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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel should be made to light their own pyres.

I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you're not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.

And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major "Warrior Ethos" "Signal Chat" "American Crusade" Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.

(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I'm not an actual general charged to actually make them.)

For Putin, I'm not sure. I'm disinclined to believe he's just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.

Either way, as you say, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don't seem concerned about where they swing it and who's in the way.

A full on invasion will be much more difficult than Irak. The US probably could do this but it's going to be costly, forever and very unpopular. US military would be bound up for a long time.

Good question what the goal is supposed to be now. Trump may just declare it over somehow.

Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.

But guess what? Nobody's asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!

There is no bottom for the people looking extract every ounce of wealth from the rest of us.

A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world's order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.

China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.

Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.

By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein

Or Putin says they will nuke any country that nukes Iran and he wins a nobel peace prize for it. Joking about the last half...

X should not be on the list to target!

Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!

I wouldn't say I'm rooting for Iran, but I'm not rooting for the US either. I'm just observing a massive case of FAFO.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

Fuck 'em

More of an "everyone's shit here" situation

I mean, not good, but definitely the lesser evil here

I guess Trump is getting what he wants,

Diverting attention away from the Epstein files.