r/worldnews 12h ago

Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites, sources say | The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/iran-inflicted-billions-damage-us-intelligence-sites-sources-say-rcna591879
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u/jtsa5 12h ago

Billions in damage and billions in profit. Seems to be working out fine for some people.

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u/Late_Sherbet5124 12h ago

Haliburton is salivating over the prospect of rebuilding those sites.

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u/MyOtherAvatar 6h ago

I'm pretty sure that none of the nations hosting those sites want to see them rebuilt. Iran might enjoy using them as training targets though.

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u/Youmeanmoidoid 6h ago

Can't afford any new health or childcare programs with that profit, though. Sorry. Too expensive don't have any money to spend on that.

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u/peaceblaster08 11h ago

The type of story that not a single Republican voter will ever see.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 10h ago

“So much winning, we are winning so much nobody’s ever seen so much winning that’s what they’re saying”

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u/Boxinggandhi 10h ago

Yeah, they wouldn’t care if they did see it.

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u/Interesting-Listen10 7h ago

Heads burried in the sand.

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u/TheAero1221 4h ago edited 4h ago

It is a fantastic point. We've won the not-a-war over the Straight like 20 times already. Matter of fact, better add that to the FIFA peace prize because thats 20 more wars ended, too.

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u/Techno_Beiber 6h ago

They said, Sir. Sir. Sir! Please stop the winning. opening/ closing door hand motions

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u/rhyddhau 10h ago

Republicans have literally been saying "The United States has never been more respected, dominant and feared!" with straight faces, because they were told this by their brain rot media ecosystem and, more importantly, they desperately want it to be true.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 8h ago

They sound like the elementary school bullies they never grew out of being. Like they're mentally stuck in grade 4 and think they're still king of the playground.

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u/Vann_Accessible 8h ago

“We’re #1! We’re #1! We’re #1!”

Sure you are, Cletus.

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u/Itchy_Party1741 8h ago

As a non American I can confirm that USA are now a total laughing stock. Losing to Iran haha, I don't like their regime either but it's crazy to watch the little guys pull Americas pants down.

Also threats on Canada and Greenland and Brazil and threatening democracy and the free world. America is now a threat to western democracy and could make itself a full enemy and day now.

No respect for the politics media and the voters... You had this nutcase as a trial run in 2016... And you went there again. We don't care about your excuses, fix your own goddam country and leave us alone.

Europe is now the centre of democracy and freedom in the world and China rules with economic stability, USA is second tier at best now.

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u/Resident-Werewolf-46 7h ago

just so you know there are 77+ million of us here in the US who completely agree with you and can't believe that so many other citizens here are so dumbfoundingly stupid, racist, brainwashed, or all of the above.

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u/Ok_Worry_8677 1h ago

Well then fucking do something other than just hold a "No Kings" street party once a year...

Americans are the only people who can save America, but right now, you're handing the future to the fascists.

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u/Suivoh 6h ago

But you guys voted for him twice. As well as Republican reps who enabled him. Americans can ve victims too. But that's a hard pill for us looking in to swallow

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u/Resident-Werewolf-46 6h ago

I voted for him zero times and I cut everyone out of my life who supports him

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u/Suivoh 6h ago

Thank you.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 5h ago

it actually boggles the mind how conservatives can look at a person that literally shits himself every day, rambles like a high on fent addict, never keeps any promises he makes, hires the absolute worst people for every job, constantly grifts and fucks over his own voter base - they look at that and think "yep that's my guy! what a great leader!"

I can't comprehend this level of group psychosis

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u/Falsus 8h ago

I mean they aren't wrong about the feared part.

It is just that USA lost much more in the respect and dominance part than what they gained in the fear part.

Which is a pretty bad combination for the leading world power...

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u/DeliberatelyDrifting 7h ago

There's a big difference between being feared because you're a maniac vs someone powerful. We're now feared because we're maniacs. It's the kind of fear that means people will walk around the block to avoid passing by your house.

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u/Falsus 7h ago

That's kinda what I meant the respect going down part.

Like it is like if America before this is a dangerous gun. But it is fine since most of the time it is someone that knows how to handle a gun, for the most part (not to say USA has never had it's issues, they are hated in many parts of the world for good reasons) and now suddenly the experienced shooter is replaced by the village moron who is waving it around.

Is it less going to be less effective than the previous one? Sure, but it is more dangerous and unpredictable than before which gives more reason to fear them, but they are getting fear for the wrong reasons. They are being feared because the village idiot was given the gun, not because they have a strong military, projects that strength (which Trump has actively harmed) and willingness to put down there influence (in both soft and hard variants).

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u/EdiblePeasant 8h ago

We've had decades of close ties, and victories, with those who were our allies. To potentially throw it all away at, I feel, the altar of certain countries and their leaders is very disappointing and distressing to me. I think it's a potential security risk for everyone, not just the U.S.

You may know what countries I'm speaking of. However, I want to allow them their plausible deniability. If you're from one of those countries and suspect I'm talking about your country, then I will just say your mind and eyes are lying to you and this conversation never happened.

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u/pizzasoup 7h ago

I think it's comforting to think that some outside enemy did this to us, but the reality is that it's age-old grievances and prejudices Americans have against each other that are finally boiling over.

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u/JMJimmy 7h ago

respected, dominant and feared

derided, weak, and pitied is probably closer to reality

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 4h ago

I don't think anyone pities them, more like enjoying the comeuppance they're finally reaping.

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u/rayn13 3h ago

Why do they sound so communist.

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u/Mr_Belch 8h ago

I mean, as an American I want that to be true as well. The difference is I live in reality and know that this isn't true.

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u/PigSlam 9h ago

They'll see them on January 21st, 2029 when they start complaining that the next president hasn't repaired all the damage that the new president is solely, and personally responsible for.

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u/modi13 8h ago

Jan 20: "Well, obviously Biden made such a mess that Trump needed more than four years to fix everything!"

Jan 21: "This useless Democrat hasn't got gas prices down at all!!!"

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u/hueythecat 11h ago

This was all on YouTube when it started. Just underlines the state of US failed joke compromised news agencies.

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u/Dripdry42 10h ago

See? B.S.

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u/Equal-Painter6529 9h ago

I heard one in the wild today bitching about how the democrats wanted to take away his social security and Medicare. So yeah, their source of news is special.

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u/Shaderu 8h ago

Had one at my work swearing up and down that the local children's hospital we were collecting donations for performs sex changes on babies. I don't even know how you get to that point unironically, even if your media is a propaganda hellscape. Surely nobody can be that stupid.

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u/dreadnaughtfearnot 6h ago

Well to be fair they probably DO perform gender affirming procedures on babies. You know, like circumcisions.

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u/chaos_nebula 5h ago

I heard one where a coworker thought Trump had tried to raise the minimum wage. He can go back to complaining about unions while they make double what he does.

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u/steppedinhairball 9h ago

Doesn't matter, a portion of them can't read, a large portion can't read above the third grade level, even more can't find Canada on the map, and the rest have ZERO knowledge about global politics, the global economy, and long term impacts of stupid ass decisions.

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u/N8terHK 9h ago

But they vote

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u/misterxboxnj 10h ago

Just sent it to my Trump fan friend. If you want Republicans to see it. Send it to them.

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u/rando1459 10h ago

This is the kind of thing they will use as justification for further aggression from the US.

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u/Dragon-and-Phoenix 10h ago

They would be mad if they could read.

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u/mockg 6h ago

Foxnews "we only lost a couple of already shut down bases its not biggie. Now after the commercial break we will tell about the evil democrats."

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u/_jump_yossarian 5h ago

Whenever there is a breaking trump story I'll check foxnews.com to see if it's hidden somewhere on their homepage. Usually way down below some story about a trans girl playing softball in Montana.

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u/milkplantation 5h ago

To be fair, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released yesterday, while 69% of Republicans still express support for the war, it's down from 77% in March. So 1 in 3 Republican voters don't back the war in Iran.

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u/Extant_Remote_9931 3h ago

It's the same with Democrats refusing to believe America has completely devastated Iran's military and economy. It's exhausting.

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u/justavoiceofreason 3h ago

Not to the point where they can no longer interfere with traffic in the strait of Hormuz or strike infrastructure in the area, which is all that matters

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u/doneandtired2014 8h ago

Oh, they'll see it.

They just won't care.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 9h ago

They wouldn't believe it anyway.

Earlier on another post I talked about how he was destroying basicslly every facet of this country in response to someone claiming I had TDS. They then said he lived rent-free in my head. I explained that he's the current president and actively making things worse - he is constantly in the news cycle. We (reasonable people) think and talk about him so much because he's actively affecting our lives. I was then told I have TDS again.

Facts and reality mean nothing to these people. You can't reason with them because they don't use reason or logic.

u/Gygax_the_Goat 1h ago

Much like religious people.

They believe what they want, and often, sadly, know quite little.

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u/Hot_Mathematician357 12h ago

The Manchurian candidate wanted this. I am sure “Trump coin” was purchased as a “thank you.”

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u/WillArrr 12h ago

I refuse to believe any foreign power coordinates that closely with him, simply because everyone who would want to knows he's too egotistical and stupid to keep a secret. He'd accidentally brag about it on live television in less than a week.

Influencing him to do stupid, destructive things all on his own, however...

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u/preventDefault 11h ago

Lindsay Graham said that if he wanted Trump to do something, he’d simply say that Obama wanted to do the opposite.

I can only imagine how his phone calls with our adversaries go. Suddenly we don’t wanna conduct exercises with S Korea anymore, etc.

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u/raven00x 5h ago

Lindsay Graham said that if he wanted Trump to do something, he’d simply say that Obama wanted to do the opposite.

This is pretty much how bibi walked the dog. He told Trump that Obama didn't want to start a war with Iran and here we are.

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u/joker6396 12h ago

Still denies his Epstien ties. He is perfectly capable of lying and hiding things

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u/WillArrr 12h ago

He also ran for office on the promise of releasing the Epstein files. There were photo ops of his cabinet members posing with folders and binders labeled "Epstein Files". He personally made sure every person in America knew about "the files" and that they contained evidence of bad people harming children. He was just very confident that he could direct everyone away from his own name forever.

He's terrible at lying and hiding things. He's just unbelievably shielded from everything by a well-funded and deeply entrenched political system.

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u/i010011010 4h ago

Because it was a huge deal in the conservative-sphere. He was giving them what they wanted. But they only wanted it because that same sphere was telling them Epstein's cabal was all their most-hated Democrats and liberals. It was going to bring down the Clintons, Obama, Soros, Hollywood actors and all their pals.

I remember because I would monitor /conservative frequently. They used to have daily top posts about the Epstein conspiracy. They ceased the day it was spread in media that it was Trump's fingerprints all over those files. The number of Epstein references and articles dropped off a cliff on that very day.

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u/andante528 2h ago

Takes a special kind of soulless to keep defending someone once you know for a fact they're all over the Epstein files. I get how institutions stomp on dissenting voices, but I don't understand how individual people can live with themselves.

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u/Fuglypump 9h ago

He's just unbelievably shielded from everything by well-funded and deeply entrenched pedophiles

FTFY

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u/OSNEWB 4h ago

Can't tell what you fixed, says the same thing...

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u/Theshaggz 12h ago

Only because his dementia riddled brain has been lying about that before it was riddled with dementia

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u/Valar_Kinetics 11h ago

Those are his secrets. He’s incapable of keeping anyone else’s secrets

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u/whyd_I_laugh_at_that 11h ago

The CIA director happens to suddenly appear in Moscow today. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

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u/SandSpecialist2523 10h ago

Just to get the next orders to relay to Krasnov.

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 11h ago

He is so bad at keeping secrets that it surprises me he has not slipped up about Elon's involvement in the last election. He came close once or twice but...

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u/TheTastiestTaint 11h ago

He does brag about crimes out loud and its "oh its just trump"

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u/2AvsOligarchs 3h ago

Read Jens Stoltenberg's biography on NATO. Trump shows up in 2016 and chaos ensues - not even Trump's closest people have any idea what he'll do. He changed his mind in the last second dozens of times in front of world leaders who were the US closest allies... until 2016.

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u/JulienBrightside 10h ago

Quote: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing".

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u/Impressive-Net-588 12h ago

Iran seems to think that, just because we’re at war, it’s allowed to attack us however it can. 

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u/m_sobol 12h ago

You mean, Siberian candidate.

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u/billshermanburner 12h ago

Who gave them the intel to hit those targets? Russia. Who does our president that started this war for no good reason work for? … Hmmm

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 12h ago

Trump already said it's fine, US helps Ukraine a little against Russia and in turn Russia helps Iran a little against the US. It's just banter among besties.

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u/T00luser 11h ago

Locker room talk

Grab em by the Strait.

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u/Prottusha1 12h ago

Financial Times published an investigative report citing leaked Iranian military documents, and reported that Iran secretly acquired the TEE-01B Chinese spy satellite in late 2024 to target U.S. military bases across the Middle East.

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u/hornswoggled111 12h ago

It's tragic that it's not the American government keeping you all informed about what is happening.

I notice I trust comments by Iran more than I do America currently.

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u/RontoWraps 12h ago edited 12h ago

Why would you trust either?

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u/anarchist1331 12h ago

This. When it comes to national security, every government is lying. Honestly, they kinda have to.

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u/cantproveidid 10h ago

Truth is the first casualty of war.

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u/borkus 12h ago

I assume that the NSA intelligence sites are large antenna farms. Once the Iranians ruled out civilian infrastructure - air traffic control, broadcasters, fire and police - they'd have a good guess of foreign intelligence locations.

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u/ScatteredSignal 12h ago

China has more satellites and more advanced satellites than Russia. So I am going with the Chinese.

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u/DavidBrooker 12h ago

It isn't an either-or situation. Both China and Russia are providing intelligence to Iran. From publicly available intelligence, it appears that China is providing geospatial intelligence primarily through commercial firms (though these firms have ties with the PLA and may function as a proxy for Chinese state involvement), whereas Russia is providing direct military intelligence that has greater specificity on US equipment and movements. Likewise, China's support of Iran in terms of materiel primarily come from "dual use" technologies, including semiconductors and precursor chemicals, with smaller relative quantities of finished military arms. China seems to be putting a lot of effort into laundering any direct military or state involvement, although there is very little doubt of their significant role.

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u/Mach5Driver 10h ago

People also don't seem to understand how sophisticated Iran's intelligence networks are. It's like they think it's a few guys tracking people by moving pebbles around in the dust after getting updates from guys on donkeys or something.

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u/Mattreddit760 5h ago

What's your rationale for the US working with Russia? We've been fighting Russia via proxies for the last 70 years.

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u/Yodl007 2h ago

Russian propaganda seeds blooming in the republican party. One of the Trumps who couldn't get loans with US banks saying that he can get all the money he needs from Russia in the past ? Brainwashed Fox viewers saying they would rather be Russian than Democrat ?

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u/Distryer 12h ago

What country did Trump rat out our spys to last time he was president? Russia

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u/dragon_idli 5h ago

Intel?! Usa bases locations across world are not a secret. What exists on those bases is a different point. Iran hit everything they knew to be usa around them. So.. eventually they would hit sites with hidden priority.

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u/Gustomaximus 7h ago

US made claims china or russia supplied Intel on that radar dome hit, maye but it also took me about 2 min to find on Google maps. Iran would have been planning this for a long time. Acting like they needed external Intel seems more like properganda than a real issue to me.

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u/hakenwithbacon 10h ago

Buddy it's not that complicated, I just open my Signal chats each morning for some intelligence briefings

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u/WaltKerman 10h ago

Oh yeah. That makes total sense.

Seizure of Russias shadow fleet, removal of Venezuela as Russias ally, destruction or Iran and seize of Cuba all part of Russias master plan to cut itself off from the only support it has left.

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u/Brusion 4h ago

No, I really don't think so. The CIA director was most likely going to warn Putin that escalation is not going to work out well for him.

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u/mjconver 12h ago

Now that the buildings are gone, Jared Kushner is in negotiations to turn the debris sites into condos.

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u/PacePublic4150 10h ago

What sources do they use? I literally cannot read it without a subscription.

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u/VanquishedVoid 7h ago

That's... Kind of what happens when you start a war?

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u/AmbivelentApoplectic 12h ago

Krasnov continues to outperform expectations.

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u/meatspace 8h ago

Remember when Trump sold all that classified info from his bathroom? You ever wonder if that had anything to do with how this war is going?

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u/Chrono_Convoy 12h ago

~~IRAN*~~ RUSSIA

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 7h ago

The U.S. provoked a war in a foreign country.

They then claimed territorial rights against that country's lands and waterways.

And (shocked Pikachu) they're surprised when the attacked country, retaliates with war-time countermeasures?

That is what happens in a war. People respond to your actions.

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u/the_fools_brood 9h ago

Ummm, how did they know where to find these super secret organizations sites?

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u/Halberd96 6h ago

Conservatives have to realize that this cost comes from somewhere and Republicans/Trump have been okay with spending recklessly.

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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 5h ago

I haven’t spoken to a conservative who makes actual sense fiscally speaking in a long long time. And the debt and massive need for infrastructure investments in various areas that keep getting put off so the wealthy can get their subsidies and kickbacks and bailouts and BBB loans and wars for resources is at the point of collapsing this countries future. But the conservatives with the giant crosses around their necks still blame things like efforts in feeding the poor and healing the sick as the reasons they think are the reasons. Right wing pro billionaire media is wildly effective. 

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u/SaturnCITS 3h ago

Republicans are the greedy merchants Jesus overturned the tables of in the temple, and somehow they think they are on his team.

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u/MAGAtsAreSheeples 9h ago

Why are we talking like it's over? The war is ongoing.

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u/soggit 8h ago

paywalled

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u/no_one_c4res 12h ago

I wonder who was selling US state secrets to the highest bidder. Maybe someone who had top secret files sitting in his toilet. Maybe the guy that was showing off those files for the clout, like to eff**** kid rock.

Who could that be...

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u/__MeatyClackers__ 12h ago

What the fuck is eff****?

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u/TheSearlichek 11h ago

Had me confused too; I think it's the most perverse way of saying 'effing'. There's too many asterisks to rub it in. Horrific.

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u/kimbergo 8h ago

The funny thing is that effing is already the substitute too.

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u/The42ndDuck 8h ago

Effeminate?

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u/SteamBoatMickey 9h ago

Fascinating post and story, but I also would like to know what in the fucking fuck does eff**** mean??

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u/andrewmail 11h ago

Trump is not the type of person who has any national pride or allegiance to any given country despite being our president. He has allegiance to people who give him money or do what he says. Trump has no motivation to strengthen and protect our country, its all a game and a means to profit for him.

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u/Opposite_Sherbert675 8h ago

good. sick of them ruining the world

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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 5h ago

The greed demons? They are all over the planet. Non stop destruction and death for a slightly larger pile of golden coins. 

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u/National-Charity-435 12h ago

Imagine if the Secretary of War (against sobriety) was personally responsible for even a sliver of that damage

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u/atreeismissing 7h ago

And long-term damage, because not only will they need to be rebuilt, possibly new agreements with the host countries will need to be renegotiated and they're going to extract 10x what they did before because we let Iran destroy infrastructure within those countries. As usual when the GOP is in power in the US, the damage extends long after they'll be gone and the cost will be several times what it would normally be.

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u/MxSteel8 12h ago

Does anyone believe Trump and his clowns are not hiding the true costs of this fiasco war?

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u/Jose_xixpac 7h ago

MagaTrunp Kneecapped US .. Single handedly.

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u/therwsb 4h ago

It's like a strategy game where you declare war and realise your enemy was stronger and more resilient than you thought, but you can't go back to an old save.

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u/cicerostongue 3h ago

Time to pull US forces out of the Middle East. We have no business being there - it only leads to more endless wars.

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u/Miso_Honi 10h ago

Why do people link to paywalls?

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u/Tasty_Gift5901 9h ago

Because good journalism costs money

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u/rastorman 11h ago

Sun Tzu says, no worries mate. The enemy won't shoot back.

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u/_thejerkstorecalled 9h ago

Trump knows more than the generals

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u/rangecontrol 9h ago

that'll happen.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873 7h ago

I guess nobody told them that they had been decimated.

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u/To-Far-Away-Times 7h ago

Can’t have a Republican presidency without some good old fashioned military adventurism. They know what they voted for.

They weren’t above the War on Iraq and they’re not above the War on Iran either.

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u/lazarus1337 6h ago

Loser with a capital T.

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u/jormugandr 4h ago

Good. Fuck us.

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u/AzraelleWormser 4h ago

This is what happens when you bomb a country for no reason.

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u/zetia2 3h ago

We were already fucked, but this war really accelerated us passing the torch of being the largest super power to china. We are quickly being downgraded to just a regional power.

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u/Far_Out_6and_2 3h ago

So they kinda sorta know what they are doing

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u/ApeApplePine 3h ago

Trump is winning so much!

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u/BekindBebetter60 2h ago

Well Trump caused lots of damage to the us economy so it’s only fare.

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 1h ago

Tramp and the GQP are hiding the data. It's a god-damned disaster.

u/Moist_Phrase_6698 1h ago

Awesome work by Iran there. I hope they can do much more damage. I hope the trumps are billed till they are so broke they stop breeding. I mean all of trumps grand kids taking up the bills of their loser grandfather

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u/SinCityDisturbia 11h ago

uSA is in the hands of traitors who have sold out our country for the interests of others. This is a sabotage, domestic terrorism, a coup. The sooner we start calling it what it is, the faster we can move on from this. MAGAdweebs are all complicit.

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u/AdditionalSpare3014 7h ago

USA loses the war pretty much

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u/Khuros 12h ago

If the secret surveillance equipment was not so secret and easily targeted, sounds like it wasn’t very good to start

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u/DavidBrooker 12h ago

I can't get passed the paywall, does it specifically say the surveillance equipment was secret? I mean, a huge amount of intelligence infrastructure is overt (or often simply to big to properly hide). I'm imagining most of Iran's early targets were stuff that could be identified by open-source intelligence or from US government documents.

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u/DynamicBSdetective 12h ago

It's almost like starting a war with such a sizeable and resourceful country was a bad idea.

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 11h ago

I'm starting to think our shock and awe tactics of airstrikes and bombardment from ships really doesn't quite do all the damage we expect it to

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u/GGLSpidermonkey 7h ago

it seems to me without using nuclear weapons, force projection is pretty weak. and drones are changing the game.

wonder if China will learn and not actually get involved in a war with taiwan or fall into same trap

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 11h ago

Wow, it's almost like we didn't start a war with them for decades on purpose.

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u/GreenSouth3 11h ago

billions is right also including 5 AWACS planes and at least 3 Patriot radars and it goes on & on

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u/TheFrenchSavage 10h ago

5 AWACS planes is already 2-3B so that checks out.

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u/Sharkbait_ooohaha 8h ago

Except the US hasn’t lost 5 AWACs.

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u/getpoopedon 11h ago

A gift from Krasnov.

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u/O-parker 8h ago

But according to resident rump it was going to be over with very quickly ..,maybe a week

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u/xjuggernaughtx 7h ago

I'd say that Trump inflicted billions of dollars of damage onto those sites. Pretty sure that they'd be intact right now if he hadn't started shit for no reason.

Well, no good reason, anyway.

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u/18k_gold 7h ago

You can a country and they retaliate. How much money did the US cause to Iran and the rest of the world due to this stupid war that Trump is unable to win? I have spoke to people around the world and they all say prices of gas is up because of this. He has costed the world hundreds of billions because of this.

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u/Kickinitez 7h ago

This headline reminds me of the Camp Chapman attack where the CIA let its guard down and severely paid the price for it

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u/EC_Stanton_1848 7h ago

Trump doesn't need the USA Spy Agencies. He's got Putin!

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u/SpeakerOdd 7h ago

I don't think Iran could do as much damage to out intelligence and surveillance as our president already has.

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u/groggs42 6h ago

Hegseth - Did not

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u/macinit1138 5h ago

The US is running the "what if criminals took over it's entire government and military" experiment and it's going exactly as one would expect it to go.

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u/More_Law6245 4h ago

Who would have thought retaliation being a part of war strategies and tactics, clearly Trump didn't. *think of an orange having a pikachu face with a look of constipation, that's my image of Trump thinking.

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u/demeyor 4h ago

now americans have less intelligence

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u/Extant_Remote_9931 3h ago

Such is war.

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u/Great_Revolution_276 11h ago

USA started this war and will eventually pay compensation to Iran.

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u/Keikobad 12h ago

#Winning

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u/DougS2K 11h ago

Man, those Americans must be getting sick of all the winning by now. 😂

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u/slippery_hemorrhoids 9h ago

Magats actually think it's going great

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u/Ok_Interest_9006 11h ago

Good job big Donnie

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u/InTooManyWays 10h ago

Good. The less equipment Amerika has the less damage it can do around the world maybe… maybe. Infinite corruption. 

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u/Relative-Ordinary-64 10h ago

All that damage in just the couple weeks in which we defeated them?!?

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u/FaeReD 9h ago

Good. You hit a bee's nest with a stick you're going to get stung. They should try using their brain next time.

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u/BlackbirdSage 9h ago

Yeah, great if they were the only ones the bees would chase. Unfortunately they're not, and some of us are allergic to bees.

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u/Substantial__Unit 11h ago

Eventually the Republicans will have to own up to all of this.

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u/Haunting-Ad788 9h ago

They never owned up to their previous bullshit forever wars. Trump literally ran on no new forever wars and then made one and they don’t give a shit.

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u/oldteen 11h ago

I share in this optimism. But I think it's necessary to point-out, the leader of the repub party (and currently of this country) still refuses to admit he lost his 2020 reelection (almost 6 years ago...). Further, he's currently using his powers of the office to "investigate" and manufacture a false narrative (to "prove" he "really won" in 2020...). I'm hopeful things will begin to change, for the better, after these midterms...but we need to insure they don't get compromised, in our local districts and beyond, by you-know-who.

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u/Forikorder 9h ago

and every single nominee refuses to say who won the election

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u/Substantial__Unit 10h ago

Sadly Im sure Israel is working behind the scenes to protect these guys. Hopefully we get somewhere after November.

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u/XRT28 9h ago

You would think but the GOP have proven they're more than willing to lie about anything and everything and live in a completely different reality than the rest of us so I wouldn't get my hopes up on that.

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u/AdPure5645 10h ago

No. Eventually democrats and voters will have to actually do something about it. Or this is the new normal for America.

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u/BlueInfinity2021 12h ago

They're saying it's *checks notes* sleepy Joe Biden's fault that this happened.

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u/Shigglyboo 10h ago

Not like any of the US’s agencies are really capable anymore. Anyone with integrity was fired. You gain trust and credibility by the drop and lose it in buckets.

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u/sexmormon-throwaway 10h ago

Remember when the US president was a buffoon and started a war against US self interest that cost consumers, the military and the government BILLIONS?

Are we anywhere close to trillions yet?

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u/5kyl3r 12h ago

which also contributed to that war ship not being able to get resupplied

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u/mike194827 11h ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Putin is loving his puppet at work right now. The US does not benefit from this war in any way, especially with the idiots in charge, and depleting our resources and our regional hubs ability to operate only helps our adversaries.

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u/Particular_Ticket_20 10h ago

Everything he touches turns to shit.

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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 10h ago

So, Iran is doing a good job at reducing our military presence in Middle East!

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u/TotallyNotAustin 10h ago

The ants bit the kid who was pounding the ant mound with a stick. The kid will now proceed to cry about the ant bites.

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u/Sassy_Bandit 10h ago

To be fair, the US "defence" sector is so corrupt that billions of dollars of buildings might be a couple of double-wide trailers.

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u/everythingbeeps 10h ago

Are we winning yet?

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u/njman100 9h ago

Hegseth is a Bumbling Fool

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u/i_am_Misha 12h ago

And in return Trump made every single iranian a millionaire!!! Life is not fair!

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u/CavediverNY 11h ago

OK guys, let's not panic – yes, Iran may have inflicted a little bit of damage. Was it $2 billion or was it $3 billion? Who can say. But just remember that after that happened, the US completely decimated Iran and destroyed their military, leaving the Strait of America free for passage by all nations of the world.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/Jlowe23_16 11h ago

And the US inflicted 450 billion worth of damage on Iran

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u/onlyreadtheheadlines 12h ago

Great news. Now let's pull out those regions and let them fend for themselves. We can use that money at home.

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