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by ericmay 7mo ago
They’re still not getting money from the US. Those aren’t American ships sailing through the Strait. Striking military bases is legitimate morally though Iran’s “government” should just surrender and turn themselves in, but it doesn’t provi
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Ships would have not been able to pass freely at a later point. That’s why Iran was building and buying these missiles. Folks look around and say wow they did so much damage - yea now imagine 2x-5x the number of missiles and launchers and b
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by ericmay 7mo ago
We blew up most of their military, and killed a lot of their leadership. > If Iran's leaders' brains are not made of rotten oatmeal, they will massively accelerate their nuclear weapons program with their windfall. How can you
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Iran would close the Straight later. That’s why they were building all these missiles. Then when they are loaded up with thousands of more missiles the US wouldn’t be able to do anything about it or stop them from pursuing a nuclear weapo
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by ericmay 7mo ago
I don’t think they do because they’re not doing anything that wasn’t already prepared for. Remember while prices rise means MAGA is mad about their Ford truck gas prices… big deal… countries in Asia are switching to 4-days in the office an
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> And in the real world I see, the Iranian regime is able to absorb a tremendous amount of pain and stay in power. Tragic for the Iranian people, but also it has only been 5 weeks. We’ve destroyed whatever we can find and their regime is
907.
by ericmay 7mo ago
> Constructing the Strait of Hormuz Who dug it up?
908.
by ericmay 7mo ago
The Panama Canal is a man-made construct and costs money to operate. How is that comparable?
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Their military capabilities aren’t that great and they’re scared most likely. Iran is the big neighborhood bully and stockpiled thousands of missiles. Better to let the US Navy and US Air Force take out Iran’s capabilities to limit destruct
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by ericmay 7mo ago
If you want to argue from a power prospective then the US and Israel can just do whatever they want too and any moralistic argument seems easy to shelve. It cuts both ways. The Gulf States aren’t going to pay a tax to Iran. It’s a matter of
911.
by ericmay 7mo ago
That’s fine just stop grandstanding about little ole’ Iran being attacked or civilians dying if you don’t care that innocent civilians in other countries are dying. When you do you are taking a side and suggesting Iran is the moral actor he
912.
by ericmay 7mo ago
Oman isn’t the only country in the region, and any country should expect their ships to sail peacefully. Last I checked it’s the US and Israel at war with Iran, not others - no justification for charging transit fees. Second, you’re ignorin
913.
by ericmay 7mo ago
It doesn’t really bother the US specifically, it raises oil prices for everyone. The only difference is the US is the only that has a military that can actually do anything about it. We’re not going to let them charge ships like that nor wo
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915.
by ericmay 7mo ago
We certainly face headwinds and challenges and we will never be totally free of suburbs or anything - even Europe has those, but we can make great progress in specific areas and to your point leverage market efficiency to drive the progress
916.
by ericmay 7mo ago
Sure no disagreement there - I think that just strengthens my point. Though I don’t think they are really 2 decades ahead because we can just start stealing their research and reverse engineering products as we see fit.
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> UK and France have nukes, european nato part isn't going to be invaded without nuclear exchanges. I like to think this is true, but how many French soldiers coming home in body bags defending Lithuania will it take before they say
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Yes, Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy who has, in violation of UN actions and against Lebanese government wishes seized and held territory in Lebanon from which to launch rockets into Israel lol. If you're going to use that as such a loos
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> The US has lost mutiple KC-125 tankers and an E3 as well, although those were destroyed ont he ground rather than shot down. Which makes them irrelevant here in this discussion but sure yea. Russia (those sneaky guys who invaded Ukrain
920.
by ericmay 7mo ago
> European countries are protected by NATO and a nuclear umbrella. Well, protected by the United States primarily. They've mostly divested from military spending and capabilities over time, which is the ideal thing, but it seems lik
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by ericmay 7mo ago
We're dependent on processing and refining, not the minerals themselves. Takes, from what I understand, 10-15 years to stand up that capability. Overall EVs are great and all and that's what I have, but they're not addressing
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by ericmay 7mo ago
They should probably be closer to 0 or more in line with European countries but these numbers aren’t accurate and don’t tell the full story. They don’t, for example, include money paid to and missiles transferred to Houthis to launch from Y
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by ericmay 7mo ago
We got through it in 2022. We can get through it again. Though unfortunately Americans will learn the wrong lesson from this which should be to reduce dependency on oil for every day life. We should be aiming to have fewer cars and abandon
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by ericmay 7mo ago
You'd get additional specific training for deployments and the skills are transferrable. But obviously they can't train everyone in every biome that we have, otherwise you'd spend a whole year just flying around to different
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by ericmay 7mo ago
By that same logic that fact that we only lost 1 F-15 in, what, almost 3 weeks of bombing is actually a pretty good sign. Especially when you factor in that the Russians (proven) and Chinese (yet to be proven) are assisting Iran and Iran ha
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Ok that's fine if that's your justification, but then the US and Israel get to target civilian targets just like Iran. So morally they're the same when it comes to targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure and now I won&
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Ok by that same logic almost all areas of Iran are valid military targets because IRGC soldiers are spread throughout the country. Nevermind that they're recruiting children now. [1] By that same rationale you'd justify blowing up
928.
by ericmay 7mo ago
> Pray tell, when did the US or Israel warn Iranian civilians in Tehran about the same? This is about equivalence, not whataboutism. Why would they warn them when they don't intentionally target civilian infrastructure? > Unlike
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> My family are in the GCC, and my parents live near the coast. Iran has not once targeted a civilian infrastructure there directly, except for specific landmarks (Burj al Arab, the Palm, etc.). That's still not ok, still targeting
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by ericmay 7mo ago
I agree with you, it is misleading. But there are two sides who are both being misleading - that's all I'm calling out here. > What a waste it has been for European Nations to have sacrificed lives for Americas wars the last de

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