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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    11 hours ago

    The silver lining is that this will accelerate the decline of the US Empire which in turn will weaken Israel. Although this will be too late for the millions who have been or are still to be killed because of these psychopathic regimes.

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      2 hours ago

      The silver lining is that this will accelerate the decline of the US Empire

      But not without a tremendous loss of life.

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      10 hours ago

      Israel is a project, literary run by people not their in the first place, so even if US Empire collapse they will move their money to the next dominant power.

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        9 hours ago

        I don’t think China gives a shit about Zionism. There’s no natural pool of evangelical Christians to brainwash.

        China is self-sufficient and has advanced military tech that is at least equivalent to what the US has. Israel has nothing to offer it besides localised spying or murdering people.

        Russia is a possibility but it has always found common cause with the Arab nations and Iran so wouldnt be as reliable. It’s also not as powerful.

        The US is the only sugar daddy for this parasitic colony.

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            2 hours ago

            True. It does not have the warmongering malign ambitions that settler colonial states like the US and Israel have.