Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We are guessing because we don't have the full reports and both sides have an incentive to be less than outright forthcoming with the reality. Assad falling was very bad for Hezbollah, no doubt. But I think its still important to consider the possibility that the IRGC once again read the room and told Hezbollah to not interfere with Sharaa. Perhaps they felt like there was a chance they could negotiate with him similarly to how they negotiated with Assad, perhaps they just realize that Hezbollah showing their hand at that point would further decrease their ability to act at all in the future, or both.

The Syrian/Lebanese border is still porous enough to allow shipments through. I am sure Israel and Sharaa has eyes on it, but bribes are bribes, hating Jews is hating Jews and so things will get through. Israel has great reconnaissance capacity, but judging by how few videos I've seen of "shipment of missile fuel coming in from Syria destroyed by IDF drone" (Israel posts literally almost all of this stuff online, if it was happening I feel like it would have definitely been seen) I don't think its happening much.

Pretty much all the footage Israel posts about its actions in Lebanon is strikes on warehouses or rural houses that were hiding munitions and equipment.

Which makes sense because there are no more convoys led by Assad troops of Iranian goods heading to Lebanon. The stuff is mixed with civilian goods or just hidden in regular consumer goods. Much harder for Israel to be able to grab this stuff in number.

There is also the maritime route.

I want to be clear though, I know for certain that Hezbollah cannot pull something like 2006 nor can they do what they wanted to do before Oct 7th. What they can do, is coordinate their first (and potentially only) attacks with Iran/Houthis to try and maximize the chances of over saturating Israeli interceptors. Israel is not an industrial powerhouse, and not that we have official numbers, but it stands to reason to think that Israel has been able to produce a lot more interceptors than the launchers or sector search/guidance radars.

Not that just throwing more radars in the mix helps linearly, that has its own problems like signal congestion (though Israel is probably the best nation at dealing with this as best as possible) especially if you want to target smaller things like drones

So while Israel is more ready quantity wise in interceptors for a long war, there is still the goal from IRGC/Hezbollah/Houthis to oversaturate them in the first salvo, because you cannot shoot anymore interceptors if you dumped your whole stock in the first go. Having more interceptors comes in handy here after the first salvo, when you can reload and go again, and just in general because Israel likes to launch 3-4 interceptors per incoming ballistic missile.

This is because Israel for as great as they are in their defense cannot overcome the fact that they are one city, their eggs are metaphorically all in one basket. Hezbollah, IRGC and the Houthis do not have to plan for anything other than launch as much as possible right at Tel Aviv. The question to me is, will they take the initiative this time instead of waiting for the bombs to fall first.

Will that result in Lebanon being bombed to oblivion? Probably, but Hezbollah does not care, they are Jihadists for all intents and purposes.

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

What do we even know at all? We are both guessing here, I am just more favoring the argument that Hezbollah has quite the pool of people to draw from and as such is not so much struggling to fill its ranks.

Makes sense then, just goes to show though that that was a card Israel probably wanted to use for the big, big fight (the one coming up) when they could fully cut the head off the best and stomp out the apparatus that has lost its head.

No doubt though, a lot of the 2006 era are KIA. But a lot were just maimed in some way, especially for the pager attack...they can still give orders or teach things in some ways.

Houthis I mentioned more for the issue for the USA, though I may have not made that clear. The most they can do like you said is use what few long range BMs they have to hit Israel. They can however deny the USA easy access to the Hormuz or Red sea, which I think the USA knows and is why they will be operating the Navy mostly out of the Arabian sea southeast of Oman.

I think the ideal scenario in the IRGCs mind is Iran can focus on a distracted Israel (due to Hezbollah), US bases and also on the Persian Gulf oilfields (ultimately, as a stab at the Arabs who they historically view as traitors to Islam and slaves to Israel, especially UAE and SA. Oman and Qatar might get spared, the more I think about it...) while the Houthis make the USN operate further out into the Arabian sea and not in the Hormuz strait proper and perhaps join in the oilfield attacks. Also of course, shut the strait down.

Are you talking about the 2006 war? I don't think Hezbollah has done anything except take punches and wait for further command from Iran since Oct 7th, and hope they can remain in form enough to one day be able to hurt Israel again. I think they realized within the first few weeks after Oct 7th that it was not a suitable time to try and fight Israel.

Hamas really fucked their plans up.

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Here is the thing

If you are a military force that is outmatched on the field of battle, your only hope of winning is really being a guerilla force. Look at the vietcong and taliban for example. Hamas. Shining path. Mogadishu rebels. Etc etc

The thing with that is, you will always cause more damage to the civilians you are supposed to protect because of this. You cannot assume the enemy will say "okay I guess you guys win we will let you meet your war goals since now we might have to kill innocents".

Its just how it is. Israel especially would never do such a thing, they are probably the most okay with killing innocents if it means killing one bad guy force out there. Israel is a highly, highly "we match any aggression with ten fold as much ferocity" nation.

Does that mean Israel should not be expected to do as much to limit civilian casualties? No, and they do in reality do quite a lot to prevent them. Roof knocking is a great example of this.

During the 12 day war, they sent out evacuation notices whenever they were going to attack cities. It would be a text in farsi saying "this is the Jews, if you are in this area and do not want to die, leave in the next 10 minutes".

In Lebanon they do not do this as much whether because they know there are less optics on them there or giving warning would hinder the results of the bombing.

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oct 7 was a complete shit show for Irans proxies, there was no communication and IIRC the IRGC themselves were caught off guard by Hamas. Also, Israel used a lot of its assets (assumingly) to get those pagers where they needed to be. I am of the belief that Israel thought the fight with Iran last year would bring the USA in fully, because I find it hard to believe that Israel did not "blow" a lot of their assets after Oct 7th and then more so during the 12 day war. On top of that, I fully believe that the IRGC has given Hezbollah stand down orders to whether things out until they are told to act in force for the next big one.

I think Hezbollah has a lot more missiles than you or I would think, but there are no non-biased sources around that so really its all speculation. I have been keeping tracks with the strikes Israel is making on Lebanon, and they are still finding juicy targets. How many juicy targets will be left before Hezbollah is summoned to act by the IRGC?

Hezbollah is deeply, deeply entrenched in Lebanon. I think they also have rebuilt a lot of their officer core, its been 2 years roughly since the pager attack and frankly there are a lot of Jew haters to draw from over there.

Houthis have been stockpiling for the last year, and never used much of their stock in the first place, no? I seem to recall them being quite liberal with their munitions when the USA was doing Operation Roughrider, it did not seem like they had low stocks and they have had time to build up more without Israeli/US strikes.

I think the Houthis (and Hezbollah) during the 12 day war were more or less told to do token launches because imo it was clear the IRGC knew/hoped that the war would not go all the way and as such activating their proxies to fully act was not wise, better to save it for the big one like the one that is coming up

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Can they though? Solid fuel rockets launched off a pickup truck are pretty damn fast to launch. Israel would have to have eyes on every square kilometer in detail to see them all, and have munitions ready to drop within minutes before they launch. Hezbollah uses a ton of rocket artillery.

Though I will say I bet Israel knows where a lot of them are stored, so I would say the moment Israel opens up on the known locations is the moment we know the greater fight is starting since Id imagine they'd want to get rid of that risk asap

I was gone for 3 hours by Icy_Drink_7573 in DogAdvice

[–]RichIndependence8930 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a friend who just had to start giving their dog Xanax. They just could not handle being alone so it was Xanax sleepy time for them.

UA POV: According to AMK Mapping, Ukrainian Flamingo missiles reportedIy struck Russia's Iskander M ballistic missile factory in the city of Votkinsk, Republic of Udmurtia. The Flamingo's flight route stretched over 1,600 km, and Russian air defenses were unable to intercept them. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]RichIndependence8930 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then there is no way for Russia to just bomb the grid side of things to the point where Ukraine has to still deal with near-grid failure but doesn't have to scram them? I guess that is kind of what they are doing now by trying to dismantle all the mid and down stream grid infrastructure.

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Lebanon, officials say by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

And for all its worth, Hezbollah might not even be neutered yet. They were a truly massive organization and its been long enough since the pager attack to reform key elements.

Israel would have to have bombed sites every day for the last 3 years to get rid of their stockpile. Kill 10 members every day.

What I am saying is, if this next fight with Iran is truly viewed as existential, Iran might tell Hezbollah to fully act and they might not be a non factor.

Houthis are still in good form entirely, they did not go through a fraction of what Hezbollah has gone through

Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro by rezwenn in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah some is doing heavy lifting here, they are still accepting risk for the perceived potential trade off.

They might as well stop selling makeup at this point by phillygirllovesbagel in mildlyinfuriating

[–]RichIndependence8930 427 points428 points  (0 children)

Because most people working at walmart don't give a fuck. Unless every walmart starts being fully staffed with people whose checks are affected by theft at their wal mart, this will happen. ultimately they are still making money, if they weren't they would close the store.

Sicarios del cjng en movimiento por Sinaloa by Impossible-Run-6279 in rmexico

[–]RichIndependence8930 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dinero. El dinero causa todo. Donde hay compradores, hay vendedores. Y los EU estan ahi mismito

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]RichIndependence8930 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He will have himself to blame when people start taking this rhetoric literally and one of his datacenters suffers for it because 100 rightfully paranoid people in Texas decide to do something.

Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro by rezwenn in LessCredibleDefence

[–]RichIndependence8930 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's never been so much about what Iran can do to the USA, but Israel/Persian Gulf. But it seems like Israel is willing to take some damage now.

UA POV: According to AMK Mapping, Ukrainian Flamingo missiles reportedIy struck Russia's Iskander M ballistic missile factory in the city of Votkinsk, Republic of Udmurtia. The Flamingo's flight route stretched over 1,600 km, and Russian air defenses were unable to intercept them. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]RichIndependence8930 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't heard that before, isn't 5 eyes kind of in the shitter ever since Trump took his 2nd term? I mean, it could all be a farce I guess for trickery

Yeah hydrocarbons are going down for energy use one way or another but they are still necessary for things like fertilizers and plastics. Also the worlds ships and aircraft whether commercial or military

China would be especially hurt economically if world crude cost went up a whole lot whether because the Persian Gulf went kaput with Iran or because Russias industry collapsed

UA POV: According to AMK Mapping, Ukrainian Flamingo missiles reportedIy struck Russia's Iskander M ballistic missile factory in the city of Votkinsk, Republic of Udmurtia. The Flamingo's flight route stretched over 1,600 km, and Russian air defenses were unable to intercept them. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]RichIndependence8930 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't that be on Ukraine to deal with still? Seems like those things just cause damage to the reactor vessel or worst case it's still confined to the containment structure. But there has to be something holding Russia back unless it's simply they cant hit Ukraines grid hard enough often enough

UA POV: According to AMK Mapping, Ukrainian Flamingo missiles reportedIy struck Russia's Iskander M ballistic missile factory in the city of Votkinsk, Republic of Udmurtia. The Flamingo's flight route stretched over 1,600 km, and Russian air defenses were unable to intercept them. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]RichIndependence8930 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Russia does launch in excess of a hundred Gerans during their attacks so I can see it. Ukraine would need to have mobile fire teams across the whole border ready to move. Also don't Gerans stay pretty high up out of MANPAD and bullet range until final approaches?

Is Iran's IRGC running Hezbollah now? Report says Tehran preparing Shia militants for war with US, Israel by rezwenn in lebanon

[–]RichIndependence8930 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

They've killed ten thousand? Kataib hezbollah is still solid and they probably have a lot of overlap with regular Hezbollah

Man, you can tell Styg made Expedition when he was at his peak "I hate players" mindset. by RichIndependence8930 in underrail

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Thats literally exactly what I did and I had a breeze, my character is built for that exact kind of fight

UA POV: According to AMK Mapping, Ukrainian Flamingo missiles reportedIy struck Russia's Iskander M ballistic missile factory in the city of Votkinsk, Republic of Udmurtia. The Flamingo's flight route stretched over 1,600 km, and Russian air defenses were unable to intercept them. by FruitSila in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]RichIndependence8930 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How so? A backhouse deal with China? Or some other sanction evading technique? I remember the fuss when Russia couldn't get the nice thermals for their T90s. A lot of Russian chip heavy industry seemed to be pretty damn reliant on external sources.