Yeah, not OP, but I’m well aware of how much it would suck. This should be plan Z. It’s still an important one, though.

Cynicism seems smart even when it’s not. That seems to be the way it works, and I think I read it’s been shown scientifically.

We just have to be at least as strong as the Taliban, if it comes to that.

That’s the one facet of detachment we already have well underway. The big debate right now is German-Norwegian vs. Korean subs. German self-propelled howitzers are also a shoe-in.

(Meanwhile, the big goal with trade is to get America down to just half of our business in a decade, and people seem to think that’s ambitious)

I doubt people are going to change, short of becoming cyborgs or genetically engineered or something. Things already have, though.

I mean, you can interpret them to justify pretty much anything.

This isn’t even a hard case. The Israelites massacre people of other religions, and Iran is at a slightly higher latitude than Isreal so you can shoehorn it into gog and magog.

It bet it would work in America, too. The military is popular, and the civilian federal government is not.

God has a tendency to want whatever the politically powerful people in whatever religion do, for some reason.

This is what Evangelicals actually believe.

Yeah, but the US and Israeli militaries in specific are well aware of how bad optics make a military campaign harder. They’re not those people.

It wouldn’t, and the powers attacking here know that. It’s something else.

Or whatever random Israeli asset gave a suggestion, and then they rubberstamped it.

Making shit up is a popular tactic to not get your blackmail file released or get paid or whatever.

Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or the heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or chemical reactor could be redirected around.

Except he’s a world leader, not a shitposter, so his words actually have tangible repercussions in terms of blowback.

There’s no prize for most telling-it-as-it-is here. Global politics is not a Twitter thread.

I’ve also seen Reddit/Lemmy suggest dropping nukes on Russia is a good, moral and safe idea, and I’ve seen it often.

Like, why would you play armchair general, if you’re not actually interested in how any of this works?

Kinda nothing. The US has no obligation to look up our past rhetorical precedents, if they invade.

Canada being an enemy of Iran isn’t new, and the US is definitely able to do this, so there would be no payoff to condemning it.

My money is on Syria but bigger.

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Well, that’s not cringe or goofy at all. /s

The far left and far right aren’t mirrors of each other, but occasionally they come close. The purity dick measuring is one of those places.

How is “let’s cooperate with other middle powers” isolationist?