functor
1mo ago
Just bombing until they give up worked so well in Vietnam. Afghanistan and Yemen have been bombed relentlessly. It didn't work.
The US isn't going to control the middle east by just bombing.
functor
1mo ago
Libya was completely destroyed 15 years ago. This war shows that drones and cheap missile technology has leveled the playing field. Gadaffi couldn't really do anything. Drones and loitering munitions have made a repeat of operation desert storm infeasible as fast maneuver warfare is substantially harder today. Meanwhile the US bases are getting pummeled with rockets and shipping through Hormuz has ground to a halt.
functor
1mo ago
Fundamentally Israel failed in Gaza. They couldn't ethnically cleanse it.
functor
1mo ago
Israel was pushing hard for sanctions and destablization in Syria. Israel backed jihadists in Syria, bombed Syria and were actively trying to undermine it.
functor
1mo ago
The big refugee wave from Israel's warmongering was Syria. It was a disaster for Europe. Luckily Ben Gvir failed and we did not get a major exodus from Gaza. Fundamentally Israel got stuck in a forever war it can't win. They aren't really managing to expel large numbers of people or win. They are stuck in a permanent state of emergency. Israel today is like the French in Algeria 70 years ago. They can't really win, they kill a lot of people and they are burning political capital at a high rate.
Israel is not going to collapse any time soon. Untenable states can hang on for some time. With that said a country that small can't be stuck in a permanent state of emergency and function. Rhodesia, South Vietnam and French Algeria seemed stable and were stable for a long stretch of time even though they had no way of functioning in the long term. Hamas isn't seizing Tel Aviv next month and Iran isn't going to eliminate them with missiles. It is going to be a slow long grind.
The more wars and the more chaos we have in the middle east the harder it is to repatriate migrants and the higher the risk of migrant flows is. We need stable regimes in the middle east, not forever wars.
functor
1mo ago
This war was not popular before the war
The wars in the middle east tend to age like milk with steadily declining once they start running into problems. Trump is attempting to achieve in weeks what the US failed to do in 20 years in Afghanistan with trillions wasted. It isn't going to work. Oil prices will rise and the media will be full of pictures of war and disaster. Trump really shot himself in the foot.
functor
1mo ago
How popular do you think dragging the middle east into a major war is? People hate Israel from the start, now their tourist business in Dubai is shut down because of Israel.
functor
1mo ago
Various Somalis are in no way an existential threat to Jews and they would rather live in an area with some Somalis than an all white area.
functor
1mo ago
The people in the middle east are not going to like Israel more after another Israeli war of aggression. Meanwhile the rest of the world gets a continued reminder of what a warmongering and alien state Israel is. More Americans supported Palestine than israel in a poll for the first time in the US. That number is going to take a big jump.
functor
1mo ago
Their neighbors have been pushed back as Israel has stolen land and driven millions of people off it. Many of them are now in Europe.
functor
1mo ago
In multiple ways. The US population is tired of these wars.
The US military is dumber, smaller, and worse equipped than before.
The US is stuck feeding a black hole of a war in Ukraine while trying to keep pace with China even though China is far more cost efficient and has a larger industrial base. A repeat of the Iraq war wouldn't be possible today.
functor
1mo ago
The US failed miserably in Yemen. The US managed a kidnapping in Venezuela, not regime change. The US is bombing Iran because they can't actually invade countries anymore.
What winning?
functor
1mo ago
The policy of expanding Israel, attacking their neighbours and helping migrants get to Greece. Israel is a major refugee smuggler into Europe. Meanwhile they push millions of arabs out of their homes.
functor
1mo ago
It really isn't.
Wanting to genocide a population that largely consists of children because of LGBTQXYZ issues is beyond extreme.
Israel's policy of trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza and move millions of refugees to Europe isn't popular with a decent portion of the gay community in Europe.
functor
1mo ago
Do I think a homogenous society is more difficult for ethnic minorities than diverse societies? Absolutely.
Also the worst times for jews have been in all white societies.
functor
1mo ago
Jews have been kicked out of 110 countries. They have been in conflict with Europeans since the roman times. The jews were not happy in catholic spain and worked with the muslims. Jewish communists killed millions of christians in Eastern Europe. They were regularly banned from various European countries.
They do prefer a jewish ethnostate to diversity.
functor
1mo ago
Much rather than live in a homogenous state where there culture and ethnic background sticks out. They are a naturally cosmopolitan people and naturally gravitate to the most diverse parts of the US and Europe. They are mainly afraid of white homogenous societies, not individual immigrants who might go a bit bonkers. The diversity has never really done any serious harm to jews.
functor
1mo ago
The natural state is that the vast majority of goyim hate them. The fact that some of the boomers actually like them speaks volumes to the effectiveness of propaganda. Without the propaganda the US would probably have had bouts of pogroms. Christians and jews are naturally incompatible. Getting sections of Christians to like jews is an impressive feat of propaganda.
functor
1mo ago
Jews want to live in a multicultural state. Flooding Minnesota with minorities is in line with what they want.
A few Somalis are far less of a threat to jewery than a homogenous society is.
functor
2mo ago
This debate is like blind men debating what an elephant is while one is touching the tail, another one the trunk and the belly.
Programming is everything from wordpress to high frequency trading. It is everything from tiny teams to products with tens of thousands of people working on them. Some teams are extremely particular in how they write code, others will accept pretty much anything. People won't agree because they fundamentally have completely different visions of what programming is. At some places developers are given highly detailed tickets, at other places they are given a loose description on what to work on for the next couple of months. It is easy to underestimate how many devs have jobs which barely entail more than "make the button blue", "make a postman test for a simple API".
We will probably see a major wash out of people who took a react or python tutorial and expected an upper middle class lfestyle.
With that said a developer speed has generally not been limited by the speed of coding. A product I worked on averaged two lines of code per day per developer. The company was inefficient but so much time was spent on other things. The average dev is probably only coding at 50% speed. A 50% speed boost to coding will only increase work output by 25%. That is reasonable and it is possible that the labour market can swallow 25% more software.
functor
2mo ago
McNamara's Idiots, sending low Iq people to Vietnam while capable people managed to dodge the draft.
Sending mediocrely talented soldiers to Afghanistan for deployments that last a few months while spending exorbitant amounts of money keeping them comfortable instead of having high quality people spend years in Afghanistan and building relations with the locals.
The fringes of the US empire have been nibbled by a lack of conviction by the American elite class.
functor
2mo ago
Furthermore they should teach that other countries have wide spread use of public transit and even wealthy people use it. Meanwhile in the US Rosa Parks made public transit a last resort option for those too poor to care about being stabbed.
functor
2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOS-2
The Russians use it to clear out areas before attack.
Israel failed to control Gaza in two years of war and Hamas is still running it. 70 000 dead people and they couldn't control an area the size of a small county with closed off borders.
How has controlling Yemen gone with relentless bombing for 12 years?
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