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Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

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Post by halflife »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #479
halflife wrote: post #427

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Israel has clearly defined borders. If youre are talking about the West Bank there’s area a, b and c which are controlled by Israel, both, and PA respectively. I’d call that borders.

Sure and they exercise sovereignty far beyond those borders in a blatantly illegal manner. They do not acknowledge their de facto borders because it would be admitting to acts the world would be required to condemn to maintain the pretense of law and order.

If you need to protect your border inside, than you already failed. Borders are protected outside the country.

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Post by manyaoman »

parineum wrote: post #507
watwut wrote: post #189

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Iran was entitled to have radio active materia. Pretty much everyone involved says they followed the contract.

Who is "everyone involved"? Iran and the Obama administration? What was bombed in that secret mountain base? Why keep it a secret?

The audacity of Iran building a bunker and not keeping us in the loop about what's going on inside.

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Post by etiam »

thisislife2 wrote: post #486
etiam wrote: post #265

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Not denying they're getting great leverage from that. I still don't quite understand why the shortcut is supposedly so irreplaceable.

It is not irreplaceable - you can avoid it as a shipping route and take a longer route. It's just more costly because it is a long route. Which means higher oil prices, which is universally unpopular everywhere with the citizens. (In oil-importing economies, oil prices have a rippling effect as any increase in oil prices increases the transportation cost of goods there by resulting in price increases of all such good…

That's pretty much what I've been thinking. Maybe I'm underestimating how much more expensive, but it seems for most of those ships if they'd got going on an alternative route instead of crowding around the peninsula they'd be arriving soon. For all I know the goods they're carrying may already have been sold at a rate assuming the cheap freight of course...

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Post by etiam »

Exoristos wrote: post #273
etiam wrote: post #265

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Not denying they're getting great leverage from that. I still don't quite understand why the shortcut is supposedly so irreplaceable.

Perhaps because modern economies are allergic to long-term planning.

Perhaps. And seemingly also a bit even to short-term reactive adaptation?

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Post by giardini »

solarhoma wrote: post #394
IAmGraydon wrote: post #391

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Can you list the measures by which you believe that Israel has made the US its vassal?

American companies must sign a document signifying they will not boycott Israel if the company wants to get government contracts, it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag, 99% of congress votes in favor of Israel (as evidenced by Thomas Massie’s recent primary Israel will spend $$$ to buy a US politicians seat if they do not support Israel).

solarhoma sez "it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag,"

It is legal to burn the USA flag in the USA.

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Post by balex »

catigula wrote: post #121
Sam6late wrote: post #101

This could be 'curiosity' about negotiation with Iran, as there is what could be considered an AI merger between the 2 countries ; the FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800) bill text was officially released by Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) on May 26, 2026. - House Armed Services Committee markup was set for June 4, 2026. https://www.uschamber.com/security/letter-to-house-armed-ser... Section 224…

The parasite completes its lifecycle, consuming the host.

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Post by balex »

morby wrote: post #491
bushbaba wrote: post #122

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The top U.S. officials do the same when traveling to any country. Everyone does this to everyone else.

Not true. Israel has a reputation for being exceedingly intrusive and aggresssive with US personnel. Just go watch intel community interviews online.

As is the US. Go watch same interviews.

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Post by catigula »

balex wrote: post #516
catigula wrote: post #121

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The parasite completes its lifecycle, consuming the host.

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Just an FYI that word doesn't have power anymore as it has been comically drug through the mud by murderous/genocidal freaks (freaks in the literal appearance sense too).

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Post by balex »

catigula wrote: post #518
balex wrote: post #516

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Just an FYI that word doesn't have power anymore as it has been comically drug through the mud by murderous/genocidal freaks (freaks in the literal appearance sense too).

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Post by jameshilliard »

orwin wrote: post #445
jameshilliard wrote: post #224

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> the 30k number is hogwash 30k is one estimate of actual deaths, it's expected to be higher than any verified number of deaths. Most estimates fall into the range of 20k to 40k from my understanding so 30k is certainly plausible.

The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k. Of that, only 7k have been verified, and of that, only 6k have been from protesters. The reason the 11k have been harder to verify is that most of them were in the fringe of the country, far from hospital, in rural area, and the fighting there was intense. A good part of the unverified 11k might have been civilians caught in…

> The absolute maximum number of deaths imputable to the IRGC during the winter revolt is 18k.

Source? I'm curious how you could even verify an absolute maximum given the IRGC/Regime has heavily suppressed information relating to deaths.

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