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Sure. Just wait 20 years and we'll be as worthless as Russia.

We can shoot down ICBMs. Rather easily actually. We've been able to do that for decades.

That's why Russia and China have had to pivot to saber rattling with "hyper-sonic missiles", which fly lower and with less predictable flight patterns. But those aren't intercontinental, so Iran would have to figure out how to get one close enough without getting detected and blown out of the water by it NAVY. ...And we can shoot those down too anyway even if they did.

You can't win a techno war against America. The only way to beat America is attrition.

It's actually really difficult to bomb the US since we have that really big creek between us and Iran.

Just to be clear, my comment was not intended to withstand scrutiny.

They have to be targeted. They wouldn't shut the whole facility down if the bomb landed in the remote employee parking lot.

But I don't see that it's likely that Iran wouldn't target their strikes. They clearly have the capability. Hit the targets that maximize disruption.

The drones would not likely need to take out the whole facility. If the drones were particularly targeted, which they almost certainly were, then I can imagine they could take out a particular critical piece of infrastructure that could cause significant disruption.

But yeah, 20% is a lot for sure.

Iran just did more to slow global warming than Just Stop Oil.

I happened to notice that earlier this morning too, and I got a good chuckle out of it. I do wonder what people are thinking as they down vote.

I especially appreciate the guy who got the downvoted for just acknowledging my point that mods shouldn't ban people for saying something they disagree with.

I think it's 100% likely that Hegseth is absolutely the kind of person that would start a war for his ego and retweets.

But again, if cutting off Iran's support for Russia was the goal, why not just say that?

That's generous of you. The only reason why I don't believe that is because the administration hasn't said that is the reason. If the administration had said that they would have likely actually built up some moral support from Congress and the international community.

But he didn't do that.

I think the easier explanation is that Hegseth wants a war for his ego so that he can feel like a big man. (Trump didn't actually care and will sign off on anything at this point.)

The "What about the Epstein Files" is the best political attack we have. It's so great.

Their playbook has always been to prioritize stupid political mud fights to distract the press and progressives online from all the evil Nazi shit they are doing. And that playbook works wonderfully well for them. They can come out and say any word thing like "In ear headphones are woke and make you trans so we are banning all federal employees from wearing them," and liberals and the press eat it up. Meanwhile ICE is building literal concentration camps, but it's the headphones things that makes the headlines because it's stupid. Even, and especially, the popular progressive comedians are complicit in this. They don't want to talk about the mad murders, those aren't funny. But trans headphones? We can make lots of jokes about that! Their playbook clearly works.

Except for the Epstein files. The Epstein is a great easy to turn their playbook against them. In this case the mud fight matters. It's not stupid, and they don't have a play to distract from it, because it's the mud that drives the news. And because it's sex, comedians love it! The headline writers love it. And Trump can't make it just go away.

So keep repeating the line: What about the Epstein Files?

In 25 years America went from "This isn't about oil. This is about freedom and democracy!" to "This isn't about oil, it's not about anything at all. Stop asking questions any why we are murdering innocent people!"