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Iran fires deadly missile barrage at Israel in ‘revenge’ for deaths of several senior leaders | CNN

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personofshadow Mar 18, 2026 +843
Breaking news: Attacking someone often leads to them fighting back.
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Helftheuvel Mar 18, 2026 +289
Unless it's Trump vs Kids. Release the Epstein files, never forget?!
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Leather-Tour9096 Mar 18, 2026 +74
Didn’t one of the kids claim that they bit his d***?
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ivo200094 Mar 18, 2026 +40
Also one shoved tent pole up his ass and had to be airlifted to a hospital. That explains his posture and why he shits himself on a daily basis
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Jack_Bartowski Mar 19, 2026 +8
Is there a source for that?
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ivo200094 Mar 19, 2026 +15
When they released the files it was a boy that was told he will be killed as the others before him and he thought he had nothing to lose in the moment and went for maximum damage. Unfortunately it was a while ago and there has been a lot of outrageous things so it’s hard to find it quickly to send it here, try googling it
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Leeciferous Mar 19, 2026 +9
I believe it's from Sascha Riley. I don't know if it's included in their interviews with Lisa Noelle Voldeng, but here it is: https://youtu.be/O4oMQv0p9JE?si=WfrQem0_IX5usdA- There was supposed to be a part 2, but last I heard, they opted not to release it. Edit: The point in the interview you're looking for is at 49:50.
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Jack_Bartowski Mar 19, 2026 +3
Thank you! I will check that out once im home
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WeakCartographer7826 Mar 18, 2026 +11
Um what? Was this in the Epstein files? Couldn't have happened to a better person.
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Double_Resort_9223 Mar 20, 2026 +3
“Germany started this war under the rather childish notion that they were going to bomb everyone else and no one was going to bomb them” - Arthur “Bomber” Harris
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ningendearukoto Mar 19, 2026 +2
“Our previous missile barrages were just for shits and giggles”
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Pikawoohoo Mar 19, 2026 +2
Exactly, Iran launched an offensive on 3 fronts against Israel Israel in 2023 and now they're in the FO stage of their FA.
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couchbutt Mar 18, 2026 +5
"Yeah, but it's so antisemitic!"
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Zanzimush Mar 18, 2026
This is, of course, the entire reason that Israel attacked Iran in the first place. They're tired of being attacked by Iran-funded factions.
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Frederf220 Mar 19, 2026 +15
And Iran is tired of Mossad agents operating within their borders.
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lanicorain Mar 19, 2026
It goes even further. Israel exists because the horrors of The Holocaust made *some* Jewish people go batshit ethno-nationalist and murder and displace the Palestinians — google: nakba. The Holocaust was inspired and made possible by Jim Crow laws, imposed on African-Americans brought as slaves to enrich the white USA bourgeoisie, who formally, but not materially, emancipated them only after it was untenable not to. This happened because upon arriving to The Americas, only dehumanizing others in the species would allow for ideological backing to the brutal genocide of the natives. Yes, I am blaming Columbus for all this bullshit. F*** this. F*** this. F*** this. Before 1492 the world was not perfect by any means, but we didn't have atomic bombs, and we had the boldness to look at a monster in the eye. Sometimes I wonder if giant aliens may be looking at us, as if we were ants, from a far away galaxy, wondering why some of those ants went batshit and used thermobaric bullets on the other ants, just to watch a brown ant evaporate. I am indigenous, and I look at this period and wonder if we'll survive, not even talking about indigenous folk, I mean as a species.
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us1549 Mar 18, 2026 +1252
Yeah you don't assassinate another country's leaders and expect no retaliation
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peon2 Mar 18, 2026 +407
*Confused Venezuela sounds*
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JerryDipotosBurner Mar 18, 2026 +320
Venezuela responded. They won the WBC last night!
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thefoodiedentist Mar 18, 2026 +52
They deserved it. Us team just didnt seem as into it as other teams and it showed in their performance. Its almost as tho us team treated this tournament like regular season games and other teams played their heart out.
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JerryDipotosBurner Mar 18, 2026 +49
They took it too seriously and didn’t have any joy or energy because the entire approach was f****** corny as hell. “Front toward enemy”, having the former SEAL give them a talk. It was all just so…corny.
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Ok_Yak_1844 Mar 18, 2026 +57
Imagine trying to gas yourself up for a game and you got some SEAL talking about war, helicopters crashing, and how awesome it was to kill someone before a baseball game. Really shows what the US values.
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JerryDipotosBurner Mar 18, 2026 +37
It’s so on-brand for my country right now, too. No joy. No excitement. No upbeat or positivity. Just serious war shit and trying to be the fakest tough guy around.
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Ok_Yak_1844 Mar 18, 2026 +33
In one sport you have a SEAL trying to give baseball players a warriors mentality and not seeing how insane that is and on the other side you have a useless FBI director pretending he is a hockey player who just won a gold medal. It's all so embarassing.
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ExploerTM Mar 18, 2026 +20
Didnt they basically sold their guy though?
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Kaylend Mar 18, 2026 +13
Maduro's inner circle survived intact. Absolutely sold him out.
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arthurno1 Mar 18, 2026 +8
Most likely.
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Dry-Lie-9593 Mar 18, 2026 +4
What ever happened to him? I havent seen anythhing.
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peon2 Mar 18, 2026 +5
His trial is next week
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Educational-Wing2042 Mar 18, 2026 +3
That’s why Trump is so confused. Iran is twice as big as Venezuela and their economy is around 6x the size. Not to mention the sheer distance from the US mainland.
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EYNLLIB Mar 18, 2026 +236
Israel expects exactly that.
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restbest Mar 18, 2026 +147
Then they will cry victim despite starting this war of aggression
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DavidSwifty Mar 18, 2026 +13
Israel cry victim no matter what, they level apartment buildings then cry when you call them out for it.
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OkWelcome6293 Mar 18, 2026 -15
When did Israel expect no retaliation? They been working on missile defenses like Iron Dome and Iron Beam for decades because Iranian proxies have been firing missiles at Israel for longer than that.
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hammerofspammer Mar 18, 2026 +18
They don’t expect to pay any price for their actions
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jackp0t789 Mar 18, 2026 +26
Again, if they didn't expect any consequences they wouldn't have invested billions in some of the most advanced missile defense networks in the world...
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mgdmitch Mar 18, 2026 +14
...invested billions *of other people's money*... FIFY
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ThriftianaStoned Mar 18, 2026 +10
Billions of the US peoples tax dollars
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Cantmentionthename Mar 18, 2026 +5
I think you’re missing the logic responsible for the question. Israel may arrogantly believe that the consequences will be satisfactorily mitigated by missile defense systems in place, but they understand that they will be attacked. That’s the price.
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OkWelcome6293 Mar 18, 2026 +4
I feel like that would be a better argument if you somehow addressed my point about them building the most advanced air defenses in the world.
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Grand_Size_4932 Mar 18, 2026 +4
More accurately, because of things like the Iron Dome, Arrow system, and David’s Sling, they expected to subdue the *consequences* of retaliation - not retaliation itself. It was either hubris or a lie to their people.
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ProfsionalBlackUncle Mar 18, 2026 +2
Doesnt the Iron Dome shoot down missiles coming into Israel all the time? Idk why you worded your comment like that either, you must be a bot.
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NOLA-Bronco Mar 18, 2026 +143
It's not a bug, it's a feature >NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly focused on blocking Trump's pathways to a ceasefire and follow-up talks with Iran by killing members of leadership most likely to negotiate according to European Council on Foreign Relations director. [https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/2034271353457582414?s=20](https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/2034271353457582414?s=20) Anyone that saw thru the bullshit propaganda about the genocide should be familiar with this playbook It's being ported over to Iran, no audibles Israel constantly works toward cutting off any off ramps or outs for the US. And United States of AIPACmerican leaders can't seem to muster the courage to call Israel out on this bullshit, let alone stand up to it. To the point it's hard to argue with some conspiracies when this dynamic keeps repeating itself.
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SidewaysFancyPrance Mar 18, 2026 +49
Israel wants America to keep forces there forever and needs to keep entangling us deeper like Trump is trying to do to NATO so *he* can bounce. Isreal needs a bodyguard because they plan to keep picking fights and pointing us at the mean brown people they want us to kill, and since Trump has shown he's a legit white supremacist, MAGA cuts him a blank check made out to Netanyahu, coming out of our bank accounts.
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NOLA-Bronco Mar 18, 2026 +5
Yep [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater\_Israel#Today](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel#Today)
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gormislofa Mar 18, 2026 +52
There is no diplomacy with Netanyahu, only destruction
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Johannes_P Mar 18, 2026 +3
Notabely, Trump had to strongarm Netanyahu after Hamas delegates were killed in Qatar; they came to negociate the ceasefire.
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tehlemmings Mar 18, 2026 +18
>Israel constantly works toward cutting off any off ramps or outs for the US Israel overstepped this time. The general US population is turning against the country as a whole. Frankly, I personally think it's time to cut them off completely until a new political party takes over. They keep putting leaders in charge that want to keep them perpetually at war with everyone, let them defend themselves.
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Qwert23456 Mar 18, 2026 +15
No one is buying their bullshit anymore. You'd have to have a negative IQ to believe this war was about anything but a naked grab for more land in Lebanon and the destruction of their only remaining rival in the middle east .That's why they were desperate to attack Iran right now while the dinosaurs in Washington still support them.
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Cute-Percentage-6660 Mar 18, 2026 +4
it's funny how much dems and biden sabotaged themselves by enabling them
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NOLA-Bronco Mar 18, 2026 +14
I wish I could say I am surprised but the history of Fascism is littered with the political history of center-left party's in power doing exactly what we saw the Dems do.
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No_Huckleberry2711 Mar 18, 2026 +11
Retaliation meaning they'll drop bombs aimlessly on parking lots
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Optimal-Golf-8270 Mar 18, 2026
You think these missiles are just hitting parking lots? They can somehow hit everything else, but somehow miss every time in Israel? We're shown pictures of burning private jets, it left unsaid that they were on the apron next to an IAI warehouse.
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daywall Mar 18, 2026 +10
Its a war. They were going to fire the missiles any way.
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RoseyOneOne Mar 18, 2026 +5
'Any Jew will do' has been their operating guideline for over 50 years.
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 18, 2026 +4
I guess if you kill enough of them eventually there will be no one left to order retaliation?
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Tuesday_6PM Mar 18, 2026 +34
In this case, Israel is mostly killing anyone who could negotiate a ceasefire with the US. They’d be going after more military leaders and fewer politicians if they *didn’t* want Iran run by the most militant hardliners. But Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay out of prison, so here we are
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liroyjenkins Mar 18, 2026
And if you kill tens of thousands of your own citizens you should know justice is likely coming your way.
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pcharnkov Mar 18, 2026 +578
the f*** is revenge in quotes
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shadowndacorner Mar 18, 2026 +194
Ostensibly because it is a quote
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LegallyEmma Mar 18, 2026 +96
Quotations are used when quoting something someone said, such as in a headline. So in this case someone in the video referred to it as 'revenge' and CNN is quoting them in the headline.
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sp0rk_walker Mar 19, 2026 +8
An actual quote is usually more than a single word because context matters.
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icantsurf Mar 18, 2026 +43
Media literacy at an all time low.
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figaronine Mar 18, 2026 +28
I see this all over this sub. "Why is this quote in quotes? WTF!!!!" Maybe use what's left of your brains for half a second? And always hundreds of upvotes from people who also are incapable of independent thought and logical reasoning.
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ered_lithui Mar 18, 2026 +5
Right, are they imagining sarcastic air quotes or something?
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meteoritegallery Mar 18, 2026 +18
Only Israel's actions can be labelled as "retaliation," duh. Haven't you been reading the news for the past...30+ years? Media coverage of this new chapter has been just as 'out there.' Israel and the US unilaterally attacked a sovereign nation while the US was actively conducting negotiations with them. With no warning, and for no apparent reason. Despite facing zero domestic threat from Iran, the US also attacked Iranian assets far removed from the conflict, like the ship participating in a training exercise in India - an exercise the US was also participating in... Imagine if, in December of 1941, Japan had attacked not just Pearl Harbor - but also bombarded the mainland US - and assassinated FDR and a handful of the US' top leaders. That's the kind of thing the US and Israel just did to Iran. It's unconscionable.
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CMG30 Mar 18, 2026 +159
The only 'winners' are those who would profit from the sale of arms, or who are using aggression as a tactic to stay out of jail or distract from other malfeasance. The losers are everyone else. The civilians on both sides caught in the crossfire and the families of the soldiers who are sent into harm's way.
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Grim_Rockwell Mar 18, 2026 +39
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." \-The Chance for Peace, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dry-Amphibian1 Mar 18, 2026 +168
They aren’t supposed to shoot missiles back at us. - Trump.
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Rebal771 Mar 18, 2026 +26
That’s cause he told us they were already wiped out. 500 missles a day for 10 days wiped out the lives of children and educators, but missed the military targets. Imbeciles.
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banjist Mar 18, 2026 +15
Not imbeciles. Monsters.
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alayeni-silvermist Mar 18, 2026 +256
I thought we got all their missiles? F****** liars.
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helpmehomeowner Mar 18, 2026 +148
We won the war, so I don't understand these attacks /s
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frosty68 Mar 18, 2026 +45
We didn't win enough yet, and we've destroyed 100% of their missile capability apart from the missiles they're still using. People actually voted for that idiot, 3 times!
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mgtkuradal Mar 18, 2026 +18
We already won the war, trump said so himself, Iran just didn’t get the memo and thinks we’re still at war but trump will write them a strongly worded truth so they know.
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frosty68 Mar 18, 2026 +5
WE DID THE BIGGEST WIN ALREADY. Thank you for your attention in this matter. DJT
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Mystic987123 Mar 18, 2026 +9
'The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit, the only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping' \-Pete Hegseth literally morons
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Reddit0sername Mar 18, 2026 +1
We did win, there are no attacks, do not believe your eyes or ears, believe only what your president tells you.
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TwoTalentedBastidz Mar 18, 2026 +2
The MAGA way!
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Frustrable_Zero Mar 18, 2026 +1
We already won. So them punching back is them starting NEW aggression against us. /s
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forestballa Mar 18, 2026 +2
There is no such possibility. Look at the size of Iran, its Georgraphy, its technical capabilities. Compare that to a little strip next to Israel…. Think of how many strikes,a full blown land invasion, and yet Hamas still had offensive capabilities for years. It’s impossible, it’s an impossible war with no clear objective. Iran will win just by persisting.
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dvowel Mar 19, 2026 +2
Turns out, you can buy more. 
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Embarrassed-Ebb-6900 Mar 18, 2026 +83
What a bizarre concept. The country that is attacked, fights back. I can see why the big brains at the pentagon missed this.
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Own-Secret2028 Mar 19, 2026 +3
Actually the position in the Pentagon is and has been for several decades: don't invade Iran. Apparently at some point the AIPAC lobbyists opinions carried more weight than the building full of military experts and now here we are. 
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Yellow_Marker_ Mar 19, 2026 +12
So iran has the right to defend itself, right?
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Th1rte3n1334 Mar 18, 2026 +149
Why aren’t there more articles about the deadly missile barrages Israel and the United States have fired into civilian territory in the countries that they’re terrorizing?
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sergiocamposnt Mar 18, 2026 +91
Because that's how American propaganda works. They have always been brainwashing people. The American propaganda has been so strong across the decades that many people still don't know that the US has been the main villain of the world since Nazi Germany ended. That's the truth that most Americans refuse to accept.
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upvoter222 Mar 18, 2026 +26
It's mentioned in some of the top stories of basically any major news source. Sometimes it just requires reading the articles, not just the headlines.
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ArCovino Mar 18, 2026 +11
There’s articles every time it happens. The results are just rather lackluster, so the posts and articles come and go without fanfare.
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Boring-Leadership687 Mar 18, 2026 +6
Every say there are a series of articles about us and Israeli strikes on all major news networks. Yesterday it was about the 5000lb bomb the u.s. strikes, today they are about Israeli strikes on oil infrastructure.
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whiteoba Mar 18, 2026 -5
It’s American corporate media they’re all Zionist
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restbest Mar 18, 2026 -1
You know why
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DrinkYourWater69 Mar 19, 2026 +5
Israeli and western media: “how dare Iran right back after being attacked by the United States and Israel”
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mrdominoe Mar 18, 2026 +155
is it weird that I REALLY don't care who wins this war?
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obedientfag Mar 18, 2026 +278
no matter which governments claim victory at the end. its the common people all around the world who pay with blood and hunger. In war there are no w***** except the elite.
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KtaadnRota Mar 18, 2026 +140
Nobody wins. It's your classic lose-lose scenario.
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denNISI Mar 18, 2026 +55
War doesn't decide who is right. Only who is left.
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Dbsusn Mar 18, 2026 +16
I learned this the hard way sitting on a dune in the middle of the desert asking my sergeant what was the point of us being here.
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randomfunnythings Mar 18, 2026 +1
That’s exactly the same thing I was asking when I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 since then, I’ve been seeing the same thing over and over again. We’re usually there for resources, but now I’m not sure the point since we are the ones burning the oil reserves. What is the f****** point?
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Dbsusn Mar 18, 2026 +9
I was in Helmand in 2011. We were watching our vehicle get put on a flat bed truck after getting blown to shit by an IED. All I witnessed were farmers stuck between the American military and the Taliban. They couldn’t have given a f*** about either and yet there they were, in the middle of two warring factions with no clear purpose, getting punished no matter who they helped or how hard they tried to avoid either side. And now, with hindsight, it feels even worse. The way we left all the interpreters and sources of intelligence to just be killed by the Taliban. And now this bs in Iran. What the actual f***. I’m really disappointed in our military leadership. Someone needs to stand up to dementia don and it’s certainly not going to be the politicians. But the f****** leadership knows this isn’t a good strategy. Yet here we f****** are again.
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randomfunnythings Mar 18, 2026 +5
God damn, that’s basically the same experience I had. We would stop shepherds moving goats across the road (who had done so for four generations). They didn’t know if we were the bad guys or the taliban were. In my experience, every day people preferred the taliban (the devil you know right?) to our occupation. I got constant awful looks every where we went and I was the radio tech, just there to fix communication equipment. I know exactly what we’ve done to Iraq and Afghanistan and I’m against everything we’ve done there and continue to do wherever we deploy our troops. They taught you that every piece of trash was a possible IED, right? Do you know why? It’s because that’s the only way to fight against an overwhelming force like the United States.
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Dbsusn Mar 18, 2026 +4
Lmfao. The IED training was a joke. Look out for yellow jugs! Uh hey morons, that’s literally what they use for everything. Also, the guys training us in our IED course had never been outside the wire. They had no clue other than what a training guide told them to say. It was worthless. I have a very bittersweet relationship with the military. Had I not joined, I wouldn’t have left the Midwest. The first time I left the country was to go to AFG. My linguist was amazing. He taught me a lot. He helped me see outside of everything I thought was true based on the propaganda I grew up with. He taught me to see issues through the perspective of those suffering the issue instead of applying my own viewpoints to it. I owe him everything because who I am today was nothing like who I was then. The quote I came away with after my deployment was: “Some people go to war and find god, some go and lose him.” Some of the guys I served with only had their biases emboldened. I honestly believe part of my PTSD is what I call the unraveling. Basically everything I believed was shattered when I finally got out of the bubble I lived in. And seeing our country now, I’m thankful for the military for that education. Because I could have easily been one of the troglodytes storming the capital on J6. Semper fi sibling of the military. May we find our way out of this shit show sooner than later.
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CruelMetatron Mar 18, 2026 +10
I say China wins.
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Grim_Rockwell Mar 18, 2026 +13
China has already won. They started winning when they decided to reduce poverty, improve standard of living, engaged in mutually beneficial trade deals and diplomacy, fight corruption by holding political and business elite accountable with harsh punishments, and investing in public infrastructure. Turns out that weaponizing the USD, sanctioning and tariffing every nation that doesn't bow to US corporate interests, propping up brutal rightwing dictatorships, listening to the lies of Neoliberal economists, letting pedo Conservatives rig our elections and try to overthrow our democracy with no accountability, neglecting infrastructure investment, and squeezing the working class for every last drop of surplus labor value in the interest of shareholder value, corporate profit, and so-called free market Crapitalism... isn't a winning strategy, huh, funny that.
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KtaadnRota Mar 18, 2026 +5
China has almost no oil of their own. Most of it comes from the Gulf. Their fuel prices have skyrocketed.
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InvalidKoalas Mar 18, 2026 +80
The entire world would be better off if the Trump regime, Bibi regime, and IRGC regime are all wiped off the face of the earth. I think they should all personally go fight each other and leave the rest of us the f*** out of it. 
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 18, 2026 +22
Trump, Bibi, and the new Ayatollah can all get together in a ring and beat the shit out of each other and leave everyone else out of it, that'd be best.
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bufordt Mar 18, 2026 +12
3 d***** bags enter, none leave.
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gerbal100 Mar 18, 2026 +10
Tragically, the most likely (long term) outcome of this war is even more hard-line, authoritarian, regimes in all three countries.
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TwoTalentedBastidz Mar 18, 2026 +8
Don’t forget about more traumatized and radicalized citizens who will ensure the cycle continues
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Lirael_Gold Mar 18, 2026 +3
IRGC, unless you're talking about the Iranian Coast Guard. (sorry, I agree)
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InvalidKoalas Mar 18, 2026 +2
Woops! Fixed, thanks
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Zardotab Mar 18, 2026 +3
The [sky is attempting ](https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cewzw221wn5o)that very thing. Keep trying, Sky Forces!
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Zachsjs Mar 18, 2026 +1
It’s interesting how people are conditioned to attribute the atrocities of western aligned nations to the individuals at the top, while criticism of their enemies are generalized. In your comment it is Trump or Bibi who are bad and there’s no systemic criticism of America or Israel. But for Iran you condemn the entire IRCG. Through this conditioning, even when we see similar actions from Republicans, Democrats, Likud, etc, you will only call for impeachment or new elections at home but structural destruction abroad.
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InvalidKoalas Mar 18, 2026 +6
I specifically said Trump *regime* and Bibi *regime* for this exact reason though. I want Trump and his entire cabinet imprisoned. Along with their staff members who happily support fascism. And the Congress members who refuse to uphold their oaths to the constitution. Half of the Supreme Court justices for their gross mishandling of cases that were clearly biased to make Trump a king. That would be a good start. 
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MonkeyMercenaryCapt Mar 18, 2026 +14
Well yeah like 20 people "win", millions are left dead, homeless, etc. etc.
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johndoe1942sn Mar 18, 2026 +7
The innocents are always the ones that lose.
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sylbug Mar 18, 2026 +6
Yes. This is an incredibly consequential conflict. Our whole world order depends on it. You should very much care what the outcome is, supposing you have any sense of self-preservation.
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forestballa Mar 18, 2026 +2
If Iran winning means the end of Trump than it may be for the best
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hotsexychungus Mar 18, 2026 +1
Yes, considering it was started unprovoked by two belligerent and genocidal nations (Israel and the US).
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ProofByVerbosity Mar 18, 2026 +47
It's not like Iran is genocide free either.
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Lirael_Gold Mar 18, 2026 +6
Iran also put significantly more effort into destroying ISIS/ISIL in the early years than most other countries did. Which is incidentally why the PMF in Iraq are pissed off, they got a whole load of help from Iran when ISIS was doing it's murderous slaughter stuff and they remember who came to their aid. There's a reason why Soleimani's assassination almost caused an uprising in Iraq. >A senior Iraqi official told the BBC that when the city of Mosul fell, the rapid reaction of Iran, rather than American bombing, was what prevented a more widespread collapse.[109] Soleimani also seems to have been instrumental in planning the operation to relieve Amirli in Saladin Governorate, where ISIL had laid siege to an important city.[104] In fact, the Quds force operatives under Soleimani's command seem to have been deeply involved not only with the Iraqi army and Shia militias but also with the Kurdish forces in the Battle of Amirli,[110] providing liaisons for intelligence-sharing along with arms, munitions and expertise It's almost like states are complicated. (I'm not saying the PMF are "good guys" but for all that Trump talks about transactional relationships, he sure doesn't seem to understand the value of "you helped me out in the past so I'll fight for you today" as it pertains to international relations)
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ProofByVerbosity Mar 18, 2026 +2
I think the complexity of that region is beyond most westerners, including me.
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CorwyntFarrell Mar 18, 2026
Nazis did some really bad things to it's own citizens. But it was rolling into Poland and France that got them attacked. Countries with dreams of expanding their territory are very bad news.
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Punman_5 Mar 18, 2026 +4
Yes. I’ve been making this point for weeks now. If Britain and France attacked Nazi Germany in August 1939 they would have been met by a very cold global reaction and would have maybe even been considered the aggressors.
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ProofByVerbosity Mar 18, 2026 +3
I think that's fair.
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PlzLearn Mar 18, 2026 +7
Look I don’t support this war, but acting like Iran is anything but a suppressive regime is just rewriting of history
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ArCovino Mar 18, 2026
Unprovoked? lol I mean sure it’s entirely unprovoked from the US side, but Iran and Israel have been in a Cold War for decades.
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PShelley Mar 18, 2026 -1
Yes, it’s really weird. If you’re neutral between Iran on the one hand, and the US and Israel on the other, you are severely misinformed about this conflict and the regional dynamics involved. There’s no rational way to conclude that the Islamic republic does not deserve this and the world would be better off without it. We should all hope Iranian civilian casualties are kept to a minimum, and hope that the region will have a better and more peaceful future. You can disagree with the timing, planning, and execution of this war, but being truly neutral is just not a good take.
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Valerian_ Mar 18, 2026 +2
Most of the times in wars both sides lose
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hotsexychungus Mar 18, 2026 +11
Yep, the only reason Trump hasn't moved against Cuba is because of the IRGC has provided a formidable resistance against Trumps actions. The US and Israel are bullies, and the only way you get a bully to stop is to bloody his nose. It's good for the world if we lose this one.
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sylbug Mar 18, 2026 +3
The war was lost the moment the initial ‘decapitation’ failed to produce regime change or mass disorder. That was the Americans’ and Israelis’ whole plan, and they had no back up for when it predictably failed. Now Iran is implementing the plan they have been working on for 40 years to defend themselves from this very existential threat, and they intend to stay in it until it is so obscenely costly that the Americans and Israelis never try again. So now we have a standoff - one where the Iranians have the advantage. The Iranians can hold out a LONG time because this is existential to them. Nothing short of a land invasion and bloody, protracted war is going to stop them. The Americans, on the other hand, are operating under all sorts of constraints. The entire world is on their ass to do something about the economic disaster they initiated, and every act of escalation risks more destruction of oil infrastructure. Domestically, the war is both illegal and deeply unpopular, and the president is a demented pedophile dirtbag who everyone hates. It just gets worse by the hour.
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NiranS Mar 18, 2026 +25
Why is it called revenge ? America and Israel have declared war. Oh I get it , it is like bullies that are not prepared for pushback.
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eliedacc Mar 18, 2026 +17
As opposed to the non lethal missile barrages we're used to?
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This_Hat2907 Mar 18, 2026 +20
They’re scary muslim missiles as opposed to goofy fun missiles signed by Jerry Seinfeld, learn the difference
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DonDiabloTheGreat Mar 18, 2026 +7
How could Iran do this! Israel never did anything wrong! Except genocide and stealing land.
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BednaR1 Mar 18, 2026 +9
In revenge for *US and Israel killing several senior country leaders ... let's be factual here.
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MayhemWins25 Mar 18, 2026 +11
There’s a reason they’ve stopped interviewing Israelis about their opinions on anything. The amount of people ready to just see this whole government collapse is reaching levels comparable to the US.
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ThatsAllFolksAgain Mar 18, 2026 +6
Has Iran managed to kill any important Israeli military targets? Why or why not? Edit: I was wondering if Netanyahu would be afraid if he was targeted personally? I mean he doesn’t care about the innocent citizens of Israel it appears.
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pgtl_10 Mar 18, 2026 +7
Funny how CNN uses active voice to describe. If it was Israel they would said something like "Missiles fired, five dead" but never tell you who fired the missiles.
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theguytomeet Mar 18, 2026 +10
Someone has a right to defend themselves. Thought that’s how it works in armed conflict
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TruckHangingHandJam Mar 19, 2026 +2
It’s like Carney said, international law is a joke that is ignored against people the US doesn’t like and not enforced for those it does like. Isntreal live-streamed a genocide and the US not only defended it while funding it and paying for it, but threatened the ICC for indicting the leaders of it. When a piece of shit like Carney is correct… you know it’s a fuckef situation 
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CarPhoneRonnie Mar 18, 2026 +14
yo dawg i thought they done ran out of those
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ChuckJA Mar 18, 2026 +2
Almost. Something like 100 medium range launchers left out of the 1300 they had one year ago.
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DrEpileptic Mar 18, 2026 +7
People not reading past headlines and not even understanding the headlines either would be funny if it weren’t an actual issue that they vote.
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thePirate_Fish Mar 18, 2026 +9
How on Earth can you recite these numbers so confidently and expect to be taken seriously? Do you think the US/Israel and their mouthpieces have anything more than a rough guess at these numbers?
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ChuckJA Mar 18, 2026 +2
“Israeli intel is bad” is a hilarious talking point in 2026. If they knew where the Iranian high command was throughout this entire conflict, they know how many launchers are left. They say it’s about 100, likely less.
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pgtl_10 Mar 18, 2026 +6
They also believed Hezbollah was severely degraded. Don't take their word on everything.
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ChuckJA Mar 18, 2026 +2
You don’t agree that Hezbollah has been massively degraded? Why not?
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optimalbrain90 Mar 19, 2026 +3
Wait, you hit a guy who’s known for being aggressive, and you’re surprised he hit you back? Wow, that’s totally unexpected… who could’ve guessed?
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freebirth Mar 18, 2026 +5
This just in. People fight back when you start wars against them.
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uberc Mar 19, 2026 +4
3 palestinians died in the west bank btw
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money_me_please Mar 18, 2026 +14
Iran has a right to defend itself
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dw73 Mar 18, 2026 +3
We need to get away from this mess
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fevered_visions Mar 18, 2026 +6
>Iran fires deadly missile barrage at Israel as opposed to all those missile barrages that are full of hugs and kittens
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CUTTYONE70 Mar 18, 2026 +7
I believe that Israel should deploy ground troops and naval assets to the Strait of Hormuz.
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sbd2010 Mar 18, 2026 +36
Yes. Go out and play some real life minesweeper I wanna watch.
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Serpentongue Mar 18, 2026 +17
Their own or demand the US deploys theirs?
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ArgentNoble Mar 18, 2026 +5
Israel doesn't "demand" anything from the US. The US is a vassal state of Israel and naturally does their bidding.
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Scary_Bushmonster Mar 18, 2026 +4
The rare heel vs heel. You don’t see it happen often
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HolyMoleyGuacamoly Mar 18, 2026 +4
“iran defends itself from assassination of leaders” - one other way to phrase this
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real_fake_hoors Mar 18, 2026 +7
At this point my feeling is to just cut Israel loose and let them fend for themselves. I feel like their overall tone and behavior would shift radically when their big brother tells them he’s not gonna fight everyone he starts shit with. Course Trump won’t do that, being a pedophile and needing a distraction and all.
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pizoisoned Mar 18, 2026 +3
I’m in a similar boat. I get why we supported them early on, but they’ve clearly created most of the issues over there and frankly I’m tired of paying for their shitty behavior in blood and gold. The Israeli people need to clean their government up, just like we Americans need to do.
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salami_on_a_bagel Mar 18, 2026 +5
Iran has the right to defend itself
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Standard_Response_43 Mar 18, 2026 +1
Israel ain't no joke...the beeper 💥 was 1st class A1 intelligence work.
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PaulaDeen21 Mar 18, 2026 +6
But I thought the US won this war? F****** pathetic country.
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Confident-Beyond6857 Mar 18, 2026 +2
What? You punched a mean dude in the face and he had the audacity to punch back? No... Who could have seen that coming?
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Polosatbli Mar 18, 2026 +2
In reality it was just a regular rocket launch, maybe slightly more than usual
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dead_meme_comrade Mar 19, 2026 +2
Man who starts bar fight shocked he was punched in face.
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Immediate-Spite-5905 Mar 18, 2026 +1
aaand they hit palestinians somehow
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