TL;DR if you remember a few years ago there were a set of triggers many scientists were saying could mark irreversible stages of climate change and would exponentially increase its acceleration, congrats, you’ve lived long enough to see one of them.
Hope you live above the 50th parallel or below the tropic of capricorn and in a fairly mountainous area.
because words lose power over time if you let them, ninnyhammer.
He could try, and fail, and show the world the US has no hard power to back up their soft power since they’ve destroyed their own manufacturing.
Which would be good for the world, don’t get me wrong, but the likely military coup in the US to stop the losses could be devastating if the wrong general gets into power and decides being right is more important than survival and actually uses nukes.
The US cannot win a ground war in Iran.
It’s not Afghanistan, it’s not Iraq.
It isn’t a ‘regime.’ It doesn’t have an unpopular government. It isn’t a disparate group of farming communities the British made into a government a hundred years ago.
It’s a decentralized theocratic republic older than pale skin has been in human evolution that, for the last 60 years, has trained and planned for every variation of Israeli and American invasion.
There is no head to cut off. There is no structure to destroy. There is no entity to fall.
You would need to kill all 90 million people, over 40 million of which have been militarily trained and are currently armed, over 60 million of them educated to a college level or higher, all of whom have explicit plans or are in familial contact with those that have explicit plans on how to defend their local territory.
Yes, the US could carpet bomb for a few weeks, but US munition stores are already so low Korea lost all its missile defense and Ukraine is about to lose all US support. Hell Israel cannot keep itself defended and Israel is the US’s number one global defense priority.
The US has no manufacturing base and has no money to spend for munitions. Without that they can maybe sustain another few months of fighting, maybe 6 weeks total if they go boots on the ground.
That is 6 weeks to kill or subdue 40 million people who have been raised and trained specifically to resist US and Israeli invasion and intervention in their lives.
Even in the wettest dreams of the most delusional zionist that would be simply an impossibility.
There is no scenario from this day forward where the Amerisraeli Empire benefits from any action it takes, and there is no world where Iran falls to the Amerisraeli Empire.
The absolute best case scenario is the US pulls out today, concentrates all naval power on Israel’s defense, and prays they haven’t pissed off the wrong part of Iran’s decentralized military and Iran doesn’t destroy desalination plants.
Maybe in ten, twenty years of at least 50% GDP going to manufacturing the US would be ready for proper invasion.
Not Russian, The opposite of fascist hence why I’m against Ukraine and Russia.
But nice try liberal. Maybe the fediverse isn’t right for you, since you align with u/spez 100% and should be on reddit.
So you don’t remember the massive drone strike controversies or why the majority of the Iraqi and Afghanistan population will never, at any point in their lives, for the next several generations, be able to go outside without PTSD induced fear?
Or why drone operators commit suicide at significantly higher rates than other military vets?
they don’t kill indiscriminately
Except when they do. Both Ukraine and Russia have posted HD drone video showing internationally recognized war crimes targeting civilians and unarmed surrendered soldiers, as well as medical transports and civilian infrastructure and buildings.
The Guided Weapon fallacy is well documented at this point, drones are an extension of this, the drones mentioned in the article which have even fewer safeguards and fewer human steps make this much worse.
and the environment angle really? Yes. The environmental cost of war must be a factor. It does not matter if you win if you can’t live there, and its getting bad enough international investors are pulling out of their planned post-war investments in Ukrainian farmland.
To the rest of your nonsense, no. This isn’t a life or death war. The Ukrainian people that were created 30 years ago will not disappear if they lose. Hell Russia doesn’t even want Ukraine according to Ukraine or Russian negotiations.
This is literally a local territory dispute that has cost more lives than could be saved if Ukraine or Russia won today.
We have a good 100 years left on this planet, at most, before climate change forces around 80% of us to die. Why waste this destroying what little land might be livable during that time… over 3 territories that don’t objectively matter to Ukraine?
Weird how militarized nationalism still has any fans or supporters, but you do you I guess. I hope you’re glad your guy is in office.
Go back to reddit or 4chan.
Diplomacy and asymmetric warfare. If you are actually being invaded and your response is to destroy your own environment while implementing weapons that indiscriminately kill, you don’t care about the people you’re protecting and you have no concern of the world after the war.
“giving a country under invasion a much needed advantage”
So advantage is not ok? It’s not a positive thing? It’s not normalization of one of hte most environmentally and socially destructive technologies?
Yes. I would look up the history of colour revolutions, the arab spring, and the CIA’s and Mossad’s extensive, ridiculously long involvement in generating these ‘protests’ as NED-Backed organizations call them. I would provide links but anytime I do they’re called propaganda so I encourage you to find your own sources since all of this is declassified; and don’t let ‘declassified’ fool you into ‘they stopped doing it.’
The primary modus operandi is to find anyone in a country that opposes the current status quo and start feeding them propaganda, weapons, and money. Usually directly via agents already in place in that country. They then take the most disenfranchised people to start direct actions, with usually two prongs. ‘peaceful’ protests, i.e. a stripped down version of the extremist ideology they have started to foment that is more palatable to the general public with far less expansive goals, think the modern white-washed version of MLK’s ideology compared to Malcom X’s.
The playbook is then to radicalize larger and larger portions of the mediocre population into the militant population; so that when violence is triggered (usually by getting the radicalized population to instigate violence as we saw in Tienanmen Square) to provoke a response.
If the government does not respond with force, the movement grows more bold until it does, or until all foreign assets are arrested (why hong kong did not turn into a Tienanmen).
If the government does respond with force, this is greatly exaggerated internationally via NED-backed propaganda organizations, all of which either don’t care to investigate the actual cause, or are explicitly directed to ignore the actual cause: violence from extremists against the general public and/or government.
If this all sounds vaguely like what the US government says Al Qaeda does… I’ll let you draw your own conclusions with the hint that projection is the most common form of fascist propaganda.
There is no context that makes these weapons okay, and I have never supported Russia.
I get that reading is hard for liberals, which is why liberals exist in the first place, but do try a bit harder.
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Are you talking about the spiritual leader who has as much influence as the Pope does in the US?
The American attacks were the protests, that’s the point you’re not understanding or refusing to acknowledge. They were not organic protests. I doubt most that participated were citizens, especially when 99% of the coverage was prewritten by NED-linked organizations.
Iran isn’t despotic, the word you’re looking for. If it were, then the American decapitation strikes would have ended Iran.
It didn’t, because that’s not what the country is. Its military isn’t linear, there is no single person in charge of the military or the government. There never has been. They have watched the failures of nationstates like that.
Hence why the Iranian defensive strikes have happened no matter what ‘leader’ the US has designated as a leader and has killed. And they will continue until both the US and Israel are out of the region or they get security guarantees from the EU against the US and Israel.
Because there isn’t a party in charge.
There isn’t a person in charge.
There isn’t a family in charge.
This isn’t the UK.
This isn’t the US.
This is a theocratic republic with decentralized authority and control; a set of guiding principles.
It’s why Muslim women are completely free to do whatever with their hair in Tehran and Shiraz, but would be heavily punished for not wearing head coverings in Urmia.
There isn’t a central authority. There isn’t a single set of rules, much to the chagrin of the parliament who have tried to better unify and align the disparate laws.
If you can’t get basic facts right because you have NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT MATTER, because you have NO ACTUAL LOCAL INFORMATION, because you ARE BRAINWASHED BY CIA PROPAGANDA THROUGH NED-OPERATED CIA FRONTS LIKE HRWNA, then you cannot possibly think you have any weight in your words when you incorrectly and plainly falsely throw around nonsense that you want others to take seriously.
This war should have shown you that NOTHING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IRAN WAS CORRECT, and maybe you should question the sources that mislead you to your current beliefs. But instead you’re doubling and tripling down on your owners’ and masters’ propaganda and pretending you have any possible idea of what’s happening in the wider world.
Feel free to prove me wrong in any way, by the way, with any non-NED linked source. Literally any. If neither Mossad nor the CIA have touched the source I’ll happily concede whatever point, or I’ll point out the direct lineage between those groups and the source you post.
Anyone cheering this on is a bad person btw.
edit: 7 years ago it was uncontroversial to say robots should not be used to kill people. We are in the dumbest timeline. I actually do hope this spreads so the people downvoting my point understand how bad of an idea this is when their kids are determined to be valid combatants by automated weapon systems and are obliterated in order to win a war no one but the robots are still fighting.
It is a complete mystery how the western imperial mind works.
What does Iran defending itself against Israel have to do with Russia’s Imperialism or North Korea’s defense against the ongoing invasion by the US?
Best I can do is a lump of coal in a plastic bottle thrown into an ocean current that may someday change to drift by your location.