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Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by lm28469 »

Jensson wrote: post #66
lm28469 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That is no reason to bomb them. For you, for the new leader of Iran who just lost his dad/wife/brother/son in US strikes it might sound like a very reasonable thing to do. > That is insane and serves no purpose. How do you qualify the original attack that started the whole thing? Iran has been pretty clear about how it retaliates and escalates, they did not attack all the targets on day 1, they gradually increased…

> Well you clearly didn't read much outside of US/Israel propaganda I read every update on Aljazeera, they are very representative of the views of the middle east and aren't American or Israeli propaganda. To me it seems like it is you who only read the propaganda.

> I read every update on Aljazeera

It's a newspaper not analysts reports. Did you read one of the pro israeli op-ed by any chance, I can't find anything stating Iran is "crazy"

> Analysts say US threat of ‘no quarter’ for Iran violates international law

> The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal and goes against the interests of the American people.

> Iran war updates: Israel refinery bombed as >>> retaliatory > Iran has ratcheted up the pressure on several Gulf nations by attacking their energy facilities in >>> retaliation https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/14/analysts-say-us-thr...

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/8/we-the-american-...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/19/iran-war-l...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19/wrap-iran-ratchets-...

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by lm28469 »

Jensson wrote: post #69
lm28469 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> coups just targets leaders. This died day 1 when you bombed a fucking school and killed 168 girls. For a lot of these countries the US is a terrorist state. It doesn't matter if the explosive is strapped to a guy's chest or to a tomahawk

> This died day 1 when you bombed a fucking school and killed 168 girls I didn't bomb a school, I am not American. Americans are much more against this war than most people of the world. I know a lot of Iranians that are very happy that the regime is getting bombed.

> I know a lot of Iranians that are very happy that the regime is getting bombed.

Ask them about the electrical infrastructure, or the unis, or the research enters, or the heritage sites... How did it go in Afghanistan btw? The "democracy" was delivered and well received right?

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by lm28469 »

Jensson wrote: post #68
lm28469 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> USA has plenty of reasons to attack Yet none have been provided, remember the anthrax scam at the united nations? At least they put some efforts into it

They don't need to provide a reason, its probably related to greed etc, but greed is still a rational reason. Iran attacking their neighbors is not rational here, it just makes the middle east hate them more. I am not talking about international laws here, just the norms everyone follows in wars. Everyone breaks the international laws, but the norms of not attacking third parties etc are there for rational reasons, s…

> They don't need to provide a reason

Of course, since they did not ask for the congress approval, which is already against their own constitution. That's exactly the kind of things you do when you're a good guy doing the right thing

> but the norms of not attacking third parties etc are there for rational reasons, since you don't gain anything for doing so its just stupid and causes damage and strife and hurts you for doing it.

What norms? No wars = no rules of war, they started something they can't control anymore

They gain plenty from doing it in term of leverage, nobody attacked Iran in such way until now because it was well understood that this is exactly how it would play out

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by Someone »

snowwrestler wrote: post #33
4fterd4rk wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many of the threats to a carrier aren’t nation states with a constellation of satellites.

You can buy satellite imaging. Operationally, navies with carriers assume that opponents know where they are.

Commercial image providers can delay their images. See for example https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260310-us-satellite-...: “American firm Planet Labs PBC on Tuesday said it now imposes a two-week delay for access to its satellite images of the Middle East because of the US-Israeli war against Iran.”

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by lava_pidgeon »

paganel wrote: post #30
jandrewrogers wrote: post #23

This is a common problem across militaries. It is difficult to stop soldiers from leaking their location if they have access to mobile phones and the Internet. Individual cases are usually a combination of naïveté, ignorance, and an unwillingness to be inconvenienced. It still happens in Ukraine, where immediate risk to life and limb is much more severe than this case.

I agree with Ukraine, but only when it comes to the first two or so years of the war, by now most of those that didn’t respect those rules (I’m talking both sides) are either dead or missing some limbs. With that told, just recently the Russian MOD has started applying heavy penalties to its soldiers close to the frontlines who were still using Telegram and/or the Ukrainian mobile network (?!), so it looks like there…

TG ist another case. This is more a crackdown on the uncensored internet. My guess Ukrainians are also using TG without problems.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by ceejayoz »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #13

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> Unrelated but the UK has 2 aircraft carriers (but not enough planes, but that's for a different time). Why aren't they being deployed?

Because the UK isn't really in the war, and doesn't want to be?

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by ceejayoz »

Jensson wrote: post #66
lm28469 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That is no reason to bomb them. For you, for the new leader of Iran who just lost his dad/wife/brother/son in US strikes it might sound like a very reasonable thing to do. > That is insane and serves no purpose. How do you qualify the original attack that started the whole thing? Iran has been pretty clear about how it retaliates and escalates, they did not attack all the targets on day 1, they gradually increased…

> Well you clearly didn't read much outside of US/Israel propaganda I read every update on Aljazeera, they are very representative of the views of the middle east and aren't American or Israeli propaganda. To me it seems like it is you who only read the propaganda.

> they are very representative of the views of the middle east

Al Jazeera is primarily funded by the government of Qatar, an American ally and (currently) enemy of Iran. It reflects Qatar's views, not that of "the middle east" as a whole.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/iran-war-qatar-ras-laffan-na...

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by throwaway27448 »

paganel wrote: post #30
jandrewrogers wrote: post #23

This is a common problem across militaries. It is difficult to stop soldiers from leaking their location if they have access to mobile phones and the Internet. Individual cases are usually a combination of naïveté, ignorance, and an unwillingness to be inconvenienced. It still happens in Ukraine, where immediate risk to life and limb is much more severe than this case.

I agree with Ukraine, but only when it comes to the first two or so years of the war, by now most of those that didn’t respect those rules (I’m talking both sides) are either dead or missing some limbs. With that told, just recently the Russian MOD has started applying heavy penalties to its soldiers close to the frontlines who were still using Telegram and/or the Ukrainian mobile network (?!), so it looks like there…

It's also a morale issue. It's easier to get people to huddle in a cold and damp hole if they can play video games and watch anime.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by forty »

Jensson wrote: post #49
Maken wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is Iran anyone but Israel and USA's problem?

They fund terrorism in the countries around them, all the neighboring countries there hates Iran. That is why they aren't really angry that USA is bombing Iran.

I think they are kind of angry? At least they don't seem interested in participating despite being targeted by Iran themselves, I don't know how more they could express their disagreement with this operation than even accepting to be bombed without any reaction?
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