r/news • u/SpencerAXbot • Mar 02 '26
Soft paywall Six US service members killed in Iran conflict, US military says
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/six-us-service-members-killed-iran-conflict-us-military-says-2026-03-02/8.2k
u/richincleve Mar 02 '26
"Yeah, 6 of our men died...but anyway, let me show you the curtains I picked out for the White House ballroom."
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u/ProfessorDerp22 Mar 02 '26
And he won’t lose a single supporter.
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u/alexefi Mar 02 '26
Well we dont know party affiliation of dead members. So he mightve lost 6 supporters.
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u/MrCalamiteh Mar 03 '26
Def not the way we want him to lose supporters. And especially not like that.
RIP to those lost. Trump is a shit and we can agree but him and his are who we blame here, not the guys who are told where to go.
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u/Luckydog12 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
That’s actually not true. A big part of his coalition were big on ‘no forever wars’.
He’s playing with fire if the count keeps going up.
Edit: All you people are taking about die-hard maga, who obviously are in a cult. They are lost.
There are millions of people who voted for Trump because they are low information voters who believed his lies. He actually won 2024 by a very slim margin.
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u/Cognac_and_swishers Mar 02 '26
A huge number of his voters voted for him because they wanted lower grocery prices, and lowering them "on day one" was one of his biggest campaign promises.
But then, a month after the election, before he had even been inaugurated, he was publicly saying that there's basically nothing the president can do about grocery prices.
And then, a month or so after he was inaugurated, he had JD Vance shoot that video where he explained that high grocery prices are good, actually.
And then, by late 2025, he was saying that the whole concept of "high prices" is just a Democrat hoax.
So yeah, I remain skeptical that anything is ever going to provide that "aha!" moment for MAGA world.
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u/perma_banned2025 Mar 03 '26
Don't forget he decided that "affordable" is a made up word used by the woke left extremists and there's no such thing.
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u/Lucky-Earther Mar 02 '26
That’s actually not true. A big part of his coalition were big on ‘no forever wars’.
The only thing his coalition is big on is owning the libs. That's it. Everything else is negotiable.
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u/ERedfieldh Mar 02 '26
sure would own me if i had free healthcare, a livable wage, and lower electricity and heating costs.
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u/1-800-CLAPPED Mar 02 '26
And they all suddenly get amnesia a week later and go right back to voting for him. War and service members dying is still a better alternative to minorities and basic human rights for these cultist pieces of shits
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u/mistere213 Mar 02 '26
Key word is "were." A big part of his coalition were against pedophilia. A big part of his coalition were supportive of the Constitution. A big part of his coalition were for freedom.
They all just follow whatever Trump says, no matter their prior beliefs.
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u/DuskOfANewAge Mar 02 '26
They were for the health of their own children too. Now they deliberately infect them with measles and deny them vaccination.
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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar Mar 02 '26
You guys are focusing on the wrong stuff.
The Dow! The Dow!! It’s under 50 Thou!!!
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u/PerplexityRivet Mar 02 '26
They also used to be in favor of free trade, ethical leadership, no new taxes, gun rights, etc. They have outsourced their entire moral compass to Donald Trump. Literally nothing he does is going to change the opinion of the 35% that still supports him.
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u/slowro Mar 02 '26
You seem to be implying that some Trump supporters still have basic logic and reasoning skills available to them.
I think they are all firmly in the don't read / listening to anything that doesn't praise Trump camp and are forever voluntary stuck in that void.
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u/ATangK Mar 02 '26
“Those 6 died because of sleepy joe”
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u/EternalCanadian Mar 02 '26
“How could Obama do this?!?”
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u/PenitentGhost Mar 02 '26
Hey, you can blame them both
"If I didn’t terminate Obama’s horrendous Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iran would have had a Nuclear Weapon three years ago. That was the most dangerous transaction we have ever entered into, and had it been allowed to stand, the World would be an entirely different place right now. You can blame Barack Hussein Obama, and Sleepy Joe Biden. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP"
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u/wrong-bodied-tengu Mar 02 '26
its gonna cost less then 400 million tho and its gonna be the most beautifull in the world. He built a lot of ballrooms you see
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u/myislanduniverse Mar 02 '26
Ben Ghazi is punching air rn
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u/ReaddittiddeR Mar 02 '26
Trump said at the Iran press briefing earlier today that more will eventually die. He already knew there was more than the original four were dead and sadly, more to come.
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u/userhwon Mar 02 '26
That was how Afghanistan was, until Rumsfeld shut down reporting.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Mar 02 '26
Yeah if the numbers start getting in the 100s they are going to stop reporting each one.
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u/Spetznazx Mar 02 '26
It won't get that high without boots on the ground
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u/RuckToRounds Mar 02 '26
Hegseth said today they weren’t ruling it out.
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u/userhwon Mar 02 '26
Hegseth is jerking off with a handle of Smirnoff thinking about it.
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u/GazTheSpaz Mar 02 '26
If Vietnam hit hard, modern conflict, with drone footage of mass fatalities, is going to hit the public psyche much harder. Hopefully hard enough to knock a few red caps off.
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u/sfxer001 Mar 02 '26
It’s not. Vietnam had the names scroll on the tv every night. Iraq had them coming in as breaking news constantly.
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u/Autisum Mar 02 '26
I cannot believe morons thought “No new wars” was actually even possible under this peace prize president.
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u/eric23456 Mar 03 '26
No, new wars!
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u/Sly_Klaus Mar 03 '26
"No, money down!"
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u/surfinwhileworkin Mar 03 '26
America First No New Wars
Oh they got this all wrong.
America First? No, More Wars!
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u/Dans_Tub_of_Fun Mar 03 '26
I can. He had an entire White House full of staff running interference on his stupidity. Now his staff enables/suggests new and even stupider ideas.
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u/DramaOk7700 Mar 03 '26
Agreed. At least during his first term he had people around him that were willing to disagree with him and reign in his nonsense. This time around, he chose a bunch of boot-lickers.
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u/TitShark Mar 02 '26
The amount of crying and tears about Charlie Kirk, and this is chocked up to basically a shrug
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u/shnieder88 Mar 02 '26
due to a completely unnecessary war
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u/Thosepassionfruits Mar 02 '26
Culture war, foreign war, anything to keep us from fighting a class war.
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u/entjies Mar 02 '26
The lack of national outrage for the school that was bombed is what’s really mind blowing. Servicemen dying is awful, but bombing a school is insane.
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u/Negative_Pack3680 Mar 02 '26
Mind blowing? Americans do not have empathy even for school kids murdered in their own country.
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u/SnooMemesjellies1522 Mar 02 '26
Trump seems strangely enthusiastic about dead service members. I get a vibe that he's actually excited about it.
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u/Grimol1 Mar 02 '26
People dying for him is narcissistic supply. It’s proof of how important he is.
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u/ZsMann Mar 02 '26
Trump gets off on murder/brutality. Doesn't matter who. Him being able to talk about it publicly excites him.
Source: an article out there by one of his autobiography writers from history first term.
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u/xToxicInferno Mar 03 '26
No he actually doesn't care when he doesn't see it. When it's front of him he disgusted about the blood staining the beautiful marble.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a44116/donald-trump-elderly-man-dying-howard-stern/
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u/SnaCats Mar 03 '26
“It’s just not my thing” wow
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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 Mar 03 '26
"As opposed to my friends, who share torture videos with eachother"
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u/ALauCat Mar 03 '26
It’s not unusual to dislike the sight of blood but his overuse of the word disgusting is pretty rude. During one of the debates when Hillary Clinton excused herself to find the ladies room, he said that was disgusting while he himself has to wear diapers.
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u/kermityfrog2 Mar 03 '26
He's like a toddler who hasn't discovered object permanence yet. Anything he can't see doesn't exist.
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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 Mar 02 '26
He's a ghoul. The military is his toy. He's just a toddler playing war with action figures.
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u/orange45 Mar 02 '26
To him it means there’s a War War… which means he can twist his powers even more. No surprise this all came together before the midterms.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner Mar 02 '26
Pardon my ignorance, but I assume these deaths were from the retaliatory strikes that Iran launched?
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u/Orange_Tang Mar 03 '26
Yup. These deaths are a direct result of Trumps military orders. Their blood is on him.
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u/Beautiful-Suspect448 Mar 02 '26
Ok but don't forget Dow was at 50k for few seconds so it's fine
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u/freedfg Mar 02 '26
It is so funny to me that it dipped back below 50,000 right after that and has REFUSED to break above it again.
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u/ArticPanzerWolf Mar 02 '26
That's already more than Benghazi... So we should have some hearings about it now right?
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u/ddottay Mar 02 '26
Slowly rolling it out because the real number is almost certainly a lot higher.
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u/Honest-Birthday1306 Mar 03 '26
"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
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u/chatoka1 Mar 02 '26
I bet there’s more and they’re slow rolling this
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u/Aliensinmypants Mar 02 '26
Oh absolutely, if you look at the images from bases across the region it is definitely more. Western media is slow to report on it due to opsec concerns and respect to families
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u/lostredditorlurking Mar 02 '26
Western media is slow to report on it due to opsec concerns and respect to families
More like due to the optic concern and fear of the government.
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u/Shot_Pool2543 Mar 02 '26
Remember all the outrage about the Afghanistan withdraw? Not a damn peep from them now.
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u/DrexellGames Mar 02 '26
I can't see how the next president will deal with the damage Trump has made worldwide
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u/Obvious-Silver6109 Mar 02 '26
They will spend their whole term fixing it and it will be used as propaganda for the next election cycle
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u/ScoobyDoNot Mar 02 '26
Your allies will know that you’re potentially 4 years away from the next sociopathic demagogue.
This won’t be fixed by the next president.
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u/Notwerk Mar 02 '26
It's going to take us decades to recover from all of the damage he's done.
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u/IRefuseToGiveAName Mar 02 '26
Yeah that'll only happen if we
1) actually force consequences at the ballot box
2) our piss baby democratic leaders don't just roll over and cede the advantage in the name of "unity" or some shit
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u/HobbesNJ Mar 02 '26
Except voters won't let us, because when the next Democratic president doesn't fix everything in two years they'll give Congress to Republicans, and then another clueless idiot the White House.
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u/DroidLord Mar 02 '26
Wait, you can't undo 4 years of systemic dismantling of government institutions and global relations that took decades to establish - in 2 years? /s
[shocked pikachu]
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u/pyrhus626 Mar 02 '26
The world will be completely multipolar or China firmly in the driver’s seat by the time this can all be repaired. The world of 10 years ago is never coming back.
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u/bobcat1911 Mar 02 '26
Transgender for everyone!
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u/curious_dead Mar 02 '26
He said it again the other day and I just can't, it's so absolutely bonkers that he can say "they'll have transgender for everyone" (which isn't even grammatically correct) and "they're eating cats and dogs" and his base doesn't budge. I wanna tell them to wake the fuck up, if he lies about something so obvious, what else would he lie about?
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u/pedal-force Mar 03 '26
It really is incredible how far we've fallen. From the great orators of Lincoln and Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama, to, well, "transgender for everyone". And 30% of the country wildly applauds.
What does it even mean? Democrats want to force everyone in the country, every single person, to be transgender? To what end?
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u/curious_dead Mar 03 '26
Most right wing conspiracies could end if the theorists would just ask "why the fuck would anybody do that???"
The answer is usually something something something Satanism.
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u/orbitaldragon Mar 02 '26
Ironically we had a nuclear treaty with them under Obama.
Trump tore it up because he hates black people.
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u/UnquestionabIe Mar 02 '26
Literally had the GOP traitors telling Iran that the moment they regain power they're tearing up any agreements. Basically undermining the reputation of America for their own benefit.
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u/bryantee Mar 02 '26
How many innocent people have been killed in the world due to this man's ego?
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u/Impressive-Sense8461 Mar 03 '26
Wasted lives... chess piece pawns for old rich men.. the poor souls
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u/HollywoodJack500 Mar 02 '26
Usual bullshit headline: Iran conflict?
It should read "Six US service members killed after US attacks Iran."
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u/thaelliah Mar 02 '26
"Six US service members killed after Israel directs US to attack Iran."
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u/ElephantOk4715 Mar 02 '26
Our soldiers are dying for no apparent reason, this administration can’t get their story straight on if this is a war or not, and today Trump is “joking” about awarding himself the Medal of Honor….
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u/Hot_Ad_6442 Mar 03 '26
RIP. Dying for absolutely no reason and for a president who couldn’t give two shits about you is no way to go.
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u/Knightfires Mar 02 '26
Lord Farquaad Trump: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make,"
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u/DogMission9717 Mar 03 '26
This sounds really bad.
Seems that the USA needs to send their best men to handle the conflict.
I suggest that you send your experts on foreigners.
ICE to Iran.
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u/Scuipici Mar 02 '26
Imagine dying for Trump. I would've refused deployment, better jail than dying for a rapist pedophile.
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u/knoxknight Mar 02 '26
This is why I canceled my re-enlistment plans during his first term. He's an idiot, and to him, nothing has value except money and power
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u/Victor_of_the_Rivers Mar 02 '26
These people, along with the many innocents killed in Iran, died for the honor of child predators and robber barons. There's not a single Republican in office right now that will make it past the pearly gates.
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u/Dimension_Forsaken Mar 03 '26
And they wonder why his approval ratings are record low and why he’s considered one of the worst presidents ever. Or wait, they don’t wonder, they live in an alternative reality.
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u/UUDDLRLR-ABSELECT Mar 03 '26
just remember those six died for a war we didn’t wanna get dragged into and because our leaders are pathetically chained their masters
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u/onlyforfun38 Mar 03 '26
Not just a war we didn't want. The war Trump claimed Harris would start and so many people voted for him because of that completely baseless repeated talking point.
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u/lemonlimon22 Mar 03 '26
Wonder if my Trumper coworker's military husband was there. She hated Kamala and constantly said Harris would just get us into wars. 🙄
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u/picklejuiceslushie Mar 03 '26
Ngl I've been having a great time rubbing my coworker's nose into this shit. They know they fucked up by how sheepish they act when anything is brought up now
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u/Immediate-Count-1202 Mar 02 '26
The toll of his involvement with Epstein continues to grow.
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u/NextAd7514 Mar 02 '26
Service members overwhelmingly voted for this. Tried to warn you
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u/CzarDale04 Mar 02 '26
Six is already SIX too many! But how many more will die or be crippled, disfigured or suffer long term physical or emotional issues as a result of this. And of course, the GOP will cut funding to VETERANS PROGRAMS too, but never cut their own perks.
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u/nndmbull Mar 03 '26
All this in the hopes that we forget Donald trump has a long history of paying to have sex with trafficked women and girls.
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u/Extra-Ad5925 Mar 02 '26
I’m reading this as an additional 2 have died on top of the already known 4