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Greg Bernhardt said:
Israel going rogue
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Iran Targets Neighbors as U.S. Condemns ‘Aggressive’ Strikes

Iran aimed at Bahrain and Kuwait, but the attacks were shot down or failed, the U.S. military said. The U.S. launched what it called “self-defense” strikes in Iran.
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It's like everyone is ignoring the international conventions, the Geneva Convention etc.... It's complete lawlessness....

EDIT: Still, there are no nuclear weapons in space..... but let's see though.... they just need those titanium telephone poles.

EDIT2: Well OK, tungsten rods but yeah.

EDIT3: There's no known defense.

Project Thor was an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone pole–sized kinetic projectiles made from tungsten from Earth's orbit to damage targets on the ground. Jerry Pournelle created the concept while working in operations research at Boeing in the 1950s before becoming a science-fiction writer.
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---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

EDIT5: "ortillery".
 
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Textbook Article 54 Geneva Convention violation.

www.scmp.com

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

Some 20,000 residents lost access to safe drinking water after the strikes damaged two reservoirs in Sirik.
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The United States carried out strikes on the southern cities of Jask and Sirik and on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, after what Washington said was Iran’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter over Gulf waters.

The strikes damaged two reservoirs supplying the Bemani and Kouhestak areas of Sirik town.


“Unfortunately, following this attack, 20,000 residents of the region have lost access to safe drinking water, and with temperatures ranging between 45 (113 degrees Fahrenheit) and 50 degrees Celsius, conditions have become extremely difficult and critical for local inhabitants,” Iran’s state television quoted local water company officials as saying.
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Attacking this form of infrastructure can't even be remotely justified as dual use. It is purely to cause substantial harm to a civilian population.
 
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Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime.
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Strikes early Wednesday destroyed what appears to be a drinking-water facility on Iran’s southern coast, near the Strait of Hormuz, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Around the time of the strikes, the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X that it had conducted attacks near the strait “with precision munitions from U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets.”
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sbrothy said:
EDIT: Still, there are no nuclear weapons in space..... but let's see though.... they just need those titanium telephone poles.
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The guy was stuck in an unimaginative loop.
Why not use real telephone poles, or better yet used railway ties/
A thousand flaming missiles coming your way would freak out any enemy.
( And no they poles would not burn up on the way in, but charcoal up in the same manner as a heat shield )
 
dlu said:
The guy was stuck in an unimaginative loop.
Why not use real telephone poles, or better yet used railway ties/
A thousand flaming missiles coming your way would freak out any enemy.
( And no they poles would not burn up on the way in, but charcoal up in the same manner as a heat shield )
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I agree with @EricDMMiller (I also edited my post to tungsten). I suspect an "ordinary" railroad tie would burn up on reentry. Then again it doesn't really matter how little is left. With the speed picked up going down it's gonna be measured in kilotons at least.
 
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After the USA's World Cup exit: Trump returns to his other hobbies—bombing, annexing, and starting trade wars.

He already threatened to cut the trade with Spain completely. It is so sad.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Totally predictable.
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I was listening, as much as one can call trying to interpret his stream-of-thought-babble listening, to his post-NATO press conference. He said (I paraphrase because recalling his exact wording is just impossible for me) 'I predicted all this - I completely predicted it'.

god he is hard to listen to.
 
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After the USA's World Cup exit: Trump returns to his other hobbies—bombing, annexing, and starting trade wars.

He already threatened to cut the trade with Spain completely. It is so sad.
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I wanted to laugh but couldn't made myself do it.

EDIT: Because of the German language, not because of the actual content.

EDIT2: I wanted to laugh because ot the German headline I mean.
 
The words that come to mind are "crass", "miser", "avarice" and "mass grave". And yes, I realize that's not even remotely funny. But what is in these times?
 

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