I mean, it also says there that they didn’t start the war. Hagseth is a politician saying things he knows are untrue for domestic political consumption.

It’s possible he believes some of this stuff in private, and Trump earnestly believes all kinds of crazy stuff. The generals and officers that pick targets and run strikes are still the same ones from Afghanistan, though.

Yeah, not OP, but I’m well aware of how much it would suck. This should be plan Z. It’s still an important one, though.

Cynicism seems smart even when it’s not. That seems to be the way it works, and I think I read it’s been shown scientifically.

We just have to be at least as strong as the Taliban, if it comes to that.

That’s the one facet of detachment we already have well underway. The big debate right now is German-Norwegian vs. Korean subs. German self-propelled howitzers are also a shoe-in.

(Meanwhile, the big goal with trade is to get America down to just half of our business in a decade, and people seem to think that’s ambitious)

I doubt people are going to change, short of becoming cyborgs or genetically engineered or something. Things already have, though.

I mean, you can interpret them to justify pretty much anything.

This isn’t even a hard case. The Israelites massacre people of other religions, and Iran is at a slightly higher latitude than Isreal so you can shoehorn it into gog and magog.

It bet it would work in America, too. The military is popular, and the civilian federal government is not.

God has a tendency to want whatever the politically powerful people in whatever religion do, for some reason.

This is what Evangelicals actually believe.

Yeah, but the US and Israeli militaries in specific are well aware of how bad optics make a military campaign harder. They’re not those people.

It wouldn’t, and the powers attacking here know that. It’s something else.

Or whatever random Israeli asset gave a suggestion, and then they rubberstamped it.

Making shit up is a popular tactic to not get your blackmail file released or get paid or whatever.

Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or the heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or chemical reactor could be redirected around.

I’m very anti-Zionist, the other guy wasn’t. 'nuff said.

I’d go through yours for things to misquote, but you’re a sockpuppet.

Sure. Please explain that to whichever mod is the Zionist. Maybe I’ll actually speak out against it again, then.

I was trying to debunk someone pro-Israeli, so…

No, you misunderstand. I was arguing against a Zionist.

That actually got me a temp ban here once, as well.

It was even a nuanced “both sides are human” take, not Hamas is awesome. I know, I wasn’t expecting it for that either.

Yeah. The thing is, it’s the main emotional motivator there is here.