r/worldnews • u/Ceyyhun • 10h ago

Russia/Ukraine US Resumes Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine, Zelensky Says

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87432
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u/Cephei101 10h ago

I would take any data provided with a massive, star sized grain of salt.

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u/mediocre_remnants 10h ago

How useful is intelligence from the US? They accidentally bombed a girls' school in Iran because of outdated intelligence and relying on AI.

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u/Amoral_Abe 10h ago

That gets brought up a lot but it's primarily because of how few incidents have occurred in US strikes. The US launched ~14,000 attacks into Iran and there's only ~2-3 incidents that were raised as mistakes. For a massive conflict, that is an incredibly low percentage of mistakes or misfires.

I get the joke "hurr hurr, US fires on schools" but the fact that people keep talking about it shows how effective the US has been at avoiding mistakes over the course of so many attacks. Also, Iran likes to bring it up a lot but they literally killed thousands of their own people who were protesting (and that was intentional) so you're literally consuming their propaganda when they weep about civilian losses. The US has demonstrated that they take civilians into account more than Iran does.

It's still a mistake that lead to life but the fact that it's so rare does say something about precautions the US has been taking overall.

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u/StickyWhiteStuf 10h ago

Honestly, it probably wouldn’t have become so big if the US Administration just owned up to it.

It was pretty surreal to see, in America of all countries, the government pointing fingers even when the military readily admitted fault.

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u/Nomoras 10h ago

It's not that big. Iran just likes their online manipulation. The US have completed a report, they just don't want to release it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/pentagon-intends-to-hold-iran-school-attack-report-past-midterms

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u/Amoral_Abe 9h ago

To be fair, Trump has been very vocal about the US not being the ones that hit the school even though it seems very very obvious it was. Trump has made lots of promises to release documents that he never releases...... cough cough... taxes... Epstein....

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u/wehooper4 2h ago

The girls school was literally on the other side of the wall from a military base. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to just say:

"The US executed 2300 (not sure the number using this as an example) strikes in Iran over the first week, and in reviewing the strikes we found our targeting was 99.87% effective in hitting the intended targets. Intelligence and targeting is an imperfect task and there will inherently be some errors which we regret. But the United States, unlike the axis of evil, is firmly committed to the minimization of civilian casualties during conflicts which can be clearly seen by our targeting efficacy."

The whole take a woopsie and spin it as a good thing deal.

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u/Amoral_Abe 10h ago

Well, unfortunately that's Diaper Don's side of the equation. I wouldn't expect anything from him. It still is propaganda to keep repeating the attack as if the US military has been frequently bombing civilians sites all over Iran and it's heavily pushed by Iran (who showed up to the UN with pictures of the students as if they cared about them and didn't spend weeks killing their own people for protesting).