one of the things i don't see anyone bringing up about this is how much power projection was just put out, and how much was doused, over the last 3 weeks. iran has been power projecting vocally on things like twitter or through the UN or their own press arm for decades, and on the first night, we had wiped out what seems like the majority of their fighting force, decapitated their entire government from military to civilian, and over the course of the next week proceeded to run uncontested in airspace that was alleged to be defended by the greatest tech outside of russia and china, direct from their radar factories circa the 1990s.
I have no evidence but I suspect he was in league with that minstrel zine a little while back
Truly the most evergreen Tweet of the last 10 years.
It's up to insurance companies in the UK.
have to comment on the absurdity of this. you're upset that an Israeli PM knew his place and mildly warned against this plan while emphasizing how much more important Iran was as a threat.
Israeli intelligence fell into line with what the Americans/British were saying after Ariel Sharon met with Bush and they did a give and take where they would publicly support the war while privately being against it in order to get concessions on the west bank. you would know this if you read the articles i cited
israel did that through multiple times of the US going against Israeli interests. Israel is a vassal state of the US.
Routes still existed but they were harder to move supplies through and often relied on air.
My grasp of the situation on any talk of a "multiple superpowers" or "multi-polar" world is for all the shit America's unironically going through or being a creaky world power.... everywhere else is either that much shittier and/or collapsing faster that we'll still be "the best" - so to speak - simply by default, via collapsing the least.
this is one of the worst things i've ever read.
"everybody else just sucks THAT much more" has basically been 80% of the USA's success
turns out putting in the bare minimum effort is way more than anyone else is doing.
I was reading some reports earlier that supposedly some Chinese citizens had been killed in some of the strikes, especially of the radars and such and the Chinese just pulled the profiles of a few of the major engineers on the J-20 Fighter program from some website about the J-20, including the radar guy. Probably a good thing, I can't imagine the Chinese government being happy if their fancy anti-stealth radar didn't work.
I think it's the water crisis leading to the mass protests and riots. The Iranian people want change, any change, to someone who won't run a desert country's water tables to empty. This is the best chance to tip the regime over and have the people take their country we've had in decades. So we don't have to go boots on the ground any where other than maybe the islands. Like Kharg Island.
The US is probably the most merciful superpower in history. You can literally chant "death to America" within its walls and, as long as you don't cause too much of a ruckus you'll get away with it.
there's been more than a few times IRL when I thought I was half-assing my shit and then I blew everybody else out of the water and I'm not sure if they really just didn't try at all or if they had brain damage or whatturns out putting in the bare minimum effort is way more than anyone else is doing.
I keep getting the impression that there's way too much Potekmin going on from BRICs and Islamic sources.
I don't think that.
did they really believe it worked in the first place? i wonder if it worked on the J-20 and that's why they thought it would work on the F-22, they were just outright saying with no data that they could definitely detect American stealth aircraft by assuming that it was equivalent to their 'gen 5'. I don't believe China ever showed any evidence of those radars being capable. this suggests to me that the j-20s are probably not actually stealthy, and would not in any way hold up in a dogfight against even an F-35, let alone an F-22.
So the jews DID do it.
whoa whoa whoa whoa, you mean the heckin' wholesome chungus 100 who did a complete 180 on his beliefs about iran in a surprise departure no one in the know seems surprised by (including trump already having tweets from him being pro-iran war) who has a leftoid wife in the media might have been DOING SOMETHING WRONG and was trying to get ahead of his bad behavior!? NO WAY.
No... No! It can't be!