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Dude is 98 years old, the B2's better hurry if they want to catch him when he's still warm.

One Doof Wagon coming up...

Next up, trailer mounted boom boxes running off junkyard tesla batteries.

Oh, I think we've got quite enough of that, thank you.

"Fired ? Like out of a cannon ? "

Imagine Apple stops doing business in Canada and all those liberals phones stop working. Then they try to Google why and just get a "404 not found" error.

The people running the cult are very seldom true believers.

I really don't think the guys in power are all that interested in meeting Allah any time soon. I think they'd *much* rather remain in power here.

That's as destroyed as a program that was built from scratch can get.

The thing is, almost any missile with a warhead over 200lbs is "nuclear capable", and Iran has had their own ballistic missiles for a long time. Probably 75% of the stuff they lobbed into Isreal is "nuclear capable". So that's not really news. But they'll throw the N word into the headline...

Because the conservative judges have more integrity and don't generally exceed their authority. And that's actually a problem, because we won't put an end to that until the left feels the pain too. So conservative justices *should* say "well, if they're going to do this, so should we until...

It should, but it won't.

You must get your news from some very strange sources. "Pakistan offered them nukes 6 months ago" LOL. I'm going to take "things that didn't happen for $500 Alex". You know how I know it didn't happen ? Because Iran doesn't have any nukes. There is no way they wouldn't have taken that...

Oh, Medvedev, the guy who threatens to start a nuclear war every other week. Yea, sure, that's going to happen. And Pakistan ? The country that just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize ? You think *they* are going to sell Iran nukes because they don't like Isreal ? Are they that...

Where did you hear that N Korea or Pakiatan was willing to sell nukes ? No country in the history of ever has sold a nuke. Closest is we lease Tridents to the UK. But they are still our missiles, and we can cancel the lease and take them back. If anyone starts selling nukes they will...

I do not think characterizing the US Russia relationship as "close friends" was ever accurate. And certainly for most of my life they were either outright enemies or just lumped in with the rest of the former Soviet Republics as "poor bastards in the east". Then the last 15 years or so, they...

I think in this case we *will* know in the coming months. Iran is, for sure, going to dig those out and see for themselves what the damage is first hand. And they will not be able to keep those secrets. It will be obvious to the world how effective this was before the end of the year. If...

I don't know when you were born, but I think "most of your life" might be a stretch. Up through the 80s they were the "evil empire". In the 90s they were like a new dog we rescued from the pound, fresh out of bondage and we wanted to help them become successful global citizens. By the mid...

I think you are not seeing what a Germany still under Nazi rule would look like. For one thing, they would have been allowed to continue covering up the scale of their atrocities. Might even have been able to continue them. Think of Iraq, post desert storm, but when Saddam was still in...

Yes, *one* bomb can do that. When you drop multiples on the same hole they can go deeper. Basically it's 200 feet of rock. The first one turns that rock into much softer rubble, so the second one can penetrate deeper. There is a diminishing return, but the first few down the hole will...

They built them deeply enough that no weapon in the world could reach them. So we designed the MOP specifically to do that. It is the *only* non nuclear weapon in the world capable of doing that, and the nineteen B2s are the only planes *in the world* capable of dropping them. Going deeper...

Should have given them a detailed briefing. About the planned 4th of July strike. Then "Things on the ground changed, we had to move up the timetable, and that meant the strike had to come from Whitman in Missouri and not from Diego Garcia...."

The difference is that Isreal has a couple hundred fully completed weapons that are probably stored in a deployable condition. As in a couple bombs here and a couple there at various airbase, etc... Much harder to get all of them than an enrichment facility that's basically a massive factory...

Rednecks with birdshot.

Knowing Mossad, they probably have a plan to steal it and replace it with natural uranium. The more Iran has to shuffle it around to keep it from getting bombed, the less secure it will be from good old fashioned espionage.

It's an inevitable consequence of letting people who pay no taxes vote on what services the government should provide. Nearly half the electorate doesn't pay any federal tax. Is it any wonder they vote for people who promise to spend money on them ?

Even if you wiped out 100% of their program and scattered all their uranium to the wind, it's still just a delay.

Supposedly their uranium was enriched to 60% (natural uranium is 0.7%). That's far more than reactor grade, but far less than weapons grade. They Supposedly had 330lbs of the 60%. If enriched further to 90% that's enough to make a few bombs. You can go from 60% to 90% far faster than you can...

Lots of stuff works very well, but it's too dangerous to allow. Asbestos is a fantastic insulator and fireproofing. Far better than the replacements. But we don't use it because it's dangers outweigh how good it is at it's job. A lot of the modern police powers are like that, and should be...

War is terrible, but sometimes the alternative is worse.

Had another thought about this. In the situation we are discussing, there *is no* government. Just a small neighborhood with a few hundred people. The closest thing we have to a world government is the UN, and that feckless sack of whiny dipshits couldn't run a lemonade stand, let alone deal...

The vast majority of the voters in those jurisdictions receive far more in government services than they pay in taxes. Most don't pay any real taxes. That's a recipe for dysfunction.

I am OK with the Marines in LA, but only because they *aren't* enforcing the law. They are protecting federal offices from rioters. That's a completely different thing. If they start arresting people then I will agree it's a problem, but as it stands now, it's not much different than them...

Our problem is that we put diplomats and bureaucrats in charge of military operations. And they try to start the nation building before the demolition phase is complete. You can't build a new nation until the remnants of the old one are obliterated. But we no longer have the stomach for that...

Only the ones who's national motto is "death to America". The fight is inevitable. Would you prefer we wait until after they have nukes ?

End of the block, and currently threatening to shoot at any delivery vans headed by his house. I get the desire to return to the Monroe doctrine and let the rest of the world burn. But we've tried that, it did not work out well. We got dragged into 2 world wars for our effort. How many more...

The Chinese government after WWII was just fine. They are a valuable member of the global community. You know them today as Taiwain. They just had a communist infestation that took the mainland from them, but that was *after* WWII. We probably should have supported the nationalists more, the...

LoL, no, we are not loaning out B2s. We don't even allow our closest allies to buy the F22, let alone the B2.

No, you don't take the guns from people who are dangerous like that. That would be stupid. You'll still have a dangerous lunatic running around who will undoubtedly get dangerous weapons anyway. You lock him up. But countrys aren't people. They don't have the same rights.

No, the world is not that big. It's more like the guy threatening us lives at the end of the block. He's not a neighbor, but he's close enough that if he starts shooting at his neighbor the bullets are going to end up at our house.

How would you feel if Iran got nukes ? You don't think they'd use them sooner or later ? You don't think that would mean their neighbors would all decide they need them too ? You want Egypt and the Saudis getting nukes ? A lot of bad things lie down that route. Better to stop Iran now...

What do you suppose happens if oil costs $40/barrel more in Europe than here ? People will buy it here and sell it there until the price difference is less than the cost to do that. And Trump is working on moving stuff back via tarrifs, but companies can't just pick up the Chinese factory and...

I've used the berrymans I linked above. Worked great. Used to get sold at every auto parts store, not sure if it still is. Gunk is probably similar. Do you have a vibratory tumbler for reloading ? If not, do you want one ? For small parts they can do a lot of what blasting does. Just...

Doesn't matter the price of oil is global. Doesn't matter where it's made, just matters how much there is vs demand. Plus, that straight carries half of all global trade, not just oil. If things get expensive in Europe the prices here will rise too. If they didn't people would just export it...

You either don't understand the situation in Ukraine, or you don't know what air superiority means.

Look at the surface. The whole thing has settled. The ground is probably 20 feet lower in the whole area now because all the underground areas collapsed. The bombs did exactly what they were supposed to do.

How does that matter ? Isreal established air superiority in a week over a country they don't even neighbor. Russia can't even do that over Ukraine in 3 years.

Before and after pics of Fordow https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/world-news/first-satellite-images-of-fordow-after-us-bunker-buster-bomb-strike-show-extensive-damage/

WWII. That was the last actual declared war. Everything since then has been just general fucking around. A fully mobilized US prosecuting a total war like we did in WWII would be severe enough to change the course of human evolution.

Needs to be both a clear and a present danger. So, needs to be both here and now. Dude in CA isn't a threat *right now*. Also, dude threatening to kill you tomorrow isn't a threat right now either. Dude threatening to stab you right here, right now, but with an imaginary knife isn't either...