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US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran

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Re: US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran

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Pentagon is already using Grok AI to launch missiles at girl's school in Minab that killed 120 school girls and 50 school staff https://thehill.com/newsletters/technology/5929290-pentagon-... it is as unconvential as it can be already

The school wasn't Grok, as I understand it it was bad data in Maven.

it wasn't just "bad data", it was data and somebody put that data in the targeting system

these people have names and motivations to do what they did

Re: US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

Better yet, the Viets became communist in name only and actually quite capitalist. Moreover, they don't like the Chinese in the north, their former ally in the war.

Wouldn't it be great if Iran becomes our friend and trade partner in two decades?

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

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Why do we continue to spread this as if it was objective fact.. Didn’t the US government intelligence agencies themselves find that Iran is not building nukes? Aren’t they submitting to inspections by the IAEA, whereas Israel is not?

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

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everything you said is complete lie

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

Better yet, the Viets became communist in name only and actually quite capitalist. Moreover, they don't like the Chinese in the north, their former ally in the war. Wouldn't it be great if Iran becomes our friend and trade partner in two decades?

It would be actually be smart and net positive for Americans, if Iran became America's "greatest ally" in the region, instead of the other country.

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

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> Iranian regime is on a path of creating nuclear weapons and they are going to do use it again Israel

That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is suicidal without having some sort of evidence to back it up.

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I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us? We could try tha…

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A nuclear armed Iran would be fantastic for global stability. Right now, the only nuclear power in the Middle East is Israel, and they act like it, doing their warmongering and genocidal tendencies and all that.

A nuclear Iran and nuclear Israel would be in a mutually assured destruction stalemate, which would drastically increase Israel's perceived cost of fucking around with their neighbors.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Iranian regime is on a path of creating nuclear weapons and they are going to do use it again Israel That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is suicidal without having some sort of evidence to back it up.

It's not an evidence but if they do believe the end times prophesy about Imam al-Mahdi they may want to speed-up his arrival by attacking Israel. IMHO people in the west often making a mistake trying to interpret actions of deeply religious people from a secular viewpoint and making an assumption that they must have only or mostly non-religions motives.
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