Iranian channel reminds the world of the Dresden massacre . I wonder why America keeps wanting to overthrow Iran
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Iran is an enemy of the United States, and has acted as an enemy ever since the 1979 revolution that turned Iran into an authoritarian islamic theocracy.
The US couldn't care less about stupid tweets like this. While I agree that the Dresden bombing was a "terror" bombing undertaken gratuitously in revenge, so what? This was an accepted practice in WW2. This is nothing compare to what the US did to Japan.
It was controversial in the US/UK even at the time. It is important to note that in WW2, the "rules of war" we all just assume to be correct did not exist. They were created by the West in response to the destruction of ww2. Unlike every other nation, the US/UK actually had a conscience and the ability to look upon the bombing and say it was wrong, and to suspend further such attacks.
The main problem with Iran today is that it supports terrorism, launches attacks on commercial ships, attacks oil facilities in Saudi Arabia with drones, supplies terrorist groups in Syria/Lebanon/Yemen, and tries to get nukes so it can use those to make threats and destabilize the region. Not tweets.
Our "greatest ally" does the exact same shit.
I don't see why anyone would think that it does.
Both the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Land Warfare Convention did exist. These however deal mostly with treatment of soldiers and not civilians, is my understanding. This is also why mass murder of civilians is technically not a 'war crime', but a 'crime against humanity'. Correct me if you know better.
Dude... C'mon man.
Whatever 'conscience' countries have, they have because they don't want to get bad press.
There's no evidence that these kooks actually want nukes, rather than the ability to get nukes. Also, I know of no terrorist group in Syria supplied by Iran, while there are plenty supplied by the US. All the rest is true. That said, it's nothing the US doesn't do, and the US does much worse - like blow up European infrastructure.
Would I mind if the Iranian regime is overthrown? Yes. But only for as long as they are supplying drones to Russia - which is actually the only reason the West dislikes Iran suddenly.
It's corruption and hypocrisy all the way down in the West.
Like you say, those were basically for POWs at the time, and the USSR/Germany/Japan ignored them, though the Allies followed them and Germany generally respected the rules for Allies POWs.
No rules of war or treaties cover strategic bombing, instead, it's a cultural and social taboo mediated by the international press and their influence on democratic politicians.
The Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, more commonly referred to as the Fourth Geneva Convention. This was in 1949 after WW2. It bans violence and other things against civilians, prisoners, the wounded, etc.
So? All a conscience is, is the "bad press" inside your own mind. All goodness is, is your choice to refrain from selfish/malicious acts based on your own higher principles. Who cares if the press acts as the conscience of western politicians? The point is that the West has one. Russia and China do not.
But I also reject your worldview that Western politicians are all sociopaths and lack any internal consciences. Of course they have consciences, and limit themselves regardless of the press. We can see this by seeing how different politicians acted differently. Nixon was far more willing to bomb civilians than other presidents like Johnson or Carter, even in the face of press criticism.
You don't spend enormous time, money, and bring sanctions on yourself with lots of nuclear program facilities, unless your goal is to get nukes. You don't pay a high price for something you don't want. You don't point to a 4th year college senior and say "there's no evidence he wants a degree, he just wants to have the ability to get a degree". No dude, he clearly wants a degree.
Hezbollah
Nah, the drone supply is a really minor, trifling thing compared to the much bigger problems with Iran.
The drone attacks don't even work anymore. The West started to supply Ukraine with a lot of air defenses, and after a few months, almost all the drones get shot down now.
The drone strikes were highly successful in October, a bit less successful in November with about 70% intercepted, and even less successful in December. The attack on Feb 9/10 had an 86% shoot down rate.
The latest attack last night caused no power outages at all.
It's a failed strategy. Sure, it forced the West to waste more money than otherwise on gearing up Ukraine's air defenses to a degree that otherwise would not have been necessary, but there is no evidence that this caused a reduction in other supplies. To the contrary, Russian attacks on civilians only caused military aid to ramp up to much higher levels than we saw in the 1st 9 months of the war. So the aid increased, the capabilities increased, and Russia failed to actually disrupt Ukraine's power grid for any significant length of time. The strategy backfired.
Crap. So we're screwed. Because the "international press" is corrupt, as are supposedly democratic politicians.
Conscience is internal. If it's the bad press they fear, it's not internal.
Because you have a very naive understanding of politics. They wouldn't get to that position if they weren't sociopaths, at least, the chances would be close to nil and they wouldn't get anything done. DeSantis? Sociopath. He'd order the death of half the human population if it would get him into office. And thank God for it, because he'd be a sure loser otherwise.
Different politicians calculate their interests differently, but for none of them is "civilian casualties" per se a consideration. Perhaps the bad press is, and Nixon cared less about bad press than Carter.
I think it makes perfect sense. Having the capability to quickly get a nuke gets them all the benefits without the associated costs of being even more of an international pariah. I do think they made a mistake, but now it's difficult for them to get out of the hole they've dug for themselves.
That's Lebanon.
And you're using $300,000 missiles to shoot down $20,000 drones. Seems pretty cost-effective to me.
Please, let's not pretend that the corrupt West cares about 'civilians' as anything more than propaganda. They sure as hell didn't care about Azerbaijan butchering Armenians, as you acknowledged.
Press is absolutely internal to the nation state.
Idk how you can interact with a significant number of people and actually believe this. I guess this must be a very russian way of thinking designed to normalize acceptance of its own leaders behaving that way.
They have nothing until they detonate a test like Pakistan or North Korea did, and at that point they have everything they want, as proven by North Korea and Libya, as soon as you reach the finish line, no one will touch you. They might be waiting until they can get a number of nukes, though, not just 1, because if they only have 1 or 2 they are vulnerable to Israel suddenly bombing the shit out of them with Saudi assistance in response to their test.
Hezbollah has been deployed as military units in Syria from the early days of the civil war. They are the major conduit of Iran's aid to Assad, since they're an Iranian proxy.
Sometimes. Russia also fires some very expensive cruise missiles in the mix, it isn't all Iranian drones. Ukraine also using some very low cost interceptors like German Gepards. Even not being cost effective though doesn't matter, since the West has a combined GDP over 20x that of Russia.
But in the longer term you are right. Modern air defenses are not optimized against extremely cheap missiles like the Shahed 136/Geran-2. Russia is doubling down on the mass production of the Shahed 136 in Yelabuga. Presumably Russia will be able to produce thousands of missiles per month and saturate defenses, eventually.
But the attacker always loses these wars of economic attrition against any prepared defender.
Shooting down the Shahed 136 with missiles is a non-starter because you can't make a missile cheap enough since the Shahed's extremely low requirements mean it can be far cheaper than any interceptor. Guns are also non-starters because their short range means you need far too many of them to cover an area as large as Ukraine. They might work for targets getting shot at a lot like Zaporizhzhia, but you can't provide comprehensive coverage. Using aircraft is also a non-starter since the cost from accidents and wear and tear alone are too high. You could use cheaper prop planes like COIN aircraft, but at that point there's a better solution:
The answer is obvious: you kill the Shahed 136 with smaller, cheaper drones. The drone interceptors do not need to be expended, either. They can simply hover above the Shahed and fire a payload of shotgun shells into it, or attach a satchel charge to it. They could also ram it, but since the Shahed is so slow and flies so straight, you don't need to waste your drone to bring it down.
But this system does not yet exist, and it should be developed immediately. Plenty of drones already exist, but you'd need a drone command point which is networked into the air defense network, and which can control a dozen or more drones at a time to cover a wide area of 20-30km. You can have smaller, cheaper shorter range drones pre-positioned on likely approach routes to blunt saturation attacks.
I don't think Russia will get production up in time to make any significant difference, but I hope our military leaders have enough brains to recognize that they need a new weapon to defeat enemy drones in general, and it needs to be tested and deployed sooner not later.
But you dont get it. The Woke are so bad, we must side with the enemies of America in order to defeat them! I mean, sure....we're defeating them through normal means and returning America to its normal state. But it's not fast enough! And there are too many untermench still in it! /s
I swear to baby Jesus, this place is becoming so much more retarded by the day with some of the people around here. I saw some people start simping for China because "At least they're not Woke." As if the Chinese arent the ones SPREAD THE WOKE AGENDA TO WEAKEN OTHERS!
So I just stopped caring about them. Russia must burn, Slava Ukraini, and Et praeterea Sina delenda est! Glory forever to Columbia!
I mean, good luck, but... I don't see that happening. At the very best, you're going to end up with a moderate woke empire: e.g. instead of banning the cutting up of children, there will be some checks on it rather than none.
Maybe you can respond to substantive points rather than strawmen.
It's just a fact. If you live in China, you don't have to worry about your children being cut up because your local school brainwashed him into believing that he was 'in the wrong body'. When did objectivity become bad?
Quite likely with the TikTok crap. The Russians were also spreading BLM and other stuff on Russia Today. But who is dumber, the one who feeds poisons to others, or the one who willingly quaffs it himself?
Oh, this is a very rational point of view. MUH RUSSHER is so bad, we must side with literal Nazis and war criminals to defeat it.
And why exactly is Russia so bad, may I ask? Because it invades other countries? Because ordinary people have no say in its politics? Or because unarmed women who protest the government are shot in the throat?
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What slur?
The only possible ideas I have are “retarded” (which AFAIK is allowed here) or they think there is a slur hidden in the Latin (which is literally just Cato’s famous phrase modified to “And Furthermore, China must be destroyed.”)
What makes you say we're returning for my eye it seems we're getting worse, As for Russia I'd say it's heavily flawed but ultimately better then we are at the moment (This war between them and Ukraine is a pointless loss of life). As for Iran I don't have much of a take because IDK much on em.
Anti-Americans just use wokeness as an excuse. If the US had a civil war and we holocausted all the wokes and wiped out all LGBTs & twitter blue checks, and turned America into a nationalistic right wing empire, 90% of these people would shit their pants, panic, and REEEEEE out about how evil America is twice as hard, because their fundamental goal is to divide, weaken, and undermine the United States, not to promote right wing ideology.
A united right wing American empire would be their worst nightmare.
Projection much that, last I checked we don't bitch during good times unlike our enemies who claim they are oppressed despite having the elites at their backs
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"Anti-Americans", as you call critics of the US government, are critical of the actions of the US government, because they do not like the actions of the US government.
Hell, you can stay woke all you want. If you stopped exporting it to my country, and stopped invading others, and stopped inciting war in Europe, I wouldn't be forced to care about some shithole country across the ocean.
It is your fantasy, because you're never getting control back.
Bullshit. Your primary complaint about the United States is its culture, not its government.
You know I'm not woke, and have done plenty to fight the wokes.
The United States does not export wokeness. You people seek it out and bathe yourselves in it. You go out of your way to learn English. You go out of your way to watch American and British entertainment media. You go out of your way to not just watch it, but to look up to it as your superior, admire it, emulate it, and worship it. You ABSOLUTE FOOLS worship Hollywood atheistic jews and their cultural manipulation DIRECTLY, and your elites model themselves after it.
Don't blame us when your elites and your people go out of their way to ingest clearly labelled poison. That's your own faults, not ours. American conservatives like DeSantis at least strike back against infected woke factories like Disney. What has Putin done? Nothing except to empower the wokes by handing them an easily defeated foil to rally against.
The US hasn't invaded anyone since 2001 Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq, both justified, both supported by broad coalitions. That was 20 years ago, now. Russia, on the other hand, invaded Ukraine last year.
"you made me do it" victim blaming is the lamest, most pathetic excuse of the naked aggressor. It's a bitch move. It's what mentally disordered women say.
If you hadn't learned english, you wouldn't be interacting with the english speaking world at all. You did it to yourself. It's like if I learned Japanese and went on Japanese internet sites and then complained about the Anime nobody forced me to watch all day.
I don't have any fantasy of overthrowing democracy. It's not my fault you're demoralized. Of course the Right is getting power back. We had it under Trump 2017-2020, we had it under GWB 2001-2008. The pendulum swings both ways. We will win in 2024.
Will we eradicate wokeness? No, but we can and will erode and reduce its power. Unlike Putin, who only helps the wokes by being a villain for them to beat up on. At least with Hitler, Hitler actually might have won, and did win for quite a while until the tide turned. (in contrast to Japan, who had 0% chance of winning from the moment they started shit with the US) Putin has no chance of winning and just threw away whatever power he could have used in more useful and effective ways soaking Ukrainian fields with Russian blood and steel.