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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
I can’t image 2 millions gazans going by boats into international waters. To what end? Where would they get so many boats? The sad part is that Egypt has an obligation under international law to allow refugees into its territory. But Egypt
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> but maybe next time we try to prevent Saudis from killing their neighbours first, to avoid creating yet another resistance group that use terrorism and asymmetrical warfare? It was not us that said to Iran to fund Houthis. Some things
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> The same can be said of Iran re creating off-ramps from conflict or bad outcomes. That's what the "nuclear deal" was meant to be about. It was a bad deal that structurally did not prevent IR from building a bomb. This de
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
My point was that NJ has places with higher property taxes, and people still move into those places by choice.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
China has both the nukes and ballistic missiles. Obviously, the calculus for the war with China completely different: you create a situation where China prefers not to attack Taiwan. > Maybe in five years the regime would have collapsed
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> You're right, but neglect to mention that infrastructure necessary to enrich uranium is not something so easily squirrled away and hidden while also dealing with radioactive isotopes. But Iran did violate the agreement. The agreem
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
I think if Israel believes that weapons can be smuggled via sea, which is reasonable given the smuggling via Sinai and Rafah crossing, then they took the rational step of mitigation this risk.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> I call it pointless because I and many other Americans have been told these things before. We are always in a constant "Red Queen's Race" with other nations as a means of establishing dominance. Well, if it's not th
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
Yeah, sure. You can read IAEA report yourself: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pd...
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> I think you're missing the crux of the point: why is anything the Trump administration says taken at face value? They have no commitment to the truth, whatsoever. No, I am not. It has nothing to do with Trump his abilities to spea
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> Iran has always lacked an ability to project power at a distance. Sure. Now they maybe able to reach Greece. Give them five years and they will develop missiles that can reach France, or even UK. I am sure europeans would love the idea
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> Pointlessness of this war aside This is not a pointless war. You may not like Trump or Bibi, but geopolitics-wise this war make perfect sense on many levels. First, it limits China's ability to hoard cheep oil as Iran has to sell
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> This is an interesting issue: what constitutes a valid military target? Any form of supply chain was considered a valid military target, e.g., refineries, factories, assembly lines, etc. If an army relies on tech from, say a cloud prov
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> based on the actions of a much smaller subset of those people. Interesting way to describe the government the people of Gaza. If Palestinians launch the rockets from Gaza to Israel, why should Israel to continue their trade with them?
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
Why does IR need 60% enriched uranium? The moment IR gets nukes, Saudis and all the other countries around them will get nukes as well. I don’t understand why everyone is so hell bent on not preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. We have
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
Obama’s deal specifically excluded surprise inspections (often referred to as "Anywhere, Anytime"). So, if you are trying to hide something, and you know that the inspection is coming, you will succeed.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
Having 60% enriched Uranium is about 2 weeks from having a nuke.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
NJ, in areas with good schools, has higher property taxes.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> has the demonstrated ability to strike well beyond its borders. Yep, now if IR survives, I see no reason for them not to double down on even longer range missiles. Like, why not?
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> Iran's regime remains strong and stable - it controls all the political institutions, it controls the civilian government at the local level, it controls the religious / cultural institutions, it controls the military and it
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> That's not the case at all. Would you consider blowing up a bus with civilians a crime?
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> There was literally a puppet regime in the 70s backed and promoted by the US. Yes. But do not think that the current regime in Iran is the one that overthrew the Shah. The current regime is the one that butchered and jailed the people
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> And what about Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon? And, in this latest case, Iran? As far as I know they do not have peace treaties with Israel, so they are less safe by definition, no? Also, Iraq and Iran are not neighbors of Israel, only Leban
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
I did see. It is sad that you've decided to look away.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> This kind of thinking won't get you very far and won't ensure peace in the region. That's for sure.
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
It seems to me that IR always had a choice, but they made the one to be imperialistic. So...
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
> That's quite literally the justification the Baathists used to try 'reclaim' both Khuzestan and Kuwait. You quite literally couldn't be more wrong in how you categorize Baathist Iraq. Baathism is literally pan-arabi
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
What Arab countries? How can you compare Arab countries to Iran?
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
Libya is not a real country in a historical sense. It’s a bunch of tribes, Kadaffi was from one of the tribes that subjugated others. In Iraq it was a Sunni minority that rules over Shiite majority, and other minorities like the Kurds. In S
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by reliabilityguy 7mo ago
There is also a possibility of a Venezuela-style cooperation.

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