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Megathread for the US war on Iran | Week 15 of 2026 (lemmygrad.ml)

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This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).

Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.

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[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

^This.

The nuke card is a bluff. The powers that be won't allow their usage here.

Japan at the end of WWII was a totally different situation. The same rational used then can't be reused here for largely the same reasons it wasn't in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan: you can't profit from radioactive ashes.