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.

The implication is that NATO does not declare personnel KIA, they just fake an accident later.

Let’s say three US personnel die in Ukraine, somewhere they shouldn’t be. It’s later announced they died in a freak accident elsewhere.

As we saw from last years drone attacks on the entity, the shahed drones are easy pickings over Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi for everyone from comprador air forces to concerned British jets out of Cyprus. Not to mention there’s a whole carrier group stationed off the Israeli coast.

This time, drones are being used to hit the gulf states and US bases 200km away instead of 2000km away. This has some benefits. By using the drones against the gulf states, the time for possible interception is much lower - this means you can use fewer drones - this means you can use fewer launchers - this reduces exposure time for launch personnel.

Right now, the entity is being hit by the largest and most capable ballistics missiles that Iran has, several times per day. These are only really interceptable by THADD batteries, which Iran is doing well to destroy. Meanwhile Hezbollah is firing shorter range and much cheaper rockets to drain the interceptor stockpiles. Once the interceptor stockpiles are empty, Iran can launch massive drone attacks again.

It’s whatever is needed for the legality, cope, and bombast of the moment. Funding wasn’t blocked, so it can be promoted from an “operation” to a “war”.

Taking out the causeway might actually cause a revolution to kick off, otherwise it’s a race to secure the causeway and stop the Saudi’s.

They took the parachutes out because being aerially keelhauled and turned into salsa spray wasn’t considered survivable or dignified. Tanker, cargo, and most radar aircraft crew just die when their plane goes down.