War with Iran

[Anonymous]

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

Why is he calling it an article? It's an opinion piece.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

How small is the audience dumb enough to find this compelling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

Just because he’s a professor doesn’t mean he’s right.

[Anonymous]

If I'm not getting the true story about what's happening in this war, I'd like to know. The most thorough news source I've found is Al Jazeera, who report every event in their live stream. From that live stream it seem like the US and Israel are inflicting more damage by missiles than Iran us; the US and Israel can't force the Striat open; the Gulf States are being attack by drones but are managing to shoot them down, they want to stay neutral; Israel is heavily attacking Lebanon and causing massive civilian destruction and death; the rest of World is very worried because without Gulf resources their economies, especially farm output, will collapse; China is taking advantage of this situation to build its leverage; and Trump's weekly statements are outright lies.

What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The USA has dropped land mines in Iran. They look like soda cans. At least one civilian has been killed. I thought land mines were considered illegal by the international military community. Pete DUI kegsbreath, along with others from both Israel and Iran, should be handed over to The Hague for war crimes. Here’s the WAPO article.
https://apple.news/AgFVLNBIASLm4ol8Ud4VcVw

Paywalled. What hard evidence does the article provide that they are American and not Israeli?

“The photos show American BLU-91/B anti-tank land mines, which are released from an aircraft as part of the Gator mine scattering system, according to four munitions experts who reviewed the imagery at The Washington Post’s request. The United States is the only party in the Iran war known to possess the system.”

[Anonymous]

It’s funny how the tables have turned truly

In the 2000s and 2010s, you had to “support the troops”

Everyone had to have those ridiculous yellow ribbon magnets on the back of their cars

Fast forward to today and a plurality if not majority of Americans will be rooting for the American military to lose.

😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm not getting the true story about what's happening in this war, I'd like to know. The most thorough news source I've found is Al Jazeera, who report every event in their live stream. From that live stream it seem like the US and Israel are inflicting more damage by missiles than Iran us; the US and Israel can't force the Striat open; the Gulf States are being attack by drones but are managing to shoot them down, they want to stay neutral; Israel is heavily attacking Lebanon and causing massive civilian destruction and death; the rest of World is very worried because without Gulf resources their economies, especially farm output, will collapse; China is taking advantage of this situation to build its leverage; and Trump's weekly statements are outright lies.

What am I missing?

The only part I see missing from your summary is the amount of damage Iran has inflicted on US bases and US aircraft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

Just because he’s a professor doesn’t mean he’s right.

I recall similar articles written around the time George W Bush raised the Mission Accomplished banner.

[Anonymous]

Iran is also winning the Slop-aganada war. Their videos are catchy and compelling, and if you haven't seen them that's irrelevant recruitment age young men have been watching and sharing and that's the target audience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by
@jmurtazashvili
:

1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."

2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."

3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."

4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.

What a load of BS. Does not match reality. 13 US bases in the region are inoperable. Iranian missiles have the capabilities to inflict serious harm to US and Israel and have done so. The US will be forced to abandon the region because they can not maintain bases is any type of effective operational way.

Murtazashvili is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and is co-chair of the university’s new antisemitic working group. Just more Zionist propaganda.

Seriously settlers on the border with Lebanon are abandoning their settlements. The IDF are losing tanks and getting their a$$ kicked in on the ground and Iran put two ballistic missiles within 500 ft of Shimon Peres Negev as a warning.

The “professor” should keep to what she knows best attacking students who criticize Israel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I'm not getting the true story about what's happening in this war, I'd like to know. The most thorough news source I've found is Al Jazeera, who report every event in their live stream. From that live stream it seem like the US and Israel are inflicting more damage by missiles than Iran us; the US and Israel can't force the Striat open; the Gulf States are being attack by drones but are managing to shoot them down, they want to stay neutral; Israel is heavily attacking Lebanon and causing massive civilian destruction and death; the rest of World is very worried because without Gulf resources their economies, especially farm output, will collapse; China is taking advantage of this situation to build its leverage; and Trump's weekly statements are outright lies.

What am I missing?

The only part I see missing from your summary is the amount of damage Iran has inflicted on US bases and US aircraft.

Al Jazeera has not reported events that inflicted heavy damage on US bases or aircraft. There was that jet that was hit by a missile but landed safely, the refueling aircraft that crashed due to a mid air accident, some limited damage to US bases, a few US servicemen that were killed or injured, and the aircraft carrier that went home for repairs due to a fire on board. Al Jazeera didn't report any huge damage.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Bill Maher is Jewish. In his perspective, of course it’s a defensive war but the facts say otherwise. Netanyahu wanted the war according to him for 45 years. This is all about Israel wanting to annex Lebanon. The idea that they just want to occupy the West Bank and Gaza Strip is false. They want to occupy 7 countries in that region : Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt . Iran is actually not part of Greater Israel project but Iran helps Lebanon and foils the project’s first northern invasion attempt which is Lebanon. Israel was very angry when Ronald Reagan refused to go to war with Lebanon. These plots and plans go back decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how the tables have turned truly

In the 2000s and 2010s, you had to “support the troops”

Everyone had to have those ridiculous yellow ribbon magnets on the back of their cars

Fast forward to today and a plurality if not majority of Americans will be rooting for the American military to lose.

😂

No one is rooting for the US military to lose. You are deliberately confusing opposition to a dumb war with opposition to the military.