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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because I've seen the key facts corroborated from 2 other sources already before reading this article. From news sources that specialize in the Iran war.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ok so is there a link to these more reliable articles? Because I have not seen anything else.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Those were not articles, and for that reason can't be posted here.
One source I think was Jake Broe on Youtube a military analyst, and I think the other was an interview with Jiang Xueqin. A professor in game theory, who predicted that Trump would start a war against Iran 2 years ago, and also predicted that USA would lose, which they in many ways are.
One thing is that these are not mainstream outlets, and sometimes such details can only be learned, from sources that go in depth with specific issues.
The story in daily mail is not so much reporting on the news from Dubai, but more reporting on something that happened to British people living abroad. But the story still has value, despite it's a different angle.

If you make a search for it, you will find hundreds of results on the issue, but it hasn't reached major outlets yet, maybe because Trump has threatened media with penalties for reporting anything negative from the war, and calls it treason!?! So it is not without risk reporting this by a major channel in USA. Also Ellison an insane Nazi family controls a lot of American media.