The whole Anthropic DoW tiff was related to this, and folks were downvoting me even minutes before the first strike for making the connection:
The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
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Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#702Again, little to no information for the US public. No approval from Congress. Calling for the people to rise up. You can't bomb your way into regime change. Are we supplying arms to groups? Is there a plan beyond pointless death and regional chaos the president would like to share?
> Are we supplying arms to groups? Yes. The US supports the monarchy, the Kurds and MeK. The CIA was revealed to have armed MeK (despite designation) and my guess is that they do with the Kurds too. The CIA also talks to the Balochi groups as well although I don't know how organized or armed they are. Needless to say, "regime change" would in reality mean civil war like Syria or collapse like Libya.
Or Irak.
The list of exemple is long enough, no need to add Iran.
We already had ISIS thanks to the mess in Irak and Libya.
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#703They’re calling it Operation Epstein Fury
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#704Well hopefully this is short, minimally lethal, and leads to regime change for all those involved.
Well hopefully this is short, minimally lethal, and leads to regime change for all those involved. That would be ideal but unfortunately not likely. Nobody will like this comment but US ships are sitting ducks. They have minimal ammo per the pentagon and no oilers. No oilers and low ammo means no prolonged conflict. Only two of the ships are nuclear powered not counting submarines. Most of Iran's military and weapons…
What yt channel?
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#705Even HN is astroturfed to heck and filled with bots. The ratio of good faith informed dialog to Reddit like slop in these threads is wild. The old HN would never have such “obvious” black and white answers.
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#706Well hopefully this is short, minimally lethal, and leads to regime change for all those involved.
u sweet summer child.
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#707Again, little to no information for the US public. No approval from Congress. Calling for the people to rise up. You can't bomb your way into regime change. Are we supplying arms to groups? Is there a plan beyond pointless death and regional chaos the president would like to share?
> is there a plan...
probably not, outside of making more revenue for raytheon
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#708If Americans would like to better understand what it is that they actually did last year: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-content/
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#709What are the chances that HN is getting astroturfed these days? Are mods strict about it? I lots of relatively new accounts coming with what seems to me extreme, but altogether pop-culture acceptable opinions
100%. Especially on topics involving countries with vast online propaganda operations.
Re: The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
#710Ok. So we have just taken out all of Israel's foes with force. They are safe now right? We can stop supporting them militarily in every way now right? They no longer need any weapons, intelligence support, defense support, etc, right? If this is the right path to their long term safety then this must be true.