So, do we get to start calling what’s happening everywhere world war 3 or is there like some committee that meets on this?
Once some major players start conscripting people I think it’d be reasonable to call it WW3. This is the preamble
It’s a world war only when western european countries are involved. Otherwise it’s just sparkling conflict.
U.S. military forces today conducted strikes on seven facilities, which included more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated militias use to attack U.S. forces. This is the start of our response. The President has directed additional actions to hold the IRGC and affiliated militias accountable for their attacks on U.S. and Coalition Forces.
They used B-1s, lol.
That’s a lot of finding out they just got.
Under budget for who? I didn’t think it was NG and the government already has a contract with a price.
Hopefully, they don’t lose 1/3rd of their navy accidentally… again.
Why are you hoping that they don’t? Given the shenanigans the Iranian navy has been up to, promoting much of it to submersible status would be a good thing.
Well, to be honest, this was a sarcastic comment to the time the US did accidentally sink more of their navy than intended. (A little more than 1/3 if their operational force.) The original goal was only 4 platforms IIRC. It may have grown a scotch before the end.
Which probably doesn’t mean much to the sailors. Hind sight being 20/20 and all. Still a bit of an oops.
The attacks are the first of many expected to take place.
Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe has said that while the U.S. struck more than 85 individual targets in Iraq and Syria, these were spread just eight general locations in those two countries.
U.S. officials have stressed that there is no plans currently to strike targets in Iran.
