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@Mik said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
17,000 years of so called civilization and we still fight wars over our imaginary sky friends. Jesus.
Yes and it’s called fanaticism. Stems from adhering to what is errantly believed to be a creed of absolute truth, religious or secular, the choice is yours to pick and, comes in all shapes, sizes and models.
@Mik said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
One thing concerns me greatly. Not hearing reports of social unrest in the streets, nothing that resembles an uprising. Seems like we’d be hearing about it if it were occurring.
Despite the bombs and fully functioning domestic political repression apparatus still firmly in place, people continue to manage and feed their families. When the food becomes scarce and children start going hungry, the masses will take to the streets. That is the way virtually of all revolutions.
@Mik said in Clocks go back tonight….:
Yep. Have to stay up after bedtime to watch the sunset.
With DST June and July we have twilight here until midnight.
Some people here want DST year round. Fine, if you don’t mind the fact that from beginning of December until end of January the sun won’t be rising until 9:00 am or later.
No thanks.
@Mik said in Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons:
Seems ill advised.
Indeed, but until not all that long ago in our lifetime, the prevailing wisdom regarding toxic waste disposal was based on a false premise that maintained “the only solution to pollution is dilution”.
Dumping CWB into the oceans met two requirements in that regards; 1) it literally gets it far away and out of sight from the general public and 2) if the containment vessels do rupture, the sea water will dilute and dissipate the toxins quickly and at great depths.
There was little if any understanding of how ecosystems operated or inter-reacted or just how hazardous various man made chemical toxins really are or what cumulative damage they can do even at minute trace amounts.
Sounds like brain fog. Maybe that cold wasn’t a cold, but rather a Covid variant.
It’s possible….
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@Mik said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
One thing is really interesting to me, and that is the difference in military effectiveness of the US in Iran versus Russia in Ukraine. They're quite backward. Aside from missiles and drones it is still WWII style warfare.
The first few months of the Russo-Ukraine war resembled WWII a war in of manoeuvre. Since then it has been more like WWI trench warfare characterized by artillery barrages and occasional infantry advances against fortified defensive positions that result in very limited territorial gains and heavy casualties on the battlefield.
The only real manoeuvres appear to be in the sky with the attack drones and missiles.
Well not so fast now….
Ukraine has deployed infantry robots to counter the Orcs and bring a new dimension of manoeuvre to what has become a war of attrition:
@Mik said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
One thing is really interesting to me, and that is the difference in military effectiveness of the US in Iran versus Russia in Ukraine. They're quite backward. Aside from missiles and drones it is still WWII style warfare.
The first few months of the Russo-Ukraine war resembled WWII a war in of manoeuvre. Since then it has been more like WWI trench warfare characterized by artillery barrages and occasional infantry advances against fortified defensive positions that result in very limited territorial gains and heavy casualties on the battlefield.
The only real manoeuvres appear to be in the sky with the attack drones and missiles.
@Mik said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
Yeah, I don't know how one could torture the words otherwise.
They could try to sell it as a Special Military Operation.
Doubt if anyone with half a brain would buy it.
@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
In the past 24 hours, Trump is insisting he must have a say in who is appointed to replace Khamenei and govern Iran.
In the past few hours, Trump is now calling for Iran’s unconditional surrender.
Yes, the US is in a state of war with Iran.
No other way to describe it.
It’s not a promotion she’s….
…gotten the boot
I was being my usual hate filled sarcastic self.
A face saving promotion out the door.
Am sure she do an exemplary job of meddling in Canada’s internal affairs when practicable in her new role. Curious as to whether she will cosplay it in a Wonder Woman costume?
I never hear this framed as American imperialism in the Middle East, with Israel as the America proxy, but that’s how I see it.
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin would all agree with that statement. As would every Marxist who ever walked on the planet.
Neither side for or against ever frames it that way.
True. Probably because throughout the last century or longer, the US has spent tremendous effort and capital trying convince the world it is not an imperialist state. It has certainly worked on convincing US domestic audiences but not so much elsewhere.
@89th said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:
You’d think we’d know the exact location of each of these missile and drone launch sites and just take them all out at once. Maybe we do, maybe it’s not that easy, but you’d think…
Because they are mobile.
