Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

Cash gk said:
EVERY ARAB STATE IS EXPOSED. HERE'S THE SPENDING THAT BUYS ZERO REAL SECURITY

Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

Every Arab oil state is now realizing they spent decades buying weapons without buying sovereignty.

Here's what they spend. Here's what it bought them:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — $78 BILLION/year — still called America to fight Iran for them

🇦🇪 UAE — $23.9 BILLION/year — described war as their "worst nightmare" (Guardian, Mar 14)

🇶🇦 Qatar — $14.4 BILLION/year — facing "catastrophe" if Hormuz fully closed

🇴🇲 Oman — $9.1 BILLION/year — highest defense % of GDP in GCC, still zero independent capability

🇰🇼 Kuwait — $6.6 BILLION/year — pushing US to "neutralize Iran for good" (Reuters, Mar 16)

🇧🇭 Bahrain — $1.4 BILLION/year — hosts US Fifth Fleet, completely dependent on American umbrella

🌍 All Arab states combined — $243 BILLION spent in 2024 alone — up 15% in one year

Total: Over a QUARTER TRILLION DOLLARS per year.

And not one Arab state could respond when Iran blocked the strait.

Not one.

The Economist called Arab armed forces "repeatedly humiliated" in every major conflict.

Brookings called them "largely dependent on U.S. and Western support."

The spending is real. The army is not.

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only weak rulers require arms to seek protection
 
Blain2 said:
I don't believe the Iranians
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This very line , Every Single day we hear that from sun up to sun down, and hearing that for past 20 days, with all due respect SIR....
WE DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE NOW LOL..
 
omegalamba7xl9 said:
This very line , Every Single day we hear that from sun up to sun down, and hearing that for past 20 days, with all due respect SIR....
WE DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE NOW LOL..
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I am not doubting the Iranians here...I am saying I don't believe the facts point to an Iranian shootdown.

Iranians are definitely inflicting attrition very effectively, but in other asymmetric means.
 
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to be fair they’re up 200 dollars in the year per share​

 

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President Donald Trump's haphazard campaign against Iran is alienating US allies and paralyzing a fifth of the world's oil supply. His approach has done little to sway American voters who are less than eight months from returning to the ballot box. Read the Big Take: https://bloom.bg/4rOo3lr

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Shags101 said:
Well to be fair if there was an f 35 burning in Iraq or Jordan people would have seen it so we can say for certain it was hit maybe one those 359 missiles for all we know that blows up when it’s in near proximity shredded the f 35 bad enough where it just barely made it back to base guarantee someone will leak the damage to it
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If it crashed in the mountains, the Persian gulf or any other uninhabitable place in the region , who is going to see it? The absence of proof is not proof of absence.
 
Wow second one

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It was only down 0.74%

That's not exactly a plunge



but oil prices apparently "plunged"
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