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.

  • kayky@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

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

    Again.

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      1 year ago

      Gotta keep the Middle East under control so gas prices don’t get too high. Americans vote for low gas prices and then pretend to be upset about what needs to be done to keep them low. But y’all will keep voting for low gas prices, so it’s all hypocrisy.

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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        Lockheed Martin did October 7?

        Basically 9/11 truther style conspiracy nonsense going on here.

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          1 year ago

          What?

          It was a joke about how we have no money to spend on healthcare for the population, but we always jump to throw endless cash at defense contractors to supply the military…

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            1 year ago

            Haha… good joke. I didn’t see your mention of healthcare in your previous comment.

            It’s typical of conspiracy theorists to say “it was just a joke” when called out on their bullshit. You may go back to doing “your own research in the internet” now.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a clickbait site for people who think they’re too smart to fall for clickbait.

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    1 year ago

    I’m seeing a lot of posts drumming up war hype and WW3 fears but there is nothing to fight. Iran is already cooked and no one is wants to do a ground invasion of Iran. Iran’s allies have abandoned them. This is american security preparing for possible counter attacks and bombing targets, not a full on war. Iran is already at war with Isreal.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, Israel is at war with Iran, not the other way around. Don’t try and Ukraine invaded Russia this shit. They’re in violation of international law and should be unanimously and globally condemned like the sick rabid little terrorist state they are.

      They have nukes by the way. And we’re apparently A-OK with that! Fuck the USA for enabling that infected boil on humanity’s progress.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Yeah and the little green men that showed up in Crimea in 2014 definitely had nothing to do with Russia! That’s what Russia said and we all believed them, right?

        Are you pretending Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis are not Iranian proxies or are you actually that uninformed about these things? Iran regularly calls them their “Axis of Resistance” if you didn’t know. Iran’s proxies have been definitely attacking Israel for a long time.

        How long can Iran have to send endless waves of Arabs to die as canon fodder before someone puts a stop to it? All of the Arab countries are too authoritarian and corrupt to do anything about Iran, so here we are.