Submitted 2 weeks ago by ramble81@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I know things are unfolding quickly, but I’ve seen reports of attacks on the Dubai and Kuwait airports. In both cases reports are attributing it to Iran doing it in response to the US/Isreali attacks, but none seem to say why?
So why is Iran targeting them and not the US or Israel? I’m having trouble making it make sense.
They’re attacking US military bases in those countries which are being used as bases to bomb and kill their citizens.
Apparently Aldo hotels Americans are know to stay at or something.
The US and Israel infest many parts of the world, they’re not contained to North America
As others in this thread have said, they’re attacking US military bases. Problem is two-fold: missiles aren’t always 100% accurate due to malfunctions, poor design, or anti-guidance EW systems, also the bases are surrounded by ballistic missile defenses, which basically shoot missiles at incoming missiles. This means that there is a strong likelihood that nearby civilian areas will be hit.
The classic strategy of more missiles. Works every time and hurts no one.
“You don’t need to be a better shot, you just need to shoot more bullets.” - Borderlands
Kuwait is basically one giant US base.
Technically, they are not attacking Dubai or Kuwait per se, they are attacking US military bases located there. Which, of course, poses a risk for the environment.
When a US base shoots down an incoming missile, it is going to land somewhere. And this somewhere might be in normal civilian areas of the hosting country.
My completely uneducated guess would be, to make it harder for the US to get equipment into the area.
Dubai is, AFAIK, the middle east equivalent of las vegas. Certain “activities” (alcohol, gambling, etc) are less illegal than in many middle eastern countries and its a tourist trap.
Kuwait has a large US military presence.
This is not the reason. There are US bases in the UAE.
happy cake day!
I hope Iran bombs the crap out of isreal. Let them suffer the same level of destruction that Palestinians have suffered at their hands.
They’re allies of the US. That’s the only reason, as they’re US/UK proxies.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Kuwait and UAE have US military bases. Iran doesn’t really have the ability to attack the US directly. Pretty sure they did also target Israel.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
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(+ the necessary support, logistics, communications, etc to maintain them … + foreign bases of other NATO countries not displayed above)
wiki/List_of_American_military_installations
worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires
Iran is surrounded by targets/attackers:
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
What kind of psycho uses blue on a map to represent land mass