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Long Simplicus update. Real military stuff. False flags etc. Silly Trump. Some actual Iranians

War and conflict
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(Category: and of course media…
H/T Meryl Nass)

Useful to see real scenes from Iran, as you only get triumphal propaganda from the US, translated into more acceptable but not much more truthful language by the BBC - who only seem able to find exiled Iranians to tell us how much their country needs to have “bombs dropping everywhere” (Trump).

Iran Blinds US With Unprecedented Campaign of Strikes on Region’s Strategic Radars

This btl link also contains interesting stuff

False-flags and psy-ops to drag NATO into the “Ramadan war” (formerly USrael-Iran war)

ED

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Another war chronicle, not as long as the Simplicus one. Adding up the damage on both sides, with an even hand it seems.

Interesting that the Iranian IIRG’s claims of specific damage seem to stand up.

Lots of images painstakingly gathered on the link.

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"Five US bases in three countries hit in one day. The US State Department, bypassing Congress, authorised emergency delivery of 12,000 aerial bombs to Israel. $151.8 million. Because everything is going so swimmingly.

Half the THAAD batteries America has on earth are confirmed dead."

Eight worldwide. Four gone. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. Abu Dhabi and Al Ruwais in the UAE. Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan. Ground-level photographs of the Jordan site show a shattered radar array, housing torn open. I’ve been reporting IRGC claims on these since day one. All confirmed now. By CNN. By satellite imagery. By photographs. More reliable than CENTCOM…



Foreign Policy quietly confirmed that Qatar’s radar (killed on day 1) will take 5~8 years to rebuild. The Bahrain one: 1~2 years. And that assumes the raw materials exist. China banned rare earth exports. Yttrium - which goes into every radar and sonar the US manufactures - is up 140 times in price. China holds 98% of global production. You can’t rebuild what you can’t source. The radar network being dismantled is, in practical terms, permanent.

And in case you thought it was only radar: Iran has shot down another MQ-9 Reaper today, this time over Hormozgan Province. Roughly 50 surveillance drones claimed downed. Without persistent ISR you can’t tell real missile launchers from decoy trucks. Which explains why CENTCOM keeps releasing footage of destroyed trucks.

The CIA station in Saudi Arabia is confirmed “inoperable” after a direct drone hit.

A Patriot battery in the UAE was photographed post-impact, the hangar gutted. Both runways at Ali Al Salem reportedly cratered.

The US infrastructure in the Gulf isn’t just being degraded. It’s being dismantled. Piece by piece, base by base, radar by radar.

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…bUt eRraTiC indiScrImiNAte blah fckn blah

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Yeah like all that high value US kit is just kind of lying around, like it would in a junk yard, and Iran is firing so much at random that it had to hit some of it.

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As seen on TLN

I don’t really do weapons and missile stuff and didn’t mean to watch all of this, but I was intrigued by Ted Postol’s account of the balance of the tech war as regards missiles and interceptors.

It seems the US has refused to acknowledge certain realities for decades even when shown to them (as the missiles were making money). According to Postol they are only now finding out their mistake.

You can zoom to x 1.5 speed, with only the occasional lookback necessary.

Ted Postol: Fraud of Missile Defence Exposed in Iran War

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