Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India

It is my first belief that this is the point.

And Putin is quite happy.

This is who we always were. Real time media for events out of sight and earshot is relatively new. And that's partly why they want to heavily censor and spy on us.

Well, when you elect clowns...

is this honestly a surprise? :(

Well Russia didn't do it because they don't have the "fuck you" power that the US has. Russia sucks and is a huge danger, but this is absolutely not the time to whataboutism about them. I really hope you're being ironic, because otherwise it's just providing cover for mass murder.

“russia would do” - when you say that to yourself remember that phrase is propaganda. it’s literally some shit the USA did do. Your “IDK” is cognitive dissonance.

Sounds like rubbish Israel, USA and other Nazi states would do.

If the war is illegal, all actions taken under it are illegal.

Where in the tweet did he even type the word "illegal"?

So, do you mean that the US wasn't invited in the Naval exercise?

So the US is at war? I don’t remember Congress declaring that.

Gymnastics my arse. It was an attack on an unarmed ship.

During a war these grubs can’t justify. Maggots they are.

Yes, and schoolchildren will eventually grow up and reach fighting age so they are also fair game. Parents that sent those kids to school are idiots.

Oh, and parents can have more kids so they are also fair game. People that decided to be born in Iran are idiots.

Fucking wild takes in these comments...

How much did you get paid to say that? It's worse if this a self developed belief.

Are you arguing semantics over the use of "carpet bombing"? Because it was definitely bombed.

https://apnews.com/video/smoke-rises-after-airstrikes-in-various-parts-of-irans-capital-tehran-416f610772db4db988087a2244548e8f

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/iran-us-israel-missiles-photos-tehran-images-66669302c5fee9a978effe7c81775a62

Just to understand your claim: you're saying Israel and the US are attacking hospitals with precision bombs, not carpet bombs? Not sure which would be better, to be honest.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/05/at-least-dozen-hospital-and-health-facilities-in-iran-hit-since-us-israel-attacks-began-who-says

Ryan Grim is an investigative journalist who has a strong track record of accurate and groundbreaking reporting. Whatever semantics arguments you have doesn’t make him any less reputable or this statement any less correct.

They mean striking civilian targets when they say carpet bombing, they don't mean WW2 style mass dumb bombing.

Some of the people involved have said on social media it was a requirement. I didn't see any evidence one way or the other.

TONS of countries were involved, including the US. This was, by any stretch of imagination, a shitty cowardly move.

https://www.ifrmilan26.com/

That's because the goal was actually to kill brown people.

If they did that they would have a lot more paperwork to forge. The U.S. was claiming that they were running cocaine, but there were reports after one of the bombings that a lot of weed washed up on shore. With a large part of the U.S. population believing weed shouldn't be illegal, and clearly making it legal would take away any reason for someone to smuggle weed into our country selling the idea of attacking their country for it would have been harder. So they would have had to dispose of all the weed, bag up fake cocaine or acquire real cocaine and submit it all to evidence and fake all the paperwork.

Instead they just bomb them and don't have to lie anymore, the evidence was supposed to gone and they could tell the media whatver story they wanted.

Same as where Hitler govt. could have set the claimed non-citizens to do some kind of menial labour but instead they decided to expend resources into stuffing them into smoke boxes for long periods.

There seems to be someone craving the same thing over here and I find it hard to understand why that somebody craves that so much.

They would have scuttled it, so the result would have been the same, but without the killing.

Capturing a vessel is very different than performing a boarding action. If the U.S. captured the Iranian vessel then there wouldn't be any risk of "getting beaten with a pipe" because the Iranian vessel surrendered.

Deeper Dumber reason: Given the state of technology today and with all of the jamming, electronic warfare tech, and counter drone and missile stuff that the U.S. Navy has, it wouldn't make a lick of difference whether the Iranian vessel was right next to a U.S. warship or not.

Edit: lol at getting beaten with a pipe. Jesus fucking Christ. Get off of LLMs, they're clearly ruining your ability to reason

I'm curious, what excuses will you make for the nazis when they're dragging you out of your house ?

There's a reason at least half the world despises the US

current administration is just stupider

Imagine that they are not. What if they figured that they can't hide the crimes and that they are going to do so many that they have to get the population used to it. Trump is no mistake but a solution.

I think the op is talking about that certain time but ok

I know the UK went along with the Iraq war but remember it was the US that lied and convinced the UK to join in, not that it matters too much, but still.

Because in a sea of massive uncertainty and chaos that's around us today, China invading Taiwan in the middle of this makes the most sense out of anything that's happening right now. It makes so much sense, that everyone has collectively realized it would be stupid for China not to invade Taiwan right now.

I mean, it's really, really bad for the world, but it would be stupid if they didn't do it and take advantage of what's happening everywhere.

It's always a bit of a fuzzy line when it comes to submarine warfare, especially in modern times. A submarine on the surface is so vulnerable that in most military contexts, it would be suicidal to surface in a combat zone. At the same time, a military ship is a completely legitimate target, even if it's defenceless. However, this wasn't exactly a "combat zone", since it was a ship with no escorts known to be defenceless, and very far from any friendly forces capable of assisting it or attacking the submarine.

The rules and customs of war at sea definitively state that you have to offer aid to the crew of a ship you sink. They didn't do that, they just left them for dead. You could argue that a submarine doesn't have the capability to render aid, given the aforementioned necessity of staying submerged, but there was another option. They could have stayed at periscope depth (they were already at periscope depth in order to film the heckin epic sinking of a defenceless ship), radioed them with an order to stop and informed them that they had 10 minutes to abandon ship before they were sunk, and then torpedoed them. This would have satisfied the rules and customs of war, and still have gotten them their torpedo video, while not endangering the sub (especially since Iran had no way to hit it back).

In short, I've definitely come around to the position that this was a war crime, but I would argue that it is only so because they either didn't render aid when they could have, or because they didn't give warning (given that they would argue that they couldn't render aid) when they could have. Don't take explanation of the nuance of the situation as sympathy fot the americans, if there was a button that would kill every american service member i would press it without hesitation.

Iran doesn't like Israel so it was a pre-preemptive strike on behalf of our dearest ally.

... Because they were in international waters, not engaged in any combat activity, unarmed, and also the US hadn't, and still hasn't, actually declared war against them.

And we, the US, made no effort to help the survivors, which is actually required by international law.

i think this forum got the worst people from reddit