Sure, but that basically means there are approximately zero countries hosting US Armed forces that would try to kick them out just because Iran was launching rockets at those forces.

Probably more likely that those countries will support Iranian leaders getting replaced with people who won’t shoot missiles into their air space.

Whether Hudson’s theory is correct or not, breaking up Iran is obviously something that will take place over multiple administrations. What Trump has done, directly attack Iran, is just the start. Gulf War 1 was 12years before Iraq was actually overthrown.

The photo should just be an Israeli flag.

How can my JSON response have any concept of Type? If I return a number and you treat it is a string, my API doesn’t have any concept of that. Now in the actual spec of the API I could say that specific URI will return an int, but it’s up to your side to classify the array of bits as an int instead of a str.

Enlightenment is realizing that variables don’t have nor need a type, they are all just arrays of bits.

So it turns out that Iranian air-defenses were even weaker then reported, and their massive response after launching 400+ missiles, was 9 confirmed hits. Meanwhile the latest threat about a memorable strike was wishcasting by the supreme leader.

What a joke. Iran will be the regional whipping boy until the regime changes, or the US collapses. Not sure which will happen first.

The people hated him because he told the truth.

There’s a good reason they’re not gonna pick that fight with North Korea.

Hopefully you mean the fact that China would not allow it which is also why North Korea exists in the first place. Because it absolutely isn’t North Korea’s nuclear capability.

No. Not at all. Nuclear reactions requires a pretty compact geometry. An explosion is the opposite of that. You can irradiate an area, but not cause an actual reaction.

US proxying an Iranian attack with more plausible deniability.

Why does the US care about that aspect. If the US wanted to it could directly attack Iran, and the only thing China or Russia would do is “tsk-tsk” the US. No one is going to bat for Iran, especially against the US.

Iran’s response has to be the total destruction of the US Embassy in either Iraq or Israel or they will be a whipping boy for the next 20 years, or until the total collapse of the US Government.

Also recall that the US evacuated it’s Iraq Embassy.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/iran-doubles-down-as-us-signals-israel-could-strike-during-nuclear-talks

I’m certain the US knew now.

I guess the US evacuating it’s Iraq embassy indicates that they knew something. Despite Trumps dementia, perhaps someone in his cabinet knew.

In terms of $17billion in funding over the past 4years, sure. In terms of intelligence sharing? Maybe. In terms of tactical/strategic support? I’m doubtful The Whitehouse even knew about until afterwards

e: recalling the embassy evacuation’s the US did earlier, I take that back.

I mean Boeing is a huge percentage of commercial aircraft, so of course it’s a Boeing. It’s like when you hear about an electric vehicle exploding, of course it’s a Tesla, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a design flaw. (Though fuck Tesla, they sucked way before people realized Musk sucks.)

I can import my_script2.py into my_script.py it doesn’t run the main method unless I specifically invoke my_script2.main() though.

Idk, I guess I should ask why python needs a default function? If I’m running it as a script with commandline invocation I just copy and paste the if main namespace thing from stack overflow and it works as I intended. It also works if I invoke via python my_script.py $args, so I don’t really see why I should philosophically care about how other languages that I’m not using do it.

Nah, the joke is the military generals who have been in charge for so long are rubes and can’t even do corruption right. The Boeing shareholders/board members who are being paid these billions of dollars are the ones enjoying $4000 dollar wine and imported Kobe Beef steaks with the lobbyists

Overcomplication is a feature of privatized military production because it’s far more efficient at creating profits.

100% this. But my question is that since the US is the largest weapon dealer in the world, both in terms of dollar amount and number of planes etc, who the hell are buying these things and why? Surely when you are purchasing something that costs billions of dollars you have to account for the on-going support costs too? Most countries don’t have the luxury of ignoring costs do they?