[Badhobz]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/13/israeli-army-says-iran-has-launched-drones-at-israel

Jesus fucking Christ... this is exactly what the world needs right now. GG everyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPyk69APB28

they jacking container ships now too!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68808419

[whitev70r]

As posted in the other thread:

Iran started to send unmanned drones to Israel ... damn Netanyahu, this one is on you! Don't pull this 'Oh the world is against Israel BS!' You brought the ire of the world on Israel.

[pastarocket]

Damn! Shit got very real in the Middle East now.

Iran just sent a stark warning to any country who comes to Israel's aid.

Any country which opens its airspace to let Israel attack Iran, will get a military response from Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-13-24/h_7474e1425b4d03c75f1d4dfc7fa3ece4

Iran's Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani issued a stark warning to any country that allows Israel to utilize its airspace or territory for attacking Iran, saying they will face a “decisive response” from Iran.

“Any country that opens its airspace or soil to Israel to attack Iran will receive our decisive response,” state news IRNA reported, quoting Ashtiani.

This is how this shit started between Iran and Israel:

Israeli air defenses are intercepting some Iranian strikes after Iran launched a barrage of missiles toward Israel Saturday in retaliation for an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier this month.

Damascus is in Syria.

[Badhobz]

God damnit, Biden is gonna intervene. Sending US boys on the ground, that's going to be a huge shit show by itself, leaving Russia and China to do their own thing. China might fuck with Taiwan given the US is now fully committed to the middle east. Russia might even become more aggressive with Ukraine and Nato....

WW3 !!! WW3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIDE YOUR CHILDREN!!

*im gonna go buy some fucking supplies tomorrow at costco*

This is gonna tank the already fragile economy. WE ARE FUCKED

[Teriyaki]

Turkish Airways was one of the first to start augmenting their flight plans, think half a week ago they already started adjusting. Someone said before, Turkey always knows.

It really seems like we're in a slowly boiling pot, and we're all just the frogs in it and can't do nothing about it.

[SkinnyPupp]

Everything will depend on the followup

[N.V.M.]

election coming up, we need a fucking war!

[Traum]

election coming up, we need a fucking war!
That would only benefit Trump though, cuz as much as the US has threatened to withdraw support for Israel (regarding Gaza), Iran attacking Israel is a whole different game. I don't see how Biden can withhold support for Israel, and when it starts aiding Israel against Iran, US citizens already fed up with US' support for Israel (against Gaza) would all start blaming Biden for backing Israel (against Iran).

Gosh this fxxking Netanyahu... the current shxt show is really all his fault. FailFish

[T4RAWR]

God damnit, Biden is gonna intervene. Sending US boys on the ground, that's going to be a huge shit show by itself, leaving Russia and China to do their own thing. China might fuck with Taiwan given the US is now fully committed to the middle east. Russia might even become more aggressive with Ukraine and Nato....

WW3 !!! WW3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIDE YOUR CHILDREN!!

*im gonna go buy some fucking supplies tomorrow at costco*

This is gonna tank the already fragile economy. WE ARE FUCKED

Honestly,

Its probably not a bad idea to stock up on some items (I know you're probably joking in your post but still).

I remember my aunt telling me once when I was younger that she never felt more wealthy/rich than when her fridge was full (she grew up in a post war country). It really illustrated the fear of food scarcity that she grew up with after a war destabilized her country. Ask your grandparents or parents if they're old enough what life was like growing up when they were young (esp if they're from Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, any other country that had a full scale war in the last 70 years etc...)

With the way things are going the supply chain will likely become more stressed and the products you could easily get/enjoyed before are probably a little harder to get now adays. Even now the shelves arent stocked as well as they used to be when you go grocery shopping.

As for stocking up don't waste your money on those emergency kits from costco. They taste like shit and really increase the suck factor if you have to survive on them. They also require a ton of water to rehydrate and make palatable. Similarly MRE's/IMP's are fine for a little while but ask anyone who's been in the military who has had to live off them on a field ex the types of shits they had to take afterwards.

If you do legit plan to stock up just buy a little extra of what you normally do on a grocery run.

Buying a bag of rice? pick up an extra one.
Spam on sale? pick up a couple extra cans.
Buy your spices/sauces in bulk? pick up a bit extra.
Etc.

Just make sure to cycle your stuff by putting the newest stuff at the back and eating the oldest stuff first.

Also pack away some alternatives to food/items you commonly cook with. Powdered milk (available at costco) if your culture cooks with dairy alot. Grab an extra tub/bag of protein powder if you're a gym guy.

As for supplies to cook with? Most asian houses have one of those table top hot pot stoves that burn butane canisters. Snag a few extra packs of gas when theyre on sale to get you by when the power goes out.

Lastly something to protect your shit with. As a generalization people say that we're 9 meals from anarchy. I could probably go 3 days without eating and be a grumpy fuck but I could never imagine making my kids go through the same thing.

People will get desperate in desperate times and will fuck with your shit and try to take it if they can.

I dunno where I was going with this but all I can say is the world's gonna get alot worse before it gets better.

:badpokerface:

[spoon.ek9]

I honestly haven't been following this very closely. Can someone give me coles notes as to why Netanyahu is to blame for this?

[whitev70r]

Iran calls this a retaliatory attack. Back a while back ago (I forget when), US hit Iran's consulate in Syria, Damascus, killing some Iranian generals.

From CBS news:
Iran and one of its key proxies vowed Tuesday to respond to a strike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus and killed 13, including two Iranian generals.

Secondly, I think they are standing up for Hamas in Gaza, they have always been an ally to them and Palestinians in Gaza. They were sick and tired of this bully Israel bombing the hell out of the Gaza strip.

There is obviously history, many layers, but the above I think are the triggering events as of late. It is Netanyahu's personal mission to eliminate Hamas and Palestians in Gaza. From the news, he is getting lots of push back from Israelies ... but as someone said, war has a way keeping someone in power. Diverting the attention away from his shitty leadership. Compromise or finding a way to live peacefully with Palestinians is not an option for Netanyahu.

[JDMDreams]

Stonks crash Monday?

[Badhobz]

Man I don’t wanna go to work on Monday. Guarantee we gonna haven meetings regarding this shit and expected drops in volume.

[SkinnyPupp]

They say they intercepted 99% of the missiles.. here's several of them getting by the defense

https://twitter.com/HamWa07/status/1779330974318490105

[donk.]

Religion bringing people together again

[SkinnyPupp]

Biden

"...we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles."

"Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLF_HDeXgAAXOvJ.jpg

[whitev70r]

Religion bringing people together again

Not really, I don't think this is particularly about religion. Frankly, modern Israel politically isn't particularly 'religious'.

[SkinnyPupp]

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1779350032866496903

[Badhobz]

These Iranians must have known this attack wouldn’t inflict major damage. Even for an opening volley of a wider war it seems a bit idiotic to send shit that takes “hours” to reach your target….

I don’t get it. Not sure what their play is here. Also not certain what the Israeli response will be in retaliation to this fireworks show

[whitev70r]

I wonder if it is to show the world the hypocrisy ... Iran sends a few drones, with no serious intent to do any damage, signalled it hours ahead, and the international response is 'widespread condemnation'.

But what about Israel's non-stop bombing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza for the last 5 months causing near total destruction of buildings and like > 30K people dead.

[320icar]

So, Israel destroyed one of their consulate buildings, shouldn’t a retaliation be totally understandable?

[whitev70r]

Weird ... Iran announced that that was it, end of attack. They've retaliated for the strike on the consulate in Syria.

[Traum]

I wonder if it is to show the world the hypocrisy ... Iran sends a few drones, with no serious intent to do any damage, signalled it hours ahead, and the international response is 'widespread condemnation'.

A part of me kept wondering if Iran is just going through the motions to launch an attack. Almost everyone expected Iran to retaliate, but then Iran announced to the world of their attack hours before the actual attack, and send in slow flying drones that will take more hours to reach their destination, it almost seem like they are intentionally telling Israel / US to get their defensive weapons ready to shoot everything down.

And then Iran can say -- oh, we've done everything we can, but our weapons are not strong enough to penetrate the Israel / US defence.

By their very nature, drones also can't carry all that heavy a payload. So even in the unlikely event that the attack struck its target, it can't cause too much damage.

At this point, Iran should be pretty weak economically. Sanctions have really hit them hard over the years, and there is a lot of internal turmoil from its citizens against the regime, esp towards the IRGC. At this point, even if Iran were to go into a war, it is questionable whether its citizens would support the war effort.

[BIC_BAWS]

Turkish Airways was one of the first to start augmenting their flight plans, think half a week ago they already started adjusting. Someone said before, Turkey always knows.

So I watched this Iran vs Isreal thing on Tiktok a few nights ago.. I'm surprised the news is only landing now.

Similarly MRE's/IMP's are fine for a little while but ask anyone who's been in the military who has had to live off them on a field ex the types of shits they had to take afterwards.

Hot cocoa to shit, "bread" to stay constipated lol

[underscore]

This is how this shit started between Iran and Israel:

Israeli air defenses are intercepting some Iranian strikes after Iran launched a barrage of missiles toward Israel Saturday in retaliation for an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier this month.

Damascus is in Syria.

I missed that, wtf was their justification for it?

[mikemhg]

This is a nothing burger, just Iran showing face for the consulate bombing in Syria.

I doubt anything will happen further from this one, unless Israel decides to do something stupid.

Iran is also showing how though the Iron Dome certainly works, it's extremely costly. Those interception missiles cost roughly $100-$150K a pop to take down relative cheaply produced drones.

Good thing Israel has US taxpayers to pay for those :lol

[Teriyaki]

Looks like they did the minimal amount to show they did something.

Was getting ready to clench my butthole for atmospheric oil/gas prices overnight there.

[SkinnyPupp]

They're saying Biden talked him down from retaliating LUL

The New York Times: Netanyahu dropped retaliation against Iran after Biden call (https://www.jns.org/nyt-netanyahu-dropped-retaliation-against-iran-after-biden-call/)

'You got a win. Take the win': Joe Biden tells Netanyahu (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/14/biden-tells-netanyahu-us-will-not-support-a-strike-on-iran/)

[SkinnyPupp]

https://i.imgur.com/YWBqM03.png

[StylinRed]

I honestly haven't been following this very closely. Can someone give me coles notes as to why Netanyahu is to blame for this?

Israel bombed Irans embassy last week in Syria and murdered 16+ consulate employees including a general

breaking multiple international laws to do so

Iran launched a wave of slow moving drones with ample heads up to Israel and the US, following international laws allowing them to defend themselves. (Iran has a right to defend itself)

The media and western leaders wants to pretend that this was out of the blue and an afront to international law completely ignoring Israel bombing an embassy... and the ongoing genocide they're "likely" carrying out

[SkinnyPupp]

You know you fucked up when people think Iran are the good guys KEKW

[320icar]

You know you fucked up when people think Iran are the good guys KEKW

Well, people have been seeing the same news involving Israel for sooooo many years. At some point you lose sympathy when they seem to actively provoke nations they know will retaliate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Manic!]

Israel bombed Irans embassy last week in Syria and murdered 16+ consulate employees including a general

breaking multiple international laws to do so

Iran launched a wave of slow moving drones with ample heads up to Israel and the US, following international laws allowing them to defend themselves. (Iran has a right to defend itself)

The media and western leaders wants to pretend that this was out of the blue and an afront to international law completely ignoring Israel bombing an embassy... and the ongoing genocide they're "likely" carrying out

Right next door to the Iranian embassy was the Canadian one. It also received some damage.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-embassy-damascus-damaged-1.7168176

[CivicBlues]

https://i.imgur.com/YWBqM03.png

Wait...Iraq is launching missiles at Israel now too? Source?

[Traum]

Israel bombed Irans embassy last week in Syria and murdered 16+ consulate employees including a general

breaking multiple international laws to do so

It's disgusting that Israel blatantly broke international law by striking the Iran embassy (in Syria), and Western media only glossed over that fact (the breaking of international law) -- they did report the attack, but there wasn't much emphasis on how that broke international law.

[Great68]

Just to be technical, Israel didn't strike the Iranian embassy building itself. They took out the Iranian military building next to the embassy.

[whitev70r]

Yah and technically, Israel isn't killing innocent civilians in Gazaon purpose, they are going after Hamas leaders.

[Badhobz]

whatever man, these Israeli's have gone wayyy past the point of what is considered an "appropriate" response to that initial HAMAS attack.

This is basically warmongering, and they are actively fucking over Palestinians civilians with zero consideration.

[Hondaracer]

Their our allies bro, we should be carpet bombing Gaza with Trudeau behind the wheel of the 45 year old CF18’s!

[Badhobz]

god if they ever fucking start WW3, im sooooo gonna dodge the draft.

[320icar]

god if they ever fucking start WW3, im sooooo gonna dodge the draft.

We’re all too fat and old so don’t worry about that.

[Badhobz]

well if its like Ukraine, they are enlisting poor schmucks up to 55. The average serving age in the Ukrainian military is 40+ right now

[6793026]

what 55+ WOW... you can barely get thru drill learning and basic training....
had no idea 40+ are the serving age... dangggg

[Badhobz]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-drops-its-conscription-age-to-25-to-replenish-huge-troop-shortfall#:~:text=KYIV%2C%20Ukraine%20(AP)%20%E2%8 0%94,President%20Volodymyr%20Zelenskyy%20signed%20 it.

yeah its nuts, they lowered the enlistment age from 27 to 25 in order to grab more men.

[Manic!]

Anti Israel free Palestine protesters have blocked Delta port.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/15/deltaport-palestinian-rally/

[Badhobz]

they've already cleared out. Fairweather protestors.

[JDMDreams]

When's the pro Iran protest in North Van:pokerface::lawl:

[unit]

if you think iranians give a shit about Iran (islamic republic), then you are dead wrong. iranians care about the lives of fellow countrymen, they are just hostages of their own government and couldn't care less about the geopolitical stuff their government is engaged in.

also it wasnt even the embassy that was bombed, it was like the building next to it. also the missles shot into israel were just for show. everyone knows the iron dome would ward off every single one.

[EvoFire]

I don't get the feeling that Iranians here care too much about their government back home. If anything they are more anti Iranian government and if anything happens it's the government's fault

[Traum]

I used to have an Iranian coworker, and she was super upset 1.5 yrs ago when Mahsa Amini died under Iranian police detention. If I am not mistaken, she even went to some of the local protests as well.

We don't talk much about politics at work, but the Mahsa Amini death was one of the few times when she mentioned anything political at the office.

[Manic!]

I think a lot Iranians here are Persian and don't like the Iranian government.

[SkinnyPupp]

Wait...Iraq is launching missiles at Israel now too? Source?
Iran backed militias in Iraq, not Iraq the country

[bcrdukes]

they've already cleared out. Fairweather protestors.

It makes sense why you weren't responding to my messages. You were there yourself! Busted! :ilied:

[Badhobz]

I was busy scratching my ass downtown today trying to watch my geriatric secretary eat rock hard bagels I got her from Montreal on Friday. I just wanna see if her dentures can withstand this kind of bagel attack

Fixadent my ass !!!!

[bcrdukes]

I was busy scratching my ass downtown today trying to watch my geriatric secretary eat rock hard bagels I got her from Montreal on Friday. I just wanna see if her dentures can withstand this kind of bagel attack

Fixadent my ass !!!!

*Waiting for 68style to ask for dentist recommendations*

[68style]

I ate all my bagels, they were soft and pliable, not unlike Badhobz himself

[Badhobz]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/03/8c/9d/038c9d55f805c0ac5ee0103edb3a80fa.gif

Pokey me and die motherfuckers!!!!

[StylinRed]

Just to be technical, Israel didn't strike the Iranian embassy building itself. They took out the Iranian military building next to the embassy.

https://youtu.be/ZMbNcITjZek


Reminds me of this :lol

[Traum]

Fxxking Netanyahu! Fxxk you!!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

Iran has already said that they wouldn't attack anymore, but you just have to fxxking fxxk it all up again! :flamemad:

Fxxk you, murderer! You just have to fxxk everything up. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

[whitev70r]

At this point, there should be a Brutus in the Netanyahu cabinet and someone should just take him out.

[JDMDreams]

As far as I know the hostages still haven't been released if they are still alive

[Alpine]

god if they ever fucking start WW3, im sooooo gonna dodge the draft.

All of revscene would be dodging the draft lol. No one is going to fight some stupid war.

[StylinRed]

As far as I know the hostages still haven't been released if they are still alive

Pretty sure Israels bombed most of them to death, during the last negotiations Hamas said they think only 30ish are still alive

[AstulzerRZD]

Fxxking Netanyahu! Fxxk you!!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

Iran has already said that they wouldn't attack anymore, but you just have to fxxking fxxk it all up again! :flamemad:

Fxxk you, murderer! You just have to fxxk everything up. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

Inflation and deficit spending bout to go up while stonks go down

[320icar]

Fxxking Netanyahu! Fxxk you!!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

Iran has already said that they wouldn't attack anymore, but you just have to fxxking fxxk it all up again! :flamemad:

Fxxk you, murderer! You just have to fxxk everything up. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 :fuuuuu:

Sorry, what’s happened now??

[CivicBlues]

Markets seem pretty unaffected as of this morning - other than the usual daily selloff. Sounds like we should stop letting a bunch of savages in the desert dictate the direction our economy.

[spoon.ek9]

Ok yeah, I don't understand why Netanyahu insisted on sending a direct attack into Iran. Would Israel really move to take him out of power? I imagine most of their country doesn't want to start WW3...? hopefully?

[lowside67]

A bunch of savages in the desert dictate the direction our economy.
I feel like this is a pretty gross way to talk about any person in 2024. There are real, normal people who have been dragged into this conflict on both sides of the fence and to reduce them to that kind of description is a bad look. Let's not get caught up in trying to emulate the lowest quartile of Trump's voter base.

-Mark

[Traum]

Sorry, what’s happened now??
After Israel and its international partners shot down all of Iran's slow moving drones, Iran has pretty much came out to announce that they will not send any further attacks to Israel as long as Israel doesn't strike Iran again. The press has widely reported that US was persuading / pressuring Israel to not retailiate and take the successful defending effort as a win since Israel didn't suffer any damage from the attack at all.

But yesterday night (our time), US has confirmed that an Israel missle struck Iran. So now the ball is in Iran's court again -- are they gonna eat their words and not retailiate? or are they gonna send another wave of attack to Israel somehow? The former seems very unlikely to me.

So effectively, that fxxking no good Netanyahu could have avoided opening a 2nd front in addition to their Gaza military operations had he taken the US' advice, and held off from attacking. But of course, he just can't help from backing down from a fight. FailFish

Personally, I don't see how sending that missle to attack Iran would bring more benefits to Israel than to hold off and just let the Israel-Iran front cool off. Opening up an additional warfront is almost never a good thing to do, but that's exactly what Netanyahu has chosen.

[CivicBlues]

I feel like this is a pretty gross way to talk about any person in 2024. There are real, normal people who have been dragged into this conflict on both sides of the fence and to reduce them to that kind of description is a bad look. Let's not get caught up in trying to emulate the lowest quartile of Trump's voter base.

-Mark

You're right, no one group should be reduced to being called Savages.

However, every decision maker invovled here since Oct 7 and before have been absolute idiots and are acting like CHILDREN. They need a fucking time out.

[JDMDreams]

Where's the Canadian aid to Iran :troll: that doesn't sound very Canadian of us if we don't throw a few hundred mil in aid

[SkinnyPupp]

Where's the Canadian aid to Iran :troll: that doesn't sound very Canadian of us if we don't throw a few hundred mil in aid
There's someone here who I think still doesn't understand that EleGiggle