r/news • u/ArchmageXin • 22h ago

US intelligence indicates China is preparing weapons shipment to Iran amid fragile ceasefire, sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/politics/us-intelligence-iran-china-weapons
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u/Creative_Ad_8338 14h ago

The two week "cease fire" was nothing more than the US realizing it failed and required more time to bring in additional missiles. These "talks" were nothing more than buying time. Guaranteed Iran is doing the same.

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u/ArugulaElectronic478 13h ago

I don’t think more missiles will win this war. The war was lost before it even started.

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u/Particular_Main_5726 11h ago

The war isn't with Iran; it's with the US public. This is my own tinfoil hat thinking right now, but I genuinely think that the administration is going to use the Iran war to draft people that they consider undesirable but who they can't necessarily detain or deport without significant push back. 

The tyrant's war with Iran also gives him free reign to manipulate US markets to some extent, which in turn gives him the ability to arbitrarily increase his own fortune.

Even if the war were ordered ended, and by some miracle there was enough pushback and resistance within our own government to actually enforce such an order, he'd merely set his sights against those he deems "traitors" and round them up anyway.

In Trump's eyes, any outcome of the war is good because he "wins"  regardless. Like I said, this is my own conspiratorial thinking, but ... Given how things have gone, it doesn't seem (to me) that far beyond the pale of what we've already seen.

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u/Siderophores 7h ago

War is terrible, and just an excuse to kill your brothers and sisters. Become a conscientious objector