Donald Trump humiliating himself by insisting he’s in charge while Israel openly defies him is pretty funny.

It’s all just theatre, but I hope it isn’t.

BBC News: Donald Trump has spoken to several US and international media outlets in the wake of Iran’s missile strike. Prior to his call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump told US media outlet Axios that he planned to urge Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran’s attack. The US president reiterated that message to Israel’s Channel 12 news, saying he did not want to see “an additional attack tonight”, according the Times of Israel. “The Iranian strikes didn’t hurt anybody,” Trump said. “Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don’t need another one.” – He added that he was going to call Netanyahu “right now and tell him not to retaliate”.

Building dozens of nukes, yes, necessary. Announcing Iran has nukes, no, not yet.

Right now Iran can make Israel eat a thousand missiles a week in defense of lebanon, and keep going until every hospital, technical institute, and piece of infrastructure is destroyed. The moment Iran conducts a nuclear test it opens up the possibility for Israel to launch a first strike under the guise of a second strike: “We had good intel that THOSE missiles were nukes, this time.” - and they’ll do it, because each and every zionist is hitler reborn.

Iran needs to do more to help lebanon, but conducting a nuclear test makes missile warfare higher stakes.

I worry about what that means for lebanon though. The moment the Iranians go seismic, every missile wave becomes an excuse for the entity scratch their hitler itch.

Doubt. Shaheds are ineffective against the entity, I think they’ll save them to hit the gulf compradors.

BBC News (unreliable, possibly misinfo) - ‘This is the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes,’ IRGC says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says “this operation is not a passing event, but rather the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes”. In a statement it adds: “Waves of missiles and drones will continue to be launched around the clock for the next seven days until the enemy is deterred and ceases its crimes.” “Any targeting of Iranian territory will be met with a devastating and overwhelming response beyond all expectation,” it adds.

Given that the entity will be obligated to respond (lest the government collapse), this is simply a declaration of open war.

Honestly, I think this had to happen, I don’t see another way.

Ok, bet.

Your awful spinal problems in later life are not service related.

It’s Knock Out, a community re-make of 2004-2020 Facepunch gmod forum, which were loosely based on somethingawful. It’s an interesting microcosm because the usebase hasn’t really expanded for decades, creating almost a 22 year old window into peoples lives via an old school forum.

Ideologically it’s LGBT Lib (Lockheed, Grumman, BAE, Thales).

The theme of Dune isn’t so much that the masses are irrational as that authority is irrational. Even with precognitive sight and the combined memories and wisdom of all every ancestor, it’s never clear if Paul or Leto are actually doing the right thing - or - if the bene-gesserit actually just genetically engineered the perfect lineage of self-gaslighting leaders.

It’s not certainly not leftist, but it’s a bloody good story for a 1960’s scifi written by a libertarian.

There’s certainly no lack of real leftist scifi out there.

New tankieverse instance dropped.

yes, it does the blowbackstroke.

Artemis III relies on a rushed competition between untested designs to go ahead on schedule. It has a high chance of going wrong or being delayed.

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This was immediately obvious when the Israeli’s started making excuses for bombing rail infrastructure.

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There is an oil pipeline that runs from Eilat to Ashkelon. This was originally built as a venture by the Iranians to bypass the suez canal, but seized by the Israeli’s after the revolution. There’s no reason for them not to destroy this facility.

Read the article, can’t help but agree with most of it. Iran should have developed nuclear weapons years ago.

It is everyone’s duty to foil and murder Americans. Failure to do so is simply a failure.

Iran is achieving deterrence.

Iran should publicly agree that it’s in everyone’s best interest that neither South Pars nor Qatar’s petroleum facilities should be attacked.

Then keep blasting every single non-Qatari facility in range.

Yanbu will be hit at some point, even if not right now.