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Lol, lmao. Get your bullshit framing out of here.

Wait, why is "independence" a good thing?

Jeez, the editing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html NYT with a decent article about the settler movement in Israel and it's history. In reading this, I could definitely see elements of my own personality in these settlers, and I don't doubt if I were born...

Also, Ukraine doesn't and won't have enough cruise missiles to waste on hitting russian electric stations.

I don't think there will be any big Russian offensive at all, besides local attacks like we've been seeing. The real time intelligence and targeting just makes it too costly. I think it's going to be the grind for as long as this goes on.

Yeah, that's true. I think there is a big difference between speech that can get you in legal hot water versus being a disrespectful, disruptive a-hole who gets expelled. Schools should be allowed to maintain a calm learning environment, probably 90% of students are still just trying to go to...

The Supreme Court disagrees.

I think way more emotional effort is spent vicariously participating in this conflict than even Russia/Ukraine for a couple reasons: 1. It gives right wing authoritarian and conservative personalities permission to remotely live out the total war fantasies we were all raised with (ie ww2...

No, this is definitely protected speech.

The term genocide is ludicrously overused. Neither this nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine are genocides. In fact, even the suggestion of partial ethnic cleansing by moving Gazans into Sinai got shut down pretty fast.

That would have mattered had most of those commanders not been paid to stand down by US intel (which was very smart btw).

That was in 2003, 21 years ago. Iran is vastly larger and has a fleet of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones, that Iraq never had. Even so, the OIF buildup took 6 months for an undersized force too small to control Iraq- and the US can no longer even project the kind of ground force...

Israel is 1,000 miles from Iran. Which bases could our planes sortie out of that would be immune to missile bombardment? What's the range of a carrier launched F-35? How many Tomahawks can the navy shoot before it has to go reload? How many can be made per year? Where is the closest safe base to...

Sure, pummeling could be done. But there are many US bases well within range of Iran's ballistic and cruise missiles now. In order to do a serious, long air campaign (instead of just damaging stuff, calling it a win, and leaving) you need to move a ton of logistics very close. It should be...

The issue is that the US cannot make these things quickly or cheaply enough. Outside of a big reindustrialization effort, the obvious play would be to outsource patriot interceptor production to somewhere that can make them fast and cheap. I've read that they subbed out the new Patriot...

Yeah its not gonna happen.

That's just not true anymore. The US can't base aircraft close enough to Iran to start any serious bombardment without being under constant missile and drone attack themselves. Every base we would use could come under constant debilitating missile and drone attack. Even the carriers can't reach...

You think Israel could "crush" Iran? Where would they base from?

This really isn't the case any longer.