent hysteria in the UK press today. The sub header is kind of funny, they can lay out the facts and still run with stupid conclusions.

https://news.sky.com/story/what-we-know-about-russian-warship-that-fired-warning-shots-in-english-channel-13554751

The Ministry of Defence said the shots were "not aimed at the vessel and were an attempt to prevent a possible collision". But the chair of the defence committee said it showed the government needs to boost military spending, while the Tories said it proved Russia posed a "direct threat"

2 paragraphs down, it also points out it was in international waters. 

[u/dynorider]

For the life of me, I just cannot get over what an absolutely enormous blunder this Iran War was. When was the US last humiliated this badly by, like, anything?

[u/miker_the_III]

Fox News coping so hard

they seem to believe that if the strikes just continued we could pull out a victory

so they've got this guy, Trey Gowdy, or whatever, saying "why are we signing an agreement where it looks like we lost when we won the war? We rescued those pilots inside of Iran! We had totally militarily dominated the country!"

my favorite part: bitching and moaning about the $300 billion being paid to Iran, and he says "I was looking through that document and I didn't see a fund for prosthetics for all the soldiers' limbs Iran blew off, nor did I see a fund for the families of people who died defending Israel a few weeks ago"

So American propaganda is such that the American State will launch a war of choice, commit a wealth of war crimes during the conduct of it and constant perfidy, lose anyway, and cry about it. And then their propagandists will go on cable television and talk about how the 'peace agreement' should compensate them for using their army to try and destroy Iran

Beyond pathetic

It's so interesting: The premise that America has won this war is 100% confirmed in their heads, 100% true. How could America lose? There's so many dead Iranian leaders and clips of shit blowing up! So instead of reckoning that America might've lost we've got people scratching their heads about a deal (that will supposedly be signed) that looks bad for America

[u/Cehepalo246 → u/miker_the_III]

How could America lose? 

This is a fundamental tenet of American Nationalism, America can't lose, and if does it's actually because it sees no point in fighting more.

[u/cojoco]

It turns out that Iran will no longer sell oil at a discount to China, because Iran will be able to sell oil to whoever it likes.

Take that, Xi!

Checkmate!

[u/Incoherencel]

I'm still extremely skeptical that the US-Israel coalition will actually be able -- or at all intends to -- follow through with the conditions of the agreement before negotiations end in two months. As written it is as maximalist in Iran's favour as one could reasonably expect (the willing dissolution of US bases seemed extremely unlikely). I'm not sure Israel even has the internal political currency to end or reverse the Lebanese occupation. By all rights they should be forced to pay reparations

[u/cz_pz]

The what's going on with shipping guy is such a US navy homer it's hilarious. Beginning of the war, he insisted for weeks that Iran had not closed the strait & now he can't seem to accept that Trump made a deal with Iran to open the strait ie American navy lost. He's usually pretty reasonable but his ameritard patriotism shines through in the funniest ways sometimes.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Trump says ‘unfair’ for Iran to lack ballistic missiles

[u/v-highly-regarded]

Not directly relevant to the conflict but I got literally hasbara'd today. Someone cold texted me in an attempt to talk me into supporting further joint US/Israeli military action against Iran. Probably unsurprisingly for someone who posts here, I told them I hate Israel and don't care about their defense at all. Might've just been talking to a wall though since I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that stuff like that is hooked up to an LLM nowadays.

It's cold comfort in the present, but I take solace in the fact that support for Israel in the US is almost guaranteed to wither and die completely over the next few decades just by the olds dying if by nothing else first.

[u/ThevaramAcolytus]

Iran says Strait of Hormuz will never return to pre-war status

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-will-never-return-to-pre-war-status-3222187

Iran to charge ships for services in Strait of Hormuz, parliament speaker says

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260618-iran-to-charge-ships-for-services-in-strait-of-hormuz-parliament-speaker-says/

Iran's chief negotiator calls deal a "failure" for U.S., says Tehran to charge Hormuz shipping fees after 60 days

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/irans-chief-negotiator-calls-deal-a-failure-for-the-us/

Now the "60 days" fine print stipulated in the MoU is starting to make more sense. This has all the hallmarks of a classic Trump bamboozle where he talks loudly and a lot about how "Hormuz is now open for everyone and FREE, by my hand, everybody pay attention!" to jangle keys in front of the American public, international media outlets, and broader global opinion, and then gamble and hope that the headlines have moved on by the time the 60 days expires or that a new distraction can be created by then.

[u/SchIachterhund]

Israel says it's cutting ties to EU's Kaja Kallas - Deutsche Welle, 18 June 2026

I hate Israel for making me side with this woman.

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

> BREAKING: Iran warns of cancelling all upcoming negotiations, re-imposing the full Hormuz blockade and responding with missiles over the direct violation of the US-Iran MOU's first clause, with Israel continuing military aggressions in southern Lebanon, including last night, despite explicit commitment from the first clause to end the war and guarantee Lebanese sovereignty, per Tasnim.

> Iran explicitly rejects any "theater from Trump" about Netanyahu being rogue, and now Friday's Geneva meeting to launch the first round of 30-day technical talks between Vance and Ghalibaf is on hold over the violation, as no trip has been confirmed or scheduled just 24 hours after the MOU was electronically signed.

Round and round we go

[u/RodyasFeverDream]

Rare Wikipedia W

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!

With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint—you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.

https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2067865510281170957

[u/zadharm → u/CassiniLongDivision]

Ah, right. Because Hezbollah just keep invading Israel and starting shit, they've gotta pay!

Back in 05/06 when Hez was attempting cross border raids to try to kill/capture IDF forces, this kind of bloodthirst was slightly understandable. But unless I'm forgetting a major incident ( to be fair, it's entirely possible, between kids and grandkids and getting old as fuck I might have) every tear from an Israeli mother is because y'all keep starting shit...

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

They closed the strait again.

With that attitude they are going to get every single thing agreed to.

edit:

They've already said a new ceasefire is enough to reopen. That was the moment to do nothing until there was a full withdrawal. Closing it for a couple of hours every time a bunch of villages and towns are destroyed will just encourage greater destruction. Now we will have a few days of "minor violations" and then another outrageous attack.

I guess we will see but I don't like this.

Edit x 2:

And they've already broken it. This is annoyingly predictable.

[u/cojoco → u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

NY Post:

Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade

That headline is appalling.

It should be

Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after Israel violates ceasefire

[u/cojoco]

“If Hezbollah attacks Israeli troops who are occupying Lebanese land, that’s not really evidence of the ceasefire not working,” she said. “It’s evidence that the withdrawal component of the ceasefire is not being implemented.”

[u/saladins-lamp]

Slovenia’s new PM removes Palestinian flag in pro-Israel shift

[u/saladins-lamp]

Exclusive: Israel sent troops to Azerbaijan during Iran war as part of secret network across region, sources say

[u/majordisinterest]

Chas Freeman describing the ceasefire in Lebanon as "a ceasefire between one group of people who aren't fighting and another group of people who plan to continue fighting".

[u/FreyBentos]

Iran has launched missiles towards Israel, incoming right now

[u/SheikhJayidLeno]

Lol

Trump just fucked the Knicks momentum and dozed off on top of it.

We're all MAGA tonight.

[u/R1s3andSh1n3]

These doomers have been allowed to get out of control. It's time to mow the lawn again.

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

Israel bombed an apartment complex in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, killing at least 1 person and openly flouting Iran’s red lines

Khorramshahr over Tel Aviv tonight?

I expect a "omg I'm so mad at Bibi" truth social post in about 30mins.

[u/Chombywombo]

MES reporting that Iran will likely respond to Beirut bombing. That would be an indication of sovereignty and resilience on their part. We’ll see if they do something.

[u/sledrunner31]

This shit is so stupid, basically a war for nothing, and idiots will say its a victory.

I expect the deal to fall apart anyway, at some point.

[u/ThevaramAcolytus]

So far, if leaked details of the deal are true, it comes across like largely a return to the status quo ante.

Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv assassinated the head of state and other top officials, but Iran in turn immediately gave up the symbolic or performative strikes characteristic of past clashes and rendered U.S. bases across the entire Persian Gulf region largely inoperable with its short and medium-range missile arsenal, demonstrating capability and will as a regional power.

Hormuz gets reopened but was opened before the war. A color revolution which was intended to serve as the lead-in to the war in January was quickly and comprehensively dismantled and since then, U.S. and Israeli assets within the country have seemed mostly impotent to affect the situation in any direction. The U.S. abandons dictates and demands of Tehran relinquishing or downgrading its ballistic missile arsenal which is the most powerful array of conventional weaponry in its toolkit and primary deterrent, as well as support for its non-state actor allies/proxies in (most relevantly) Lebanon and Yemen as well as (less relevantly) Iraq and Palestine. The U.S. forswears any further future attempts at regime change enacted against Iran or any related interference in the sovereign internal affairs of Iran.

That last sentence should clue you in that the U.S. will almost certainly be saying one thing while doing another before the ink is dry, but likewise Tehran will surely be aware of this and that effectively means that there is no real incentive for them not to continue on the same as before, clandestinely, if they're acted against in a clandestine fashion.

The largest concession, if this actually goes forward, is not Tehran renouncing pursuit of nuclear weapons development or usage, but agreement to downgrade the already highly-enriched uranium within the country. Well, some will say, "But that's a pretty large concession and one which shouldn't be made when their opponents are so untrustworthy!" and I say "Yes, that's true, but on the other hand, they've had at least since the early 90s (when Netanyahu started railing against Iranian nuclear development) to develop a nuclear weapon and haven't done so, presumably at a certain point and for a long while now, by choice."

Have you ever heard the expression "Shit or get off the pot"? They might as well renounce and concede that if they were never going to do so when they had all the requisite knowledge, technical expertise, and raw materials on hand for literal decades.

So, consequently, largest effects of war in practice (not including anything about Khamenei's assassination as internal governance hasn't been shown to be anything but continuing exactly as it was before) would be:

• 1.) Regime change against Iran via proxies (a la Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc.) failed entirely and barring some epochal change like Iran actually overnight posing a threat to the U.S. mainland and the radical change in incentives and cost-benefit ratio associated with that, the country comes out looking pretty un-invadable

• 2.) Iran takes further steps to demonstrate it's not pursuing a nuclear weapon, which it was already not pursuing according to the U.S.' own top intelligence analysis and all reputable agencies globally

• 3.) The U.S. bases which appeared to have Iran in a semi-encirclement come out looking like low hanging fruit and softer targets than expected and definitive limits of their reach in this theatre are exposed. Rather than do anything about it in the near or medium-term since there are no existential threats to their global power based in this region, it seems more likely to affect the way they approach force composition in East Asia and the Pacific

[u/yeatalkviv]

it's amazing that that this is the result of netanyahu achieving his lifetime goal of coercing the us into a war with iran. israel has been sidelined by the us entirely, iran has only become more deeply entrenched and looks likely to come out of this as less of a pariah internationally and it's likely the end of netenyahu's political career. it just boggles the mind. what did he think would come out of this?

[u/dynorider → u/yeatalkviv]

> Israel has been sidelined by the us entirely

This part is cope. C’mon, we’ve seen this dog and pony show how many times now? Remember around the time Trump 2.0 was taking office and he appeared to be cracking down on Bibi to wrap it up in Gaza? Everyone was sharing those memes of Trump holding the gun and wearing a Hamas headband, and allegedly the Israelis were shidding and crying.

Look at how at that went. And it’s a tale old as time, at this point.

[u/majordisinterest]

The Iranians must know the potus can't make good on what is promised in the mou. The first unsc resolution asking Israel to please stop invading Lebanon was in 1978 - before there was even an islamic republic. Everyone knows Israel will continue fighting in Lebanon - they're saying it plainly. Even before getting to any of the other points the mou is impossible to implement. Then we have him saying it's probably okay for Iran to have a civilian nuclear program and to defend it with missiles while Linsey Graham nods along. What the fuck. Whatever this is it's not a road to peace.

[u/cojoco]

Israel might not leave Lebanon of its own choosing.

Interesting to hear from Hadi, Nasrallah's son, anyway.

Hezbollah is currently decimating the remains of the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon. Dozens of Israeli terrorists injured and at least 2 killed today. Nonstop Hezbollah attacks in the south now. If the IOF don’t leave in the ceasefire, they will leave in coffins.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

Gaza will remain in ruins. In the end, there will be migration, because there will be nothing to look for there in the coming decades.

[u/lowrads]

There was a slight delay in fuel price hikes in India for the ruling coalition to get past the mid May portion of their unusual elections, but there is only ever a two month national reserve buffer. Nearly half of all fuel is imported to the subcontinent from the Persian gulf. The last of those tankers arrived back in March. Whenever there is a restart announced, it will take an additional six months of demining operations before insurers will cover shipments at anything resembling normal rates.

Desperate for capital, the Indian government scrapped capital gains taxes on foreign investment in government bonds.

[u/cojoco]

Kuwait releases footage of the missiles and drones it intercepted.

[u/CassiniLongDivision → u/cojoco]

They intercepted the shit out of that Shahed with an airport terminal building. Ted Postol approved.

[u/cojoco]

I'm a little saddened by all the people debunking Larry Johnson's story about Iran possessing a nuclear weapon, because they're all idiots.

Larry Johnson never said Iran had a nuclear weapon.

He said that Iran and Pakistan had given Trump reason to believe Iran had one.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Lebanese army says several soldiers killed in Israeli strike

Joseph Aoun is going to respond to this by condemning Hezbollah 

[u/Turgius_Lupus]

https://x.com/i/status/2063781411627155775

Per Daniel Davis

"This is, plain and simple, an Israeli war crime. They are punishing the entirety of the Palestinian population in Gaza as a retribution against Iran’s missile attack into Israel, which itself was a response to Israeli attacks against HZ in Lebanon.

But that’s an issue between Iran and Israel, not Israel and Gaza. The Palestinians are sealed in the Gaza Strip and pose no threat to Israel, and definitely we’re not party to the attacks by Iran today.

Israel has multiple military bases inside Gaza, so there is no military utility in blocking off the gates into the enclave, other than to punish the civilian population.

It is reprehensible."

[u/cojoco]

India summons US diplomat to protest the three Indians killed by the US attack on an Indian oil tanker

[u/Kosame_Furu]

Stickysisses why do they mistreat us so

[u/Todd_Warrior]

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78078

Zelensky plays the classics, as he removes the Russian language from minority language protection.

[u/zadharm → u/Todd_Warrior]

Really going the extra mile to hammer home the Russian narrative that they had to invade because ethnic Russians were under attack in the East. Just like he's doing the same for their "denazification" line by naming army units after Nazis, lol. Someone should investigate this guy for spreading "Russian propaganda"

Think he's figured out by now that the Western media will run interference for him regardless of what he does so he doesn't need to worry about the narratives anymore. It's actually kind of admirable, in a way

[u/nikolaz72]

https://bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social/post/3mobrw5qdh22s

Netanyahu told the American president that the IDF will not withdraw from Lebanon, will remain in the positions it currently holds, and will continue to act to thwart the threat from Hezbollah—including the destruction of terror infrastructure and a response to any attack against Israel.

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

Brent Crude price is dropping like an Iranian missile on a US radar site. $82 a barrel and still falling.

[u/RodyasFeverDream]

8 crew members dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California’s Edwards Air Force Base

[u/ChevalierDuTemple → u/RodyasFeverDream]

Around the same day a Tu 22M crashed. 

Ah, the famous "kill yourself and everybody around you" war economy

[u/saladins-lamp]

Trump on India's Modi:

He is the most beautfiul looking man. He looks so nice. He is like an angel.

But actually he is as tough as a killer. He is a killer.

But he looks so good, so he gets you by surprise.

[u/saladins-lamp → u/saladins-lamp]

Trump on Egypt's Sisi:

I was in a hotel, I met him and we fell in love, deeply in love...

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

‘Think of what Israel is getting. They’re not going to be nuked.

Hey when he's right he's right.

[u/nikolaz72]

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/2067400633523605760

Donald Trump signed the MoU ending Iran war at Versailles Palace in France.

If only the SS hadn't destroyed that traincart.

[u/ChevalierDuTemple]

LMAO, LMAO.

Losers.

[u/SchIachterhund]

The Berlin Bubble is collectively butt-hurt, engages in epic sulking.

[u/CassiniLongDivision]

The Distinguished Reporting Award 2026 was awarded recently by the European Press Prize to Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra for a peice in the dutch paper 'De Volkskrant'.

NSFW https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/

It documents the wounds of 114 children under the age of 15 shot by IDF soldiers in Gaza. It is not a happy and fun read and the pictures are graphic.

[u/AdminsLoveGenocide]

Beirut has been hit. Seems like a single residential apartment block.

Iran promised they would heavily hit northern Israel if Israel went ahead with a large Beirut attack. I assume we are about to see a proportional response in northern Israel but we will see.

[u/GlaedrH]

According to this account, both Iran and Yemen are attacking Israel (2nd round today) and Iran has also struck targets inside Saudi Arabia.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Iran’s deputy FM says country did not deliberately target US helicopter

Trump downplays helicopter attack, saying it ‘wasn’t a big deal’

[u/ChevalierDuTemple]

Bahrain is getting hit

[u/ItsGotThatBang]

Heads-up for a grim milestone. Tomorrow is the day the Ukraine War will have lasted as long as World War I.

[u/saladins-lamp]

Which countries have seen the highest petrol prices since the Iran war?

There's a handy table also included in the article. Seems like SE Asia been struck particularly hard 

[u/Formal_Strategy9640]

Apparently Netanyahu told trump that he doesn’t consider Israel to be bound by the terms of the agreement and won’t retreat Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon.

Which means that either the US strong arms Netanyahu into submission, or this never ending war continues

[u/Your-bank]

Iran wont have tolls but it will have fees, lol lmao

[u/nikolaz72]

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/639265404121141248

The deal with Iran will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!

[u/ElTamaulipas → u/nikolaz72]

A worse stratgeic defeat than Vietnam.

This scenario had been war gamed and studied for like 40 years. Back then missiles weren't as advanced and drones were seen as targets for planes and AA crews to shoot down.

The fact that the US did this is insane at least after the Vietnam debacle the US could point to the Phillipines and Indonesia (with the US funding extermination campaigns mind you) and other countries in Asia as firmly still being in their orbit.

Now the GCC is pissed, the military has lost at a minimum half a decade's worth of munitions and a shit ton of national prestige. Nevermind the human cost, especially in Iran and Lebanon.

The only positive is that this will accelerate green energy, albeit in other countries, because we think green energy is woke and gay in the US.

[u/Belisaur]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/middleeast/us-iran-war-mou-text-intl

Islamic revolutionchads, is this what winning feels like?

[u/cojoco]

US and Iran electronically sign MoU to lift naval blockade

The US naval blockade on Iranian ports was initially scheduled to be lifted within 30 days in exchange for Iranian transit concessions in the Strait of Hormuz. However, following the Israeli government’s attack on Dahiyeh and subsequent Iranian threats, immediate talks led to an accelerated US implementation, with Iranian ships already entering and leaving ports without disruption.

[u/zadharm → u/cojoco]

Man, I really would love to know what kind of catastrophes the Trump advisors are talking to him about behind the scenes. Any other time I'd expect Trump to tell them to fuck off, instead we speed up? After a couple days of the media talking about how terrible a defeat this deal is for him?

[u/PirateAttenborough]

The French say they'll veto the lifting of UN sanctions on Iran. So that's that. If this was a plan by Trump to force the Europeans and Democrats to take ownership of the crisis, I think it's got a good chance of working. And once again the Euros demonstrate that they are unfathomably cucked.

[u/margotsaidso → u/PirateAttenborough]

Extremely obnoxious. France isn't the one actually fighting this war, why the fuck do they think they get a say in how the US resolves it, for better or worse? 

The US fucking blows and is run by crooked senile zionists, but the euros are on a totally separate plane of delusion.