Is it safe to blow up a nuclear plant? Doesn't that cause bad things to spread?
U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
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#322Is it safe to blow up a nuclear plant? Doesn't that cause bad things to spread?
Yes, but who said that Trump cares about any consequences of his actions?
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#323OK what was done was done. What should we expect the political fallout in Iran?
The point of Iran of enriching U beyond civilian use but not actually going full military grade was leverage . They're the only Shiia super power in the reigion. Nobody likes them. So what can we expect: * a ground invasion is pretty much out of the question considering the geography or Iran and its neighboring countries. * Iran destroys every oil production and transport sites in the region (say good by to your elec…
Iran and Libya are very different places both in terms of history and current day.
I would expect Israel to win the political battle as well. The world likes winners and Israel is going to be a winner here. It winning will also enable it to address some of the issues that are a concern. Without Iran backing up Palestinian militants it is going to be easier for Israel to make some concessions that it couldn't otherwise.
You can already see a change of tone in Europe. Especially that Iran is aligned with Russia against Ukraine.
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#326I wonder if the bunker buster was used. It has a somewhat indirect lineage to the ww2 grand slam designed by Barnes Wallis. Iran has massive earthquake risks. For reasons unassociated with nuclear bunkers they do a lot of research into (fibre, and other) strengthened cement construction. With obvious applications to their nuclear industry of course. Another unrelated point, a significant number of Iranian civil engin…
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#327I think Netanyahu belongs in prison, and Trump, the less said the better, but: couldn't have happened to a nicer unauthorized weapons-grade uranium enrichment facility dug into the side of a mountain hours outside of population centers. If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading up on the GBU-57 "bunker buster" bomb, because it is some Merrie Melodies Acme brand munitions. It's deliberately as heavy as they c…
> I think Netanyahu belongs in prison Didn't Netanyahu perjure himself to congress about iraq's wmds two decades? Isn't that grounds for arrest? It's amazing how our media never mentions that netanyahu is a habitual liar when they push netanyahu's iran's wmds spiel. At this point our media companies are israel's PR department. Fox news should be banned like RT for being a foreign mouthpiece.
Trump sanctioned ICC judges after ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu. It's a lot more than just PR.
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#328Weird how this is front page but a post for the wiki page of the Northrop B-2 Spirit gets flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341958
Here's the interesting wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
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#329Imagine if Putin got Trump to bomb ukraine for him. Imagine if Xi got Trump to bomb Taiwan for him. There would be a crisis in this country as the media would be attacking trump for being a stooge to a foreign power.
How is it possible that a foreign leader, Netanyahu ( who has lied in the past to get us to attack iraq ), can get Trump to bomb Iran and nobody, especially in the media, bats an eye.
The media is focused on the bombing, but shouldn't the focus be on foreign control over much of the US government? After years of soul searching over the iraq fiasco and the lies can we still be in this position again?
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China is doing really fine right now, why would it destabilize its own region? Free PR, outstanding manufacturing capabilities, a lot of manpower, most amount of trades, US being written off as unreliable partner and etc.