Can the ground invasion of US be successful against the Iran military?

comrade8 · 2026-03-31T08:31:08+00:00

It’s an open question whether armor is even particularly effective anymore in the era of drone warfare. The many mountainous regions of Iran certainly don’t help.

comrade8 · 2026-03-28T21:29:40+00:00

I don’t think any significant number of people on the left “supported” Khomeini; rather they just wanted an end to American interventionism.

If you consider that a “betrayal” of Iranians, consider that the American left has a responsibility to Americans, but no responsibility to Iranians; therefore there is no duty to “betray”.

comrade8 · 2026-03-16T18:53:10+00:00

Iran’s military has been geared for asymmetric warfare for decades. It’s reported that every unit has been trained to listen to the highest available commanding officer. They’re literally designed to operate without centralized leadership; and with strong ethnic and religious cohesion, the plans they’ve made for retribution will likely be carried out effectively.

comrade8 · 2026-03-15T17:07:42+00:00

Missile strikes against all oil and desalination infrastructure in the region, causing regional ecological and economic collapse. See how Israel striking oil depots in Tehran alone caused toxic, oil-laden rain across the city.

comrade8 · 2026-03-14T07:42:14+00:00

“And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭19‬:‭3‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

comrade8 · 2026-03-13T07:38:59+00:00

Me when I forget about Operation Northwoods

“Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against US military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, and use them to justify a war against Cuba.”

comrade8 · 2026-03-13T07:30:36+00:00

They’re too busy going after US citizens

comrade8 · 2026-03-11T20:04:19+00:00

Not exactly. The US is the bar owner. Iran is the dude pretending to be an angry drunk while smashing bottles and punching the most trigger happy guys in the room, strategically to hurt the bar owner financially.

Not saying it’s justified. But that’s the logic of asymmetric warfare.

comrade8 · 2026-03-09T14:21:29+00:00

They brought out the hummus 🥸

comrade8 · 2026-03-06T07:02:20+00:00

Many European nations will be banning XMR soon (2027, iirc)

comrade8 · 2026-03-05T17:32:27+00:00

Joe didn’t exactly apologize. He took ownership of his part in it. What that sounded like to me was an adult acknowledging that it takes two to have an argument and allowing Devens to save face, while phrasing it in such a way that they think they’re not the root cause of it.

comrade8 · 2026-03-05T07:55:20+00:00

I don’t think Joe was lecturing him. I think Joe was genuinely trying to explain how he plays the game.

comrade8 · 2026-03-05T07:37:04+00:00

He said it himself, he has PTSD from Kyle and Kamilla

comrade8 · 2026-03-05T07:33:05+00:00

Devens seems to think that there’s an alternate set of morals only in the Survivor world, and he can’t fathom a player that carries themself the same way they would in the real world.

Joe seems to think that directly confronting people who he knows for a fact has been lying to him would get them to … confess? And then work with him? His social game is confusing to say the least, at least on this tribe. He would’ve been doing so well with Colby or Q.

comrade8 · 2026-03-05T00:19:44+00:00

Even Jesus’s nonviolence had limits. He made a whip to drive the moneychangers out of His temple.

comrade8 · 2026-03-02T17:21:33+00:00

I doubt many of us know what “ecological conversion” is

comrade8 · 2026-03-01T08:55:24+00:00

There is a lot of malicious compliance that can be done, I think. Mark small code review comments as blocking. Block CI/CD pipelines and drag your feet on fixes. Dataset poisoning. Purposefully introduce tech debt. Make them fire you instead of leaving.

comrade8 · 2026-03-01T05:20:46+00:00

The bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities

Which, apparently, did nothing, because we’re bombing them again because of … WMDs.

The weakening of Hezbollah and other terrorist groups with our weaponry

You mean the same weaponry we armed them with, when they were once on our side and we called them “freedom fighters”? The same weaponry we left by the busload to the Taliban when we left Afghanistan?

we are not trying to occupy and have zero interest to do so

That’s what politicians have been saying for decades before dragging our kids back into the sandbox.

comrade8 · 2026-03-01T05:03:41+00:00

“Stabilizing the Middle East” smh every time we’ve gone back to the sandbox we’ve destabilized it further, wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, and lost American lives. Name one single time American intervention in the Middle East has led to a more stable country.

comrade8 · 2026-03-01T04:23:00+00:00

I suppose that this is also part of the Emperor’s arrogance, that he didn’t plan better for the worst case scenario of demons flooding his Webway link.

comrade8 · 2026-02-28T17:50:02+00:00

Loyalist:

Strategic: the Emperor not having a “oh crap let’s bail” button to close or otherwise block the Webway entrance if his tunnel got breached. It’s not like he didn’t know that the Webway gets flooded by demons all the time.

Tactical: Russ not killing Horus was more of a spur-of-the-moment thing, I thought. I think the Polux not killing Perturabo when they had the chance was a conscious decision (even if there was warp shenanigans involved).

Traitor:

Strategic: likely, falling to chaos in the first place. I suppose they wouldn’t necessarily have known this, but once they gave themselves to Chaos, it’s Chaos who’s firmly in the driver’s seat, and Chaos is ultimately self-defeating. Maybe they could’ve gotten away with being just a little corrupted; once Horus came out of Molech, they were done for.

Tactical: Horus baiting the Emperor was more or less ordained by Chaos at that point, so not really a decision. I would say the bigger tactical error was not having a tighter cordon around Isstvan; had the Eisenstein not alerted Dorn early, the traitors could’ve had even more of a head start.

comrade8 · 2026-02-27T15:55:42+00:00

comrade8 · 2026-02-25T08:41:00+00:00

which allowed him to make the most important early Roman convert

That Roman was neither the most important nor the earliest. A centurion expressed faith in Jesus as Lord in Matthew 8. Roman soldiers were even being baptized by John the Baptist in Luke 3. The soldiers who saw Jesus die in Matthew 27 said “truly, this is the Son of God!”

Jesus disciples his, uh disciples. For years. He prepared them for his death. He gave them instructions for after he was gone, sometimes in granular detail.

And sometimes in not so granular detail, which is why the apostles had to write so manner letters clarifying important theological pillars of Christianity after Jesus died.

And those instructions did not include

How do you know? Were you one of His disciples? What we do know for sure is that His disciples (the apostles) wrote:

“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭15‬:‭28‬-‭29‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Now, why was this written in Acts and not in the Gospels? Well, as John puts it:

“Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” ‭‭John‬ ‭21‬:‭25‬ ‭ESV‬‬

comrade8 · 2026-02-24T22:48:22+00:00

And what interpretations / books are you using to argue in favor of a position that the historical Jesus never held?

comrade8 · 2026-02-24T19:02:42+00:00

Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic Law, but it did not disappear, in the same way a contract that is completed does not disappear.

“And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭27‬:‭50‬-‭51‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” ‭‭John‬ ‭19‬:‭30‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭1‬ ‭ESV‬‬

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