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Coombs

JazzG One survivor...can you imagine? Flaps not extended is what I heard...dunno why, but I would find it even more depressing if its human error, rather than just raging at Boeing for being evil and incompetent.

That explosion is insane, though. It feels like there should be some way of engineering planes to suppress that kind of fireball on impact.

JazzG

Coombs I think it is just one of those things, how do you stop something full of fuel and that heavy from blowing up when it falls from so high?

It does sound like Boeing might have some questions to answer here, I'd love to see stats but feels like a lot more planes going down these days compared to 10-20 years ago. There has been talk for a while now that engineers in top positions have ben pushed out and taken over by money guys. That is usually when shit goes wrong, different kind of company but similar thing happening at Intel who have fallen way behind because they've taken their eye off the ball.

Mirth

Unfortunately the plane was carrying enough fuel to travel from India to the UK. Only something like reinforced concrete would been enough to neutralise that blast

GooneriC

Well the warmongering Israeli scum have attacked Iran , what a shit show

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Tragic news from India, shocking what Israel is doing.

The US is claiming ignorance, yet Trump had all US citizens and embassy staff removed a couple of days ago.

Burnwinter

Israel desperate to drag the United States into their alignment in a greater regional conflict based on what's left of the strategic alliance. Not the first time they've tried since 2023 either. That Cabinet is full of such deranged, bloodthirsty bastards.

Mirth

Burnwinter the last time Israel attacked Iran, the Saudis, Qataris and Jordanians took care of incoming missiles following a very telegraphed attack by Iran.

I can’t see why they’d do that again given that they all pushed for this weekend’s peace talks. There’s only one rogue state in the region and it’s not Iran.

To me this is Israel not liking the prospect of peace talks and the US being unable to control them

Gazza M

cancel the 2020s man. by far the worst era of my lifetime.

GooneriC

Just cancel Israel's nut jobs, those fkn terrorists should be put down

Claudius

You guys know the most credible places to donate to folks in Gaza?

jones

Claudius Islamic Relief

Claudius

jones thanks man. Sorted.

JazzG

Wow, they inflicted incredible damage on Iran. How on earth did they not stop anything, top scientists and military officials taken out.

Mirth the last time Israel attacked Iran, the Saudis, Qataris and Jordanians took care of incoming missiles following a very telegraphed attack by Iran.

Didn't they shoot down things which went over their airspace? I don't think those countries are particularly fond of Iran so their stance in private might be different to what they say in public!

Gurgen

Netanyahu must be one of the dumbest people in history. He really believes he can win all these wars. I wish Europe and the US would stop their unconditional support for these crazies. Let them figure things out without billions of free money every year.

JazzG

Gurgen I don't think this just Netanyahu, no way such a coordinated attack like this could happen without other countries being involved. Like I said in public they'll all say nothing to do with them but under no circumstance will they allow Iran to make a Nuclear bomb. I'm not even sure the Russians or Chinese would either.

GooneriC

Netanyahu is being encouraged. There is no other explanation, If Iran had done 2 % of this in a " pre-emptive" attack on Israel they would be bombed back to the stone age by the likes of US UK Germany and other coalitions. Imagine Starmer and Lammy coming out asking " both sides for restraint " . It's laughable to suggest Netenyahu or Israel will suffer any real consequences, they've been on a killing spree for 18 months in Gaza and invaded airspace and bombed Lebanon and Syria without even a hint of punitive action. They are being allowed to carry on

Qwiss

GooneriC wait until Iran respond. US, UK and the EU will come out much more strongly against Iran.

Mirth

GooneriC Not necessarily - there's been plenty of reports over the last decade where Netanyahu's outwitted the G7 countries: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15635476

In other words, he's called their bluff by trading in their explicit support for Israel to tacit support for every action these past 2 years. It won't end until someone (specifically the US) actually stands up to him.

Claudius

The one reason to support a Bernie style presidency in US. As long as the normal characters are in, Israel will always have air cover for international crimes

Qwiss

Claudius Bernie is very soft on Israel. It'd be no different with him.

Gurgen

Western support for Israel is unconditional. EU countries don't even support each other the way they support Israel. It's a combination of Holocaust guilt, good lobbying, financial interests and clueless foreign policy.

Claudius

Gurgen and sustained activism from Zionists in Israel and US. That’s an important part of making the issue so difficult - i.e., in US they’ve conflated criticism of Israeli government policy with anti-semitism.

Now you have Trump telling the victimised country to make a deal before they’re wiped out. Instead of sanctioning Israel

Qwiss

Gurgen there is hopefully a shift happening. Ireland and Spain have been out on their own for a long time but it seems a lot of other countries are waking up too. Of course the Germans remain a big problem as they are completely in bed with Israel for historical and economic reasons.

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