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What nonsense. Iraq has been a shitshow for a very, very long time. And I'm not endorsing the war in any way.
The relevant question for the people living there is allways: but is it better tody? And it seems, no.
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You never know who gets the power after a tyranny is removed. However, if you want tyranny to go, you have to gamble.
But the chances of a smooth transition are higher if the people of the country mange that by themself, instead of foreign forced change, where many suspect the motives are different.
Even if the US had not tried to create their kind of government, Iran sure as shit was trying to get their guys in.
So for the US its not about a question about US control, Iraqi control. Its a question of US control or Iranian control.
In this case they supported mostly the same groups, ironically. Iran did en up with the upper hand by far in Iraq, meaning the US achived LITERALLY the opposite of what they wanted to achive.
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What kind of protests are you imagining? With that kind of ordnance in use, it's no longer a protest but an all-out civil war.
Let's face it these things will be used mostly in situations which can at best be described that way. France's Yellow Vests, Hongkong, China and whatever is happening in India at the moment.
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Let's face it these things will be used mostly in situations which can at best be described that way. France's Yellow Vests, Hongkong, China and whatever is happening in India at the moment.
It's the first time I hear Yellow Vests or Hong Kong protests involving explosive ordnance deployed on either side.
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Okay, sorry, "electromagnetic radiation amplified and collimated in the same manner as a laser does to visible light". Better?
Like beamforming, or something more extreme like a maser? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maser
> The laser works by the same principle as the maser, but produces higher frequency coherent radiation at visible wavelengths.
There are plenty of lasers in the non-visible spectrum, I use IR lasers all the time.