'Unprecedented Mass Deployment' of Warplanes Across Atlantic Fuels Fears of US War on Iran | Common Dreams

We just want fucking healthcare and affordable housing.

God I hate Republicans.

Trump is absolute garbage on every single scale and stat, but it's the republican voters who got us here. Fuck every republican voter.

So much for keeping the US out of war..

I didn't call it, but there's nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.

This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.

But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because "Iran provided us much help and they need us now." And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.

Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it's just people's lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.

I don't like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.

Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn't just escalation, this is staging for invasion.

I’d just like to take this opportunity to say “fuck you” to all the service people flying these planes, planning the logistics, and otherwise operating at the behest of our sadistic federal government. Sure, the civilian leadership is ultimately at fault here, but y’all are humans with agency. I’m no longer carving out culpability from these goddamn people anymore. Fuck you terrorists. If we escalate yet another war, I’ll plan to spit on you when you arrive back broken and dead. Bring on the downvotes.

This is basic dictator playbook, problems in domestic politics, start a war and problems change to foreign policy.

Putin has done this multiple times now, and Trump is following up.

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

Again.

Anyone else get the feeling WW3 has already started but we just haven't realised it yet?

If the shit hits the fan, I want too see every single fucking MAGA voter at a US Army recruiting office signing up for 11 Bravo, Grunt Infantry.

And again we see old incompetent white men starting another war.

Are people surprised? Republicans are war hawks even more so than the Libs.

Wasn't Trump the peaceful dove?

Search "Altlantic Trident 25"

This would have to be the most unpopular war in US history and yet I think everyone Trump has surrounded himself with is telling him to do it.

Only idiots are excited about wars.

We need to fix the voting system. ALL pacs should be banned and campaign spending should be limited.

The silver lining is that this will accelerate the decline of the US Empire which in turn will weaken Israel. Although this will be too late for the millions who have been or are still to be killed because of these psychopathic regimes.

I wonder where we'd be today if Trump didn't pull out of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Might not have made a difference, who knows.

I’m bringing peace to the Middle East! The peace president! 🫲🍊🫱

If anyone has good reasons to think otherwise, my anxiety needs something to believe in rn

Trump is after Iran's eggs, I guess. He promised the people of the US lower egg prices, he will get them from Iran.

How can people in the US be okay with this? Their quality of life has only decreased since Bush 2 started his wars of terror. A propagandized population driven to hate others and rally behind the president.

As unlikely as it may be, I hope the US loses quickly and decisively against Iran. Not in 20 years from now like in Afghanistan, but soon. I don't know what cards Iran has, what leverage they may have, but I hope they have something that enables them to inflict pain.

US is going to be bankrupt by the time he is done his second term.

worry not. remember this is TACO Don... he'll chicken out again

Sounds like the perfect time for Canada, Greenland/Denmark and Panama to launch their preemptive strike and ensure regime change and eliminate US WMD.

So NOW they want to have bases in Europe?

Early 2000's era nostalgia goin real hard

This is really big and scary

https://www.itamilradar.com/2025/06/17/large-scale-usaf-deployment-to-the-middle-east-involving-over-20-tankers-and-f-35-fighters/

I fucking hate this rhetoric which is: OIL! GAS! BUY OIL! BUY GAS! KEEP PUTIN HAPPY! OIL! GAS!

No one was taking the 'war' between Israel and Iran seriously last week after the initial surge in oil price because the USA was like... "yeah, nah". Now, after a quick call from Putin and bam, all this BS about how the US is pandering for war to drive commodity and share prices up when it's a nothingburger.

Remember kids, buy oil, buy gas and do as you're told.

I discovered this on another post comment but I think it belongs here more:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=nCP3LZoxABs

commondreams.org is on my PiHole block list for some reason, is it a low quality news source, or some such? It's not a news outlet I've heard of, at least.

Edit: Ah, because it's a shell going to a CDN that scoops up data and such, seemingly.

www.commondreams.org (blocked www.commondreams.org.cdn.rebelmouse.com)

A-10 movement always preceeds ground deployments. They moved those to Kuwait at the end of March. This has been coming for a while, its not an unplanned thing like it appears.

Watching https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ and filtering by military-only is fun.

C17s flying back and forth between Ramstein and Israel for a couple hours already (not sure how many normally do, tbf. could be normal)

Maybe they are invading Greenland. Or it is a ruse and they are invading Canada.

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.

Armchair theory is that the US large platform bombers will be used to credibly threaten repeated bunker buster hits on Fordow nuclear site. This could pressure Iran to surrender its entire nuclear program including that site.

Currently Israel doesn't have the capability by itself to destroy the site but US bombers possibly could.

Where can one acquire an anti air missile?

This will drive oil prices up.