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bijowo1676
7mo ago
nobody will prosecute them, unless there is regime change in the USA
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7mo ago
you have constructed a strawman argument and are arguing with it, mostly semantics and splitting hairs. Perhaps a problem here is that we are mixing up two theatres: Israel and GCC. Iron dome exists in Israel, but the radars and air defense
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7mo ago
> aiming to have fewer cars and abandon car-only transportation as policy, impossible in the US due to (sub)urban sprawl. The only way to get rid of car-only mode is to get rid of suburban sprawl and put people back into dense Eastern Eu
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7mo ago
you are arguing semantics, both me and Guardian using the term "iron dome" as a collective of all air defense systems in Israel (not that one system built to counter cheap rockets), because all these systems are integrated into on
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7mo ago
nobody can argue that, unless you are a war criminal trying to justify your war crimes
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7mo ago
Stealth really should be qualified as radar-stealth, not optical stealth and not infrared stealth. Iran is using infrared seekers to shut down planes and US pilots never get a warning of incoming missile due to Iran's passive IR seeker
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7mo ago
10-15 years to stand up legacy refining capability, which is heavy in pollution. China invested decades into research and has made significant progress in extra refined, four nines purity rare earth minerals, required for advanced industrie
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7mo ago
US did murder 170 girls in Minab school, and hit many civilian targets, including a water desalination plant. Yes US is using precision weapons, but not because they want to avoid indiscriminate bombing. It's because US wants to precis
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7mo ago
it shows that the US is occupied by the rich people and regular people have absolutely zero say
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Why would Oracle replace Americans with H-1Bs if they had to pay the same salaries?? Actually H-1Bs are more expensive than Americans due to visa costs and attorney costs, so Oracle can SAVE money by hiring Americans, yet they still decide
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7mo ago
they dont put up with abuse, it is very easy to change jobs on h-1b. the only reason to put up with abuse is boatloads of money, which is the primary reason why people change job (including the h-1bs)
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7mo ago
radar is not required for A2A missiles with infrared seekers, like the R60
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7mo ago
GCC radars are needed for early warning, not only fire control. the evidence is Alert system may not even work for missiles, or give very short warning (seconds to 1 minute instead of the usual 10 minutes) https://www.haaretz.com
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7mo ago
Geran-2 (which is Russian licenced Shahed drone) also carries air-to-air missile, so sending slow archaic manned airframe is just suicide mission (aka shaheed) https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-used-shahed-dron
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7mo ago
a single AN/FPS-132 radar costs $1.1 bln, not $500m. And Iran stuck 17 of the CENCCOM sites hosting radars of all kinds across Qarar, Bahrain, Iraq, UAE, Saudi, Jordan, Israel, etc). Total cost is so much bigger, it is staggering. The
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7mo ago
There is this called called "Obama phone" (free cellphone and free service for low income people). You can get one if you know some people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline_(FCC_program)