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I still don't know whether a drone attack is less worse than a suicide attack. I guess that's another war to end all wars to add to the list
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I think you underestimate how much Iranians hate their current regime..
Telegram is full of gigantic rallies all hours of the day and night supporting the Iranian government. Even street interviews with young women (no hijab!) claiming they were formerly protesters but aren't going to tolerate foreigners bombing their country. Do you have some solid sources on the ground to the contrary?
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> in 2 strokes seriously hurt Chinese oil imports. USA, Europe, and many other countries depend on China for manufacturing. I doubt that this is going to solve inflation. But it will fill the pockets of a few people in oil rich countries that can still export.
Inflation is currently at 2.4%. How much lower do you want it to go?
And it will go higher now. And given the President's hatered for high interest rates and the next fed chairman being a garden-variety lick-spittle, things are not looking up.
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> That piece of technological advance has gone mostly under the radar (!) so far The Ukraine would like to have a word.
Underwater drones, not drones in general.
Only more reason to finally get rid of the current Iranian regime and any and all of their military capabilities.
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> That piece of technological advance has gone mostly under the radar (!) so far The Ukraine would like to have a word.
The drones that are mainly used there are the flying kind.
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It would be cheaper just to build an oil pipeline around it than to cover insurance and risk through that Strait. It would do well to just forget the Strait exists, our conflict has taken it out of commission for the indefinite future.
Let's replace a choke point by an even smaller single static point of failure transporting highly flammable content, are you an adviser for the white house? If not you should apply
An Iraqi security source said they think it was an Iranian boat rigged with explosives. If Iran does have underwater explosive drones, why would they boast about it and invite attacks upon that weapon and its deployment systems?
It might have been a low-observable watercraft like the Sea Baby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Baby A true UUV attack is probably outside Iran's wheelhouse, but cutting-down an attack speedboat to the waterline seems very realistic.
Why did we have to go through all this pain. Was that really necessary? And given we mostly talk about technology here, let me put this through that lens: With all the technology advancement and improvement with access to information in the last 30 years, why does it feel that all of this culminates to more disinformation, more pain, and less understanding?
One of the self-owns of all time. Triggering a global supply chain crisis right before midterms is bottom of the barrel strategy. But then again, who expects competency from any recent American administration, most especially this one?