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Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an "unprecedented mass deployment" to Europe.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Oh good. They're just fueling speculation and not any war machines. ^/s^

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So NOW they want to have bases in Europe?

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[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Early 2000's era nostalgia goin real hard

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ueah. Yeah its pretty fucked.

The shitty thing is: this mother fucker woild love iranian culture. It's super good at all the shit he fakes like gold plated shit.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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

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[–] catty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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)

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