Jeanne-Paul Marat

This is why I really don’t get mad about it. Not that it isn’t bad. But this is what an abusive relationship is like. I was in one and that’s exactly what I thought. I could stand up to them and yell and whatever and all they’d do is make it worse. I could stop them from hurting our animals and probably not end up doing anything besides get more hurt, or i could sit down and shut down. There are certainly things we can encourage abuse victims to do, and even be disappointed in if they do certain things, but it really doesn’t help to be angry about it

Of course there are considerations for whether this is advantageous for Iran rather than letting the plane strafe US land forces (/s)

I’m shocked they weren’t doing this already

I’m shocked they weren’t doing this already

What’s even going on in Egypt? I feel like out of any country in the middle east they would have some amount of influence to do…anything

That top image is beautiful

So wait is he stating this is why the US has been bouncing their carriers in and out of striking distance?

If (more like when) a ground invasion doesn’t work, what are the chances the US actually uses a nuclear weapon? Tactical or otherwise?

What would actually be the consequences of that? I honestly can’t think of specifics.

Im really wondering how long we’ll be feeling this war for

Oh my god he actually is a LLM

The conversation was predicated on the idea that Europe was going to ask Russia for energy. If they’re not then Russia obviously holds no leverage. But if Europe does push to the point that they start asking for Russian gas again, then obviously Russia would be in the position to possibly start making demands again.

It’d be odd that Russia would reject an opportunity to gain some leverage over Europe.

I mean, that’s the entire reason the US/Ukraine blew up their pipeline in the Baltic.

While the Europeans are definitely Russophobic, there’s obviously enough of them who either don’t care or are fair weather players. Especially depending on who gets elected next.

Not to mention how worse the demographic crisis would end up being

The first time anyone has gone to war with a country and unsanctioned them at the same time?

I think it should be a little different. Either renkunce your Israeli citizenship or renounce your Russian one and give up any attempts to come back to Russia later. They either have to go back to Russia now or they have to tie themselves to the sinking ship that is the Israeli entity

I’m going to blame problems happening in Cuba related to this partially on Zelensky and the Ukro-nazis. Russia would probably be able to help more if they weren’t bombing shipping.

I’d be a very bad president tbh, cause I’d send these tankers with a decent escort just daring the US navy to try to intercept. The missile crisis was one thing, but if they seize this ship it has to count as an act of war at some point right?

Definitely. The key thing is that NATO is starting to be seen as more of a burden than a boon for the US. Europe needs NATO, while the US does not. Trump, once this is over, will probably rage a lot but I wouldn’t say it’s guaranteed he will leave NATO. However, he definitely will push for the US to get something from Europe. Maybe related to Ukraine, maybe more defense spending, who knows. If he can’t, then id definitely consider it a possibility

Tbf rocket science is also an engineering question that was figured out 80 years ago

For some reason US intelligence is obsessed with this stuff. Even back in the OSS days where they wanted to give hitler hrt

To my knowledge, historically, not really.

Just because the US and Israel are doing it doesn’t make it strategically sound. Did bombing aid workers in Afghanistan or carpet bombing Vietnam and North Korea win them those wars? Did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki defeat japan or did the threat of soviet invasion do that? Did causing a mass famine in an open air concentration camp defeat Hamas?

Let’s put it like this. What advantages can be gained from bombing hospitals and schools? For schools, in my opinion, there is none. None of those people are either in active fighting nor are really going to contribute to fighting in the short term nor long term. If the Israeli military uses schools as bases that’s another thing, but otherwise youre wasting munitions that should be striking radar, government offices, etc.

Hospitals might be a different thing, but youre attacking people who are effectively already incapacitated. There’s also not really a definite goal in attacking either of these institutions. Terror? Terror is an incapacitator, it’s swift and ruthless. But it doesn’t work when you’re not already in control. The Bourgeoisie in China are subjected to a terror because they know any infraction will get them thrown in jail or worse. But terror on a military scale doesn’t really work, as the terror of the state outweighs the terror of the aircraft.

Economically it’d be better to attack infrastructure, rail, ports, roadways,etc. When you attack a hospital or a school, beyond complete destruction that place is still somewhat functional as long as the people are still alive. Attacking other places like bases, rail, etc. Can effectively disable certain important things without complete destruction.

The only thing I can think of thatd help is that Israel would have to spread their forces to protect these targets too. Assuming they do want to protect them of course. However in any case it’s not a decisions to take lightly or throw your hands up and say “eh whatever.”

Lastly, i do want to point out that, so far to my knowledge, Iran isn’t intentionally attacking these locations despite all of this. If I’m wrong please let me know but if I’m not then I feel this is a bit of a moot conversation