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Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23.
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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 neig
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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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1) They knew it already. Nothing to see here. Iran was always the outcast on the Persian Gulf, being Shiite, anti-monarchist and Non-Arabian.
True, but it's why i picked "emphasized" in the prev post. I'm saying it significantly increased the salience of the issue and it'll cause a stronger opposition in the future.
Why should China and North Korea come out in support? Do they gain anything from their verbal support? As long as China gets its oil from Iran (which it does, and cheaper than other countries), it just sits and waits. And North Korea could not care less for Iran, but grins broadly because the U.S. is wasting money and military power somewhere else.
It's somewhat a legacy of the Cold War but it's a tradition for relatively unrelated anti-US / anti-Western countries to come out verbally in support for one another exactly because it's a symbolic strike against the US AND it's a celebration of the US being weighed down elsewhere.
And in fact China and Russia did veto even the watered
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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 with the eyes of the police somewhere else to continue stealing unimpeded. That's what Putin or Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-Un are doing right now. There is no point in defending Iran and getting into the line of fire. The eyes of the world are somewhere else, and they can continue whatever they are up to right now with less scrutiny.
The world is not a superhero comic, where the superhero with supernatural superpowers thumps the baddie and everyone applauds. The world is not a secret agent movie where there is only one real antagonist, everyone else considered bad is in serfdom to him, and his henchmen lack any marksmanship, while the agent will hit two of them with a single .22 round from 1000 yards away. And the world is not a chess game with a limited set of pieces, each with a limited set of legal moves, and you win by catching the enemy's king.
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Oil prices rise, and what's the U.S. answer to that? Li