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what purpose does this serve? betting ?
One of the more unintentionally depressing comments I have ever seen on HN, the first guess on the "purpose" of reporting on a war is to profit from it by gambling. Our society has gotten to a dark place.
the redeeming quality is that the information is extremely incomplete , lots of things happening we don't see or know about
The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)
I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I'm sure it is reasonably good. It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence. I don't mean that in a rah-rah way, it just seems to be the reality.
Seems like the sword and shield icons are backwards in terms of who started the war. And “bloc” vs “coalition” lol. Wonder how much of this came out of the prompter’s mind versus the LLM itself.
Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.
Because the UAE happily keeps their air space open to the US, and their economy is driven (largely) by rich westerners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Dhafra_Air_Base
And dozens of others, in Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman...
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/national-security-st...
Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.
> Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? The theory was probably that the Gulf states are only begrudgingly going along with Washington in this war, and that the moment they start seeing costs they’ll personally call Trump to stop it. What Iran miscalculated on are the Gulf’s (a) long-time frustrations with Tehran, (b) massive bets on economies that suffer from capitulation and (c) monarc…
The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)
I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I'm sure it is reasonably good. It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence. I don't mean that in a rah-rah way, it just seems to be the reality.
I think there are pretty clear signs.
The T-14 Armata and Sukhoi Su-57 not really showing up in Ukraine, for example. As well as the S-500, which seems to be vulnerable to even 1990s tech like the ATACMS.
The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? The theory was probably that the Gulf states are only begrudgingly going along with Washington in this war, and that the moment they start seeing costs they’ll personally call Trump to stop it. What Iran miscalculated on are the Gulf’s (a) long-time frustrations with Tehran, (b) massive bets on economies that suffer from capitulation and (c) monarc…
As said by others Iran is attacking US Military bases in these countries not the countries themselves.