Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an "unprecedented mass deployment" to Europe.

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[–] 305 points 1 year ago* (25 children)

We just want fucking healthcare and affordable housing.

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  • [–] 130 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sorry, best I can do is 2 trillion more for Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the like. They're desperate man, they haven't had a war for like 12 minutes, they need to be fed.

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    [–] 201 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    God I hate Republicans.

    Trump is absolute garbage on every single scale and stat, but it's the republican voters who got us here. Fuck every republican voter.

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    [–] 137 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    So much for keeping the US out of war..

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There has never been a decade in the entire history of the US in which it has not been at war. Come to think of it, there are probably like 10 years total, over 250, where there was not direct military action. I think. Have not recently checked the spreadsheet I keep.

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    [–] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    I didn't call it, but there's nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.

    This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.

    But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because "Iran provided us much help and they need us now." And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.

    Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it's just people's lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.

    I don't like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.

    Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn't just escalation, this is staging for invasion.

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    [–] 79 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    I’d just like to take this opportunity to say “fuck you” to all the service people flying these planes, planning the logistics, and otherwise operating at the behest of our sadistic federal government. Sure, the civilian leadership is ultimately at fault here, but y’all are humans with agency. I’m no longer carving out culpability from these goddamn people anymore. Fuck you terrorists. If we escalate yet another war, I’ll plan to spit on you when you arrive back broken and dead. Bring on the downvotes.

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    [–] 76 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    This is basic dictator playbook, problems in domestic politics, start a war and problems change to foreign policy.

    Putin has done this multiple times now, and Trump is following up.

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    [–] 69 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Time to waste hundreds of billions defending israel while our infrastructure crumbles and our citizens still go without healthcare.

    Again.

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    [–] 64 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If the shit hits the fan, I want too see every single fucking MAGA voter at a US Army recruiting office signing up for 11 Bravo, Grunt Infantry.

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    [–] 56 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    Anyone else get the feeling WW3 has already started but we just haven't realised it yet?

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And again we see old incompetent white men starting another war.

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    Are people surprised? Republicans are war hawks even more so than the Libs.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    But only against countries that pose no threat to them i.e. they are chickenhawks. At least Biden could do the bare minimum to help Ukraine.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are jingoists, and jingoists are no different than schoolyard bullies who want to appear tough so they loudly proclaim how tough and big they are, which includes an occasional show of force against those they believe won't/can't defend themselves to reinforce their image of being the biggest Tough Guy™ around.

    If they win, they win. If they lose, it's because they decided it wasn't worth their time and left willingly, not because they lost.

    This country has always been stuck up its own ass.

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    Wasn't Trump the peaceful dove?

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    This would have to be the most unpopular war in US history and yet I think everyone Trump has surrounded himself with is telling him to do it.

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Only idiots are excited about wars.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Search "Altlantic Trident 25"

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    We need to fix the voting system. ALL pacs should be banned and campaign spending should be limited.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The silver lining is that this will accelerate the decline of the US Empire which in turn will weaken Israel. Although this will be too late for the millions who have been or are still to be killed because of these psychopathic regimes.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m bringing peace to the Middle East! The peace president! 🫲🍊🫱

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wonder where we'd be today if Trump didn't pull out of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Might not have made a difference, who knows.

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    [+] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Trump is after Iran's eggs, I guess. He promised the people of the US lower egg prices, he will get them from Iran.

    How can people in the US be okay with this? Their quality of life has only decreased since Bush 2 started his wars of terror. A propagandized population driven to hate others and rally behind the president.

    As unlikely as it may be, I hope the US loses quickly and decisively against Iran. Not in 20 years from now like in Afghanistan, but soon. I don't know what cards Iran has, what leverage they may have, but I hope they have something that enables them to inflict pain.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If anyone has good reasons to think otherwise, my anxiety needs something to believe in rn

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sounds like the perfect time for Canada, Greenland/Denmark and Panama to launch their preemptive strike and ensure regime change and eliminate US WMD.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    US is going to be bankrupt by the time he is done his second term.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

    worry not. remember this is TACO Don... he'll chicken out again

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