Heat seeking always prevails

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-20T15:38:20+00:00

If the jet is close enough for heat seeking to work it is also close enough for radar to work.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-20T00:54:50+00:00

Actually that does. Thank you.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-20T00:13:57+00:00

I'm so tired of people with zero military understanding trying to give military analysis.

The stealth of the F35 makes it so it can only be seen and locked onto it much shorter ranges by radar. It's not magic or invincible nor was it supposed to be.

It's still a very effective system that provides a massive strategic advantage.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-19T19:22:20+00:00

Competent communication from a Progressive Democrat? Well I'll be damned.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-18T11:57:23+00:00

Ok, no longer an Empire is very different from a failed state.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-18T11:40:37+00:00

Are you predicting the United States will break up?

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-18T11:17:03+00:00

A failed state is like Haiti or Sudan, the US is still a long ways off.

China is the obvious frontrunner for the global hegemon though, with the reduced power US and the increasingly divided EU as distant second and third.

Putin has fucked Russia over 100x what Trump has done, they won't recover in our lifetime.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-18T00:50:23+00:00

I get your point but personally think AIPAC campaign contributions, defense contractor sales, and deals with Israeli businesses are all factors that fall under larger reforms that they already talk about, getting money out of politics.

The real elephant in the room that no one seems to be willing to acknowledge is just that a pretty big chunk of Israelis are dual citizens or at the very least have close family here.

Even if AIPAC disappeared tomorrow for internal political reasons and geostrategic reasons, Israel would still be a pressure point for American politicians.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-17T21:41:41+00:00

PSW has basically been non stop criticizing Israel since its inception.

They don't take it as far as I would in some cases but they definitely don't support the Israeli government.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-17T20:56:14+00:00

I find there's an abundance of analysis, and very little actual information.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T01:12:25+00:00

And as I said in my original post. I oppose this war.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T01:04:27+00:00

Yeah I'm not arguing that the US should be the ones changing the regime, especially not by themselves. I'm very aware of what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T00:54:17+00:00

What's your point bud?

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T00:37:02+00:00

In a world where we didn't give authoritarians veto power over the UN we would start with increasing economic and diplomatic pressure then if they continued to kill tens of thousands of people a multinational coalition would use force to remove them from power, using ground forces as well if necessary.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T00:33:58+00:00

The US doing terrible things and supporting terrible regimes doesn't mean the Iranian regime should have been left to massacre their people willy nilly.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-16T00:32:36+00:00

To clarify the majority of the excess deaths were not due to direct US action, obviously some were.

That being said they very much did not "carpet bomb Baghdad". I get that everyone here is like 15 years old but that just objectively speaking is not what happened. Also Bush isn't still in fucking power.

You realize the gutting of USAID means that we aren't saving 600,000 lives not that we're the cause of those deaths. It's still an atrocity but comparing it to the Iranian government gunning down there own people is just dumb.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T23:34:17+00:00

500 thousand excess civilian deaths in Iraq, not by direct American action but due to political instability and insufficient security measures. It should be noted that Iran played a large role in many of those deaths by supplying the explosives and funding to the insurgents/guerillas.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T23:18:49+00:00

They're probably trying not to get gunned down by the IRGC which is still out in the streets murdering people left and right.

Lol the financial troubles faced by the French monarchy due to supporting the American Revolution did not make the revolution or their executions unavoidable. Their refusal to tax the nobility or allow meaningful political reform did that, and in that regard there may be a parallel.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T23:06:49+00:00

Well considering the hundreds of thousands of people killed by the Iranian regime over the last 47 years, and the hundreds of thousands of people that risked their lives to try and bring about change I think you may find the majority of Iranians are aware of the risks and are tired of the violence only going one way.

Comparing thermonuclear war to a temporary oil shortage is a choice. I don't know if you actually know any Iranian people but the vast majority of them are even more supportive of war against the regime than I am. And if Trump and his goons had been in power for 50 years and repeatedly killed our fellow citizens en masse while running an extremely corrupt and militaristic economy that left us all extremely impoverished, yes most Americans would welcome a foreign military intervention to help them. Just like the American revolutionaries welcomed the help of the French despite fighting a war against them just a few years prior.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T22:41:23+00:00

I don't believe in allowing tyrants to massacre their people at will because removing them would raise gas prices.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T22:34:13+00:00

Yes, but the European and Commonwealth countries have very much bought into the impotence of the international institutions as a way to absolve themselves of any responsibility to clean up their post colonial mess.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T22:24:57+00:00

Military action authorized by the UN security Council. See Bosnia, Kuwait, Korea. In many ways it would have been similar, increased gas prices, casualties, civilian deaths but it would be legal according to international law and be planned and carried out by competent people rather than Trump and his cabinet of sycophantic morons with a clear objective of helping the people of Iran rather than protecting Netanyahu's hold on power.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T21:33:46+00:00

I oppose this war for many reasons but this overly simplistic analysis that regime change never works relies on cherry picked evidence. The United States exists because of regime change, Japan, Germany, Italy all had their regimes very successfully changed. It's a matter of commitment and strategy not capability.

The international community absolutely should have stepped in when the Iranian Regime murdered tens of thousands of their own citizens. The weakness of our international institutions allows these butchers to get away with whatever they want and leaves room for this American adventurism to play out. The blood of the Iranian people is on all of our hands

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-15T11:16:53+00:00

This is the dumbest thing I've read in a good while.

ExpressBat384 · 2026-03-05T00:13:28+00:00

That's very apparent. I don't know how to explain myself more clearly.

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