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Another very interesting piece from the WSJ. These details have been available through OSINT sources but it's a good roundup showing how key Europe is to US operations against Iran: - The central command center for US operations against Iran is within Ramstein Air Base in Germany (unsurprising) - US drone operations are conducted from there as well - American aircraft stationed in Spain have been relocated to France and Germany after the Spanish government denied the use of the Morón and Rota air bases for attacks on Iran - Bomber aircraft sortie out of bases in the UK like RAF Fairford - Refueling operations are based out of Aviano Air Base in Italy and Tubé Air Base in France - Lajes Air Base in the Azores (Portugal) is serving as a major logistical hub, with dozens of aircraft stationed there at various times during the conflict - RC-135 Rivet Joint spy planes are operating out of Souda Bay in Crete - Unspecified "logistics and intelligence assets" are being hosted by Romania The piece paints an amusing picture of European attitudes towards this. Keir Starmer's justification for overcoming his reticence to allow the US to base out of British facilities in the initial wave of strikes is that bomber operations are now "defensive" in nature. Merz has said publicly that this "isn't [Germany's] war," but he has no choice but to allow US operations out of German air bases due to pre-existing legal agreements. Meloni has spun Italian involvement as minor because only refueling missions are flown out of Aviano. Similarly, French defense minister Vautrin said, “a refueling aircraft is a gas station, not a fighter jet." These technicalities may work on the European public, but it's difficult to imagine they'll work on the Iranians.

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The streets should be filled with protests against the war on Iran - they’re quiet instead. For years, the antiwar movement in this country has been worn down - piece by piece, argument by argument, until even its language was made suspect. But in these last three years, something more deliberate has taken hold: to be anti-war now is to be marked; it’s to risk deportation, violence, abduction and imprisonment. And we watched it happen: we watched students - who have always been the conscience of any movement - be met not only with the force of the state, but with the violent compliance of the institutions meant to protect them. Those who protested genocide - who named the most grotesque form of inequality for what it is - were made into harbingers of hate and violence. And when they were not being denounced, they were being policed by those who claimed mutual sympathies. And that’s why there’s a fatigue - there was a repression that was so constant, so vast and so successful that all it left were fragments. Antiwar organizations and organizers are still out here, still organizing, still demanding - but the bodies just aren’t there because Americans ultimately are an obedient, distracted nation.

Claire Mathon, Director of Photography for: - Stranger by the Lake - Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Atlantics - Spencer

No Kings is planning 3000-events on 3/28 and its 1700-word press release makes zero mention of Iran, only opaque mentions of “illegal wars” (which ones?) I like many of the orgs involved but what’s the utility of these generic “anti-authoritarian” word salads at this moment

AND....right into the Palantir app. ICE agent at JFK today

It’s a profound indictment of American society that there is no antiwar movement in this moment. If not now then when?

have democrats done anything to stop trump

Ngl, this tree made me want to live little