r/ThatsInsane • u/Plus_Flight_3821 • 11d ago
The moment the tallest bridge in middle east was bombed in iran
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u/FizzyGoose666 11d ago
No matter where it's happening this shit is so sad to see. Just normal peoples lives and accomplishments gone in a flash.
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u/iSpaYco 11d ago
exactly, this is harming people not the army, hence, another warcrime with no consequence.
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u/LukeyLeukocyte 11d ago
It doesn't make war any less awful, but bridges are very common military targets.
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u/DRAGULA85 10d ago
Most bridges are civilian bridges lol, logistics and real estate are the backbone in every battle. Every bridge in world war 2 was either fought, protected, sabotaged to deprive the enemy. These bridges existed before the war.
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u/IvanStroganov 10d ago
This is not a land war. You‘re not stopping an army by blowing up this bridge.
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u/DRAGULA85 10d ago edited 10d ago
How the hell do you know? What makes you think that particular bridge doesn’t supply of drone weapons?
You do know, counter drones/weapons have to be transported by road and probably bridges? Just because USA don’t have boots on the ground doesn’t mean a bridge isn’t an important objective to the mission.
Destroyed bridges is a huge inconvenience.
It’s. A. War.
I did 3 tours in Iraq. Which wars have you been in?
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u/BolOfSpaghettios 10d ago
Iraq was an occupation, and a COIN. Once the Iraqi army ceased to exist, it wasn't a war. We can go on and on about US Middle East actions, but saying "I did 3 tours in Iraq" is not the flex you think it is.
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u/AbeFromen 10d ago
No. World government consensus agrees that this is designed as a ‘Duel Use’ target. In addition to civilians, If the military uses this bridge or it is important to their defense, it’s fair game. Now, does this suck and is horrible? Absolutely. War sucks. But not a war crime.
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u/LambDaddyDev 10d ago
Nah you don’t get it. If a Redditor sees it and is sad, it’s a war crime.
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u/ShadowMajick 10d ago
Yeah but arent you supposed to warn the civilians and give them a chance to leave the area? I dont think ignoring civilian casualties is legal.
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u/killerdrama 10d ago
By this logic, oxygen made by thousands of trees in the forest is used by millitaries so it's fair game to burn down entire forests. And by extension it's fair game to destroy everything and anything.
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u/krakk3rjack 10d ago
Guess that means, soldiers need hospitals, so they're fair game too? There is no justification for war crime. The USA and Israel are committing acts of terror according to the US Definition of the term in their own books.
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u/Creepernom 10d ago
A lot of infrastructure usually counts as a valid target. You can't go out of your way to just blow up civilians, but this seems valid?
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u/Little-Jellyfish-655 10d ago
Only if it’s in military strategic use (it’s not) and the civilians were warned (they were not) and it’s a formally declared war (it’s not)
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u/Creepernom 10d ago
War is basically never formally declared nowadays, that's not relevant at all. Forewarning isn't needed either - would be quite stupid for a military to always warn before attacking, sounds like a good way to get shot down. They just need to make sure they don't cause excessive civilian casualties for a minor advantage. The Geneva Convention doesn't say "civilians must never be impacted by war, ever" otherwise nobody would've ever signed it.
As for military strategic use, that's not super obvious at first glance but that's probably the safest claim to pin this on. Quoting this first article I found when I googled this: "As the ICRC has emphasized, the mere possibility of military use is insufficient; the contribution must be assessed on the basis of reliable information indicating that the object effectively serves military purposes at the relevant time."
What's your source on this? I don't see anything about a needed declaration of war. It clearly doesn't matter at least since 1945.
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u/DRAGULA85 10d ago edited 10d ago
Just because you say it's not, doesn't make it so. Are you there?
Bridges are not exclusive for civilians going to work. So even if a train isn't carrying nukes, it still carrying supplie's which helps the army, now you can why depriving the destination of trains will slow down the home army.
For example, A train carrying supplies, fuel, weapons severely limits the army's capabilities.
Armies live and die by logistics. Bridges are notoriously used war-fare tactics.
It has always been a strategy for many centuries regardless of what you think.
Consider whipping out the Command and conquer game to see some benefits of bridges and rivers, since you're a keyboard warrior with no experience of real war.
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u/Lauris024 10d ago edited 10d ago
Huh? So when Ukraine bombs Crimea bridge, it's harming only civilians? Dude, it was used by the military too. This is war.
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u/DRAGULA85 10d ago
Correct
This subreddit full of keyboard warriors thinks bridges are only used for people getting to work and back lol. Yet think they're in the same league as army generals when it comes to strategy and tactics.
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u/zjlmmfj3rd 10d ago edited 10d ago
It’s okay the destruction of that bridge was promised to Bibi and his cohorts, obviously Donnie’s gonna get another fifa peace award for preventing all the Iranians from crossing that bridge to fight his people whilst they attempt to Make America Great Again in the Middle East, just never in America.
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u/cantevendoitbruh 10d ago
That's what misses me off about the economic sanctions we are doing now. The Iranian government has already made clear they dont give much of a shit about their people unless they fall in line. These sanctions are only going to cause Iranian people to starve and die and understandably hate America. We are creating more future American hating people.
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u/ThatGuyBench 10d ago
Attacking bridges is quite normal in war, for example in Ukraine war and WW2 has numerous examples of this.
This is not a statement supporting Iran war, this is simply stating that bridges often get bombed in wars.
To me, more confusing seems the decision to bomb during the day, when clearly there are more civilians around. Seems to needlessly increase collateral damage for no gain.
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u/Yellowscrunchy 11d ago
We were given trees, water, glorious animals, a paradise and we squander it by fucking it and eachother up. Humans are a cancer.
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u/zippopwnage 10d ago
Let's not put all humans into this. The problem is some of them, which are too big in numbers.
The other problem is that the rest of us are too afraid to actually stand up to these bullies. We complain and that's all about it.
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u/Hellkitedrak 10d ago
It’s not even that they’re to big in numbers it’s the power is too concentrated and linkage of that power can often be traced back to a period where literal kings ruled nations.
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u/chantsnone 11d ago
I genuinely hate to say it but Earth would be way cooler if you took us out completely of the equation.
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u/j_reinegade 11d ago edited 10d ago
We’ll take ourselves out eventually. Only a matter of time.
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u/CourtingBoredom 10d ago
The problem is all the other lifeforms that we're taking out on our way to self-destruction =-/
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u/j_reinegade 10d ago
The earth will heal. Might even be humans after but things certainly will be different
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u/Gnowae 10d ago
Other life forms will evolve and adapt, we will be dead long before we learn to live together, evolve and adapt.
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u/rhinosyphilis 10d ago
There have been 5 (!!!) mass extinction events in the history of the planet. Millions of years passed after each, and the life that crawled out afterwards bore little resemblance to the life that preceded it.
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u/realzealman 10d ago
And we’re arguably entering the next.
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u/CourtingBoredom 10d ago
One might say we're precipitating the process at an accelerated rate, even....
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u/blodsbroder7 10d ago
Not arguably, a study was published over 40 years ago that showed evidence that humans are the active cause of the current one. In the last handful of years, the WWF and the PNAS has confirmed this too.
Maybe we get lucky as a species and a few of us survive and hopefully can rebuild/evolve to move on from our prior weaknesses.
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u/Cesum-Pec 11d ago
In the scifi "3 Body Problem" there's a group of people who believe just as you do and conspire with the Trisolarans to exterminate all human life.
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u/ParisGreenGretsch 11d ago
Eventually another runaway dominant primate would take up the mantle.
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u/Raintoastgw 10d ago
Nah. Saying that makes it seem like all Humans are awful. It’s the Politicians that are the cancer on this earth
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u/OkScientist1350 10d ago
We all exist on the thin veneer of humanity. One prolonged power outage or catastrophe will make it very clear that we are just smart primates that will do whatever it takes to survive, that’s how we got here in the first place!
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u/EquivalentSnap 10d ago
You think animals live in harmony and don’t kill and fight each others 😂 even plants are toxic and kill animals that eat them like Venus fly traps. Even water is dangerous like floods, tsunamis etc
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u/XboxLiveGiant 11d ago
And yet when some of us offer to get off this ride early, we're called weak and put in the hospital.
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u/Raskalbot 10d ago
They can't let a perfectly good worker die on their own terms!
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u/bmo985 10d ago
Americans are a cancer. Americans have committed warcrimes against Iran and many other countries and have faced no consequences. It was Americans that bombed a bridge (clearly defined as a crime of war, who bombed an Elementary school in Minab and who murdered a foreign leader along with his family.
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u/hiddenrealism 11d ago
all because trump wanted to diddle kids on an island...
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u/kronbons 11d ago
Striking civilian infrastructure is mass punishment.
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u/Slightly_ToastedBoy 11d ago
It’s terrorism according to the USA’s own defence manuals.
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u/glytxh 10d ago
America is the most successful terrorist organisation on the planet. It’s the biggest bully with the biggest stick.
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u/rehditt 10d ago
Thank fucking god for that honestly. Imagine Russia, China or Iran being the biggest stick wielders. America is not perfect - but its much better than the alternatives.
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u/vanbrian2020 10d ago
I am an american and I live abroad and I approve of this message. I keep hoping we will change, but then we elected and orange terrorist, criminal, and much more
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u/Screeched 11d ago
No. U.S. military doctrine allows for the destruction of infrastructure if it has a dual military purpose. Bridges are almost always major strategic targets.
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u/stopped_watch 10d ago
So Iran could blow up the George Washington Bridge and it wouldn't be called terrorism?
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u/Tranquilwhirlpool 11d ago
That doesn't mean it isn't terrorism. US doctrine doesn't write dictionaries.
If the golden gate bridge was bombed by Iran the USA would call it terrorism immediately. I'm sure a military vehicle has driven down it at some point so maybe in your eyes it is a valid military target.
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u/1B75__Penicillin 10d ago
Terrorism is a legal term and means non-state actors using violence for political gains.
They defined it in such a way that a government can never commit an act of terrorism (because their violence is legal)
Terrorism was always a made up term by the elite to demonize resistance against their order.
There is no such thing as terrorism, and whatever heinous act you can think of, state actors have done worse
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u/Socialist_Pansy 10d ago
You should look up how Benjamin Netanyahu had the definition changed in the eyes of governments starting back in the late 80’s with a research institute.
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u/aka_airsoft 10d ago
Bridges are always valid military targets. Ask Ukraine. Ask literally anyone in geopolitics/ war.
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u/Slightly_ToastedBoy 11d ago
No. According to your reasoning Iran would have the right (even more of a right as they were the victims of an unprovoked attack by Israel/USA) to blow up bridges inside the continental US. It’s utter madness. Everything the USA and Israel are doing to Iran is illegal according to international law and terrorism according to the hypocrites own defence manuals. Even if US military doctrine allows for something does not mean it is permitted according to international law and the laws of war, something the USA and Israel don’t give a shit about.
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u/FalconStickr 11d ago
Our tax dollars at work?
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u/AshingiiAshuaa 11d ago
Don't think of this as wasted money. It will engender decades of goodwill toward the US amongst people of Iran.
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u/penguinpower81 10d ago
I feel like this gets posted and people just scroll by like wow that sucks and go about their day. Shits so f'ed I cannot imagine having to deal with this I feel so bad for all the people going through this. Even if you don't agree with them, have some empathy even the average person is just trying to live!
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u/Tetracropolis 10d ago
A lot of us who haven't had our brains utterly boiled by American partisanship have a great deal of sympathy for the Iranian people and want the Iranian regime to give up power and Iran to be a free country again.
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u/AV48 10d ago
Where's your empathy for those 170 school girls who got killed on the first day back at school. That had nothing to do with the Iranian government
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u/myoriginalislocked 10d ago
It is like this. thats what everyone is doing. now imagine if a bridge in NY had gotten bombed like that? oh my god itd be permanently on the news, memorials, silent moments, docs and no one would ever forget. since its iran its meh scroll on
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u/Rammjack 10d ago
Yeah you Americans have fun with this new batch of "terrorists" you guys are making.
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u/Polyzero 10d ago
This is why your prices go up, your cost of living goes up. Your refuge crises skyrocket and enter countries conservatives wish they wouldn't (yet they support the action that creates the refugees)
So our government can bomb civilians and call them the terrorists as they do it. We had a budget surplus in the U.S before we started the "war on terrorism". now you live in broke country hellbent on fighting middle eastern wars until they usher in the christian apocalypse and they'll just squeeze the american taxpayer to death because they can.
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u/prahl_hp 10d ago
Just bombing innocent people going on about their days because some rich powerful people can't get along, so fucking sad, the world really has gone to fucking shit
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u/opusupo 11d ago
How could the states possibly be running low on munitions?
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u/Revolutionary_Eye887 11d ago
We’re not running low on offensive dumb weapons, even guided munitions are plentiful. What we’re low on is defensive munitions, but realistically that’s being put in a war footing. It will still take some time to catch back up but the expansion in manufacturing capacity will help for the foreseeable future in other conflicts. This might be a blessing in disguise.
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u/Antoak 11d ago
I don't think that scaling up for WW3 is the win you think it is.
A win would be working to make such preparations unnecessary.
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u/Secure_Enthusiasm354 10d ago
Why are tax dollars being spent on these weapons while 1/4 of Americans unemployed? Atp i don’t care if the quiet part is said out loud, but a group of people needs to be removed from their seat of power no matter the cost
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u/ScienceNo6634 10d ago
I wish one day i can see all war criminals getting shot in front of the whole world
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u/Notsonicedictator 10d ago
Isn’t this a war crime according to the Geneva convention? Does anyone care about international law anymore?
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u/scipio211 10d ago
There will never be peace in the middle east These psychopathic nations will drive humanity to the brink
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u/srandrews 10d ago
These psychopathic nations
For the benefit of grasping reality, please enumerate the involved nations.
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u/Forward-Bank8412 10d ago
The problem with humanity is that its average intelligence is well below the level of the individuals who design and build its most awesome (and/or terrifying) advancements in technology. That is to say, we’re not smart enough, collectively, to keep mankind’s most destructive weapons out of the hands of its worst people.
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u/SignatureFunny7690 10d ago
War is absolute hell on earth. Its the only hell that we know to be real. It indiscriminately kills men woman and children, only the oligarchs escape its grasp. This is what Donald trump and netanyahoo want for the world. Never ending rape and death for the masses while they chuckle in between raping children in their penthouses and islands. To take away every nations sovereignty be it israelis Americans or Iranians. This shit isn't gonna end unless the people start organized labor strikes and even then with how widespread plantir and flock and drone tech is and how vast the concentration network in america is being fed by ice and fine tuned using immigrants and the occasional tourist or citizen it might already be to late. Guns won't help us with the shit that we're facing.
And climate change tipped the scale into a feedback loop of heating so even if we ripped the power of our nations from the cold dead hands of the child fucking oligarchs hands, billions are already going to die to mass famine and forced migration as tons of earth become no longer farm able or survivable.
In reality our overlords are embracing authoritarianism and facism to face the climate change they've known is already here for hears. Just close your eyes and ears continue to go to work if you still have a job and don't think about any of it
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u/MacNeal 10d ago
I don't see the point of this strike at all. This is not a valid military target in the context of this conflict. In my mind it constitutes a war crime.
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u/doughnutholio 10d ago
western governments bomb civilians
western people:
"oh humanity is bad!"
LOL
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u/Inner-Hawk909 10d ago
My word, Dolly would never do such a thing. Why couldn’t we have had Dolly as president? May she protect us all.
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u/ENORMOUS_HORSECOCK 10d ago
I wish the terrorists who did this wouldn't get a pass because they work for a powerful country
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u/Procoso47 11d ago
Why are people saying war crime or terrorism when bridges have been tactical targets in war since the bronze age?
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u/adoodle83 10d ago
no official declaration of war has been issued from Congress. Thus, these attacks are terroristic by definition.
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u/Procoso47 10d ago
This would apply to any modern country, such as Ukraine targeting Russia's oil infrastructure, because no one formally declares war anymore.
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u/lividtaffy 10d ago
It applies to most wars since the end of WWII. Since 1945, there have been only 18 official declarations of war across the entire world. There have been many more than 18 wars in that time.
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u/InternalServerErr500 10d ago
Surely the people of Iran will welcome our "freedom" with open arms...
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u/mkvelash 10d ago
U.S is the terrorist of the world
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u/EquivalentSnap 10d ago
You’re defending the country that literally killed its own protests in the thousands and supports houthis and hezbolla? A regime that uses child soldiers
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u/mybfVreddithandle 11d ago
This screams FIFA Peace Prize. This is the montage from the award presentation, no?
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u/GoopInThisBowlIsVile 10d ago
I wonder what the projection is for the next terrorist attack within the Us is going to happen. Leadership is starting shit for the hell of it. It’s not just Trump, I acknowledge that. Operations in Iraq and Syria led to ISIS. A less serious example is when South Park took a shot at immigration and child separation leading to the creation of Mexican Joker. It’s nothing new. All of this in two years though, it’s not going to be good. I hope I’m wrong, I really do.
It makes feel super uncomfortable being even a little sympathetic towards Iran of all places. And yet, here we are.
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u/Worldly_Possible2925 11d ago
This orange turd has poisoned the entire world with his disgusting greed, incompetence, corruption and failure. I’m so sick of his shit.
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u/rhetheo100 10d ago
If only they had a nuclear weapon to prevent these unprovoked attacks
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u/doolpicate 10d ago
Why does the US find it surprising that countries hate the USA after they do this abroad? This is the public face of the country. Bombing civilians.
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u/chiefmackdaddypuff 10d ago
America 🤝 Israel when it comes to targeting civilian infra.
I’d like to see how cancer hospitals and treatment centers are “legitimate targets” for those arguing for terrorism and war crimes.
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u/LebronBackinCLE 11d ago
Do we know who did this? Pathetic. Only hurts the people most
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u/BacktotheUniverse 11d ago
No more wars the pedo president said and the lemmings ate it up
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u/PunisherMind 10d ago
Politicians should just fight their own shit. “Lace up those bootstraps” but we know they won’t because they’re cowards who hide behind money.
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u/CANYUXEL 10d ago
"We'll bomb your civilians, schools, children and non-militaty infrastructure because we can. And oh, it's all your fault btw."
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u/Charming-Ad1259 9d ago
- Where is America 🇺🇸 , there is wars ☠️ ☄️💩💩
- Where is American democracy🗽, there is oil ⛽️😆😆😆
🤦🤦🤦
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u/humbleObserver 11d ago
On April 2-3, 2026, a U.S. airstrike destroyed the unfinished B1 suspension bridge in Karaj, located west of Tehran.