carpoftruth

fair, I should have said willingness and ability (i.e. stealth/SEAD/DEAD)

Simplicius should be reading our own @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, as a lot of those assertions are just plain wrong. For example, they have way more of those bunker busters and manufacture 6-8/month. The 20 refers to a specific model number of them, presumably the one with the George H. W. Bush memorial tailfin.

I agree that clearly Israel/the US didn't deliver a knockout blow to Iran's nuclear program, but they did hit a lot of anti air, suppressed missile launchers, and more critically, they demonstrated willingness and ability to indiscriminately bomb civilian infrastructure. Missile launchers can hide, apartment blocks and universities can't.

Iran only got directly involved because Israel fucked with them first. The Iranian government didn't retaliate to address the genocide.

potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS

I'm not sure how familiar you are with the region, but extremist groups in west Asia have been very valuable tools for the west for all kinds of projects for the last what, 75 years or so

You want to make Americans healthier and you could either take on the agricultural industrial complex, surburbia, and the lack of third places, or you could just buy more devices and juice the stocks of some electronics manufacturer. I know what I'd pick

It's obviously also an attack, don't play coy.

Can we do better than posting the economist with no analysis or commentary?

thanks for the report, but no one is getting banned tonight. if every person who was correct about imperial victories was banned in the wake of imperial victory, then there would be no one on these threads.

Posting on hexbear without being trans

If those were statements from the 2012 paper, then the world has changed from then. Public opinion has been repeatedly demonstrated to not mean anything at any level in western foreign policy. These ghouls just do things.

How about give it a week or 5 and then ask something like this

The nothing ever happens gang is getting real cocky

while years of ground invasion is the only way to Win a War in the idiotic Hollywood sense, the dahiya doctrine seems a strong contender for how to rely on air power to win a war in the Clausewitz sense. America really seems to be coming out strong on this one - on the imperial side of the ledger, it's only israel that's suffering real damage. a damaged and war torn israel in the middle of a destabilized mid east conflagration seems to be well aligned with historic American goals.