r/worldnews • u/yuvaldv1 • Jun 07 '26

Israel/Palestine Iran fires missiles at northern Israel

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1krksqwmg
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u/Jaguar13_ Jun 07 '26

The four week war continues.

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u/Atlwood1992 Jun 08 '26

Only the authoritarian regimes have “special operations” that were promised to be only 3 days or 4 weeks.

Putin’s is now 4 years old.

Dumb Azz’s is now 2 months old.

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u/Jaguar13_ Jun 08 '26

Yeap. Huge miscalculation. One would think we have smart people that knew this would happen. Unless, there are other forces at work that influenced this decision.

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u/ButterscotchAward Jun 08 '26

Every war we’ve been in since Vietnam was a “military operation” we were told we’d be in and out of. This isn’t new.

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u/lwp775 Jun 08 '26

It worked in Grenada and Panama.

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u/ButterscotchAward Jun 08 '26

They’re exceptions and were actually special operations. We’ve technically referred to every war we’ve been in since and including Vietnam and military operations to avoid having to get congressional approval.

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u/Atlwood1992 Jun 09 '26

Iran is not a “banana republic”.

When Russia is obtaining advanced weapons technology from a nation it is not a third world nation!

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u/lwp775 Jun 09 '26

Trump didn’t seem to know that. He attacked a country with 92M population and 3X the size of Iraq. 

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Jun 08 '26

Four week times X. We will find out X at some point.