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    cluckindan ◴[] No.44369995[source]
    You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that centrifuges installed 70–80 meters underground will be largely unaffected by bombs which are believed to have an effect down to a depth of 60 meters.
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    1. everfrustrated ◴[] No.44370297[source]
    How they going to get to them?
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    2. tonyedgecombe ◴[] No.44370372[source]
    I presume they will just fire the people who did the assessment.
    3. estebank ◴[] No.44370434[source]
    Are the US and Israel going to continuously bomb any working crew in the area that goes to dig?
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    4. 123yawaworht456 ◴[] No.44370444[source]
    if you're American, watch out for army recruitment ads without the usual DEI flavoring
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    5. cjbgkagh ◴[] No.44370462[source]
    Nukes or ground invasion, the point of the attack wasn’t to knock out the facilities, it was so that Trump can be dragged along ‘reluctantly’ so he can sell the conflict to his base. It is a persuasion technique called mirroring. Trump mirrors the position of the anti-war base, then slowly piece by piece he changes his position bringing his base with him. I guess how far it’ll go will depend on how effective the state is at suppressing anti-war sentiment. If history is a guide then the state can be surprisingly effective at this.
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    6. Loughla ◴[] No.44370509[source]
    I graduated from a very small high school. There were fewer than 20 guys in my graduating class, fewer than 40 total graduates. I graduated in 2002. 2 guys did not join the military; because of 9/11, the rest felt some kind of patriotic duty to join up.

    Of the guys I graduated with, half died either in Iraq or Afghanistan between 2002 and 2006, or killed themselves shortly after returning home. The other half are broken. Either physically or mentally.

    We cannot do that again. That we're involved in this shit show is an absolute travesty.

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    7. heraldgeezer ◴[] No.44370561[source]
    Already happened hehe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-wp4oJ2LY

    8. cjbgkagh ◴[] No.44370566{3}[source]
    “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." - Georg Hegel
    9. gtsop ◴[] No.44370618[source]
    CL/CB - Continuous Liberation / Continuous Bombing

    it's the ci/cd of american foreign poliyics

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    10. I_Lorem ◴[] No.44372416[source]
    Murdering PhD's in Nuclear Engineering would be cheaper, and is a continuous Israeli program already.
    11. mcphage ◴[] No.44372648{3}[source]
    We’re in the BDP stage—Bomb Driven Politics. That’s when you drop the bombs first, and then you have a meeting.
    12. giardini ◴[] No.44373470[source]
    Nuke them and then say that the Iranians f'ed up while handling the material?
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    14. ethbr1 ◴[] No.44381504[source]
    Polling of independents at 60/40 against should scare the shit out of the GOP, if they intend to press this.

    I expect there is no desire on Trump's part for a long game, and he just took an isolated opportunity (Iranian air defenses smashed and air force suppressed) to wave the flag and look militaristic.

    Limiting the strike to nuclear facilities also provides deniability to Iranian civilians that, unlike Israel, the US isn't looking for a full scale war.