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by oa335 6mo ago
> more an effective rhetorician than communicator. What’s the difference?
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> nor will they control the Strait to enact some sort of toll. The US and Gulf States won't agree to that. I'm not sure President Trump shares your view here: "ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked Trump if he approved of Iran’s
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“ ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked Trump if he approved of Iran’s plan to charge vessels a fee for passing through the strait — a key channel through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil is transported. “We’re thinking of doing it as a
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The quote is part of the Melian Dialogue, which is regarded as a dramatization of the events leading up to the siege and conquest of Melos by the Athenians. I think it’s appropriate to attribute the quote to Thucydides. The arguments the M
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Threatening total annihilation was possibly the dumbest move Trump could have made. “ Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in the heart of a hostile cou
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That’s certainly not the vibe I got from that video, nor the several others I’ve seen of Iranis at power plants and bridges.
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> it's not new that there's no hermetic protection. I think what new is the realization of Iran’s willingness to escalate. > There is no real possible alignment between the regime in Tehran and the Sunni Emirates or Saudi Ar
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Iran is liked about as much as the US and certainly more than Israel. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/america-has-lost-arab-wo... Iran has fomented discord in a number of countries, most notably Syria and Lebanon.
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https://youtu.be/u7J3_EX7rQk I think this was done voluntarily as a demonstration of sacrifice and nationalism.
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Some Israeli’s believe that they should kill the children of their enemies: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netany... “Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants
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> Sounds good - and the US can bomb Iran. Might makes right. Might doesn’t make “right” but it determines geopolitical realities. > Iran doesn’t control the straight though. Then why was Trump demanding that Iran “open the fuckin’ St
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Exactly, I think the Iranis are shrewd enough to price their tax so that it looks attractive to the alternative.
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> If you want to argue from a power prospective then the US and Israel can just do whatever they want too Yes, that’s exactly my point. any country can do whatever they want … within the limits of their powers. What is currently stoppin
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> It's true that protection isn't hermetic. But hermetic protection is REALLY important when your entire economy is based off of oil and water desalination plants. Iran still retains the ability to damage that infrastructure.
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> I'd actually say freedom of navigation is almost the definition of a Pax Right, and “Pax” are rare enough that we actually name them. I.e. Pax Romana etc. what we are seeing here is the end of Pax Americana.
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> Freedom of navigation is a core global principal and Iran has no legitimate right to stop other countries from trade. The US is stopping other countries from trading with Cuba and Iran. The US doesn’t have the “right” to do that, but
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Sure, but they can still hit critical infrastructure. Iran still has missiles that can hit Israel, they just launched some more tonight. War is about achieving political gains, even if it means material losses. Compare the proposal that t
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> Your entire formal military apparatus was destroyed How are they still firing missiles and downing aircraft?
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> It is well known that there are some small peptides that are absorbed following oral administration. ...BPC-157 itself is said to be among this class Do you know of any studies that suggest BPC-157 absorption from gut?
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“Blue dye stuff” meaning methylene blue? Ironically that is one of the most extensively studied compounds in medicine, with hundreds of clinical trials over 100 years…
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> raping a man to death That's not true, he's alive and was released to Gaza in a hostage-for-prisoner exchange. Yes, he was merely hospitalized with life-threatening internal bleeding. However there is at least one case of a d
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A higher percentage of prime age adults are working outside the house than almost any time in recent US history. I don’t understand why an analysis of the state of US employment should exclude women, can you please expand on your reasoning?
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https://www.bpr.org/npr-news/2026-04-03/not-our-war-say-chri... This article references at least three Christian villages that were recently attacked. Qlayaa, priest killed by shelling Debil, dozen homes blown up
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> Israel … is not attacking any neighbor that does not attack it Incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_attack_on_Doha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_airstrike_on_the_Irani...
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> Is Israel firing into Christian neighborhoods? Yes. “Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest Fr. Pierre al-Rahi, … was killed in this village in southern Lebanon during an Israeli artillery tank fire on a house March 9, 2026 … al-Rahi had ea
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> Israel isn’t … abusing and torturing Lebanese. Israeli-backed army ran a torture center in south Lebanon for years. https://www.hrw.org/news/1999/10/27/israel-responsible-abuse... Given the level of
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Syria actually worse than Gaza (5+ million displaced, 200k+ civilians killed) but over a much larger area and timespan.
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> The displacement is due to Israel's warning to civilians to leave the area of fighting for their protection Most modern instances of ethnic cleansing are justified as military necessities. E.g.: Armenian genocide “Article 1—During
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> Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger. Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that compl
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“ The person proposing has been thinking about this for weeks or months. They've tested pieces of it in their head or even built proofs of concept. They understand things about the idea that aren't obvious yet. And they're tr

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