Usually during the opening days of a conflict I keep an eye on military subreddits. So far, with 72 comments in that thread, I see one pro-war one (https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1rgvv3w/comment/o7uf6pb/) which is sitting at -21 points and one positive reply versus three antizionist ones. Everyone else is having a similar response to comments I’d see on here. The Epstein Forever Wars, Iraq comparisons, “American geologists looking for oil” with US soldiers, war is a racket and why can’t we build infrastructure instead, etc. Maybe the tone will shift over the near-future but currently commenters there are hostile to the war.
This thread covering the 5th Fleet HQ strike in Bahrain on /r/Navy is the most biased thread I could think of. Right now (12:00 UTC) that’s the only specific airstrike against the west that’s getting significant media coverage. There are a few more pro-war comments, but the sentiment so far with 99 comments leans anti-war. Some commenters are concerned for people they know on the bases, some are casually breaking OPSEC without mods cracking down yet (fun mission: archive all the military subreddit threads this morning and maybe you’ll get some troops arrested), some are debating the strength of Iran’s military, and the sentiment is openly anti-Trump.
https://archive.is/v7513
Usually during the opening days of a conflict I keep an eye on military subreddits. So far, with 72 comments in that thread, I see one pro-war one (https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1rgvv3w/comment/o7uf6pb/) which is sitting at -21 points and one positive reply versus three antizionist ones. Everyone else is having a similar response to comments I’d see on here. The Epstein Forever Wars, Iraq comparisons, “American geologists looking for oil” with US soldiers, war is a racket and why can’t we build infrastructure instead, etc. Maybe the tone will shift over the near-future but currently commenters there are hostile to the war.
https://archive.is/wip/ecP6r
This thread covering the 5th Fleet HQ strike in Bahrain on /r/Navy is the most biased thread I could think of. Right now (12:00 UTC) that’s the only specific airstrike against the west that’s getting significant media coverage. There are a few more pro-war comments, but the sentiment so far with 99 comments leans anti-war. Some commenters are concerned for people they know on the bases, some are casually breaking OPSEC without mods cracking down yet (fun mission: archive all the military subreddit threads this morning and maybe you’ll get some troops arrested), some are debating the strength of Iran’s military, and the sentiment is openly anti-Trump.
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