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Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

The view from the couch is such that everything seems pretty easy really.

I remember someone famously once said that the US presidency was going to be easy.

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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I wonder what's stranger. That they think Trump will care about OpenAI's datacenter in Abu Dhabi, or that we're getting this news from tomshardware.com

He may care in the end, because TACO. Looks like this is a pattern of modern war where both sides are testing the escalation levels by attacking the infrastructure. It‘s like MAD, but going up in smaller increments rather than hitting with everything after one or two limited strikes like nuclear. Basically, you hit my power plant, I‘ll hit yours. It‘s the same path Ukraine went on: they initially showed restraint in…

> by choosing the same civilian targets

not sure what the point of this propaganda is?

ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments.

hitting (dual use) energy infrastructure is a completely different level then targeting civilian homes.

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt.

We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injured in the same blast that killed Khamenei), but it's a pretty good bet that they are even more extreme and hard-line than before.

We've shown that Iran has complete and total control over the global economy via energy markets.

Every other country in the region wants Iran gone. Or to put it in more direct terms, the US kind of needs to "finish the job".

If we back down now, Iran wins, and that may actually be the worst possible situation to end up in.

To everyone who voted for Trump ... YOU VOTED FOR THIS. THANKS.

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

Trump must save face. Publicly backing down is only possible once there's some kind of out, probably involving Iran loudly compromising.

Trump would also have to navigate the loyalty the US state apparatus has to Israel. Iran has made it clear that the ceasefire option is off the table this time round. So I just don’t see the US extricating itself from this quagmire barring some extreme political upheaval.

But who knows, if you take Trump’s incompetence, plus the possibility of global economic collapse, plus the possibility of global food shortages, we just might see it.

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

Irans leadership does not want to be killed by being bombed every few month. So they need to impose sufficient costs to deter bombing them.

Idk what you are missing... maybe that people don't want to be killed and try to implement strategies to not get killed?

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

Trump must save face. Publicly backing down is only possible once there's some kind of out, probably involving Iran loudly compromising.

Trump is old and a lame duck. I think he sees not backing down in as his last hope of creating a legacy

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

Irans leadership does not want to be killed by being bombed every few month. So they need to impose sufficient costs to deter bombing them. Idk what you are missing... maybe that people don't want to be killed and try to implement strategies to not get killed?

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Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Irans leadership does not want to be killed by being bombed every few month. So they need to impose sufficient costs to deter bombing them. Idk what you are missing... maybe that people don't want to be killed and try to implement strategies to not get killed?

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Just like ICE killing american citizens? Yeah, what's the problem with that?

Re: Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

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Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.

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Do you work in arms industry? Because unless you are the arms industry, wasting almost 1 billion dollars per day fighting a war that has nothing to do with us does not seem like "going pretty damn well"
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