Please post somewhere else next time so we don’t get reports. Maybe c/history or c/ukraine.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some back channels between Iran and the USA agreed to these limited exchanges to save face and not go to war.
I’ve heard from multiple sources that this is the case, and I haven’t heard any counterarguments.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel knew this and is exposing this as a way to push the USA to war.
Doubtful. Assuming the satellite images are real (very likely), they would have gotten out anyway. These are commercial-grade resolution, akin to Google Maps.
Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
[Lem] writes that the novel goes beyond casual political satire: it puts forth the "totalization of the notion of intentionality". Explaining the concept, he writes that everything which humans perceive may be interpreted by them as a message, and that a number of "-isms" are based on interpreting the whole Universe as a message to its inhabitants. This interpretation may be exploited for political purposes and then run amok beyond their intentions.
Unfortunately I’m unable to find an English translation of his full commentary.
Edit to add: I found a translation.
ELIZA had already shown us that just because a sentence is grammatically and semantically intelligible doesn’t necessarily mean there was any intentionality behind it, but people often assume so. Until recently, texts always had been written by humans, so it’s understandable that they might assume.
“Fu Manchu made me do an imperialism.”
Sorry to hear about your investment woes, downvoters 📉
It’s fine: Gates has the best PR apparatus money can buy.
They purged the communists from the labor movement. No one remembers because they don’t want you to remember their contributions to the labor movement.
Whatever LinkedIn loser. It’s not needed anywhere, and it’s illegal in China.
The US funded bin Laden to weaken the USSR, and the US (and Israel and possibly the UK) funded al-Julani to weaken Syria. The US does this a lot.
Should we have forced him to shave before photographing him, like the US military did in Iraq in 2006?
Or should we clean up his image, as the US is doing right now?
Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist, not an opinion column writer.