Yes, and I have read that article (thank you for linking!) which among other things is why I am so comfortable with such a dissonant input on Jordan, it is the appropriate tone.

Elon Musk and Putin are on the same side!???

I am shocked!!

You heard it chair! GO! CHAIR GO! Chair Execute MOVE!

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~I remain motionless in my armchair~

What evidence does China have that the current most advanced generation of abrams tanks has any kind of easily exploitable weakness? Some have been destroyed, that is what happens to tanks especially old ones but if anything recent history has proven 108 modern abrams tanks is a pretty futile nut to try to crack if they are properly supported and trained.

Taiwan isn’t that big, 108 Abrams in that size landscape is very very intimidating if you cannot reliably predict where they will be.

If the people that live where the tanks are don’t want them there, that is of course a different matter.

This isn’t about how Netanyahu is doing this in general, it is about a specific incident, or set of incidents that involved a last minute attempt to do this, allegedly.

One of the main arguments used against the JCPOA was that it allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and move closer to nuclear capability while remaining technically in compliance. The JCPOA also contained so-called “sunset provisions” on various aspects of the deal such as lifting limits on centrifuges after 10 years or reduced enrichment beyond 3.67% only lasting for 15 years.

In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. Others involved in the deal, particularly its European partners, tried to keep the deal running without the United States, but in 2019 Iran accelerated its uranium enrichment, and the JCPOA further deteriorated. In February 2021, at the direction of its parliament, Iran suspended implementation of the Additional Protocol following almost three years of unilateral maximum pressure sanctions imposed by the United States.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-deal-then-and-now/

That was the deal you fool, fine criticize the deal I guess but get your facts about what happened and in what order straight. There is a CLEAR cause and effect here you are obscuring with your framing.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/fact-checking-trumps-comments-that-a-2015-deal-gave-iran-the-right-to-nuclear-weapons

Obama had campaigned on a promise to ensure that Iran did not obtain a nuclear weapon. The negotiated agreement was signed in 2015 by the United States and Iran as well as China, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to refrain from pursuing nuclear weapons and to allow continuous monitoring of its compliance in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. Different parts of the agreement were scheduled to last between 10 and 25 years; some elements were to last indefinitely. Obama officials hoped for future renegotiations.

Iran agreed to relinquish 97% of its enriched uranium stockpile and 70% of its centrifuges, which are machines used to enrich uranium. It also agreed to stop plutonium production and to dismantle a plutonium reactor. If Iran broke any of these pledges, the other signatories would be able to reimpose sanctions, a process known as a “snapback” provision.

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Over the 28 months the deal was in effect, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it found Iran committed no violations, aside from some minor infractions that were addressed.

I don’t know, I can’t remember, maybe Circe?

Except that according to all internationally verified and credible evidence with the Nuclear Deal that was established under Obama Iran was moving towards a peaceful engagement and integration with the rest of the world.

There was no evidence and there is no evidence that Iran was moving towards a nuclear weapon in any meaningful way before the most recent attacks of Israel and the US on Iran and especially before the nuclear agreement was thrown out by Trump, the incentive structure did not make it rational and the leaders were not making political moves in that direction. Does that mean that there weren’t radical elements of Iran that were doing other things? No, but when speaking in terms of Iran conducting war on Israel you must include that context because the powerful in the world are desperately trying to make us forget it.

The product of the Iran War (including specifically the targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders) that Israel and the US launched was to craft an Iran that could actually be credibly cast as a nuclear and non-nuclear threat to Israel and the US by extension. We can only hope that their strategic objective failed here and we can yet find a way towards peace, Iran is a diverse nation with many possible futures, we bring shame upon ourselves for charging so blindly into casting out that potential in favor of a simpler narrative about endless war.

Most broadly, this escalation of violence and instability denies the region a vibrant future, large human populations in arid regions are dependent upon inherently vulnerable infrastructure like water desalination plants. We are all bulls in the China shop because of climate change now… and we must act accordingly.

For the same reason the Palestinian Genocide must stop NOW if we are to have a peaceful future as well.

If my words sound radical, note that I see a solution that is in the best interests of almost everyone but some of the leaders at the very top of some countries, my solution is Israel must stop the genocide and begin to treat Palestinians as humans. We must also stop the Iran War. This is for the safety of jews in Israel, jews all over the world, muslims, christians, atheists… and for people that like ships to be able to consistently navigate through the suez canal (all of us pretty much)… we all have the same human interest in a peaceful future and we must elevate that above any other aspect of this conversation lest we cast away our collective futures.

Villains are vessels for our guilt that we set off into the sea hoping to never see again.

just long enough for them to get what they want seems deprssingly like the answer

Less apt? Grandpa may hate AI, but that’s not going to stop him from voting for Mike Rogers. These articles create a false sense of victory and that hurts the left.

Where is your evidence of this?

Jordan you are such a hateful loser it is difficult to comprehend how you are even real.

You make the Fediverse a worse place with your presence Jordan.

intentionally convoluted to have this precise ability.

DING DING DING DING

Nice

Not it is not.

Damn Hungary giving Orban the boot really fucked with the global right’s mojo didn’t it?

HELL YEAH! 🥳 🥳 💫

There is no left in Israel, the only choice is to move farther right.

I think this article is slanted in the favor of the US, but I do think it raises some serious points to the contrary that Iran is steamrolling the US here, which I think the US and Israel launching the Iran War was stupid, pointless and murderous but I also see that desire in people to see the US get taught a lesson by Iran is clouding people’s ability to perceive the reality.

In the end I think military strategists will say that the US was highly effective at creating a naval blockade on Iran and denying Iran the capability of doing so back to the Strait Of Hormuz but that the costs associated were never sustainable for the US and that politically it didn’t matter anyways as the US and Israel never had any serious theory of achievable victory other than to “mow the grass”…

That is the least of Elon’s worries, it is worrying for the rest of us but if russia chooses this path it is game over for them geopolitically so at that point not having functioning starlink for a bit becomes less of an issue.

Also, Fuck Elon Musk.