An Al Jazeera crew filmed bunker-busting bombs being loaded onto US military planes at a UK military base.
  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    146·
    1 month ago

    The US government can not be trusted. The UK government can not be trusted. The Iranian government can not be trusted. The Israeli government can not be trusted.

    I think I am starting to see a pattern.

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    1 month ago

    I thought the UK wasn’t going to be complicit in this illegal US/Israeli mass murder campaign?? I thought they denied access to their bases for this. Guess not.

    • Bieren@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      The planes are just transporting the bombs. The uk is fine with that. If they accidentally fall on a school in Iran it’s not their fault.

      • berg@lemmy.zipEnglish
        17·
        1 month ago

        Dozens of countries host US military bases. While currently unlikely, the individual host nations could absolutely forcefully overtake or otherwise expel the bases within their borders while the US flounders about in Iran.

        The US has just shown it can’t protect it’s bases, and their presence only invites more conflict.

        • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          True and that would deal with a lot of infantry and logistical folks, but spin up a fist of retribution that would literally turn cities to rubble and fuck up naval traffic forever

          That’s a Lancer in the article, the B1 was first flown in 1986 and is still fully capable of dropping literal tons of explosives anywhere on the globe within hours. We’re still using Cold War tech that works but think about how much DARPA have built since then…the only thing that can kill the US military is the US military, there’s just gonna be a lot of collateral damage

          • tackleberry@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            These bombers can only fly when the target nation has depleted air defence. Take Iran for example, the only reason the US government was able to drop bombs at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow in June, 2025 was because the Israelis has damaged the Iranian air defence network. If those systems were still intact, those bombers would become a very expensive firework display, even more colorful than the ones we see during festivals.

            All I am saying is every nation has a right to defend themselves, and if you can not, you will be bombed to smithereens. The winners get to tell the rest of the world your story…like Japan and Germany.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        I don’t understand the downvotes, you are absolutely correct. No one nation would be capable of targeting every US military base in other countries.

        • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          It’s not about targeting the whole thing it’s about targeting links in the chain. If you took down 1-2 links in the chain the frontlines are impacted.

      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Iran is literally bombing US military bases. Like, right now.

        I get you think America is the greatest country in the world, but your people are literally being bombed as we speak.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Fun fact, that’s a 1980s era bomber being loaded and is still flying just fine. We haven’t even started with the robot dogs yet so the WW is gonna get waaay worse before…whatever is next

  • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    So they’re just loading the bombers right by the fence where journalists can see? Probably an order from Trump to stir up things up because the UK said they couldn’t launch attacks from the UK.

  • FE80@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    Poking around an ADSB tracking site will very quickly illustrate the flight path of the logistics chain to the middle east, as well as the European bases passed through along the way.