1 country in the world won't make you safe from wars. There's a reason why military was and is separated from police. Just think what's going to happen when your soldiers start to kill citizens.
1 country in the world tend to degrade to dystopian regime, and it was researched by multiple books authors, and actually a modern day USA is a good example of a regime on the path to dystopia.
Yep. This is the type of a psycho, that start all the wars.
If history teaches us anything, as soon as some country gets a superior war tech, it immediately leads to them using it to destroy whoever they see as their enemies. And what really stops wars is when their main adversaries have the same power to destroy if being attacked.
Mutual deterrence is what was keeping us from WW3 for several decades. But the recent and growing idea of USA that they can break from this stalemate and crush anyone with overwhelming strength is what makes WW3 closer and closer by the day.
It helps them to stay "under radar", but their effectiveness is limited to something flammable. Pretty much any hit besides some oil refinery is mostly a PR, without real damage.
It’s a lie. Russia Ukraine war demonstrated clearly that everything you write in whatsapp, your location, any photo etc are easily accessible and monitored in real time by USA government and their three letter agencies.
> It's not clear to me why the USA would join forces with Israel instead of Iran. Iran arguably is better geopolitically positioned and an alliance with Iran would buy the US much more of the ME
Sure, the U.S can also join forces with Russia and dump Ukraine . Why not ?
America has a history of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Before September 11th, it was a part of the country but not part of the core American identity. Since then it has become a defining characteristic of our politics.
> Of course it was wrong and no wonder things are 100x worse (if that) as a result.
OR you could say the pro U.S phase of Iran kept things alright (relatively to after the Islamic revoltion) until it was over and we have the freak show we have today. It is true that the Shaa was a corrupt dictator , but it is not clear to me that the U.S should have disengaged from him. Qatar, Saudi Arabaia, Egypt and Jordan are all different kinds of dictatorships that are relatively pro Western and that the U.S engages with (sometimes even by supporting the regime financially/militarily as with Egypt and Jordan).
All in all, pro U.S/West Arab governments are in much better shape than Iran is today.
The Iran nuclear deal was a good faith and somewhat effective attempt to de-escalate.
America voted for less de-escalation and more threats and rule by fear and war, which is funny since they repeatedly insisted they were voting for "No more wars" by voting for the guy that very clearly wanted to go to war with Iran.
The deal Trump has been offering the last few months, which Iran has rejected, is pretty much similar to the previous one.
So you could say Trump shouldn't have pulled out of the Obama deal, that may be true, but you could also say Iran should have taken this deal instead of trying to drag negotiations forever.
It's clear to all intelligence orgs out there no country with a civilian only nuclear program enriches Uranium to the level Iran has.
everybody in the neighborhood hates the guts of the iran. iran was major sponsor of terrorism in the middle east for past 40 years and blackmails entire middle east
this is what you call "better geopolitically positioned" ?
Yeah, I don't live in a slice of the multiverse where Iran is trustworthy in any sense. I'm no fan of Israel's government, but Iran is ground zero for terrorism training worldwide.
Did you read about how the IDF arms settlers and escorts them into the West Bank, where they harass residents? How about how they arbitrarily arrest and detain Palestinians and torture them without cause? Does this qualify as terrorism or is the US designation all that matters to you? If so, I wonder if you regard the US' documented sponsorship of AQ affiliates as an indication that their heuristic may be flawed. Cute deflection, though.
“Arab / Muslim states” is a clear attempt to craft a concise label that includes the states that are both Arab & Islamic, Lebanon which is Arab and explicitly multiconfessional, and Iran which explictly Islamic and very much not Arab, and also very clearly crafted by someone unfamiliar with the proper usage of Muslim (noun for a person who is a follower of Islam) and Islamic (adjective modifying a noun to indicated that it is associated in some way with Islam.)
The label is entirely separate from my point and apologies for the generalization. Middle eastern counties would have avoided all this and stuck to my original point. Neighboring enemies of Israel is probably the most correct description in that regard.
Wave was an interesting project. I really liked to be able to subscribe to certain waves and read the news from there. Sad that it ended up in a grave of most other Google projects.
Yeah, pretty sure that they'll just nationalize SpaceX to prevent it from happening, but not gonna lie, it'd be funny to see how USA government would have to crawl back to Russia for ISS resupply.
It was obvious from the beginning, that economical miracle of SpaceX is based on government subsidies. Without USA pumping money in every Musk project, his hi-tech businesses are dead.
SpaceX, subsidies? No. Government contracts? Yes. Tesla subsidies, also yes.
SpaceX has actually made space cheap enough for a lot of other stuff to make sense, but without competition the profits are as big as Musk needs for R&D for his hobby of LARPing sci-fi he clearly hasn't read deeply (in this case Red Mars; in the cases of Neuralink and the SpaceX drone ships, The Culture).
1 country in the world won't make you safe from wars. There's a reason why military was and is separated from police. Just think what's going to happen when your soldiers start to kill citizens.
1 country in the world tend to degrade to dystopian regime, and it was researched by multiple books authors, and actually a modern day USA is a good example of a regime on the path to dystopia.