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Looks like Cyprus is now involved.
And Lebanon might be attacking Israel.
Sounds like even more stuff is going to be bombed than I expected :confused:

Now it's:
Iran
Lebanon

-versus
Israel
United States
-attacked by Iran but not involved yet
Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Kuwait
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
-attacked bases in above countries
France
Italy
United Kingdom
-announced to support fellow European countries
Germany
 
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Khamenei reported dead.
That won't bring a tear from me, but still, killing an 86 old (criminal) man isn't revolution, justice, liberation... It's impatience. They'll put someone else in his place as they would have done, if there wasn't assassination, in 2 or 10 years when he died of old age.
The only problem is choosing whether the next one is his (grand?)son (which seem to have some merits according to them) or that's too monarchic for a islamic revolutionary republic.
Whoever it ends up being (now there's a temporary board/junta/whatever) I doubt it will be any better.
I hope that means that we don't get a stream of "war refugees" running to the "nearest safe country" i.e. Europe/Germany.
I couldn't care less. I have better things to hope.
FWIW sunday someone in Istanbul reporting in tagesschau24 said Iran authorities where stopping Iranians from
crossing the border between Iran and Turkey. Turkish people could get back from Iran to Turkey, but none else,
apparently because the attacks had disturbed some Iranian bureaucracy/data systems in checking papers.
But whatever it was it seems solved, because Monday reuters reported that Iranians and third country national were crossing into Turkey and other places, with some queues at gas stations.
There are also Europeans and travelers from anywhere stuck there without flights or with cruisers sailing in place of their cruise ships.
I hope Middle East citizens are more welcoming with stranded Europeans that Europeans usually are with refugees.

Be careful with what you wish, @kuru, maybe there's a change of regime in the end and some Iranian refuges decide to leave your place
and get back to Iran. If one of those is the doctor who would have otherwise cured you, you might be left to proudly bear your all-so-national disease.
Looks like Cyprus is now involved.
At first I thought Cyprus was in NATO, then I checked and it's not. Then I remembered USA is still in NATO, but I guess being the aggressor it doesn't count.
:(
And there're a lot of wars elsewhere, next door or further away... As if humans didn't have better things to do...

I know that the real problems are bombs, dead, injuries, exile... But does Trump really need to add insult to injury with his cynical comments ?
"Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time, and our Country's money, GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!) of Ukraine – Hundreds of Billions of Dollars worth – And, while he gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!), he didn't bother to replace it."
I mean, I'm mostly a pacifist and would be happy if nobody would manufacture or stock any kind of weapon.
But doesn't everyone know that what Zelensky did with just those USA weapons was prolong a war that reduced Russian arsenals (and troops) and had Russia buy weapons from Iran, so that both Russia and Iran have now fewer
weapons than they would have if sleepy Biden hadn't given Zelensky those USA weapons? (with sanctions also helping). Before Putin attacked Ukraine and Biden "wasted" those USA weapons, USA and Israel didn't dare bomb Iran. Now that
some Ukrainians have died using those USA weapons, Israel and USA can attack Iran knowing there'll be fewer USA and Israel soldiers dead that if Biden had kept his weapons in the USA.
Part of those weapons may have been used to destroy part of the Russian arms industry.
If Trump had said it when attacking Venezuela it would be a little less cynical, because I'm not aware of Venezuela sending weapons to Russia (maybe a few troops??? or allowing volunteers to go ? at most?). If he said that while
attacking Greenland, OK, one could disagree but it wouldn't be so cynical, because Putin or Khamenei wouldn't have helped Greenland... But attacking Iran ? The only reason Russian had to withdraw from Syria, and can't help the Ayatollahs, Maduro or anyone is that Biden gave weapons to Zelensky (and Trump sold them to him at Europeans expense).
One can argue whether Biden should have given more or fewer, bigger or smaller weapons to Zelensky, or if it was ethical to throttle those weapons to extend a conflict to bleed Russia and somehow Europe, at the cost of so many lifes, etc.
But criticizing that, just when attacking Iran is so in-your-face...
 
I received an e-mail from Unity, they're removing stuff from China from their store.
I attached the PDF as the link looks a bit wonky.

That won't bring a tear from me, but still, killing an 86 old (criminal) man isn't revolution, justice, liberation... It's impatience. They'll put someone else in his place as they would have done, if there wasn't assassination, in 2 or 10 years when he died of old age.
The only problem is choosing whether the next one is his (grand?)son (which seem to have some merits according to them) or that's too monarchic for a islamic revolutionary republic.
Whoever it ends up being (now there's a temporary board/junta/whatever) I doubt it will be any better.

I couldn't care less. I have better things to hope.
FWIW sunday someone in Istanbul reporting in tagesschau24 said Iran authorities where stopping Iranians from
crossing the border between Iran and Turkey. Turkish people could get back from Iran to Turkey, but none else,
apparently because the attacks had disturbed some Iranian bureaucracy/data systems in checking papers.
But whatever it was it seems solved, because Monday reuters reported that Iranians and third country national were crossing into Turkey and other places, with some queues at gas stations.
There are also Europeans and travelers from anywhere stuck there without flights or with cruisers sailing in place of their cruise ships.
I hope Middle East citizens are more welcoming with stranded Europeans that Europeans usually are with refugees.

Be careful with what you wish, @kuru, maybe there's a change of regime in the end and some Iranian refuges decide to leave your place
and get back to Iran. If one of those is the doctor who would have otherwise cured you, you might be left to proudly bear your all-so-national disease.

At first I thought Cyprus was in NATO, then I checked and it's not. Then I remembered USA is still in NATO, but I guess being the aggressor it doesn't count.
:(
And there're a lot of wars elsewhere, next door or further away... As if humans didn't have better things to do...

I know that the real problems are bombs, dead, injuries, exile... But does Trump really need to add insult to injury with his cynical comments ?

I mean, I'm mostly a pacifist and would be happy if nobody would manufacture or stock any kind of weapon.
But doesn't everyone know that what Zelensky did with just those USA weapons was prolong a war that reduced Russian arsenals (and troops) and had Russia buy weapons from Iran, so that both Russia and Iran have now fewer
weapons than they would have if sleepy Biden hadn't given Zelensky those USA weapons? (with sanctions also helping). Before Putin attacked Ukraine and Biden "wasted" those USA weapons, USA and Israel didn't dare bomb Iran. Now that
some Ukrainians have died using those USA weapons, Israel and USA can attack Iran knowing there'll be fewer USA and Israel soldiers dead that if Biden had kept his weapons in the USA.
Part of those weapons may have been used to destroy part of the Russian arms industry.
If Trump had said it when attacking Venezuela it would be a little less cynical, because I'm not aware of Venezuela sending weapons to Russia (maybe a few troops??? or allowing volunteers to go ? at most?). If he said that while
attacking Greenland, OK, one could disagree but it wouldn't be so cynical, because Putin or Khamenei wouldn't have helped Greenland... But attacking Iran ? The only reason Russian had to withdraw from Syria, and can't help the Ayatollahs, Maduro or anyone is that Biden gave weapons to Zelensky (and Trump sold them to him at Europeans expense).
One can argue whether Biden should have given more or fewer, bigger or smaller weapons to Zelensky, or if it was ethical to throttle those weapons to extend a conflict to bleed Russia and somehow Europe, at the cost of so many lifes, etc.
But criticizing that, just when attacking Iran is so in-your-face...
Trump is more basic. He states: If you're not strong, you can be pushed around. And he proofs his point himself in multiple ways.
 

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I had a really nice chat on the train with a Pakistani nuclear physicist returning from CERN. He thought the best hope for peace was MAD. He would say that though.
 
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