Demand for his head, I doubt. They’ll just call for a full invasion and taking of the strait and justify the strikes and invasion do to Iran closing it.

Sorry, sitting in meeting bored. Didn’t know what to do with the time

The number of active duty troops needed by the U.S. to enter battle gas fallen drastically. We aren’t actually trying to occupy anything. For instance we sent 130,000 into Iraq in 2003, and the needed numbers have fallen more since as warfare advances. The U.S. has over 2,000,000 troops and 700,000 reserves. The draft was retired because we don’t need it. We just view it as the draft being gone because that’s what the government wanted us to see/believe. Yet every male in the U.S. is required by law to sign up. Propoganda works wonders on us all. Will we see a ban occur, someday I’m sure, but it won’t be before we know volunteers far outweigh what’s needed for the greed of the rich.

I don’t think we learned anything from Vietnam. Though I do hope this will make Israelies realize they aren’t gaining anything for the common person, just more hate, loss, and economic struggle eventually.

Lessons we were supposed to learn from Vietnam.

• The government will lie to its citizens and use propoganda to push an agenda to help their careers over valuing our populous’ lives, money, or feelings.

• The media will allow misinformation to flow so long as they can make personal/company prosperity off of it

• Support systems are lacking for the troops as well as benefits.

In the last week we have seen calls to cut aid to troops, citizens, and the media overflow with misinformation to push forward agendas that are not in the best interest of the common citizen.

I’m curious to see what Iran would have become in the next 5 years had this shit not occurred. It had the potential of becoming another regime or possibly a democracy again. Hard to say where it was going.

Well that ups the chances that Israel will use one. That was the one thing I was hoping would stop them

It’s an interesting satellite though if you hadn’t seen anything about it yet.

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-teams-up-with-india-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-1-5-billion-satellite

Seems like it can monitor everything down to moisture levels in soil and is supposed to pass the data for free to research companies, but of course that’s what they say now, and who knows how that will play out. Otherwise building agricultural models and seeing how areas are changing over time could be really neat.

Yeah I don’t see why anyone would care bout that treaty if people can ignore it. Shit the U.S. /India have 1.5 billion dollar satellite being launched into space this week from India. I don’t see why we would be sanctioning people and building future endeavors with them.

I saw elsewhere that Pakistan stated they would be attacking Israel back with nukes if Israel used them against Iran. Which is why I assume it’s a given they won’t be used and we won’t have to worry about them coming into play

Why would you think they would need to be sanctioned for not using them? China and India both have nuclear weapons and have small skirmishes (granted not as big as this) and we don’t discuss sanctioning both of them for it. I would think threatening to use or using them would be the only scenarios where sanctions would be “forced hand” for lack of a better term.

Forced by who? The Republican Congress would likely say Iran deserved it, and even if they didn’t Trump would dismantle any group the executive branch is supposed to use to enforce them as he was pushing for with Russia .

Their biggest trading partner is China … not sure what they would do

Being that we know Iran sells weapons to Russia, I wonder where it would be cheaper to produce weapons. Would it be cheaper for Russia to pay to have certain things created elsewhere or in Russia. We know a lot of Russia’s weapons in the past were built in what now is Ukraine. Examples would be their Aircraft Carriers, destroyers, etc. Hell one of their main Aircraft Carriers was named Kiev

If you shoot down a missle it shouldn’t explode on impact and cause massive building damage like we are seeing in the photos. The largest thing you should see is like a street sign sticking into a building wall. It’s more likely the missiles missed if we are giving credit, but I doubt it. We’ll see when 3 days of this shit ends and what targets ended up being hit

Well both Trump and Elon have Russian ties. Right now Trump is the bigger asset to them. So if they publicly offer asylum to Musk, it makes Elon look like the worse bad guy and make Trump less bad and possibly slow any attempts to having him removed by the Senate.

So Russia can get Elons money being spent there, and Trump’s dumbassery trying to reduce and remove sanctions against Russia.

In their eyes it’s a win win.

Not sure Hungary does. But most of Europe I agree

I read the title and had to go to the article because my brain read pipes instead of wipes. I was trying to figure out how/why they were trying to transition to having dry pipes for water lines.

Trump watched Fox news for 4 years while Biden was President, had friendly relations with Putin in his business life and never showed up to any intelligence briefings pertaining to Russia invading Ukraine. He’s so stupid it has taken him 3 years to figure out the invasion wasn’t what Putin was telling him.

What was the mental illness?