Awesome, and yes I think I speak for all true leftists when I say that yes there is interest in such a retrospective as long as you can do so without compromising your own privacy/opsec
fair, I should have said willingness and ability (i.e. stealth/SEAD/DEAD)
Simplicius should be reading our own @[email protected], as a lot of those assertions are just plain wrong. For example, they have way more of those bunker busters and manufacture 6-8/month. The 20 refers to a specific model number of them, presumably the one with the George H. W. Bush memorial tailfin.
I agree that clearly Israel/the US didn't deliver a knockout blow to Iran's nuclear program, but they did hit a lot of anti air, suppressed missile launchers, and more critically, they demonstrated willingness and ability to indiscriminately bomb civilian infrastructure. Missile launchers can hide, apartment blocks and universities can't.
Iran only got directly involved because Israel fucked with them first. The Iranian government didn't retaliate to address the genocide.
potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS
I'm not sure how familiar you are with the region, but extremist groups in west Asia have been very valuable tools for the west for all kinds of projects for the last what, 75 years or so
You want to make Americans healthier and you could either take on the agricultural industrial complex, surburbia, and the lack of third places, or you could just buy more devices and juice the stocks of some electronics manufacturer. I know what I'd pick
It's obviously also an attack, don't play coy.
Can we do better than posting the economist with no analysis or commentary?
thanks for the report, but no one is getting banned tonight. if every person who was correct about imperial victories was banned in the wake of imperial victory, then there would be no one on these threads.
Posting on hexbear without being trans
If those were statements from the 2012 paper, then the world has changed from then. Public opinion has been repeatedly demonstrated to not mean anything at any level in western foreign policy. These ghouls just do things.
these bombs are big but they aren't exactly high tech. they are nothing compared to the complexity of mass producing vehicles like the ones you cited. I suppose it's possible that these haven't been built in significant numbers, but I certainly wouldn't hang my hat on there only being a handful.
also, you cited cost of tungsten - I bet the bombs themselves are not even a significant portion of the cost of these strikes compared to logistics/mobilization/maintenance of the 120 odd planes used in this mission.