Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs war fear

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15145231/fleet-US-Air-Force-tankers-Iran-strike.html?ICID=ref_fark

So ahead of the loyalty pledge ceremony to Trump, support aircraft are heading to the Middle East. Either a war with Iran or the end of Gaza is nigh.

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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 83 pts · 328d (14 replies)

Dane here: This does not make me feel warm and cozy.

Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world · 50 pts · 328d (9 replies)

My sibling in the airforce is deploying in like 7 days. I have the same feelings that this will not be great

Senseless@feddit.org · 13 pts · 328d (5 replies)

Best of luck to your sibling and all of us, that this won't go totally sideways.

TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 328d (4 replies)

that this won’t go totally sideways

So you haven't heard about the current US government....

Senseless@feddit.org · 12 pts · 328d

It's practically impossible not to.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 328d (2 replies)

They might just shoot up some luckless civilians, declare victory and go home. There's precedent for that.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d

Yeah, even the Iran thing was a bit bungled. Gaza makes sense, a more right sized target.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 327d

Oh, well that’s fine then.

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 328d

Aw, fuck.

couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 327d

Imagine enrolling in the military in the last checks notes 80 years

danekrae@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
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DaMummy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 328d

Don't complain. There's literally people who live in America now.

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 327d
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postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d

Im sure they want you to think its to fuel up all the fighter planes shooting down russian drones, not the big stategic bombers.

ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 326d

Hyggen't

TheFogan@programming.dev · 51 pts · 328d (6 replies)

Somehow the amount of terrifying options here are through the roof. Not sure why but I find Gaza or Iran the least terrifying outcomes...

theUwUhugger@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 328d (5 replies)

I mean the guy who almost caused a recession for not understanding what tariffs are wouldn’t just cause a war, would he? …would he?

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 328d (2 replies)

Well he might still cause a recession too, so…

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 328d (1 reply)

I think we’re gonna get a capital “D” depression, and since orangeboi likes superlatives it’ll be “great”, and it’s gotta have a bigger number so there’s gonna be a 2 somewhere in there

gac11@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 327d

Fast and Furious numbering style?

2 Great 2 Depression

Joeffect@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 328d

You know what they say, a president during war time will always get reelected...

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 326d

The guy who specifically said he'd consider starting a war to indefinitely postpone elections surely wouldn't start a war, right?

MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 328d (3 replies)

At first, I couldn't imagine that Trump cares enough to get us I into a war. But another thread got me thinking about this. If the US was embroiled in a war, the government would have context to start declaring anyone who doesn't support it to be actual traitors and execute them.

I hope that's not what this is, but that would be a typical Trump play. Jump into a whole-ass war that he gives not one fuck about, killing soldiers and foreign civilians, just because in times of conflict a President is given even greater authority and power because of the need for strong, decisive leadership.

Hopefully I'm just being cynical.

vodka@feddit.org · 42 pts · 328d

Trump was very interested in the fact that Ukraine wasn't holding elections because of the war, and because of that Zelensky was still president.

AA5B@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 328d

It’s not just an excuse to impose martial Law in the us, but

  • that’s what bullies do: attack the weak because you think it makes you appear strong.
  • It’s a basic part of the MAGA playlist: find a distraction, stoke outrage, appeal to nationalism
  • TACO time. If he can’t impose martial law in Portland, find somewhere else so no one notices chickening out. Maybe Portugal or something: no one will notice the difference
  • time for another distraction from releasing the Trump-Epstein files
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 328d

It's yet another step in the fascist playbook

CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 327d (8 replies)

He wants that nobel peace prize and if he has to bomb his way to it!

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d

He doesn't care how many people he has to get killed to get it.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 326d (6 replies)

Worked for Obama

CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 326d (5 replies)

“Hey everyone I have no understanding of history or even a vague concept of nuance…”

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 326d (4 replies)

Maybe after this the Wikipedia page "List of Nobel Peace Prize Winners Who Killed Over 12,000 Civilians" will have a second name on it

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 326d (3 replies)

Have you already forgotten Kissinger?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 326d

And Le Duc Tho. The VC were murderous psychos too.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 326d (1 reply)

I didn't know he won a Nobel Peace prize. Fuck him too.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d

Good answer

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 328d (3 replies)

They prepare to annihilate Gaza the very second they have the last hostage out.

GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 327d (2 replies)

I think you're being a little optimistic about the hostages, because Trump and Netanyahu know that Hamas won't accept the "Peace deal" that they have been left out of negotiating, and thus they'll say that Hamas is responsible for the deaths of the hostages when American forces join the IDF in flattening Gaza and then turning it over to Tony Blair.

TheMinister@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Tony Blair?? Why is that asshat’s name back in the zeitgeist?

Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 328d (1 reply)

No fly zone over Ukraine?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 3 pts · 327d

What a nice thought

Trill88@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d

Hold on to your butts 🚬

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Maybe the generals and admirals need gas to get home

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d

They should have plenty once they switch to their new Government-mandated diet plan.