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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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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 39 points 10 hours ago (23 children)

Are people surprised? Republicans are war hawks even more so than the Libs.

[–] BingoBongoBang@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Dude, USA is the country that is involved in most wars - starts them / finances them / whatever. And they usually find a dummy excuse to preserve their facade of doing good.

Face the truth - you are the bully of the world and the ruling party does not matter.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 minutes ago

Who are you even replying to

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Was I ever in denial that the USA likes to play bully and world police? Let's not forget our history about the rest of the Western nations, they're hardly angels themselves. We're all the same people anyways. Actually that reminds me of a good ole George Carlin quote, "We come from that northern European, basically the northern European genes, the blue eyes. Those blue eyes. Boy everybody in the world learned real quick, didn’t they? When those blue eyes sail out of the north, you better nail everything down motherfucker."

[–] BingoBongoBang@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

Agreed. I wanted just to emphasize that the party does not make much of a difference in regards to wars.

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