This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
First off Iran doesn't use Cluster munitions.
Cluster munitions are like one step down from Chemical weapons in the horrific weapons list. The western propaganda machine is calling Iran’s missiles “cluster munitions” in order to prime people for usa dropping real cluster bombs on Iranian cities.
Cluster munitions are anti-personnel weapons where each bomblet is meant to kill or maim a single person and each munition carries hundreds or thousands of bomblets. Iran’s multi warhead missiles are MIRVs. Each of the warheads are targeted and they have a warhead that is designed to destroy equipment or infrastructure not cause mass casualties.
This is an important battle in the propaganda war and we cannot cede any ground here.
Iran can’t destroy usa they can only force them to retreat. Iran can’t blow up the white house, they cant destroy the us military industrial system. Nothing Iran can do will stop usa unless usa wants to stop.
Iran can only win by not losing and right now and their hospitals aren’t being blown up. They are fighting a defensive war so if they can they would prefer not to fight and not to have their cities and infrastructure bombed.
If usa is trying to bluff in order to force concessions Iran does better by not attacking but being firm on its demands on the small chance that usa backs down because it has a rare moment of sanity and realizes it needs to conserve its hardware.
The nearby staging areas have been destroyed so the ones usa is using are at a long range. Iran has fewer long range missiles. If usa is going to start the war up again it will be at an increased intensity and Iran needs to manage its resources carefully. If they do plan on striking them it would be best to wait until they are as full as they will get to maximize the effect of the strike. Usa will break the ceasefire when it has everything in place.
If a mass casualty event happens on a base in a 3rd country the news can spin that as “Iranian aggression”. If it happens after usa breaks a ceasefire (or even better on Iranian soil) it is 100% Trump’s fault and the families of the dead will be angry at him, not braying for more war.