The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran • Hacker News Board

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by tyleo » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #435

yodsanklai wrote: post #396

Nothing like a war to boost your popularity just before the elections

> Nothing like a war to boost your popularity just before the elections If he pulls off a regime change, even a Delcy-style swaparoo, he'll get it, and arguably not undeservedly. It will ultimately come down to Iran's capacity to inflict casualties on American forces.

I’m not so sure. This is no where near a priority issue for most Americans, “I can’t afford eggs and the immigrant I buy pizza from got shipped to a warehouse but thank god the regime changed in Iran.”

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by samrus » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

Regarding the protests in the preceding week, while the iranian people probably had valid problems with their government, its so pbvious the actual scenes we saw in the news were orchestrated to manufacture consent. Its barely hidden anymore.

If you see a sudden uptick in protests in a country the US/isreal see as an enemy, you can bet its probably just the step in the playbook preceding military action

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #351

The president of peace btw. I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US. And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression. I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.

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Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by tw04 » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:02 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #351

The president of peace btw. I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US. And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression. I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.

FIFA might be the one organization that can go toe to toe with Trump I’m corruption. And I mean that in the worst way possible. Qatar was using literal slave labor to get stadiums built and the organization just shrugged when informed like it was just another Tuesday.

He could drop a nuke on Greenland tomorrow and they’d probably say they don’t want the sport to be tangled in political disagreements and if anything the World Cup can help everyone heal.

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by udioron » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

I believe this is related for Iran's decades old calls for "Death to America"/"Death to Israel".

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by tyleo » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

apples_oranges wrote: post #446

I hate that we apparently have to take sides when commenting ..

You don’t have to take sides. I haven’t landed on a particular POV here. You’re free to take a breath and think about things.

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by oilproducer » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

JasonADrury wrote: post #423

epolanski wrote: post #351

The president of peace btw. I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US. And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression. I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.

>I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror. If October 7th is an "insane horror", what words will suffice to describe the decades of far worse crimes committed by Israel? Considering the scale of suffering caused by this conflict, October 7th was just a small blip.

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Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by tw04 » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

udioron wrote: post #485

I believe this is related for Iran's decades old calls for "Death to America"/"Death to Israel".

I believe that’s related to Israel’s genocide of Palestinian children and America’s unending unconditional support of the same.

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by izietto » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

alex_low wrote: post #382

I'm surprised this has not been mentioned, for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Maybe because nobody believes in the "exporting democracy" excuse anymore

Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

nerdyadventurer wrote: post #323

apexalpha wrote: post #211

While I have no love for the Iranian regime I fear this will end up like the 'liberation' of Iraq: A massive power vacuum in an unstable Islamic regime. What even is the plan here if the air assault fails? Boots on the ground? In Iran?

> While I have no love for the Iranian regime Who say US is not regime? It is the world largest regime in the world, with bidders in every country to do their bidding, mass surveillance including their own country men. People blame only Russia, China, Iran etc when US have been doing the same for years. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w6_2Ul3Ght8

> Who say US is not regime?

Who says it isn't? Regime literally means a system of government [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime#Usage