AZ_HighCountry
INT'L MOD
I posted yesterday that every member of Congress is already benefiting from this. Do not doubt me on it.
Every last one of them.
Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds
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Every last one of them.
Sainthood 2.0
Elite Member
V-Chung is a big time coconut
they can always tell him apart dont you worry
Pak-Warrior
Registered Member
Israel has a zero sum game. Its state policy is that if Israel has to survive then everyone in middleast has to be weak and destabilized. It got perfect stage now.
BTW! Just heard a VERY loud sound of explosion from interception.
BTW! Just heard a VERY loud sound of explosion from interception.
RescueRanger
Meme Lord
mulj
Trusted Member
Who cares what they think, world is hostage of their collective paranoia,
Ali_Baba
VIP Member
At this point - they are LITERALLY MAKING IT UP as they go along ... No plan before, or now.
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Falcon29
Elite Member
Lol these urban dictionary enteries for Cheng are so funny
Rubio snorts coke, so it means we gonna unleash 'dope' on Iran I reckon
We really need to get the bottom of who Cheng is
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Tabmachine
Registered Member
hes the real Master Chief
hasssanali8998
Elite Member
the goals literally change every day
Mighty_Dragon_Strike
Trusted Member
not just politicians, banks too, who keep there shares/securities to rehypothecate them
this could become a blackhole
as, you are trading war for inflation (unnecessary rise in expected returns!)
AZ_HighCountry
INT'L MOD
Which was a remake in part of Nazi Germany's script 60 years prior. That was the Gleiwitz incident of 31 Aug. 1939.
Ali_Baba
VIP Member
Pakistan will need to understand the implications of this, esp. if the Israeli's feel cocky enough to put IDF IAF in India to attack "terrorist targets in Pakistan" in Sindoor 2-3, etc. I don't think we can ignore this possibility.
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Aryan_B
Elite Member
Nobody will stop them as they are white christian and responsible!!
kobra
Registered Member
MENA Unleashed@MENAUnleashedThe Gulf States Are at War With Iran. They Just Won't Say So. Every Gulf ruler speaking about the Iran-Israel-US war uses the same language: neutrality, de-escalation, concern for regional stability. It is a performance. The legal, financial and military architecture these states built with Washington over the past 18 months makes them co-belligerents in everything but name.
Start with the formal designations. Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar were already designated US Major Non-NATO Allies before the bombs fell. Saudi Arabia was formally designated MNNA on January 13, 2026, weeks before Operation Epic Fury. That designation is not ceremonial. It means US war reserve stockpiles can be pre-positioned on Saudi soil, Saudi entities can bid on Pentagon maintenance contracts, and bilateral military cooperation is legally deepened and streamlined. Trump signed a mutual defence executive order for Qatar in September 2025, explicitly committing US military force to Qatar's defence if attacked. These are not friendship declarations. They are alliance instruments.
Then look at the money. Saudi Arabia signed a $142 billion arms framework in November 2025, the largest defence sales agreement in the history of any US bilateral relationship. 300 M1 Abrams tanks at approximately 7 billion dollars. 48 F-35 fighter jets, the first sale to any Middle Eastern country outside Israel, at approximately 5.5 billion dollars. 130 MQ-9B Reaper drones at approximately 2 billion dollars. Loyal wingman combat UAVs. Precision missiles. The full suite. None of this is defensive procurement for border security. This is the arsenal of a state integrating into the US power projection apparatus.
Qatar paid 10 billion dollars toward Al Udeid Air Base upgrades and bought 210 Boeing aircraft in a 96 billion dollar deal. Al Udeid is the single largest US air base in the region. During Operation Epic Fury it provided AWACS radar coverage, airborne refuelling corridors and command and control infrastructure for every US sortie flown over Iran. Qatar calling itself neutral while bankrolling that base is not a factual position. It is a legal fiction calibrated for domestic consumption.
UAE committed 1.4 trillion dollars in US investment over ten years, aligned its semiconductor export controls with Washington, removed Huawei from its entire government and telecom infrastructure under US pressure, and integrated its AI infrastructure with American hyperscalers as a condition of receiving advanced chips. In doing so it became a node in the US tech-military complex, not just a commercial partner. Bahrain signed the fifth US-Bahrain Strategic Dialogue in January 2026, formally reaffirming Fifth Fleet basing rights weeks before the fleet launched operations against Iran.
What this amounts to is a war-financing architecture assembled in plain sight. The Gulf states provided the bases from which the US conducted surveillance, refuelling and command operations. They provided the money that funds US defence industry output. They signed the frameworks that legally deepened military cooperation. They accepted the designations that formally made them US defence partners. And then, when the bombs started falling on Iran, they held press conferences about neutrality.
Iran hit every single one of them. Not because Tehran miscalculated, but because Tehran read the receipts. Bahrain's Fifth Fleet headquarters received direct missile strikes. Al Udeid in Qatar was targeted in multiple waves. Al Dhafra in the UAE was hit. Kuwait's air bases were struck. Iran is not attacking neutral parties. It is attacking states that made themselves structural participants in the war and then claimed they were not.
The Gulf people are being told a story by their rulers. The story is: we are not involved, we want peace, we are protecting you from instability. The reality is their governments signed formal alliance agreements, pre-positioned US weapons on their soil, funded the procurement of F-35s and Abrams tanks that will fly and roll in US-backed operations, and leased the air bases from which the campaign against Iran was enabled. The citizens of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are now living under Iranian missile barrages because their governments made choices they never disclosed or debated.
That is not neutrality. That is a war entered in secret, paid for with public money, and now being absorbed by populations who were never consulted.
Start with the formal designations. Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar were already designated US Major Non-NATO Allies before the bombs fell. Saudi Arabia was formally designated MNNA on January 13, 2026, weeks before Operation Epic Fury. That designation is not ceremonial. It means US war reserve stockpiles can be pre-positioned on Saudi soil, Saudi entities can bid on Pentagon maintenance contracts, and bilateral military cooperation is legally deepened and streamlined. Trump signed a mutual defence executive order for Qatar in September 2025, explicitly committing US military force to Qatar's defence if attacked. These are not friendship declarations. They are alliance instruments.
Then look at the money. Saudi Arabia signed a $142 billion arms framework in November 2025, the largest defence sales agreement in the history of any US bilateral relationship. 300 M1 Abrams tanks at approximately 7 billion dollars. 48 F-35 fighter jets, the first sale to any Middle Eastern country outside Israel, at approximately 5.5 billion dollars. 130 MQ-9B Reaper drones at approximately 2 billion dollars. Loyal wingman combat UAVs. Precision missiles. The full suite. None of this is defensive procurement for border security. This is the arsenal of a state integrating into the US power projection apparatus.
Qatar paid 10 billion dollars toward Al Udeid Air Base upgrades and bought 210 Boeing aircraft in a 96 billion dollar deal. Al Udeid is the single largest US air base in the region. During Operation Epic Fury it provided AWACS radar coverage, airborne refuelling corridors and command and control infrastructure for every US sortie flown over Iran. Qatar calling itself neutral while bankrolling that base is not a factual position. It is a legal fiction calibrated for domestic consumption.
UAE committed 1.4 trillion dollars in US investment over ten years, aligned its semiconductor export controls with Washington, removed Huawei from its entire government and telecom infrastructure under US pressure, and integrated its AI infrastructure with American hyperscalers as a condition of receiving advanced chips. In doing so it became a node in the US tech-military complex, not just a commercial partner. Bahrain signed the fifth US-Bahrain Strategic Dialogue in January 2026, formally reaffirming Fifth Fleet basing rights weeks before the fleet launched operations against Iran.
What this amounts to is a war-financing architecture assembled in plain sight. The Gulf states provided the bases from which the US conducted surveillance, refuelling and command operations. They provided the money that funds US defence industry output. They signed the frameworks that legally deepened military cooperation. They accepted the designations that formally made them US defence partners. And then, when the bombs started falling on Iran, they held press conferences about neutrality.
Iran hit every single one of them. Not because Tehran miscalculated, but because Tehran read the receipts. Bahrain's Fifth Fleet headquarters received direct missile strikes. Al Udeid in Qatar was targeted in multiple waves. Al Dhafra in the UAE was hit. Kuwait's air bases were struck. Iran is not attacking neutral parties. It is attacking states that made themselves structural participants in the war and then claimed they were not.
The Gulf people are being told a story by their rulers. The story is: we are not involved, we want peace, we are protecting you from instability. The reality is their governments signed formal alliance agreements, pre-positioned US weapons on their soil, funded the procurement of F-35s and Abrams tanks that will fly and roll in US-backed operations, and leased the air bases from which the campaign against Iran was enabled. The citizens of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are now living under Iranian missile barrages because their governments made choices they never disclosed or debated.
That is not neutrality. That is a war entered in secret, paid for with public money, and now being absorbed by populations who were never consulted.
jamal18
Registered Member
The military belong in a war zone.
