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Amazing idea that I'm sure IRGC hasn't thought of: send nothing but decoys, once they stop firing at the decoys keep sending decoys until they start firing again (they'll be suspicious), keep doing it until they stop again, then send ones with explosives. Boy who cried wolf.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a lady who had lived in the US and was die hard pro-Trump, but then moved to Puerto Rico and was very involved in a pro-independence, left wing campaign. Funny because usually you hear about the opposite scenario, someone coming from a more culturally conservative country but ending up Democratic because they're (perceived) more pro-immigration, even if they don't fully align on other social issues.

I'm sleepy and my vision is a bit blury soo that 45-47 looked a bit like Arabic for a second.

The resistance has just as much experience at building underground facilities to avoid bombing (passed down from the DPRK who mastered it) as the US does at... failing to win wars against insurgents using this strategy. I really don't think that we should take it as a given that the attack was successful just on the basis of the US being "good" at this (really, if that was the case, how could Hamas still be operating after all this time?)

Iran has hypersonics that are impossible to intercept

On this point particularly, they have the Fattah 2 prototypes, just no operational models, right?

If Iran retaliates proportionally and either closes Hormuz or hits a bunch of oil refineries, every single force in American politics will converge on Trump to push him to carpet bomb Iran. So where does that leave us?

Unlimited blockades. A blockade on every chokepoint. Globalize the blockade.

Can you believe I was in Mass when it happened?

mr president sir, youre fired sir

On the other hand, the way that the Uyghur atrocity propaganda caught on in western countries (and to my knowledge it did work on Muslim communities in the West) but it never really found fertile ground in most Muslim majority countries implies that western soft power has declined a lot. Not to mention how much more prevalent anti-zionist views are outside the West.

IIRC while Serbia had carried out atrocities before NATO intervention, most of the atrocities against Bosnians and other minorities came directly following the massive escalation that came with NATO involvement. So it makes sense for even a Bosnian to come to that conclusion, because NATO was a lot more concerned with protecting the interests of American and Western European capitalists than human rights.

BIT IDEA: 2 hour long video where you just keep reading through graphic descriptions of Israeli atrocities with video and photo evidence, but you always describe the issue as being "complex and multifaceted." You don't cover even a single hiccup the Palestinians ever had (this gets pretty hard with post-Arafat Fattah since they are basically just Israel but wearing a mask). Screw it, do straight up historical revisionism and skirt around the entire history of the resistance so you don't have to acknowledge any of the actual "complexity" (funny that the only complexity of the issue the mainstream liberals know about is the resistance taking prisoners of war... which is just straight up legitimate? many of them don't know about actual missteps like the airport attack, the USSR's wobbly support of the resistance, the infighting, compromising of Fattah, etc)