It has already been a civil war for 12 years.

These wouldn’t be large nuclear weapons, just small warheads within a heavy housing that is designed to smash into the ground as deeply as possible before detonating.

You don’t technically have to penetrate the bunker facility to do immense damage to it - if you vibrate a sealed concrete container full of humans, you can turn them into a smooth paste without having to destroy the container, like mixing a can of paint. To prevent this, Iran will have put the fragile enrichment equipment into rooms which are resting on dampening springs, like an earthquake resistant building. I don’t think there’s any one super-bomb the US can use - they’d just have to keep hitting it with small earth-penetrating nukes until the mountain progressively fractured and the facility progressively crumbled.

Assuredly, no matter the result, when the world detects radiation emission, the US will say it’s because they destroyed the target, not because of the bombs. They might even try to say they used a regular bomb and any nuclear emissions are purely from Iranian material.

Nuclear bunker busters are likely, since they can simply blame the release of radiation on the target.

The election been getting bad ratings.

I don’t believe in a spirituality separate from material reality - but I do believe that human thought is complex and varied enough that we shouldn’t attack peoples personal sources of strength and healing.

Do they feel safe enough to fly Poseidons without getting popped by some sneaky fucker in a jet trainer running circles below a coastal mountain? To actually control the airspace in force they’d need to launch a lot of assets to try and find Iranian submarines that will be chilling on the seabed, quietly.

“Mines” also wouldn’t leave a hole above the waterline - but it seems that crews have stopped reporting to anyone but their insurance companies - and if the insurance companies don’t care because they aren’t offering coverage, why take pictures at all?

NATO satellites can spot all of the fixed anti-aircraft sites, and keep tabs on various pre-prepared sites which are occupied regularly, but not permanently. One big advantage of cruise missiles is that they can steer around/between known AA sites, using their low altitude or reduced radar visibility to reduce the possible engagement range by the AA site.

Now, these permanent/semi-permanent sites aren’t rendered completely useless. As the drones/cruise missiles avoid the permanent AA sites, they’re funneling themselves between them into corridors where they can be preyed upon by roving aircraft, or often smaller, more mobile anti-aircraft units. Russia is actually one of the few countries on earth that still maintains a highly varied anti-air system inventory, and has the tools to even attempt this kind of defense.

Asymmetrically, it’s not too bad. Something like an R-73 missile is estimated to cost, on the lower end, about the same as an FP-1 long range drone. Combined with the fact that many drones are being taken down by 30mm ground fire, really, the jets just need to break even with the drones that are leaking through.

I have a theory that “hit by a mine” actually means “torpedoed by submarine” now that the US Navy has been pushed too far away to conduct anti-submarine missions.

We’ll see action tonight, I would assume.

That’s kinda fucked up, but now he won’t finish his specific training in how to aim airstrikes at children.

It’s astonishing just how ruthless the Americans really are to their “allies”.

Some “mine” hits could also be Iranian submarines. VLCC’s are extremely large, predictable targets.

This headline makes me realize how confusing this war must be for liberals outside of hexbear.

They’re forced to conclude that Trump is a Russian asset otherwise the world would make absolutely no sense at all to them.

Average human gestation is about 280 days, so not quite. That said, the sailors are still cucks.

That’s funny af.

Earlier: Russia has no diesel because Ukraine has destroyed all refineries. Slobber Ukraini!

Now: Putin, please, we fucked up a war and wrecked the planets diesel supply - we’ll very briefly lift sanctions and buy your entire excess production.

I strongly disagree, I think the US should station as many assets as possible within the first island chain and within dong-fuckyou-feng range.

As harsh as it is sounds, if you live in the global north, economic west. The universe has decided you get to live in the last generation that is reasonably insulated from the planet-murder we’ve wrought. Even if you tried, you’d never be able to eat all our sins alone. Feeling the sadness of every human isn’t going to save the planet, or you.

I’m sorry you’re cursed with the awareness - but that awareness can’t do anything for anyone, or the planet, if you sink.

We’re animals, and we behave the way we’re conditioned. You can’t really blame treatlerites when their entire culture tells them that’s how to live. More than ever before in history, products are delivered directly to peoples doors for consumption with all the pain and suffering slickly obscured. More than ever, western societies do their best to hide the worst suffering from the consumer.The solution isn’t to turn everyone into brooding vanguard communists.

Communism is only one expression of ourselves and our experiences, not the totality of it. Finding reasons to live and love will not only keep your light alive, it will help it burn brighter.