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US Military says 3 service members have been killed
- frob 7mo ago[flagged]
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- mcmcmc 7mo agoIs it heroic to join the military to pay for school/stay out of jail/escape poverty, and then die because the pedophile president of your country unilaterally decided to begin a bombing campaign against a sovereign nation? And then get unlucky enough to be in the path of retaliation? That’s not heroism. It’s waste. Their lives were wasted by the MAGA cult, just like the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians and children who are dying to our bombs.
- nailer 7mo ago[flagged]
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- rayiner 7mo ago[flagged]
- swarnie 7mo agoSovereign countries that dont expect to be bombed? 51.50682730317355, -1.964190908830932 51.163248703261374, -1.7644273386532592 50.79917462916731, -1.1036180056831038
- mothballed 7mo agoI've lived in several midwest towns that have military (usually national guard) bases embedded in residential areas, maybe the school a bit further.
- pjc50 7mo agoThere's several buildings in Edinburgh that have designation "military base" (mostly Territorial Army) and are within a few hundred yards of a school or nursery. Probably the same in many cities. It's up to the people with bombs not to bomb schools.
- kgwxd 7mo agoIt would be a deterrent for people with a soul. The current people are all over the Epstein files, and love genocide so, bonus!
- rayiner 7mo ago> all over the Epstein files I’ve been too busy to read them, can you point me to what you think the smoking gun is?
- croon 7mo ago38k mentions in the released files. 3M files not released (among which for example [0]). We all know why. [0] https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-t...
- rayiner 7mo agoYeah, Epstein (like a lot of people) was obsessed with Trump, who was the President at the time. But what’s the smoking gun? It seems like if there was one that would be your lede.
- croon 7mo agoYou're snart. You can figure out why those 3M files they were legally required to release weren't released. Also, the article specifically mentions thks.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoThe US does. I live near a base and there's a votech high school on the same property that nukes are transported to/from. During the Cold War, the US government even had maps of potential Soviet ICBM targets and there's a nice dot here where hundreds of thousands live. The US knew the risk but put bases and nukes smack in the middle of that anyway.
- Jtsummers 7mo agoThe US puts elementary schools on military bases. Does that surprise you as well? It shouldn't, it's been the norm since before you were even born.
- c0nducktr 7mo agoBringing out the classics huh?
- frob 7mo ago[flagged]
- dang 7mo agoYou can't celebrate people's deaths like this on HN, and it's shocking to see. I feel ashamed of HN when I see things like this. I can't believe you did it, and my first response was to ban the account. After a minute, I reconsidered, especially after I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930988 (an excellent post) and realized that your account has been around for over 10 years. I've unbanned it now. Please don't post like this to HN again. The same, of course, goes for any other account, regardless of political angle. Also, please don't use HN primarily for political/ideological battle—again, regardless of which politics you're for or against. A certain amount of political overlap is necessary and inevitable, but when an account crosses into primarily doing that, it's basically the line at which we ban it (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- frob 7mo ago[flagged]
- keeda 7mo ago> Cry no tears for the slaughter of imperial troops This comment from the same account above is dead so can't reply to it, but you must understand that the troops themselves do NOT want this. They are not clones genetically engineered for war. A very large fraction of them have been effectively conscripted due to economic pressures and lack of other opportunities. As a data point, I happened to have a couple of brief but very candid conversations with students in the ROTC program just as the Afghanistan war had broken out. Their chances of getting deployed to the frontlines after graduation were suddenly spiking. Despite each conversation being very fleeting, each of them expressed consternation of their prospects and some regret at signing up just for the chance to get a free college education. They all acknowleged that they knew the risks when signing up, of course, but they had taken the chance at a time when the country was not mobilizing for war.
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- mothballed 7mo agoThe US is not a democracy. The majority did not want this war. Though the majority will help bear the costs, and several family members will grieve dearly for the sacrifice of entertaining some brutal geopolitics that do not serve America first.
- repeekad 7mo agoAmerica is a democratic republic, not a direct democracy. The only restriction is the president can’t declare war, only congress can do that. They are pretending these strikes are “preemptive” in response to a nuclear bomb being developed, just like the “emergency” that was declared to enact the tariffs. It’s all illegal
- mothballed 7mo agoIf it were a democratic republic, as you say, the representatives would have to vote on war. Representatives would also have to vote before 190,000 pages of CFRs are created by unelected bureaucrats and then enforced as if they were law (sometimes, by the exact same bureaucrats that write the rules they enforce as law [ATF for example]). Most of what people think they know about this country is a facade. They are living on lies, confirmed to them through the legitimization of a SCOTUS that lies to your very eyes about what the constitution says, so that people don't rebel when a politician tells them peace is war and love is hate.
- cr125rider 7mo agoWhen is the last war congress officially declared?
- rjbwork 7mo agoWW2
- jopython 7mo agoThe United States is a Constitutional Republic.
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- hypeatei 7mo agoThis war is completely on Trump since he didn't get Congress' approval or even justify it to the American public. I wonder if the "no new wars" voters will condemn him?
- nailer 7mo agoThe Iranian regime funded Hamas that started the last major war and the regime was responsible for the mass slaughter 30 to 40,000 people a few weeks ago.
- hypeatei 7mo agoThe campaign promises from Trump were "no new wars" and "America First" along with a bunch rhetoric saying that his political opponents were war mongers. What do Hamas or Iran protestors have to do with America? I agree that it's bad but you have to admit that it goes against literally all the "peace" talk that MAGAs were pushing.
- nailer 7mo ago[flagged]
- hypeatei 7mo agoSince when do American deaths (in an attack that happened 2+ years ago mind you) mean you can unilaterally go to war with an entire country? > and Iran constantly threatens to hit America (and about everyone else) with nuclear weapons Okay, but he campaigned as the peace ticket so presumably he'd be able to figure that out without resorting to military action, no? Obama managed to work out a deal with them (that Trump then tore to pieces in 2018)
- nailer 7mo ago[flagged]
- lukan 7mo agoWow, browsing the comments with showdead=1 gives me the highest ratio of flagged vs normal comments ever. Surprised the whole thread is not flagged, yet. I mean, can we expect that more insights come out of this?
- gruez 7mo ago>I mean, can we expect that more insights come out of this? No, because all the points for/against the attacks have already been argued to death in the first thread, and both sides' argument don't hinge on whether there are deaths or not, so this bit of news doesn't really make a difference.
- appreciatorBus 7mo ago[flagged]
- AlecSchueler 7mo ago> So tired of the idea that HN trying to stay relatively clear of politics is some great loss when every Israel Palestine submission that makes it through is just... Honestly I don't mind not talking about those things here but it gets ridiculous when there's directly tech related stuff being flagged because it touches on politics, like the whole DOGE saga for example.
- blululu 7mo agoIt is pretty hard to have a calm discussion about the outbreak of war. War is awful. People will suffer, people will die. Being angry is an appropriate response. The article is just a list of the ap wire briefs, so it does not tell us very much.
- spwa4 7mo ago... and all the AI bots immediately jump on anything slightly political.
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- znnajdla 7mo agoOne massive risk that I don’t hear anyone in the West talking about is the risk of giving Sunni populist rage over Gaza the spark it needs to overthrow US-aligned partners all over the Middle East. This could backfire really badly for Israel and the US if they suddenly lose all of their friends in high places in these countries. 98% of the non-elite Sunnis all over the world are enraged at Israel over Gaza. All of the surrounding countries (Egypt, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia) currently employ brutal authoritarian methods to suppress any pro-Palestinian sentiment beyond thoughts and prayers. If the regimes fall, all hell will break loose, and all of the hate will be directed towards Israel.
- zht 7mo agoWhy would Iran, a Shia majority country being attacked, enrage the Sunni countries?
- srean 7mo agoAs long as divide and rule is employed it won't.
- halJordan 7mo agoYou mean all those countries that have us troops and massive amounts of us support? That have systematically for decades dismantled any pan-arab or pan-islamic unity? Come on. Israel might be the most high profile US partner. But they are far from the only one.
- duxup 7mo agohttps://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/255784560904773633?s=46 https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/255784560904773633?s=46