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If the U.S. wanted the Israel-Iran war to end, one strategy to end it was to use U.S. bunker busters to destroy nuclear sites, helping Israel achieve their goals and end the war sooner. Time will tell whether this strategy worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ymory2Fgdc
“for anyone who…says America use[s] its power only for selfish interest or foreign interests, let me ask you one simple question…Which countries would you rather live in? Those that were on America’s side or those on the other side? Would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea? In communist East Germany or democratic West Germany, in the Soviet Union or the United States? In Taliban controlled Afghanistan or US-led Afghanistan?…when you cut through all the noise, America fights for freedom.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2PztcZAQ8
Despite damage, the Iranian nuclear program is not destroyed and they can rebuild if they choose to. They likely removed much material from the underground sites before the U.S. strikes. Because the Israeli strikes started a week before the U.S. strikes, that gave Iran a week to disperse their material and equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3_zSmb-sGg
Advanced air forces are vulnerable to enemies destroying their planes on the ground. Having a cheap drone destroy your ridiculously expensive plane is a bad exchange. Air forces can build hardened shelters and decoys to limit the damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr-wqGyF4cU
Did Iran shoot down Israel’s F-35s? What would it mean if they did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfE5_-vxm70
Operation Rising Lion: Israel’s Surprise Strike on Iran Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQnkTVf7qWM
The United States military is going to lose its technological edge because it doesn’t invest enough in science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfh331wTCs
A lot of uncertainty in what’s really going on in the air war between India and Pakistan. A lot of propaganda and biased commentators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elImXpteVdI
India and Pakistan War: Here’s What’s Happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrCpoAsMyc
“Last month, there was a terrorist attack in India-controlled Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Yesterday, India conducted several airstrikes on Pakistan, saying the strikes were retribution for the attack.
The strikes may not have been as successful as the Indian military had hoped. “At least two aircraft were said to have gone down in India and the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir, according to three officials, local news reports, and accounts of witnesses who had seen the debris of two,” reports The New York Times. “Pakistani military officials said that more than 20 people had been killed and dozens injured after six places were hit on the Pakistani side of Kashmir and in Punjab Province. Residents of the Indian side of Kashmir said at least 10 people had been killed in shelling from the Pakistani side since India carried out its strikes.””
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“”The scale of the strikes went far beyond New Delhi’s response to previous attacks in Kashmir it has blamed on Pakistan, including in 2019 and 2016, which some analysts said meant the risk of escalation was higher,” reports Reuters. But “the last time India and Pakistan faced off in a military confrontation, in 2019, U.S. officials detected enough movement in the nuclear arsenals of both nations to be alarmed,” reports The New York Times.
There’s also, of course, the China factor: Pakistan now gets lots of its weapons from China, whereas India is more reliant on the West; relations between India and China have soured in recent years, while China and Pakistan have gotten much closer.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/07/india-vs-pakistan-and-china/