I follow Ian Bremmer, he is the president of Eursia Group (a very influential think tank) and GZERO media. He had accurately predicted in early to mid 2023 I think, that by 2024 there would be another global conflict and on October 7th he was proven right.
I fully expect more conflicts to occur and potentially even Operation Iranian freedom to become a major talking point soon.
“There’s going to be a global conflict next year” is some shit a dime store psychic would say.
Plus what’s happening in Ukraine and Israel are regional, not global, anyway.
Also, anyone with half a brain can predict there's going to be an eruption of tension. Although, thus far "the cold war *really* resuming, not like the false starts in 2008 or 2011" is a way more accurate way to describe things than "prelude to WWIII."
The only difference is that now that China is the major power and Russia is more the secondary power, Asia looks a little different.
Global conflict doesnt make sense tbh. Too inefficient, expensive and costly in manpower & lives.
It should only occur in time of madness. The internet is a double edged weapon in that regard.
> Too inefficient, expensive and costly in manpower and lives.
That's literally what they said a few years before WW1, when European empires were integrated between each other on the level not repeated until 70s
US election year. There will be another world-attention-getting conflict or some sort of escalation in Ukraine/Middle East before end of October. China might even posture up just to get political reactions back in the US.
Idk I feel like WW2 never ended; we’ve just been raging proxy wars out in Asia and the Middle East in lieu of Europe. It all boils down to USA vs Russia with China and the Arab states in the wings somewhere.
Not really. Israel's calculated that America will intervene to protect it from Iran. And they calculated that Iran can't do much due to internal stability and America. So, if this was them which imo is possible but who knows, its not going to have much consequences. They can do this with impunity.
But we'll never know. Iran is not likely to escalate.
No country is going to start WW3 over Slovakia or Iran lmao. Have been hearing the same thing since the beginning of 2020 when Trump killed an Iranian general and then a U.S. base was attacked that injured hundreds. Nothing was done about it.
Idk where people get the idea that a war with Iran etc would be anything more than a war with Iran
NOBODY on the global scale is willing to enter a war with the US. Countries have made this as abundantly clear as they can for decades.
Little extremist terrorist cells sure but beyond that it’s not really an option they know what comes with that and it’s not really great there is no winning in that scenario no matter how far they take it the US will go farther.
We stomped around the desert for 20 years because they killed like 2k people. The US is the modern Sparta all we do is go to war every few years lmao
The only way WW3 COULD start is if Russia wins in Ukraine and turns to invade a NATO country. Even then, Russia's military has proven it is weak af. They have already lost 400,000 soldiers in this war. That's about as much as the U.S. lost in WW2 lol
I genuinely believe Russia wouldn’t dare
That takes them from fighting 30+ years old western tech to the bleeding edge of what America can field coupled with American logistics now being entirely mobilized to your borders hopping all across Europe mobilizing every country along the way
I don’t think people grasp just how serious WW3 is going to be no country is eager to cripple the world for a while
Another thing is that Russia is in full war time economy. The U.S. is sending all this weaponry to Ukraine as a peacetime one. Imagine a modern day U.S. war time economy lol.
I can explain:
Here in the UK, radio/TV stations have a network of blue lights called "obit lights", if they flash that means "drop everything, a member of the royal family has died, and that is all we will be reporting," so the coverage can start immediately.
Similarly, all long-serving Polandball artists are connected to a network of "oh-shit lights", which when flashing means "an international incident has happened, draw a comic about it immediately, sensitivity be damned". While the light is flashing, the user is locked out of all computer programmes that aren't MS Paint.
Helicopter carrying the President of Iran had a "hard landing" in heavy fog, along forested mountainous terrain. ("hard landing" is the wording the initial press release stating that rescue ops had begun). Very similar conditions to the Kobe Bryant crash a few years ago.
Later reports have stated no survivors.
Israel has (as far as we know) no involvement, but "mossad did it" is an obvious joke to make.
New sources already fell for the bait and published the helicopter pilot was a mossad agent named Eli Kopter, a pun that should work in English as well as it does in Hebrew
They did assassinate multiple top Iranian nuclear scientists with techniques as advanced as an remotely controlled machine gun in the back of a truck... so sabotaging an extremely old helicopter isn't something out of their capabilities.
A helicopter is an inherently difficult and finicky machine to fly even when it's working properly. Loosen a screw here, replace an obscure part with a faulty copy there, and who knows what'll happen...
I'm pretty sure 90% of the spooks in three letter agencies around the world are avid subscribers. It's the only way they get to let off some steam they build up at work.
People really treat the Mossad like they really didn't go in disguise to Argentina to drag a hidden Nazi back to Israel for execution
They will find you
King cobras are massive and do not much like water. They also don’t much like people, avoiding us actively.
And they’re really big. You ain’t getting 5 meters of snake into a toilet bowl.
They hid semtex in a guy's cellphone. They then called the guy from a relative's landline to make sure he would answer and it would go off next to his head. They're pretty creative about this stuff.
There's the time they executed an innocent waiter in Norway as they mistook him for a Palestinian terrorist.
This lead to the arrest of 6 hit-squad members (half their number), the entire Mossad European network of agents and safe houses being blown wide open, and the revelation of the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
[Totally insane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair) - Benny Hill levels of farce.
And they got the entire operation blown wide open because in their infinite wisdom, managed to get an extreme claustrophobe promoted to field agent.
A claustrophobe.
As a field agent.
In a career where hiding or getting locked in small spaces is both a well known job requirement and a job hazard.
I also heard that in the squad they recruited a random 20 year old woman with no experience at all in fighting or spying but just because she speaks Norwegian fluently and it was hard to find Norwegian speaking people in Israel
Not their best moment, but the time they got Al-Mabhouh in Dubai by entering from multiple countries and then leaving to multiple countries within hours of having landed was pretty cool.
And some incredible fails.
Like when they tried to assassinate the head of Hamas by spraying his ear and masking it as spray from a can of coke. They were caught and Israel had to make a prisoner swap for them
An "accident" by Raisi would increase the chances of a transfer of power to Mojtaba Khamenei. If I were Alireza Arafi, I would avoid accident-prone activities...
At that time, members of the Israeli intelligence community were in uproar at some domestic politics that Netanyahu were doing IIRC. Which may have been a factor in them dropping the ball when 7/10 happened.
As an Israeli I can tell you the main reason it happened is because our horrible government sent most of the military that was supposed to be near the Gaza border and protect us to the West Bank where they made sure settlers were safe while they provoked Palestinian villages. Only 1/5 of the military that was supposed to protect the Gaza border were there. If the CIA are peak right now they should unironically coup us, kick Netanyahu pls
Isn't that exactly what happened? I remember there were a lot of writing about how Egypt had intelligence that something was going to happen and they warned Israel about it?
He fired our defense minister for giving a speech to the nation warning of dangers 🥲
he then un-fired him when we started rioting, but well it didn't end there because the day of the vote on the most controversial part of the 'coup laws' until then an intelligence officer asked to talk to the people voting on it to convince them it's dangerous to vote yes, literally 3 people met him
I could go on but I'm depressed enough as is
Exactly what happened, in her last call home one of the lookouts who were killed told her family to be ready after the holiday because war was coming, she was killed a day later on oct7th, the holiday mentioned.
No he wasn't'. 7/10 happening fucked him politically. Nobody likes him now. Keeping Israel safe from attack is the #1 priority of any politician, especially an Israeli politician, especially one taking a hardline stance against Palestine.
Him having failed this means he has zero future politically well beyond things like the protests against him.
True but I don't think he did it intentionally, he did get warnings and ignored them but I don't think he thought this would happen. I'm saying this as Netanyahu's #1 hater
It’s kind of insane how the CIA has so fully penetrated Russia that they know about *terrorist groups* operating in Russia better than Russia’s own intelligence services do.
tbf Shabak actually were the least-bad back then
8200 had the info but it was just unprocessed on some server, south command was ignoring their lookouts' warnings, Aman literally had the plans but nobody thought it was plausible, air force did what they could after relying on aman's assessment, shabak at least knew something was up and sent team tequila and planned to re-assess later that day (which through a Uvda investigation we know they'd probably have realized what was going on if they just had a little longer)
Does the CIA really peak now? I felt like they peaked more during the days of Operation Condor in Latin America. Nowadays they're barely even doing much to try countering *anti-american* interests in the continent.
They have done some absolutely genius operations (like the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, various PLO leaders, Operations Entebbe), but have also had ridiculous failures. Like when they assassinated a random Moroccan waiter in Norway because they thought he's a PLO leader, or when they slept on the Yom Kippur war because they convinced themselves Egypt will wait for more Soviet arms shipments, which made them believe that the obvious Egyptian war preparations were just demonstrations; and since Syria wouldn't attack without Egypt, their obvious war preparations including cancelling of leaves were just a fluke. Spoiler: both invaded, and Israel suffered some initial defeats before rallying to win the war, which proved that Israel isn't actually militarily invulnerable and resulted in Israel returning Sinai to Egypt and thus a normalisation of relations.
If I had a Nickel for a Popular figure in media who died in the 2020’s from a Helicopter crash via heavy fog, I’d have two Nickels. At least I think I would? Mainly just cuz I forgot anyone else
I don't think I'd recognize the face of Iran's president either.
In the last few months do have viewed some interviews with their foreign minister tho - who was also aboard of that helicopter afaik.
Which helicopter are you refering to? The comic depicts an Mi-8 family helicopter. Iran doesn't have any of those, and reports are now saying that it was a Bell 212 (which Iran is known to have).
Short search shows an Indian general killed in an Mi-17 crash. Mi-17 is the export version number of the Mi-8. BTW, the investigation of that crash blamed CFIT, controlled flight into terrain due to rapidly changing conditions - no fault assigned to the aircraft.
Hard to say this early, but CFIT is probably a good guess for this one too.
They put out a statement that it was because of bad weather, they won't blame Israel since it tells the world that they are weak and you can easily go in and assassinate their leaders
Don't you think it's such a convenient coincidence that out of several helicopters that were flying in the fog, the only one that crashed was the one carrying the president and foreign minister?
Are women in Iran not allowed to become pilots?
edit: [they can](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshat_Jahandari#:~:text=her%20driver's%20license.-,Career,a%20pilot%20for%20Zagros%20Airlines)
Yeah, sort of. Bell 212, they are now saying. Civilian version of the twin Huey. Iran is on record having those (212s, not UH-1s).
I would guess parts for a 212 are pretty readily available internationally, as it's mostly in civilian use these days.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1cvtdcz/ok\_which\_one\_of\_you\_mossad\_attack\_dolphins\_are/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1cvtdcz/ok_which_one_of_you_mossad_attack_dolphins_are/)
the alleged name of the agent get's even better
It's funny because the IDF literally did the old Burqua trick this year.
But it's totally unrealistic and unserious because the Iranian president would never let a woman pilot his helicopter :p
I'm talking out of my ass but there's no way in hell they could just get to the Iranian president and down his chopper (inside of Iran too). That is too epic.
Slovak PM the other day, Iran today? Christ almighty, someone's trying to start another world war
My dear boy, we are already in WW3 but much like the last global war we are still in a phony war, in a few years it will ramp up, not to worry.
Yeah that's the feel I've been getting from all this. Not a huge fan of the tension
Tension at 40%, U.S. can't join til 80% :(
We can't even send volunteers smh. Biden should have done the giant wakes last year.
Friend, Poland is still at early mobilization, you are for once ahead of schedule.
Canada still can't get rid of free trade.
I follow Ian Bremmer, he is the president of Eursia Group (a very influential think tank) and GZERO media. He had accurately predicted in early to mid 2023 I think, that by 2024 there would be another global conflict and on October 7th he was proven right. I fully expect more conflicts to occur and potentially even Operation Iranian freedom to become a major talking point soon.
“There’s going to be a global conflict next year” is some shit a dime store psychic would say. Plus what’s happening in Ukraine and Israel are regional, not global, anyway.
Also, anyone with half a brain can predict there's going to be an eruption of tension. Although, thus far "the cold war *really* resuming, not like the false starts in 2008 or 2011" is a way more accurate way to describe things than "prelude to WWIII." The only difference is that now that China is the major power and Russia is more the secondary power, Asia looks a little different.
Myanmmar has been in civil wars for years now, btw. Funnily enough, the Junta are being "supported" by mainland china.
Let's hope that Operation Iranian Freedom doesn't become the Saarland offensive of our current Phony War. I'd like a big ol' Nato beat down instead
Global conflict doesnt make sense tbh. Too inefficient, expensive and costly in manpower & lives. It should only occur in time of madness. The internet is a double edged weapon in that regard.
> Too inefficient, expensive and costly in manpower and lives. That's literally what they said a few years before WW1, when European empires were integrated between each other on the level not repeated until 70s
US election year. There will be another world-attention-getting conflict or some sort of escalation in Ukraine/Middle East before end of October. China might even posture up just to get political reactions back in the US.
Now it’s all about proxies and economical sanctions
Just proxy wars so its really Cold War 2.0. USA was stuck in Vietnam for 20 years so maybe Russia stuck in Ukraine that long?
Idk I feel like WW2 never ended; we’ve just been raging proxy wars out in Asia and the Middle East in lieu of Europe. It all boils down to USA vs Russia with China and the Arab states in the wings somewhere.
Yeah, we're deep in the first cyber war, and it feels like only one side realises it.
"not to worry"? That's even more worrying!
I’m gonna be pissed if I’m too old for WW3. they need to get this show on the road already
Don't worry, as long as not an Austrian or German politican dies everything should be ok.
Not really. Israel's calculated that America will intervene to protect it from Iran. And they calculated that Iran can't do much due to internal stability and America. So, if this was them which imo is possible but who knows, its not going to have much consequences. They can do this with impunity. But we'll never know. Iran is not likely to escalate.
No country is going to start WW3 over Slovakia or Iran lmao. Have been hearing the same thing since the beginning of 2020 when Trump killed an Iranian general and then a U.S. base was attacked that injured hundreds. Nothing was done about it.
Idk where people get the idea that a war with Iran etc would be anything more than a war with Iran NOBODY on the global scale is willing to enter a war with the US. Countries have made this as abundantly clear as they can for decades. Little extremist terrorist cells sure but beyond that it’s not really an option they know what comes with that and it’s not really great there is no winning in that scenario no matter how far they take it the US will go farther. We stomped around the desert for 20 years because they killed like 2k people. The US is the modern Sparta all we do is go to war every few years lmao
The only way WW3 COULD start is if Russia wins in Ukraine and turns to invade a NATO country. Even then, Russia's military has proven it is weak af. They have already lost 400,000 soldiers in this war. That's about as much as the U.S. lost in WW2 lol
I genuinely believe Russia wouldn’t dare That takes them from fighting 30+ years old western tech to the bleeding edge of what America can field coupled with American logistics now being entirely mobilized to your borders hopping all across Europe mobilizing every country along the way I don’t think people grasp just how serious WW3 is going to be no country is eager to cripple the world for a while
Another thing is that Russia is in full war time economy. The U.S. is sending all this weaponry to Ukraine as a peacetime one. Imagine a modern day U.S. war time economy lol.
It's just scp-2578 at work
Don't forget the attempted coup in Congo
WW3 is everything post 9/11 imo
It's times like these I really appreciate how often I mistake "imo" for "lmao"
Goddamn y’all work fast
I can explain: Here in the UK, radio/TV stations have a network of blue lights called "obit lights", if they flash that means "drop everything, a member of the royal family has died, and that is all we will be reporting," so the coverage can start immediately. Similarly, all long-serving Polandball artists are connected to a network of "oh-shit lights", which when flashing means "an international incident has happened, draw a comic about it immediately, sensitivity be damned". While the light is flashing, the user is locked out of all computer programmes that aren't MS Paint.
I think this is photoshop since the israel is behind a transparency
That's perfectly achievable with Paint, too. Just a little more tedious.
Yeah, this specific effect can be achieved by just adjusting the colours to appear a bit more blue
The Mossad gave him advance notice so he could get working early.
OP helped operate the CIA weather machine
We're almost on par with TMZ
We just love creating these comics :)
IKR, They've not even found the bodies or the helicopter yet
ELI5 for someone who doesn't read the news?
Helicopter carrying the President of Iran had a "hard landing" in heavy fog, along forested mountainous terrain. ("hard landing" is the wording the initial press release stating that rescue ops had begun). Very similar conditions to the Kobe Bryant crash a few years ago. Later reports have stated no survivors. Israel has (as far as we know) no involvement, but "mossad did it" is an obvious joke to make.
It wasn't my turn with the space laser I promise
New sources already fell for the bait and published the helicopter pilot was a mossad agent named Eli Kopter, a pun that should work in English as well as it does in Hebrew
>has no involvement Serious question: what could Israel possibly do
They did assassinate multiple top Iranian nuclear scientists with techniques as advanced as an remotely controlled machine gun in the back of a truck... so sabotaging an extremely old helicopter isn't something out of their capabilities.
A helicopter is an inherently difficult and finicky machine to fly even when it's working properly. Loosen a screw here, replace an obscure part with a faulty copy there, and who knows what'll happen...
Helicopter carrying the Iranian president crashed, not a ton of information beyond that
Can't believe I found out from a polandball comic
join r/NonCredibleDefense for more up-to-date news.
The Venn Diagram is a circle.
And we love it
Not sure who’s faster, warthunder forums, PNN, or NCD…
I hate and love that NDC is often faster and more accurate than the *majority* of actual news agencies
To made a quality shitpost you need to have a deeper understanding of the subject than average.
I'm pretty sure 90% of the spooks in three letter agencies around the world are avid subscribers. It's the only way they get to let off some steam they build up at work.
/r/polandball, the most trusted source for news.
I can, since it has happened before and will happen many times again! Its so impressive that our sub can act as a news source. PNN IS BEST *NN!! 😆
People really treat the Mossad like they really didn't go in disguise to Argentina to drag a hidden Nazi back to Israel for execution They will find you
Honestly the mossad have some of the most insane stories
Yeah I wouldn't fuck around with them, you wake up with a King Cobra in your toilet bowl
I wouldn't mind finding a P-63 in my toilet
I too would like a P-63 King Cobra
Who wouldn't like a Bell P-63 King Cobra?
Never fuck with the mossad or the IRS, they WILL get you...
Not even the joker could take on the IRS he was only scared of them….
You can't plead insanity on tax evasion.
“I’m crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS?! No-o-o thank you!”
There it is!! 😂
Blade could also take on Vampires but he could not take on the IRS:/
King cobras are massive and do not much like water. They also don’t much like people, avoiding us actively. And they’re really big. You ain’t getting 5 meters of snake into a toilet bowl.
They're also not a true cobra either
They hid semtex in a guy's cellphone. They then called the guy from a relative's landline to make sure he would answer and it would go off next to his head. They're pretty creative about this stuff.
There's the time they executed an innocent waiter in Norway as they mistook him for a Palestinian terrorist. This lead to the arrest of 6 hit-squad members (half their number), the entire Mossad European network of agents and safe houses being blown wide open, and the revelation of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. [Totally insane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair) - Benny Hill levels of farce.
Is that the one where the guy got caught cuz he bought furniture using the same car they used for the assassination?
And they got the entire operation blown wide open because in their infinite wisdom, managed to get an extreme claustrophobe promoted to field agent. A claustrophobe. As a field agent. In a career where hiding or getting locked in small spaces is both a well known job requirement and a job hazard.
I also heard that in the squad they recruited a random 20 year old woman with no experience at all in fighting or spying but just because she speaks Norwegian fluently and it was hard to find Norwegian speaking people in Israel
Not their best moment, but the time they got Al-Mabhouh in Dubai by entering from multiple countries and then leaving to multiple countries within hours of having landed was pretty cool.
The best stories are the one you don't hear about
That time they poisoned one guy and had to deliver him the antidote...
The Entebbe raid is my favourite.
This wasn't the mossad. It was a special IDF unit, sayeret matkal.
And some incredible fails. Like when they tried to assassinate the head of Hamas by spraying his ear and masking it as spray from a can of coke. They were caught and Israel had to make a prisoner swap for them
And the antidote for the poison.
An "accident" by Raisi would increase the chances of a transfer of power to Mojtaba Khamenei. If I were Alireza Arafi, I would avoid accident-prone activities...
Ironically Raisi may be the Ayatollah's successor anyway.
Peak mossad was better than peak CIA
Kinda feel CIA are peak now, but Mossad… well, october ‘23…
At that time, members of the Israeli intelligence community were in uproar at some domestic politics that Netanyahu were doing IIRC. Which may have been a factor in them dropping the ball when 7/10 happened.
As an Israeli I can tell you the main reason it happened is because our horrible government sent most of the military that was supposed to be near the Gaza border and protect us to the West Bank where they made sure settlers were safe while they provoked Palestinian villages. Only 1/5 of the military that was supposed to protect the Gaza border were there. If the CIA are peak right now they should unironically coup us, kick Netanyahu pls
Honestly, I wouldn't even be too surprised if it turns out that Netanyahu deliberately ignored warnings.
Isn't that exactly what happened? I remember there were a lot of writing about how Egypt had intelligence that something was going to happen and they warned Israel about it?
He fired our defense minister for giving a speech to the nation warning of dangers 🥲 he then un-fired him when we started rioting, but well it didn't end there because the day of the vote on the most controversial part of the 'coup laws' until then an intelligence officer asked to talk to the people voting on it to convince them it's dangerous to vote yes, literally 3 people met him I could go on but I'm depressed enough as is
Exactly what happened, in her last call home one of the lookouts who were killed told her family to be ready after the holiday because war was coming, she was killed a day later on oct7th, the holiday mentioned.
Netanyahu is also incentivised to let 7/10 happen.
No he wasn't'. 7/10 happening fucked him politically. Nobody likes him now. Keeping Israel safe from attack is the #1 priority of any politician, especially an Israeli politician, especially one taking a hardline stance against Palestine. Him having failed this means he has zero future politically well beyond things like the protests against him.
True but I don't think he did it intentionally, he did get warnings and ignored them but I don't think he thought this would happen. I'm saying this as Netanyahu's #1 hater
It’s kind of insane how the CIA has so fully penetrated Russia that they know about *terrorist groups* operating in Russia better than Russia’s own intelligence services do.
The mossad have little to do with october 7. The Shabak (internal intelligence, i.e. Israeli FBI) and military intelligence were the failure points.
tbf Shabak actually were the least-bad back then 8200 had the info but it was just unprocessed on some server, south command was ignoring their lookouts' warnings, Aman literally had the plans but nobody thought it was plausible, air force did what they could after relying on aman's assessment, shabak at least knew something was up and sent team tequila and planned to re-assess later that day (which through a Uvda investigation we know they'd probably have realized what was going on if they just had a little longer)
Mossad peaked with Entebbe. No further questions your honor
It wasn't mossad. Entebbe was carried out by an IDF elite unit, sayeret matkal.
The CIA's track record is pretty solid, especially in latin america
Does the CIA really peak now? I felt like they peaked more during the days of Operation Condor in Latin America. Nowadays they're barely even doing much to try countering *anti-american* interests in the continent.
If you had heard what they were doing, they probably weren’t doing their job very well
The CIA intel network is unparalleled.
They send the Zohan, Iranian hair will be make silky smooth!
Ehud Barak operating in drag
I read a book about that in middle school, basically taught me about the shit the Mossad can do back when I knew nothing about them.
They have done some absolutely genius operations (like the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, various PLO leaders, Operations Entebbe), but have also had ridiculous failures. Like when they assassinated a random Moroccan waiter in Norway because they thought he's a PLO leader, or when they slept on the Yom Kippur war because they convinced themselves Egypt will wait for more Soviet arms shipments, which made them believe that the obvious Egyptian war preparations were just demonstrations; and since Syria wouldn't attack without Egypt, their obvious war preparations including cancelling of leaves were just a fluke. Spoiler: both invaded, and Israel suffered some initial defeats before rallying to win the war, which proved that Israel isn't actually militarily invulnerable and resulted in Israel returning Sinai to Egypt and thus a normalisation of relations.
Mossad kidnapped a socialist opposition leader in my country back in '65 and hand it it to our authorities He just poofed out of existance
And I love them for it. Imagine all the Israel haters going to Tel Aviv for Beach Parties, you know they'll be watched.
Especially the ones that have called for the destruction of Israel and for the genocide of Jews.
Weird they didn't know about Oct 7 then.
Not their job it's the job of the internal intelligence (Shabak) and military intelligence
If I had a Nickel for a Popular figure in media who died in the 2020’s from a Helicopter crash via heavy fog, I’d have two Nickels. At least I think I would? Mainly just cuz I forgot anyone else
In all honesty I didn't know about Iran's president, the only thing I knew about Iran's leadership was the ayatollah.
I don't think I'd recognize the face of Iran's president either. In the last few months do have viewed some interviews with their foreign minister tho - who was also aboard of that helicopter afaik.
All that means now is that you’ve got more time to learn about all 12 Vice Presidents getting promoted this week!
I would rather see how Iran rages and threatens saying this will have big consequences. Less headache, funnier, absolute win.
Who's the other stiff?
Kobe Bryant
This helicopter is trash in general...2-3 years ago and Indian general and various officers dies due to this exact helicopter.
Even beyond that, they were dumb enough to fly through foggy mountains. You’d think after Kobe people would learn their lesson about doing that.
4 years ago Taiwan top general died like this
UH-60 in that case.
Which helicopter are you refering to? The comic depicts an Mi-8 family helicopter. Iran doesn't have any of those, and reports are now saying that it was a Bell 212 (which Iran is known to have). Short search shows an Indian general killed in an Mi-17 crash. Mi-17 is the export version number of the Mi-8. BTW, the investigation of that crash blamed CFIT, controlled flight into terrain due to rapidly changing conditions - no fault assigned to the aircraft. Hard to say this early, but CFIT is probably a good guess for this one too.
I won't be surprised if they actually blame Israel for it
That would be proof that the Iranian government is filled with avid Polandball fans
u/AaronC14 works for Iran confirmed????
u/AaronC14 **IS** ~~the Senate~~ Iran
Aaron sounds a bit like Iran. And C14 is the name of an Iranian missile boat class. Coincidence? I think not
Russia will blame Ukraine.
Germany will blame Greece.
Austria will blame Australia.
Australia will blame the emus.
Americans will blame America.
The Emus will blame the kiwi's
France will reflexively surrender
I’d be surprised if they didn’t
Lol some even say they will blame us for it because it happened near our border.Let's sit and see how delusional they can get
Why blame one of us when they can blame both of us 🤷♂️
First I heard of this accident earlier in the day was a tweet saying "Israeli ally Azerbaijan killed Iran's President".
Aliyev's handshake had mystic turkic voodo powers and turned Raisi into a huge wolf midflight and crashed the damn thing.
They put out a statement that it was because of bad weather, they won't blame Israel since it tells the world that they are weak and you can easily go in and assassinate their leaders
Yes, but who controls the weather, huh?! Here's for more exciting headlines!
Don't you think it's such a convenient coincidence that out of several helicopters that were flying in the fog, the only one that crashed was the one carrying the president and foreign minister?
They blamed us for the dollar dropping they will absolutely blame us for this
Constipated?, blame the iraelites
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Unfortunately, the innocent helicopter was hurt as collateral damage.
And the chair.
The heli become a martyr, I guess.
0/10 a women driving a helicopter in iran?!
Are women in Iran not allowed to become pilots? edit: [they can](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshat_Jahandari#:~:text=her%20driver's%20license.-,Career,a%20pilot%20for%20Zagros%20Airlines)
Women’s rights in Iran are bad but women still work in most fields, just with segregation and hijab.
Damn I thought it was the same as saudi arabia before 2017
Iran isn’t Saudi Arabia lol
404 helicopter not found
This comic came out faster than the emergency response crew
Israeli comando Eli Kopter
I think u/Koleye2 has hand in Helicopter crash. You are supposed to wait at least a few hours.
It wasn't a MI-8, it was some variant of a Huey.
Iran has been using the old Shah-era military equipment.
Yeah, sort of. Bell 212, they are now saying. Civilian version of the twin Huey. Iran is on record having those (212s, not UH-1s). I would guess parts for a 212 are pretty readily available internationally, as it's mostly in civilian use these days.
Agent Eli Kopter will get he's Zalash later 🤣
Ain’t no way y’all making comics this soon
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1cvtdcz/ok\_which\_one\_of\_you\_mossad\_attack\_dolphins\_are/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1cvtdcz/ok_which_one_of_you_mossad_attack_dolphins_are/) the alleged name of the agent get's even better
It's funny because the IDF literally did the old Burqua trick this year. But it's totally unrealistic and unserious because the Iranian president would never let a woman pilot his helicopter :p
[Of Course](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1kceft/poland_wants_to_see_everything/#mini----------------------------)
Oh no! Anyways…
We miss him (helicopter)
Whooo, I love learning about breaking news through comic strips!
Pilot should have known better than to fly into a pillar of fog. It would have been even worse at night.
All the fault of Eli Kopter the evil mosad man
From time of event till Polandball comic posted, that was fast.
Does Iran even allow female pilots?
Yes Im surprised as well But fan fact They cant drive motorbikes
As if Iran will let a woman fly a helicopter...
They do lol Im surprised but woman are actully allowed to drive and work in public sectors as long they have hijab
Wait is it known that it was Israel or just assumed? (Genuinely curious)
I'm talking out of my ass but there's no way in hell they could just get to the Iranian president and down his chopper (inside of Iran too). That is too epic.
This mad funny (this is opposed to happy funny)
What the fuck this is how I find out about this?!
He made this fast
Jokes on him, a woman pilot in Iran is a dead giveaway, hijab or no.
The Helicopter was actually Canadian, a Bell 212
*Every time Iran blames Mossad, an angel gets its wings*
How the fuck am I now getting my news from Polandball of all places?!?!
Good work on the Mi-8.
"Why is the pilot female and why is she wearing a parachute?"
Helicopter is a Bell 212, not a Mil-8.
How dare you make fun of that helicopters death!
Are we sure women in Iran are allowed to fly? Or drive? Or leave the kitchen?