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The world is not octal despite DEC.
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Wipe them off the face of the planet.
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Fuck Em.
Wipe them off the face of the planet.
i'm not down with it literally, but figuratively, yeah, the IRGC controlling continuing to control the straight is a no go. i'm _really_ hoping there's no TACO on this.
So far, taking on Iran even to this point and with these few casualties on all sides has been a generational win. Even if it hasn't actually succeeded in toppling the regime (and it hasn't in spite of the statements from the whitehouse) there's been massive progress.
1) It's emphasized to all Gulf countries (minus Oman) what kind of neighbor Iran is. I don't think they will soon forget... and they'll start really working for lasting replacement of the ayatollah government.
2) It's shown the extent of Iran's offensive and defensive capabilities. They were not as bad as feared generally, though also more resilient than some asserted. That is, they're really not doing a lot of damage, but they're costing a lot to defend. But i think with Ukraine style anti drone defenses and more directed energy weapons, the price of drone defense will get cheaper. And i also assume that , per point 1, the Gulf countries will heavily invest in such.
3) it looks like Hezbollah is finally in serious trouble in Lebanon. It's not a done deal and not sure it'll happen, but there's actually a path to Lebanon getting to be a normal country.... in a decade or two.
Even China and North Korea haven't really come out in support ... so the chances for significant change over the next few years i think are good, though again... not a gimme.
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Stay in school, kids.
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Stay in school, kids.
Unless you're a female in Iran...
Learing over there is just for the boys.
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Given that one of the first bombing targets in Iran which the US hit was a girls' school, and that got a lot of press, your comment goes beyond ignorant into wilfully ignorant and offensive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Women make up a majority of University students in Iran. There's a hell of a lot of things to criticize about Iran, but you're laser focused on one thing that simply is bullshit.
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Why should anyone care what you think? Just another dumbass parroting Israeli propaganda.
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Feel free to take offense.
I know exactly what I said. Only ignorant ones are those supporting the IRGC.
What do you call the position of people who think school and learning are important. But support a regime who deny that to half their population?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The majority of university level students in Iran are women.
Iran is not Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, and while its regime is, in many ways, misogynistic, it's not quite the black and white situation the echo-chamber-right in the US like to pretend it is. Iran has many faults, could you stick to the ones that are real?
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Look at the zero people here defending that action. You just look like a clown.
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2) That's the whole point. Iran shows that you can do damage cheaply, and very expensive to defend against, even against an enemy with far superior firepower.
3) It was before, and like Hamas, it is so deeply rooted in society that you have to kill the population, e.g. commit genocide to get it out.
Why should China and North Korea come out in support? Do they gain
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3) It was before, and like Hamas, it is so deeply rooted in society that you have to kill the population, e.g. commit genocide to get it out.
Or Israel could stop regularly provoking such groups so the long healing process could actually begin. That's probably a long shot though unless we force them by threatening their aid but I don't see either political party doing that despite them avidly committing war crimes.
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Hamas just has to do terrorist things whenever money shows up.
If only people in the Middle East had free will.
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but i do consider the Islamic Republic, North Korea, Putin, to be "bad" in terms of being a menace in their neighborhoods
That's your error in a nutshell.
Yes, they are bad, and I don't want to live in any of the countries. But lumping them together and consider them a monolithic block marching in sync is such a misjudgment of reality, that it is exactly that simplistic world view I am referring to. If the police chases a suspected killer, do you expect the thief to come out in support of the killer, just because both are bad? No, the thief does not care if the police catches the killer or not. He will seize the opportunity w
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Oil prices rise, and what's the U.S. answer to that? Li
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It's a two week cease fire. Anything could happen after that.
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There's no way it makes it two weeks.
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Looks like it's already over.