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- 6 days
Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or… guys, help me here.
- WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish6 days
Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?
- Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish6 days
Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!
- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
But which ones, there are so many. They need to know exactly which ones to avoid!
- yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
Not OpenAI, please! Do not attack the servers! Save the ram first!
5 days
If they digitally nuke them. I don’t want to be apathetic to death and injury
- InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish5 days
Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.
I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it’s not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.
They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.
- luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish5 days
I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you’re not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.
And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major “Warrior Ethos” “Signal Chat” “American Crusade” Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.
(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I’m not an actual general charged to actually make them.)
For Putin, I’m not sure. I’m disinclined to believe he’s just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.
Either way, as you say, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don’t seem concerned about where they swing it and who’s in the way.
- Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Cadet Bone Spurs and Major Boozeth, like The Little Austrian Corporal and his gang of thugs, would ignore the advice from their best field commanders and military advisors and create a cluster fuck. The US military will beat the Iranian forces on a conventional battlefield, but the ensuing partisan war and occupation will become a nightmare. One more thing, the Israelis should be forced to use their ground forces if an invasion of Iran occurs.
- luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish4 days
One more thing, the Israelis should be forced to use their ground forces if an invasion of Iran occurs.
Absolutely. The prospect of US soldiers dying for Zionist supremacy is despicable.
I can’t wait to read that headline and puke.
Edit: Aaaaaand here it is 🤮
- SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off. The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
- MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.
But guess what? Nobody’s asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!
- Bazell@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Doesn’t matter how advanced your weapons are if you have not enough money to use enough of them and not enough soldiers that would like to come and kill other people that can also fight them back. So, while the USA has high defending potential, it has not enough politically approved resources for a long occupational war. Only short quick operations are now possible, since the USA citizens are against the war and greatly affect the leadership authority of current government, so that it cannot waste money to launch a full scale war as it was before. Especially, because of this doesn’t pleases oligarchs which have great leverage in this situation.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
The drop in stockpiles was the point.
You say oops, then spend a fuck ton of defense budget and order a fuck ton of munitions from your war-machine buddies.
- LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
A full on invasion will be much more difficult than Irak. The US probably could do this but it’s going to be costly, forever and very unpopular. US military would be bound up for a long time.
Good question what the goal is supposed to be now. Trump may just declare it over somehow.
- eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
You have no idea about the NATO-Russia war nor how modern attrition wars work. Can’t blame you, MSM are a hall of distorted mirrors.
- 6 days
I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this
I make comments to the effect of that article, and I still get replies like ‘gotta eat somehow’.
Yeah, x2, Fuck’ em.
I could have made more money working for an evil company as a sysadmin.
You know what I did?
I made less money working for a considerably less evil Non Profit that helped homeless people, instead.
Fuck 'em.
Please Iran, you have very correctly identified critical components of the US intelligence system, which spies domestically and internationally.
- reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish5 days
they should reply with their own decapitation strike.
though its kind of spineless of the people to rely on outside forces to do it.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish5 days
Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That’s a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it’s not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.
Iran has a different war strategy that the US is incredibly unprepared for. They spin up terror cells around the world using the atrocities commuted by their targets to justify their actions to impressionable people. The US keeps fighting this fight by giving them exactly the ammunition they need to keep fighting. Terror cells get fed into the mulcher but keep on coming back and the US pretends that’s a success.
I live in a hopeless country that has no desire to improve anything, just to conquer. Trump burning everything down is probably better for the world since we won’t have the power to abuse them anymore but fuck if he’s not going to kill us all in the process.
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 days
Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it’s entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.
- Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I’m not against that…
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.
- 6 days
If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.
- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish5 days
I wouldn’t say I’m rooting for Iran, but I’m not rooting for the US either. I’m just observing a massive case of FAFO.
- 6 days
American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.
- davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
we need to be saved from Americans. Very difficult for Americans to understand that they are now the baddies.
- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Oh trust me, we know it. Its a minority of Americans cheering this on.
- WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.caEnglish5 days
Great, then it should be no problem for your to get off your asses and deal with this small group of Americans. Unless, you know, you’re a bunch of goddamn cowards?
- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
It’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and tell someone else to go put their life on the line for a cause.
- WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
Almost as easy as disingenuously dining out on your national legacy of “give me liberty of give me death” and “saving the world from fascists” for a century or two.
“Keyboard warrior” lines coming from Americans who claim to be “the resistance” in 2026 are clown shit. You’re a MAGA enabler and you’re part of the problem.
- 4 days
It’s more likely that one of the toddlers gets their fee fees hurt and pushes the big red button.
- 5 days
If I made $1000 an hour and worked every hour of a year it would take me ~114 years to earn $1B, that is how fucking large a billion. is. People cannot fathom how much money $1B is.
Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!
