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by breppp 7mo ago
Back then there were only two ships attacked in the straits, and one was an Iranian shadow fleet ship. I am not sure that is "closing the straits" in any shape or form
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by breppp 7mo ago
However Qatar stopped production before the straits were officially closed and their stated reason is "due to military attacks", also Russian or Chinese ships can pass
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by breppp 7mo ago
Qatar is probably intentionally shutting down production of gas and oil in order to pressure the US to stop, independently of Iranian attacks. In that respect they may be bombed by Iran but they have the same interests
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by breppp 7mo ago
That belief is very common in secular settings. Marx and current day offshoots believed in a war that will bring redemption and utopia, other complete atheists believe in the inevitable environmental disaster (not whether it is happening bu
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by breppp 7mo ago
lol Let me tell you something even more worrying, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft already have larger engineering centers in Israel than most of Europe. And over 90% of their workers served in the IDF! And many more in Israeli Int
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by breppp 7mo ago
> goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play I don't think that's true here (what is
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by breppp 7mo ago
I'm sorry, not everything that was talked in depth in American media due to someone's propaganda pandering US isolationism can erase 80 prior years of written ideology
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by breppp 7mo ago
This is an overly US centric view which misses a lot of substance. Bin Laden major start in jihadism was in afghanistan, while there were already US soldiers in his home nation of saudi arabia. for some reason that deployment wasn't de
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by breppp 7mo ago
Saying the presence of American troops is the reason Bin Laden was anti-american is ideological flattening of Islamism, a movement from at least the 1920s that sees the entire failure of Islam in modernity as a product of western imperialis
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by breppp 7mo ago
Actually during the time when the nobility went to be fighter pilots it was a suicidal role with very low survival rates (ww1)
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by breppp 7mo ago
> In almost all countries, military is seen as a "working class" profession In western countries that's the case. In autocratic countries it is essential to keep control of the army by placing the equivalent of the royal f
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by breppp 7mo ago
Bahrain has a significant Shia population that feels oppressed and identifies with Iran. That's not similar to Kuwait, a country that has a recent history of being taken over by its largest neighbor and saved by the US
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by breppp 7mo ago
wrong link?
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by breppp 7mo ago
maybe, but that is a by product of a real function (hedging). The reason prediction markets deal with news is so they can attract gamblers. Also compare marketing efforts of prediction markets and SEC control of real markets
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by breppp 7mo ago
The idea is not economic hedging but gambling and corruption
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by breppp 7mo ago
Last time I checked there is a council of mullahs that elect the Supreme Leader, these mullahs might be elected, although from a very narrow kind of people (Islamic Jurists). But anyone who isn't of the type of mullah the government fa
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by breppp 7mo ago
I am guessing this is the case where a pre created narrative ("Killing AI bots") is force fitted into a more nuanced instance of reality. These are probably analysts that use Claude that has an MCP server to some palantir half-ass
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by breppp 7mo ago
Can an Iranian citizen effectively vote for the Supreme Leader?
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by breppp 7mo ago
> And, given that the us initiated this current round of hostilities My guess is Article 5 could be invoked as this is an attack on an uninvolved NATO member. I wouldn't count on it though for other reasons > Countries or governm
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Iran fires missile at Turkey, a NATO member(reuters.com)
10 points by breppp 7mo ago|2 comments
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Israel Is Blowing Up Iran's Police State to Clear the Way for a Revolt(wsj.com)
3 points by breppp 7mo ago|1 comments
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by breppp 8mo ago
that's false
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by breppp 8mo ago
Take the language issue with the BBC, which is hardly for this war In any case a contrarian opinion might be that Iran promised to yield on negotiations following the previous war as mentioned here: https://www.reuters.com/w
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by breppp 8mo ago
I don't see the large difference between a civilian port, a civilian oil facility or a civilian aluminum factory vs a hotel on the topic of whether the Iranians are capable of targeting a civilian data center, however, assuming you are
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by breppp 8mo ago
refineries, gas fields - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-aramco-shuts-r... dubai airport, residential buildings, hotels, ports - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/se
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by breppp 8mo ago
Can't say how taking over Iraq for economic reasons helps the Palestinians but sure
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by breppp 8mo ago
> How evil of them to do that. They should have known only the United States of America has the divine right to invade countries and extract their resources Yes, OP was already saying Iran is free to act because the US is an imperial pow
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by breppp 8mo ago
> doesn't seem it was the case in this instance To me it absolutely looks like the case in here, what are the chances three availability zones across two different countries have been attacked?
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by breppp 8mo ago
That's incorrect, there have been multiple hotels being attacked and recently oil facilities in SA
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by breppp 8mo ago
Citizen armies? You haven't talked to a Lebanese lately haven't you?

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