Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
48m ago
Certainly, this was known, which is why everyone with half a brain in the admin told Trump that the war is a bad idea and Israelis are full of shit.
If I was paying couple of trillion yearly, this is the point I will start firing and demoting people. The US not having the capacity of preventing the strait from being closed is inexcusable.
The US can pack up and go home if they offer Iran genuine compensation. We can take off sanctions, pay back the damage we caused, give them loans, open up our markets to their saffron and other products, allow a certain number of scholarships for their students… there are hundreds of creative solutions we can devise that will convince them to open up the strait.
Or we could nuke them. It is cheaper. I much prefer Iran to have 2 choices - submission or destruction and let them choose. Closing of the strait means Iran has to be broken to a state where they are incapable and not unwilling to do that.
Lizzardspawn
9hr ago
Care to enlighten me how this will turn out in USA favor? I am pro trump, but it is hard to believe he is playing 4d chess, and he is too much of a coward to finish what needs to be done with the needed ruthlessness.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
When I was growing up it was normal to have a foot or so of snow that fell in late october and stayed (and was replenished often enough) until april. Right now there are mostly snowless winters, probably a week or so at most. The temperatures barely fall under 0C even in the middle of january.
The world is definitely changing, and probably in a way that says we are fucked. I am not a doomerist because I think that geoengineering, technology and genocide could get us out of that bind, but the risks of the planet wide vicious cycles in climate and ecosystems collapsing are real and that they could come faster than we can adapt.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Both can be true. That people will deem Israel guilty no matter the facts and that Israel is doing its best to not win the hearts and minds of the western populace.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
I am from Eastern Europe.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Well Iran is hell bent on ethnically cleansing Israel. And those are not war crimes anyway. Electricity is dual purpose good. I am totally ok with not bombing civilian electricity and road infrastructure with the burden of proof on Iran it is for civilian use only.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
For the same reasons we punished the Serbs for the sins of Milosevic.
Lack of electricity makes life uncomfortable not impossible. Case in point - Serbia, Ukraine, Majority of the world before 1980.
Iran probably got electrified less than a century ago. For a civilization that proudly claim is 4 millennium old - they made do without electricity for 39 centuries, so I am not worried.
The only thing that will cause millions of deaths will be if they turn the lights off in hospital and water pumping stations. Those objects have backup generators and Iran has diesel.
Now they may have to work the fields with plows, but if they really want medieval theocracy in charge, I see no reason to have access to more advanced than middle age technology.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
How hurt is the Iranian leadership and army though? Being a dictatorship, Iran is a lot less vulnerable to the will of the people.
Destroy all powerplants and they will be hurt.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
On the other hand it is thocratic Muslim country so the number of virgins between them may be less than the body count. In Iran marriage under 13 is allowed in some circumstances.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Who cares about exact numbers. One is too much for some, a thousand is just a shrug for the others.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
The most powerful person in Iran had his father and his wife killed by US strikes and also adheres to the same religion as Hamas does.
Then we will choose next more powerful person in Iran once the ceasefire is over.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Can we plot the graphs of immigration, unemployment and education and and see whether there is correlation between them.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
I talk with a friend when visiting Shanghai - do women here have ass and boobs? His answer was short - we call them the runways because a plane can land on them without shaking.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
I'm not saying she's ugly or anything, but she seems decidedly... mid?
A pretty girl men fight for
They've even started wars
How pretty does she have to be
When she's down upon all fours?
I find the ones who aren't so pretty
Are diamonds in the rough
Cause pretty girls may look good
But the ugly know their stuff
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
True believers are cheap, competent true believers are not - take Iran for example - the combined IQ of the top cadres of the regime is probably less than those of mossad's janitor team.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Well ... alice - bob can be turned, and carol makes no sense.
No one of them is evil.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
Can you explain WTF is the reason for censorship? it is unclear.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
This appears to be the referenced correspondence with Maxwell. Seems a little bit friendlier than "casual".
Dear GI How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania
Exactly the zero substance you write to someone you don't care about.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
That is my favorite scene from I Claudius
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Once again - I claim that rights are created by the state, flow from the state - if you check my previous comment in the thread. They don't exist outside of the state and are impossible without said state.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Vatican is like Israel. They have no friends, only interests.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
No but once the uranium they have already enriched is taken out, it really won't matter if they try another clandestine enrichment operation - they will need decades to get where they are today.
Yes it will. You can fly drones 24/7 over the areas that shoot anything that breaths and moves.
The nuking was in response to the equally absurd suggestion to bribe them. It is a stupid war, but once started Iran has to be broken. Personally I will start with attacking their oil wells. Once they start burning they will change their tune fast.
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