🤔 so... Iranians believe in a "Mahdi" that comes at the end of the world and rules the world with justice, and he can only reappear when the world is going to shit with war... And the Israelis believe literally the exact same thing, but they call him Messiah... Neither country wants peace. They both want the war to expand. There. Now it makes sense.

When I was a kid, assassinations were something only bad guys did. America does it now. Which came first - the "decapitation strike" or the "double tap" on the school? I forget. "Double tap," in case anyone still doesn't know, is when you bomb a place a second time to hit the emergency first responders. Its specifically to maximize deaths. Its a terror tactic. Israel does that shit... And America did it. When I was a kid, people prayed to God for hearts to soften and peace to reign... For mercy... People still said, "forgive our debts as we forgive others" (or a variation). Now I see Hegseth boasting about killing, and then praying. That's a mockery of God. It offends me. All this shit offends me. We're so lost. I don't think God will tolerate being mocked for long. I think Biblical shit's about to happen. I think it would be wise to get out of the way. But idk. Maybe there's a Jonah out there, or a remnant.

I'm quitting coffee. I'm packing up that stupid coffee machine so its more work in the morning when my resolve is weakest.

A pattern worth noticing : in every interview between a western journalist and an Iranian, the moment the Iranian flips the script and starts making sense, the journalist says they're out of time. There's no time limit... Its on the internet. Very cowardly. Very dishonest.

Seems reasonable. And since it seems reasonable, I feel fairly sure American media will never show this.

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the age of aircraft carriers is at its end, because of drones/cheap missiles. These things are only going to get cheaper. A lot cheaper... radically cheaper, compared with their current cheapness already. When I watch an interception, I see two problems with defense. First is the cost - I can see that the experience we're gaining here is telling us that expensive defense is a dumb against cheap offense. So, interception will be bullets or drones, and if you watched the defense of that embassy last night, maybe you'll agree - i think bullets are the way. There's also that company with the lasers, which seem very impressive, but that won't work in the near future, despite working quite well, because of the second problem... All the interception video I've seen shows only one or two missiles at a time, and I've only seen one drone at a time. In the case of that embassy, the drones were coming in fairly quickly, but were still one at a time. That won't continue. If you can shoot down one, they'll send two. If you can shoot down two, they'll send three. Etc. As long as attack is cheap - not necessarily cheapER, just cheap - then the attacker always has the option to just send more simultaneously. This has been my main criticism of Iran's tactics so far - everything makes sense except this one thing : they could have saturated every target, but didn't. I'm not rooting for them, just to be clear. If an cutting edge system like lasers can defend an area effectively, then you just send a dozen of the flying lawnmowers at the same time at that one target, and then everything behind it is freebies. Or two dozen. Is that really how 'dozen' is spelled? Anyways. Or you send in a combo - that nifty Sejjil is surely the most advanced system in this fight, and all the moreso if it slams down immediately after defenses engage a bunch of the cheap drones. And, as I said initially, these things are going to get even cheaper. And smaller, and faster, and more precise, all at once. Its hard for me to imagine us pouring billions into carriers in the age of drones. Similarly, **_any_** large and relatively immobile target - like bases - is too vulnerable. All force will have to be mobile or stealthy, and all will have to be hyper reactive to changing environments. Slow convoys from point A to point B are not going to work. Well anyways. This is just my current favorite thing. I'm no expert.

This Indian general is at least 37x more intelligent than anyone in America who has said anything about Iran, ever.

Zionism is a threat to national security. I'm not saying any religion is - only that particular belief, which is the cause for this ill considered war.

🤔 by the standards of the ancient Greeks and Romans, nearly everyone in modern times is a slave. Free men do not work for other people - free men own and work for themselves.

First Hubris. Now Nemesis. China will attack.