thethirdgracchi

Ah I see, so it's probably more similar to that long range radar the Iranians destroyed in the early days of the war, that big dome?

Once we get to the post-structuralist Derridean PhDs in charge, it's gonna be great.

: «Operation True Promise 4 is always to come, a sign deferred; we can only ever approach its fulfillment, the shaheds keep flying, the missiles keep launching, but can a promise ever truly be fulfilled? Indeed, a promise cannot exist, for to promise something is to promise fulfillment, but one can only fulfill what is not extant, and if it is not extant it can never be fulfilled, so a promise is always a lie, a half-truth, something always to come.»

: «wut»

: «infinite Fattah-2 hypersonics on Tel Aviv»

It's by Panahi, it's pretty good. He's an Iranian dissident that has been forbidden from making films in Iran, yet he keeps making movies in Iran (often about how much he doesn't like the Islamic Republic and its attitude towards women and freedom of expression), gets thrown in prison, everybody in the West goes "hey when you get out next, you should leave Iran," and he declines and continues to live in Iran and make movies because he loves Iran. His movie about his daughter dressing as a man to sneak into a football match because she's a football freak is fantastic. No Bears is probably my favorite of his. He opposes the Islamic Republic but under no circumstances is he a freak like the deranged Iranian diaspora who wants Iran to get bombed; during the Twelve Days War he supported Iran and condemned Israel, so I imagine he's doing the same now.

I have no doubt in this clear and non-negotiable point and I have stated my position explicitly and will say it again: an attack on my homeland, Iran, is in no way acceptable. Israel has violated Iran and should be tried in an international trial as a war aggressor.

Panahi is important because you can show his movies to people, and the overwhelming impression they get of Iran is that it is a "normal" place if that makes sense. It's not some foreign strange where with zealots and crazies and robes flowing and shit, it's just a normal place where people gotta pay bills and grumble about their government and go to parties.

$4.5B for a THAAD long-range radar

Well then; we know that Iran has destroyed at least what, five of these things? That's over $20 billion gone poof right there. I mean they're obviously being "overcharged" but still goes to show how irreplaceable these are.

China will not do this because it would "rock the boat" too much, but if China wanted tomorrow they could crash the entire American economy and end American hegemony forever by instituting a full blockade of Taiwan, not letting any semiconductors get off the island, thereby immediately popping the AI bubble which is super reliant on these new, advanced GPUs coming out of Taiwan, which would then drag down the entire American economy with it because it cannot survive a supply shock of oil alongside the AI bubble bursting. They don't even need to go to war.

Damn, it's almost like Iran, which set very clear terms for safe passage of ships through the strait, is able to enforce those terms and thereby demonstrates clear and unambigious control over the waterway.

Are Israeli jets even allowed to land in Greece?

So to the surprise of nobody here, it seems Iran is launching smaller and smaller waves of missiles, sometimes literally just one, and hitting more and more high value targets. The interception rates at this point are atrocious. Incredibly important oil and gas infrastructure has been hit with precision and destroyed, cluster warheads are consistently hitting and killing Israelis in Tel Aviv, Hormuz remains entirely under the control of Iran, and the price of oil is creeping up and up. There is nothing the Epstein Coalition can do to change this "status quo," no matter how many high ranking Iranian officials they kill. Nobody besides Argentina and Estonian want to join an American coalition to do anything regarding Iran. So, how long until we get to a nuke? They'll try boots on the ground, get absolutely nowhere, a lot of bodys get sent back, and then what?

If the US drops a nuke we'll know immediately. There are a number of robust nuclear monitoring stations around Earth, many of which not at all under American influence. The radiation sgnatures of a nuclear strike are trivial to detect, and will be known almost instantly.

Saudi Defense Spokesperson: No damage resulted from intercepting ballistic missiles launched towards Riyadh.

Even a cursorary look at Iran's military capabilities would reveal that a) they have rathrr advanced tech, so much so that the Americans admitted to copying Iranian drone tech because it's that good and b) they have an insnely extensive tunnel system, far larger than anything the Vietnamese managed. They've got fucking cities down there.

I mean kind of. The problem with this kind of massive ground invasion is where the fuck are they gonna do a troop buildup if they've evacuated all their bases in the Gulf? You can't exactly start massing tens if not hundreds of thousands of teoops in Saudi Arabia like they did for Iraq, because they'd all get killed by Iranian missiles. So they have to do it further, but then that begs the question how are they gonna even get them to Iran? Do the troop buildup in Romania and then do a Xenophon-esque march through Anatolia into Persia with hundreds of thousands of American troops?? Their supply lines would implode. It's simply not feasible.