r/MapPorn 5d ago

"First wave" of rocket alerts in Israel. Rockets were sent directly from Iran.

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u/Top_Ladder6702 5d ago

This is a map of where air raid alerts are going off, not where rockets are hitting, it comes from the BBC

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u/twelfthmoose 5d ago

Thanks for clarifying. NYT has reported 180 missiles. This is way too many for that

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u/PC_gamer_662 5d ago edited 4d ago

This is because when cruise missiles are intercepted the debries trigger another alert as every fragment is still deadly even if its "just" metal falling from the sky at terminal velocity. So 180 becomes 1800.

Edit: for those of you that says its the sirens and not the debris, 180 missiles by themselves wouldnt trigger sirens covering the whole country.

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u/JaySierra86 4d ago

These were ballistic missiles, not the cruise type.

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u/BenderIsGreat64 4d ago

Aren't they bigger? Shouldn't that mean more debris?

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u/schoh99 4d ago

"Ballistic" simply tells us that they follow a parabolic trajectory (as opposed to a cruise missile which follows a flat trajectory). It says nothing about the size of the payload or of the size of the missile body itself.

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u/YebelTheRebel 4d ago

Kinda like when I wake up in the middle of the night and I have to piss. Sometimes it’s a “cruise piss” and sometimes a “ballistic piss” which I hate

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u/Croemato 4d ago

And sometimes it's a "hellfire R9X" piss, which is the worst

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 4d ago

I wish it was a "guided piss" ... then I wouldn't have to turn the lights on.

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u/Scrambled1432 4d ago

See this is what I'm saying -- we need to embrace bionics as humanity. Laser guided/automatic peeing, metal feet you can stand on for ours, padded butts so everything is comfortable. We could be so much more!

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u/HypersonicHobo 4d ago

Generally even the smallest ballistic missiles are the size of larger cruise missiles, and the vast majority are significantly larger.

Cruise missiles get by on jet engines, ballistic missiles have to throw themselves pretty high up there on rocket propellant so they weigh a whole lot.

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u/JaySierra86 4d ago

They hit the ground...yes there will a shit ton of debris.

This article has pictures of some blast damage from the Jan 8th, 2020 Iranian Missile Attack on Al Asad Airbase in Iraq.

I was on that base when it happened. I have pictures of a crater one left just a few hundred meters from where I was sleeping that night.

Veterans of Army medical unit open up about toll of 2020 Iranian missile attack | Stars and Stripes

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u/Toxopsoides 5d ago

It's also not map porn lol — no self-respecting cartographer would use that symbology to represent this information. There's zero context visible below the sea of overlapping symbols.

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u/plsletmestayincanada 4d ago

Is this sub for actually good maps? I'm a GIS professional and I have yet to see a single submission I'd feel comfortable putting my name on and turning in to my boss haha

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u/ThanksYo 4d ago

This sub hasn't been for actual map porn since pre-2020. It's been a joke since then and would have more respect as a full-fledged meme sub as this point.

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u/TA1699 4d ago

This is honestly true for pretty much any and every sub with 100k+ members. Just full of mediocre posts, shit-tier jokes and a mountain of misinformation.

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u/Whiterabbit-- 4d ago

that is why is artistic. they are not trying to show the details of the missile attacks, they are showing that all of israel is under attack. /s

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u/wha210 5d ago

Why is mapporn my source of world news

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u/a_guy_named_rick 5d ago

Mine was r/combatfootage. Shit looks insane

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u/chikkynuggythe4th 5d ago

Nah r/NonCredibleDefense and r/NonCredibleOffense are peak news sources, they will somehow make a meme about it before most news sites make an article

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u/wastingvaluelesstime 5d ago

NCD is faster than journalism since journalist need a second source out in the world and NCD can get second and third sources right inside their own head for faster turnaround

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u/Papaofmonsters 4d ago

In defense of NCD, the also have people on the directly in conflict areas that post to that sub.

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u/wastingvaluelesstime 4d ago

just gotta have an intuition for reading that venn diagram between the two constituencies.

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u/Ok-Goose6242 5d ago

Wow. Ive known about NCd since long, but I never knew that there existed non credible offense.

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u/Intelligent_League_1 5d ago

There is like a shit ton of Non Credible _________ pages. Non Credible Diplomicay also exists

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u/toe-schlooper 5d ago

Noncredible economics also exists

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u/Marine_Mustang 4d ago

Isn’t that just /r/wallstreetbets?

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u/kytheon 5d ago

Why is it called NonCredible? I have no desire to visit the sub.

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u/_Lil_Cranky_ 5d ago

There's a subreddit called CredibleDefense which is highly moderated, and very serious.

NonCredibleDefense is a subreddit that has a similar focus on military shit, but with vastly lower standards.

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u/kytheon 5d ago

So a bit of a circlejerk variant?

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u/The3rdBert 4d ago

Not really. There is certainly some jerking and lots of insider jokes, but there is some actual discussion about current defense and military issues.

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u/27Rench27 4d ago

Yup. If you can get past the trolling, you’ll generally find better military-oriented discussion there than on most actual news-related subs

To make the best shitposts, you have to actually be informed enough to know why what you’re making/saying is a shitpost. Otherwise you just look stupid

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u/ArseneGroup 5d ago

Cause it's a joke sub where they come up with ridiculous military strategies and memes but the humor is pretty well informed

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u/ExtraPockets 4d ago

It's strange how it became one of the most sane places on Reddit for news reaction. I have no interest in war and don't know much about weapons and military strategy but I've found that sub strangely compelling through the Russia vs Ukraine war and the Israel vs the Middle East war.

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u/Madbrad200 4d ago

reddit used to be a lot better in this regard. r/geopolitics used to be a place for intelligent discussion (Now it's mostly just a cess pit about India And China) and r/worldnews used to be a pit but at least had decent coverage of world events (it seems to miss a lot or be slow thesedays).

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u/OneRougeRogue 4d ago edited 4d ago

Because "experts" think a plan to destroy the Three Gorges Dam by strapping a GAU-8 to the nose of the Space Shuttle nose and slamming it into the dam at 15 times the speed of sound is not a credible idea.

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u/Ok-Maintenance-2775 4d ago

It's certainly a credible idea. There are better ones, but I reckon that'd work. 

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u/Muad-_-Dib 4d ago

There are better ones

Are you factoring in the rule of cool?

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u/thissexypoptart 5d ago

Yikes it’s like 30 posts in the last couple of hours. That is wild

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u/geofox777 5d ago

Used to be combat footage but it’s been overrun but extremists and political bias

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u/LucySatDown 5d ago

I mean what do you expect from people who causally watch footage of people dying. I visited a while ago and was disturbed by how many people were cheering on death and destruction because "they're the bad guys." Even though I wouldn't doubt that a significant portion of both groups have no choice in being there in the first place. It's all just puppeteering by those in power who see them as numbers on a spreadsheet.

Just sad to me. I value all human life, not just those I agree with.

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u/Inevitable_Seaweed_5 5d ago

Watching people publicly cheer over death and dismemberment is fucking insane. Especially when these people were adults. I watched plenty of shock and snuff content back in the heyday of /b/, but even then,  it wasn't celebratory, it was shock, curiosity, and that inability to look away. I tried watching a single post on combat footage last year and had to nope out as soon as I touched the comments. 

How can you celebrate someone who is likely a teenager or early 20's person, with their whole life's potential still ahead of them, die in terror as they crawl away from a fucking hunter drone that has an explosive package just for them? How do you get to the point of dehumanizing someone so much that you feel satisfaction watching someone plead for mercy from a death that cannot hear them, or even take their OWN life, rather than wait for the inevitable but unknown of that death which comes for them? 

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u/MonkeyPawWishes 5d ago

How do you get to the point of dehumanizing someone so much that you feel satisfaction watching someone plead for mercy from a death

Unfortunately, history teaches us that almost everyone is a couple bad experiences and some peer pressure away from cheering while people die. The answer to "how do you get to that point" is unfortunately "very easily".

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u/Darkdragoon324 5d ago

I don’t understand how anyone can stand to watch more than once after the initial adolescent curiosity view.

I listened to a single recording of a 911 call from someone trapped one of the twin towers just before it fell, it still bothers me to this day, and I can’t imagine ever willingly listening to or watching another human being’s death again.

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u/SeasonGeneral777 5d ago

I value all human life, not just those I agree with.

its easy to type bad shit like cheering loss of life, people do it to make the "other side" angry, its not guaranteed that they actually believe it. people will say all kinds of stuff on the internet, including things they dont really believe.

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u/Down_The_Glen 5d ago

You remember last year when a Russian person with absolutely no connection to the Russian military got killed by a shark while on holiday or when that Russian girl survived a missile from Ukraine but her mom and dad died.

The nafo crowd or whatever it is the people from those subs call themselves were actively celebrating both. tbf, they were sad about the girl. but they were sad that she wasn't killed too.

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u/un_gaucho_loco 5d ago

yeah not like this sub lmao

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u/nekonight 5d ago

This sub agrees with me so it's not biased. 

This sub does not agree with me so it's biased.

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u/Porkchops_on_My_Face 5d ago

This is a map of air raid sirens, not missile impacts.

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u/Accomplished-Gift421 5d ago

I'm living in jordan. My house shaking and hearing distant explosions was my news source😂

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u/misterdonjoe 5d ago

Because you don't watch television and cable news networks. First it was the radio, then it was television, now it's the internet.

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u/jmorlin 5d ago

I mean this is quite literally currently happening. The all clear notice (for the first wave at least) was goven like 30 minutes ago. It's understandable that people aren't constantly glued to CNN or whatever. In fact if they were I'd call it unhealthy.

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u/themitchster300 5d ago

AP News has been covering this since yesterday with live updates sometimes minutes apart. This is also locations of air raid sirens. There's no reliable source talking about damage yet. Stop trying to get news from Reddit...

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u/EdliA 5d ago

Because Reddit has been taken over and turned to shit. It's wild how no one is talking about it on r/all. They're being moderated.

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u/Shekel_Hadash 5d ago

Mine is usually r/noncredibledefence

But this time it was an emergency message on my phone

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u/tryanothermybrother 5d ago

Because news feeds itself into channels that aren’t saturated with them, which people usually seek out because fuck that depressing shit, and so here we are.

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u/fartsir 5d ago

Literally was at top of my front page

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u/AmaTxGuy 5d ago edited 5d ago

News just reported massive missle attack on Israel from Iran

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u/TheDestressedMale 5d ago

At this time of night???

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u/reddit_noob125 5d ago

located entirely within the country of Israel?

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u/PantyHamster 5d ago

May I see it?

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u/Eric848448 5d ago

.. no

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u/AlmightyQBert 5d ago

SEYMOUR! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

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u/PierreEscargoat 5d ago edited 4d ago

No mother - it’s just the ayatollah.

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u/SkeymourSinner 5d ago

Can I see this...Ayatollah?

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u/violetvoid513 5d ago

Profile pic doesnt check out

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u/ReluctantRedditor275 5d ago

Ass-a-hole-ah

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u/LuckyReception6701 5d ago

Well Seymour, you are an odd fellow but I must say, you incite a good war.

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u/gitartruls01 5d ago

No, mother, it's just the Iranian missiles

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u/AngstyRutabaga 5d ago

Was NOT expecting this to be the first thing I read in this comment section.

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u/XZeeR 5d ago

Woke me up from a relaxing nap! I am in Amman, Jordan, and few rockets were intercepted above my house directly, which shock the house.

Also, the map doesn't show rockets which fell inside Jordan, Such as Salt, Sahab (in Amman), and Ma'in.

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u/planecrashes911 5d ago

Ok but the PSN servers are intermittent. One crisis at a time guys

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u/wheatbread-and-toes 5d ago

wait are they seriously still down lmfao

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u/HalJordan2424 5d ago

This really gives Israel an excuse to destroy Iran’s nuclear research sites and set back their atomic bomb program.

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u/san_murezzan 5d ago

That’s a lot of pins

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u/Shekel_Hadash 5d ago

1864 to be exact

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u/Shockedge 5d ago

General Lee has entered the chat

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u/FutureComplaint 5d ago

General Grant has entered the chat

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u/tyboluck 5d ago

General Lee has left the chat

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u/Comrade-Conquistador 5d ago

General Sherman has burned down part of the chat

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u/pezgoon 5d ago

Should’ve gone all the way to the servers

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u/johnny_ringo 5d ago

people are confusing alerts with rockets

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u/SnooOpinions5486 5d ago

So how long till next week when we get a list of sites in Iran that "mysteriously exploded" for "unknown" reasons

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u/Mountbatten-Ottawa 5d ago edited 5d ago

Israel just entered Lebanon to fight hezbollah. With current situation, Bibi might go into Iran.

Then Russia and Iran will have proxy wars with US allies. Needless to say what will Xi do. His peer will push him very hard to join the party.

Nothing ever happens my ass, man. We gonna have a paradox game and alt history youtubers solely dedicated to this decade.

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u/Mr_friend_ 5d ago

One thing is for sure, China doesn't wage wars with people because it doesn't have to. No matter how all this shakes out, China plays no role.

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u/NedLuddIII 4d ago

Right, China sits from the sidelines and maybe takes a bit of profit while watching their opponents weaken themselves by getting involved in unpopular and unnecessary wars that ruin their economy. And then when all the dust settles, guess who still has money to hand out loans.

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u/Mr_friend_ 4d ago

Well here's a differing perspective, and I'll say it's at least anecdotal. My friend is a Chinese-American scholar and she said though it's taboo to talk about it, much of China is still Buddhist internally. They will seek any alternative before war. I don't know how much of that is true, but there are surprisingly few direct engagements in war in their history for as old as they are.

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u/Ok-Case9095 5d ago

No way Israel can afford a ground war in Iran.

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u/DankMemesNQuickNuts 5d ago

I feel like this is a part of the equation a lot of people are completely missing

Financially I don't think the Israeli government could fund an invasion of Iran without sending the economy into a death spiral.

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u/SebVettelstappen 5d ago

How do they even invade? They gonna drive thousands of troops through Jordan And Iraq? I doubt so.

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u/guitar_stonks 4d ago

You don’t think Iraq would be a bro and let them? /s

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u/SebVettelstappen 4d ago

They’ll make a yellow brick road for the Israelis to follow with a celebration at the iraq-iran border

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u/Ok-Case9095 5d ago

They do not have the treasure, material least of all people. Reddit is full of biased arm chair critics.

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u/Mean-championship915 5d ago

they are planning on having America pay for it

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u/Graffiti347 5d ago

The US accounts for about 15% of the Israeli military budget so probably not enough to cover it. Also the logistical difficulties make an actual war between Iran and Israel nearly impossible since they lack a land border and have several countries opposed to both in between them.

More likely situation is that a proxy war in Lebanon breaks out.

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u/Mean-championship915 5d ago

We accounted for 15% of their military budget before October 7th. Would love to know what that number is now

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u/SexyMonad 5d ago

The US accounts for about 15% of the Israeli military budget …

for now.

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u/PyroGamer666 5d ago

I'm ready to buy Paradox Interactive's future game "End of History: 1989-2029", releasing in 2090. The early game is like Victoria, the late game is like Hearts of Iron.

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u/Mountbatten-Ottawa 5d ago

The true challenge of 'end of history' began in 2008, when Putin attacked Georgia. Bin Laden did not challenge US hegemony, the 3 members of the new axis did it. A story between 2008 and 2028 will be fire, it will include Russian-Georgian wars and 2 wars between Russia and Ukraine, also there will be major Syrian civil war between 2011 and 2020 with that whole ISIS jumpscare.

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u/geraldodelriviera 5d ago

ISIS will have a "Rise of the New Caliphate" history bookmark.

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u/nonamer18 5d ago

Needless to say? What Xi/China will do is almost surely nothing. If they do indeed join the party as you say then it would be a huge break in the status quo and upend so much of what China has been building towards. Opinions within China, while mostly sympathetic to the Palestinians, definitely do not point towards support for joining a war. Needless is a ridiculous word to use here.

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u/Knifeducky 5d ago

were going to have paradox gamers and alt hist YouTubers focus on this decade

Nah man, us paradox gamers are writing the script the rest of the world follows now. Get in the clown car! It’s small but we can fit many people!

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u/gilad_ironi 5d ago

I think Russia is way too occupied with Ukraine to fight in Israel.

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u/Scoots1721 5d ago

Damn. And on Jimmy Carter’s birthday?

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u/CountDankula_69 5d ago

The real tragedy here /s

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u/yinzdeliverydriver 5d ago

I was watching live on TV before it started and damn

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u/chyprioteee 4d ago

Gotta flex - we watched the missiles in flight in real time in Cyprus. Not a day goes by without a crisis around here.

I thought I became completely desensitised to the idea destruction but my 2nd-hand war trauma from 1974 Cyprus triggered a rush of adrenaline causing a lot of unease in my mind as we watched them rain from left to right.

I felt relieved that we didn't actually feel any tremors or heard any explosions. I can't afford a brand new war trauma, no thanks.

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u/Waldo_Wadlo 5d ago edited 5d ago

Here is a video of missiles making their way into Israel.

Here is another video seems like Iron Dome is down.

Edit: as pointed out below Iron Dome would not have intercepted these.

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u/jtj5002 5d ago

Iron Dome doesn't shoot down ballistic missiles.

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u/Waldo_Wadlo 5d ago

Oh, my mistake on that then. David's Sling is the system for that?

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u/jtj5002 5d ago

Yes, that and arrows

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u/MajorUranus 5d ago

Arrows feel a bit dated, but if it works it works

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u/JoeRogansNipple 5d ago

"not available in your country" unfortunately

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u/Waldo_Wadlo 5d ago

Sorry if you can access Instagram look up atlas.new3

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u/youngfungustine 5d ago

I live in Canada and the news is censored on instagram unfortunately.

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u/geofox777 5d ago

I read you can’t change out your fluorescent light bulb ballasts without being a licensed electrician

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u/youngfungustine 5d ago

I believe this is technically true.

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u/fancy-kitten 5d ago

That's.... a lot of missiles

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u/Professional-Media-4 5d ago

Holy shit. This war just escalated badly.

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u/SkizzyBeanZ 5d ago

Terrifying

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u/gxdsavesispend 5d ago edited 5d ago

They fired a surprising amount of rockets into the West Bank (near Palestinian-only cities like Nablus)

https://imgur.com/a/09ZjyBv

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u/RogerPentest 5d ago

They killed one Palestinian

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u/gxdsavesispend 5d ago edited 5d ago

Iran is such a joke. Last time they fired at Israel they critically injured a Palestinian child. The only casualty.

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u/sababalla 5d ago edited 4d ago

No, they severely injured one Bedouin child, who is not Palestinian and lived

Edit: Read the thread and stop pinging me. He edited the comment which originally said "killed" jfc you people

Don't spread fake news

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u/motownmods 4d ago

"Casualty" in military vernacular includes more than those that died. It includes wounded, POWs, etc

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u/CBpegasus 5d ago

They don't really care about Palestinians. Hizballah also fired into Samaria a few days ago

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u/gxdsavesispend 5d ago

Yeah. The only place they didn't fire at is Gaza.

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u/TrineonX 5d ago

There were no missile alerts for Gaza.

Do you think that Israel is issuing missile alerts to Gaza?

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u/Vike92 5d ago

Iran only care about their allies/puppets, Hamas and Hisbollah

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u/Dexterus 5d ago

I wouldn't put Hamas in the list of "Iran cares about ..." lol. They only acted after Lebanon, the pagers and their spies being led by a Mossad agent.

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u/SassyWookie 5d ago

“Cares about” is inaccurate language. They don’t care about Hamas, but Hamas does provide value to Iran, so it’s sensible that they’d want to protect that investment where possible.

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u/1overcosc 5d ago

Hezbollah also fired a rocket at a Syrian Druze village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and killed a bunch of ethnically Syrian kids.

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u/CinnamonHotcake 5d ago

Hezbollah has a record of killing Syrians. A lot celebrated when Nasrallah died.

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u/spenwallce 5d ago

Multiple rockets also hit Jordan

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u/CrashTestOrphan 5d ago

They don't view the PA/Fatah as legitimate due to their collaborationist posture

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u/DialSquare96 5d ago

Can't the Palestinians catch a break for one damn day?

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u/illit1 5d ago

palestine is up there for one of the worst places to be born/have been born. there's so little hope of it ever getting better and they have no ability to affect change over their own circumstances.

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u/Reloaded_M-F-ER 5d ago

That was pretty quick

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u/SillyWoodpecker6508 5d ago

That's why war is so scary today. It can just "happen"

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u/BroSchrednei 5d ago

I mean... people have been warning for months that Iran and Israel are heading towards war if Israel doesn't stop escalating the situation. It didn't just happen.

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u/2muchnerd 5d ago

When you get to fucking Netanya, Kfar Yona, Tzoran and Tel Mond you know shit is real

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u/Melkor_Thalion 5d ago

Hezbollah fired on Netanyah, 2 days later Nassrallah was killed. Khamenei is fucked.

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u/baryoG 4d ago

How is this map porn? Each indicator takes up like 5% of the whole area of the country. The only information you can get from this is "there's a lot of alarms" and not much more.

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u/JaySierra86 4d ago

Not rockets. Ballistic Missiles...way fucking different. I was on the receiving end of Iranian Ballistic Missiles in Iraq back in 2020. They hit way harder than a rocket.

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u/ranchspidey 5d ago

Remind me why everyone’s killing each other again? I feel like maybe everyone should stop killing each other.

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u/Abestar909 5d ago

Well you see In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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u/Sardanapalooza 5d ago

TLDR: Iran supports groups in Yemen (Houthis), Gaza (Hamas), and Lebanon (Hezbollah). Last October Hamas invaded Israel, killed more Jewish people in a single day than any day since the Holocaust, and now the Israelis are like America was after 9/11.

Israel has been attacking Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and so Hezbollah (by order of Iran) has been attacking Israel. Israel recently found that one of their spy measures (their pagers) was going to be discovered, so it was use it or lose it. They decided to use it, and are combining it with attacks to take out Hezbollah. They’ve been remarkably effective but now Iran is wanting to attack back as their militia got hurt.

The left is upset that civilians are dying but isn’t proposing legitimate off ramps to stop it. The right is supportive of Israel defending itself but isn’t taking any steps to curb Israel from its worse impulses elsewhere (i.e. the West Bank, acknowledging Netanyahu will escalate to save his political career).

Most folks are apprehensive of this escalating into world war 3, but also everyone has some sympathies for one side (some poor souls have sympathies for both, which is very painful to experience) which makes people choose a side and defend it when they escalate.

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u/TilikumHungry 5d ago

Honestly one of the sanest and best summations of this current conflict

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u/Existing_Presence_69 5d ago

Israel has been attacking Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and so Hezbollah (by order of Iran) has been attacking Israel.

Minor nitpick with your rundown: Hezbollah started firing rockets at Israel on October 8th last year in solidarity with the Hamas attack on Oct 7th. Saying that it was in response to Israel's war on Gaza doesn't reflect the actual sequence of events.

Besides that, pretty spot-on summary.

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u/gwhh 5d ago

News just said. Israel was hit by over 200 Iranian missiles so far.

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u/twinnedcalcite 5d ago

A hot spot map would have been a better choice then large red location indicator.

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u/Dick-Fu 4d ago

Yeah this is a pretty poor post for this sub tbh, but is doing well for obvious reasons

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u/Least_Gain5147 4d ago

Smaller pin markers, please.

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u/mfsnyder1985 5d ago

I just hope both sides have fun

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u/SillyWoodpecker6508 5d ago

I just hope nobody else joins...

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u/HourBlueberry5833 5d ago

They're bombing Jerusalem? Isn't the population of Jersusalem 40% Palestinian?

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u/GalenWestonsSmugMug 5d ago

This is the alerts not the targets. Israel alerts when interceptions take place over head because of the falling debris.

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u/bctg1 5d ago

Implying Iran ever gave a fuck about Palestinians

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u/TJJustice 5d ago

In Iran’s eyes, they are just millions of pawns to be sacrificed

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u/ComfortingCatcaller 5d ago edited 5d ago

No Middle-Eastern state does

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u/discreetjoe2 5d ago

Iran has never cared about Palestinians.

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u/Flickr_Bean 5d ago

Palestinians are Sunni. Iranians are Shiite.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Also Palestinians are Arab while Iranians are Persian.

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u/Elektrycerz 5d ago

all religious fanatics are shite

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u/noaxreal 5d ago

Iran is doing this for Iran and Iran alone

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u/fuckdonaldtrump7 5d ago

No one in the middles east gives 2 fucks about Palestine. They are a pawn in a game of chess Iran is loosing.

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u/SenorCardgay 5d ago

Time to send out some more pagers

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u/asha1985 5d ago

Can Iron Dome stop these or are they of a type it's ineffective against?

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u/Simple_Magazine_3450 5d ago

No, Iron dome is not designed to intercept ballistic misiles. For that there are David׳s sling and Arrow systems.

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u/ZERO_PORTRAIT 5d ago

Iron Dome and Israel's neighbors like Jordan and maybe even Saudi Arabia will help shoot them down like they did last time. The US will help too. Most of these rockets are cheap, quantity over quality, they try to overwhelm the systems.

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u/SprinklesHuman3014 5d ago

There are no direct borders between Iran and Israel, those missiles had to go over someone else's airspace.

Not rockets, missiles. Ballistic missiles, I'm told, meaning that's for the Arrow System to intercept.

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u/launchedsquid 4d ago

Iran's proxy's have been crushed so now they've decided to come out into the open and get crushed themselves. The ayatollah will be not long for this world now he's put himself on the same target list as the former Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.

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u/DerPanzerfaust 5d ago

Title is misleading. This is where the Israeli air raid alarms are going off, NOT where the missiles have landed.

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u/psu1989 4d ago

Looks like a New England map of Dunkin Donuts locations.

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u/onetwentytwo_1-8 4d ago edited 4d ago

The people are the ones suffering…NOT the ones ordering attacks.

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People on BOTH sides are suffering.

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u/abu_hajarr 5d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/1rvC7Nuk5B

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/3Jd7RTJjZj

My guess is that Israel in the last several weeks crippled Hezbollah, literally and figuratively, between the pager bombs, as well as air strikes. With leadership and communication in shambles Hezbollah is completely disorganized and unable to defend themselves. The IDF ground operations into Lebanon are going unopposed as Hezbollah flees. This forced Iran’s hand in escalating this by bombing Israel, namely their airports, to attempt to blunt their air force for a few weeks while Hezbollah reorganizes.

I think the response will be US and Israel bombing Iranian missile sites, and military infrastructure related to the attack. I don’t think Israel is afraid of escalating this

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u/Unhelpful-Future9768 5d ago

The IDF ground operations into Lebanon are going unopposed as Hezbollah flees.

I wouldn't believe this until you can see Israeli flags flying on the Litani, or even over border towns. As far as I can tell the IDF did a few operations to take Hezbollah tunnels on the border but hasn't actually gone in in any meaningful way.

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u/skinsrich 5d ago

Why can’t these fuckers over there just get along for 5 goddamn minutes???

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u/CopiumINC 5d ago

Ayatollah must be hiding under the sea if he thinks he's safe enough to do this kind of shit.

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u/Erlik_Khan 5d ago

Homie is probably completely fine with dying if Israel is the one that kills him, after all that would make him a martyr and that's huge for Islamists.

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u/Happy_Band_4865 4d ago

The ayatollah has maybe a week to live

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u/Toonami90s 4d ago

Only death was a Palestinian

GG Iran

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u/Joonberri 4d ago

Middle East stop fighting for once challenge

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

In war, it is always innocent people like you and me who suffer. 😔

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u/TwitchyBlackVeins 3d ago

Thought it was a map of sex offenders for a second

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u/YTScale 5d ago

Man, I worked with a company based in Tel Aviv… All really great people.

During our meetings they’d occasionally just disappear from the meetings (it was because they had to take cover from missiles).

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u/AffectionateElk3978 5d ago

Are you telling me the escalation did not end up in de-escalation as we were told??? I am shocked!! SHOCKED I say!!!

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u/Petrified_Toad 4d ago

Ali Khamenei better plan on living deep underground for the rest of his life.