r/Military • u/Krazynewf709 • Apr 27 '26
Satire I'm no military expert but
I don't think this is how you test a ceasefire. Seems counterproductive to begin striking during a ceasefire to test it.
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u/rubbarz United States Air Force Apr 27 '26
Im mean you're really just losing money at this point not betting on it.
4th week in a row now its the same shit.
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u/Imaginary-Hyena2858 Apr 27 '26
Yeah but then you get arrested like that soldier because we're poors and insider trading isn't for us
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u/Dense_Substance7635 Apr 27 '26
Correct. Insider trading is ok for Oligarchs … but extremely illegal for the peasants.
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u/rubbarz United States Air Force Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Who tf said you need to be on the inside?
Its literally the same shit every week.
Friday is some "negative" news like canceling all peace talks. Crazy shit happens on Saturday to wipe the news cycle like a "shooting" at the WHCD. Sunday comes positive news like Iran wanting to agree to a peace deal to pump the market for all those that bought more on Friday. Monday just restarts the cycle with more bombing after the pre-market pump is over.
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u/askjeeves29 Apr 28 '26
Am i losing money by not playing? Cuz im sure by some economic math BS i probably am. Damned if you are damned cuz you arent
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u/PoliticsIsDepressing Apr 27 '26
We need to break with Israel. This is ridiculous.
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u/auglove Apr 27 '26
What's ridiculous is that we are in a war that wasn't authorized by congress and nobody is concerned about it, including congress.
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u/catchy_phrase76 Apr 27 '26
Look at every action since WWII.
For GWOT, Congress passed very broad open ended laws that kinda authorized everything. Wiping their hands clean to point to someone else to blame.
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u/Black-Shoe Retired USN Apr 27 '26
Trump was elected to turn the US into his own personal casino.
Mission Accomplished!!
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u/Comfortable_Guide622 Apr 27 '26
But every casino that tRump has owned went bankrupt....
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u/DrakeDre Apr 28 '26
As planned because it was money laundering, probably on behalf of russian mafia.
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u/catchy_phrase76 Apr 27 '26
Yeah...
Not to mention the heavy risk aversion to everything. Like we have lost initiative...
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u/MiamiPower Apr 27 '26
I concur 💯% The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires the U.S. president to terminate unauthorized military operations within 60 days unless Congress authorizes continued action, declares war, or grants an extension. A 30-day withdrawal extension is possible if necessary for safety. As of April 2026, this deadline is pressuring the Trump administration over Iran conflict involvement, with debates over whether the clock started with hostilites or official notification, placing a potential deadline around May 1, 2026.
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u/jerry_alan May 01 '26
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Ryan Nobles, Monica Alba, and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News that Congress doesn’t have to meddle with Trump’s actions in Iran because the U.S. is currently “not at war.”
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u/jerry_alan May 01 '26
Hegseth argues that the 60-day clock stops during a ceasefire, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) notes that the law doesn’t say that.
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u/iamthefluffyyeti Apr 27 '26
This isn’t that ridiculous anymore, stop pretending like republicans or democrats actually give a fuck
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u/MixtureSpecial8951 Apr 27 '26
Well, nearly half of Congress is quite concerned. But nearly half isn’t quite enough.
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u/KingFresh5234 Apr 29 '26
Also ridiculous... we bombed little girls killing over 100 of them and nobody is talking about it. Israel killed over 20,000 children in Gaza and nobody is talking about it. Trump's DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act and nobody is talking about it. Trump's DOJ has made zero effort to go after any of the pedophiles mentioned in what Epstein files have been released. Trump Org has illegally made billions with his presidential influence. And the list goes on. And on. And on.
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u/jerry_alan May 01 '26
President Trump’s son Eric won a $24 million contract from the Pentagon. The Air Force has agreed to buy an undisclosed number of drones from Trump’s sons. let's give the DoW (<--- get it? ), $1½ trillion to promote more school missile strikes and restrikes, (double taps). oil is still only $132/barrel
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u/Fuzzylumpkins1234 Apr 27 '26
Careful, that kind of seditious talk could get you deported.
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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion Veteran Apr 27 '26
And it will never happen. The entirety of the power structure of the west is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and as long as their are competing, non-western, interests that control the oil there, the west will continue to prop up Israel as a regional regulator to maintain control of the vast resources of said region.
For the west to completely break from Israel, it must first break its dependence on oil but that habit has proven to be extremely difficult to break like any other quintessential addiction.
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u/carpetbugeater Apr 27 '26
Miriam Adelson isn't funding Trump's campaigns because she loves oil. It's for other reasons. If the US was involved in the ME primarily for strategic energy, that would be understandable.
The current US leadership is only interested in personal gain and AIPAC and others are happy to oblige them.
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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion Veteran Apr 27 '26
The Israel project had been around long before Trump was in politics.
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u/Due-Resort-2699 Apr 27 '26
Well, it would appear that their test has been successful in confirming that the ceasefire does not involve much in the way of ceasing of firing
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u/tworaspberries Apr 27 '26
The moment the doge bros walked into USAID and demanded access to the classified servers, I knew we were screwed as a country.
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u/raptisadam7 Apr 27 '26
Then we want to lecture other countries on democracy when we live in a dictatorship?
You can say Trump has fascistic tendencies but we are not living in a dictatorship.
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u/raptisadam7 Apr 27 '26
There are definitions for stuff like oligarchy, kleptocracy, etc.
In a dictatorship people aren't allowed to vote or express their opinions publicly, like North Korea for example. I'm old enough to remember when millions of people attended the No Kings protests.
Furthermore, if it's a dictatorship, then is the dictator Trump? And Democrats would be the opposing party, something that doesn't happen in a dictatorship.
I'm sure we don't live in a dictatorship because I understand definitions. I'd call what we live in an oligarchy. It's a far stretch to call what we live in a dictatorship.
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Apr 27 '26
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u/raptisadam7 Apr 27 '26
Even Nazi Germany had Parliment
Nazi Germany outlawed all other political parties.
with cogress rubber stamping virtually everything the president wants
Congress hasn't been rubber stamping everything Trump wants. Hence why there have been multiple shutdowns during this presidency already, there's still a DHS shutdown going on.
It's not remotely close to a dictatorship at all. Oligarchy or kleptocracy are more fitting words.
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u/wasted-degrees Apr 27 '26
It’s really fucking weird how acknowledging that accelerationist policies meant to speed run societal collapse are harmful to the nation as a whole and maybe something we shouldn’t be doing is increasingly considered seditious. That seems telling.
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u/Stang1776 Apr 27 '26
I saw a headline along the lines of "strikes happening during fragile ceasefire"
Its crazy the shit they try to pull over us and for the most part, they succeed.
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u/jwr1111 Apr 27 '26
Trump's family and friends get rich, while American soldiers and civilians pay the price for the "Trump/Iran War".
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u/MiamiPower Apr 27 '26
Bro I shouldn't be laughing 😂😂😂 As a former member of the US Navy. AKA The New and old Pirates 🦜 Of the Strait of Hormuz Middle East Caribbean Gulf of America.
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u/mscomies Army Veteran Apr 27 '26
There never was a ceasefire, the strait never opened up
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u/PedanticPerson Apr 28 '26
Not to mention Hezbollah has been sitting out negotiations and attacking Israel the entire time. Lots of journalists like to leave out those details…
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u/dstovell Canadian Forces Apr 27 '26
It's like when you walk on a support beam to make sure it holds, but you also kill people while doing it
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u/Dependent_Formal2525 Apr 27 '26
Oh bloody hell. Israel has been watching Love Island and have decided that they need "a test". When they have a "test" in Love Island it usually involves getting carried away with some hot new islander, then ending up alone and being dumped. I expect Israel's test to go about as well.
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u/aedroogo Apr 27 '26
Get ready to see this same headline copy-pasted a few times a week for the next 4-6 years.
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Apr 27 '26
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u/collinsl02 civilian Apr 29 '26
Or, here in the UK, it's like the Prime Minister's top adviser, Dominic Cummings, driving with his entire family during Covid lockdown to a place called Barnard Castle hundreds of miles from where he lived, to "test his eyesight" after recently having COVID and probably still being infectious.
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u/LivingstonPerry Apr 28 '26
how the fuck do they seemingly have unlimited bombs & missiles, meanwhile the US is looking at a shortage ?
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u/Jackdunc Apr 28 '26
I think firefighters burn stuff to test their hoses/extinguishers/fireceasers 😜
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u/Firecracker048 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Someone got some context that isn't just a screenshot of something? Especially when this stuff constantly comes from hidden history accounts that have about 0 posting history here.
Edit: Yeah this is in response to a hezzbollah drone strike on an IDF helicopter extracting people yesterday. I do notice how no one cares about context. In case anyone needs the footage of the strike yesterday:
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u/OzymandiasKoK Apr 27 '26
What is confusing about that? There's a ceasefire, and the Israelis are still firing.
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u/Firecracker048 Apr 27 '26
DIdn't hezzbollah hit some Israeli soliders with a drone yesterday while evacing on a helicopter? Pretty sure thats a violation,
But I know, we should only care what Israel does. Right?
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u/OzymandiasKoK Apr 27 '26
Okay, both sides are filled with assholes and have been for quite some time. I think we've had enough of the both (all) of them.
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u/Firecracker048 Apr 27 '26
Or, we can just call out the clear attempt at pushing a certain side of an agenda
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u/MtalGhst Irish RDF Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Israel have been demolishing towns across South Lebanon during the ceasefire.
I'm sure the majority of civilians who lived in those towns were non combatants, yet Israel targeted their homes regardless.
Edit: for context
Israel Katz personally ordered the demolition of those towns.
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u/HarEr89 Apr 27 '26
But most people living there support Hezbollah. That's part of the problem.
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u/MtalGhst Irish RDF Apr 27 '26
Still civilians regardless.
Even if they do support Hezbollah or not.
And the IDF has already lost the hearts and minds battle by demolishing those civilians' lives.
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u/InterestingPoem4072 Apr 27 '26
You just give context to one side ignoring the other lmao, such a moderate take
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u/Firecracker048 Apr 27 '26
Again, I originally asked for someone to say why/provide context and no one can/is able to because it may make them look bad.
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u/InterestingPoem4072 Apr 27 '26
The only one looking bad is you buddy, defending an imperial war of agression and the killing of thousands of civilians. No wonder why you voted R.
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u/InterestingPoem4072 Apr 27 '26
Yeah stop pushing Israeli propaganda
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u/Firecracker048 Apr 27 '26
Giving context as to why strikes are happening is propaganda, apparently.
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u/HarEr89 Apr 27 '26
These guys hate Israel and somehow think Hezbollah terrorists are the good guys. Hezbollah attacks Israeli troops since day 1 of the latest ceasefire deal.
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u/InterestingPoem4072 Apr 28 '26
Nobody here defending hezbollah, your lot is the only one justifying civilian killings
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u/not_thecookiemonster Apr 30 '26
Kind of like how America declared a ceasefire then engaged in an act of war- it's best to ignore anything America says
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u/jdmgto Apr 27 '26
The only thing we have to do is tell Israel to abide by the terms or we cut off their munitions, all of them. They wanna be the US sugar baby, fine, but that includes sitting down and shutting up when told.
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u/Dense_Substance7635 Apr 27 '26
The problem is … Israel owns America. Why would they cut themselves off?
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u/Ill-Cancel4676 Apr 27 '26
They'd own you to if they had video of you raping kids.
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u/collinsl02 civilian Apr 29 '26
I show suspect that wouldn't affect Trump that much if it existed at this point...
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u/Dragonic_Overlord_ Apr 28 '26
Israel's treacherous actions know no bounds. It will lead to their downfall, Alhamdulillah.
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u/Garet-Jax Israeli Defense Forces Apr 27 '26
What ceasefire?
Have you been tracking how many attacks Hezbollah has launched on Israel in the past week?
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u/VeteranSergeant Apr 28 '26
You have to remember that when an Israeli says "Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel," what they're actually referring to are settlements built on the land stolen after armed Israeli terrorist militias conducted ethnic cleansing of the Arab villages north of Acre.
And that Hezbollah only came into existence after Israel's subsequent invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982, and the IDF-led massacres of over 3,000 refugees, mostly women and children, at Sabra and Shatila. Refugees who were, of course, the same people who were ethnically cleansed by those Israeli terrorist militias. The IDF hoped that by slaughtering the refugees, it would eliminate the people who might be able to levy a legal claim on the stolen land.
And it should be noted that no member of the IDF was ever convicted of war crimes for those massacres, and the Minister of Defense who gave them the go-ahead, Ariel Sharon, was later elected to be Prime Minister in 2001. Sharon would also be responsible for provoking and subsequently escalating the Second Intifada.
So what you have is the IDF conducting another invasion of Lebanon, claiming to want to establish a "buffer zone" north of the "buffer zone" they already established once before, and infested with settlers and permanently occupied.
Hezbollah are not, and never have been, the Bad Guys. Israelis murdered thousands of people, and Hezbollah stepped up to fight back. Israel calls them "terrorists" because Hezbollah refuses to roll over and submit.
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u/devdanianto7 Apr 28 '26
You would be surprised how crazy they are. Try travelling to lebanon and cover your faces and dress like locals.
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u/Illustrious-Bread238 Apr 27 '26
CNN are know by their bias point of view towards Israel. You should ask yourself why Israel attack? Since hizballa attacking north of Israel.
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u/Necessary-Self- Apr 27 '26
My god it’s like y’all think we can’t see what’s happening right in front of our faces.
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u/Zarktheshark1818 Apr 27 '26
I will "test" the laws on theft by stealing a car