Dispute resolution mechanisms are baked into the agreement. If parties feel subversion is taking place any party can exercise it as was done in 2020 two years after the US violated the agreement.

If you were serious about "facts" you would provide specific claims and cite credible sources to support your statements.

So? I think what Trump is doing is embarrassing, dangerous and counterproductive yet unless he starts invading Greenland or Canada or sells F-35s to Russia or some truly crazy shit nothing substantive is going to change because the existing architecture serves everyone's interests. FFS Europeans are still sending cash to America to buy military equipment not at a discount but at a healthy war profiteers markup. There is a lot of noise but nothing as of yet has fundamentally changed.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Did you mean to ask would Trump respond in good faith to an invocation of Article 5 by European allies? I'm not sure. He is an amoral shitbag. I wouldn't count on it. Even if there was someone sane in the white house if shit really hit the fan it was never a certainty the alliance would deliver due to selfish balancing of interests. Article 5 makes no affirmative demands of any country... it is all voluntary.

The question of would he invoke it, given all the whining about expecting NATO to come to his aid and help clean up his mess in Iran my guess is he would try.

When I said shit hits the fan I'm not speaking of the US-Iran war. It would be something crazy like NK lobbing nukes, attacks from China, meat waves from Russia...etc.

If I were a head of state of any European country unless Iran attacked me or my allies I sure as fuck wouldn't enter the war with Iran at this point.

My best guess you've misinterpreted my remarks.

No idea of the relevance of "Big Boy".

You've already asked this question and I answered it above. I never said shit about anyone sending troops to Iran.

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Iran had nothing to do with my previous "shit hits the fan" statement.

I do think when there is a common threat and countries with aligned interests don't work together to address it then they can all expect outcomes that serves nobodies interest. The stream of noise and annoyances coming out of the white house does not alter the basic structure of alliances and interests.

This is like saying you made fun of me and that other guy over there is shooting at me so no because you belittled me I don't want you to help me and I won't help you when they shoot at you. Have some perspective. I get people are royally annoyed and pissed off by the demented clown in the white house.

There is a reasonable chance Putin would attempt if he could to wage endless wars of conquest in a bid to reconstitute the USSR. Iran doesn't even enter into that picture except as an enabler of Russian aggression.

If you think every country for themselves will work against Russia as it slowly annexes neighboring countries and mobilizes their populations to fuel future war efforts... god bless you good luck with that you are going to need it. You are not being attacked (right now) go back to sleep.

Yea, really.

So what? The US has lost virtually nothing thus far in context of the overall effort.

That's about right.

This isn't true. Japan signed an instrument of unconditional surrender without boots on the mainland.

"That news site" happens to be very popular inside of Iran.

The monarchist talking point ignores critical context and is generally intended to sway low information readers. While there are monarchists who mean it the majority speaking of kings and chanting related slogans are not actually calling for literal return of monarchy. It is a mix of trolling / speaking against the illegitimate regime, nostalgia for the past and generally wanting a new system. Not even RP wants a monarchy and if there is one the version contemplated is a form more ceremonial in nature akin to present day Emperor of Japan or King of England sort of thing.

Vast majority of the population is opposed to the current illegitimate regime.

Trump has pissed off a lot of allies and created a lot of bad sentiment. This doesn't change anything. If shit really hit the fan our allies would assist just the same given it would likely be in their direct interests to do so.

I will agree the issue with traffic thru hormuz is a drag on the worlds economies.

What country is being alienated to a relevant extent? Is there an actual issue with the supply chain caused by present day alienation? If not how is the USA getting weaker when there is no impact? China cut us off from rare earths for a short time and the result was revitalization of US capacity.

RE Russia give me a fucking break. As for everyone else you are correct the world becomes a far more dangerous place with normalization / reassertion of might makes rights / realism / empire building. Yet this isn't currently making the USA weaker. It's not a good idea and it is ultimately counterproductive. It sure as hell is creating additional risk. This USA getting weaker thing just isn't what is actually happening in the real world.

LOL Khamenei wasn't even qualified to be an ayatollah. A fact he himself admitted. All pretenses went out the window when they picked Mojtaba to inherent the throne as puppet of the IRGC mafia state.

Reza Pahlavi is a Shia. I'm sure he was devastated and heartbroken over the demise of the Zahhak.

There is a massive selection bias in the information coming out of Iran. The only people who have working Internet are certified regime loyalists/propogandists. Everyone else is blocked. There are some with Starlink terminals buried in a hole operated at great personal risk as well as those able to pick up cell signals from bordering countries. Yet the vast majority of outgoing is blessed by an illegitimate regime who just massacred over 30k of their own people and injured some 300k more over a two day period.

How is the USA getting weaker? It hasn't lost any strategically relevant assets or personal. Iran sure as hell has. Investments in US and partner defense industrial bases have been ramping for years. Attrition of the Iranian regime directly weakens Russia as a key ally of Iran. Likewise China receives the vast majority of Iranian hydrocarbon exports.

I agree the US political picture is an inept and incompetent shitshow. I'm not so sure this translates into USA will lose although it certainly doesn't help.

There are for now highly competent and motivated people below the political layer. It is an open question how long this will last with war criminal Whisky Pete doing his level best to run the military into the ground.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine their allies have been dropping like flies. Assad's Syria is no more. Russian influence in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Africa, Venezuela and Cuban are in decline. Even Transnistria is being cut off.

Thanks to the Israelis and now the US the Islamic revolutions power projection is being severely attrited in the region. Russia can't do shit to help Iran who provided it with tens of thousands of drones to kill and terrorize Ukrainian civilians for years. Lebanon is asserting itself against Hezbollah, Iran is losing control over Iraqi proxy groups while others return to Iran in desperation as IRGC's critical military and financial situations are only getting worse. Iran's ability to assist Russia or proxy groups anywhere has vaporized.

Meanwhile Iran's indiscriminate missile and drone attacks on over a dozen countries in the region has strengthened regional sentiment against Iran. The Iranian regime is now seen as irrevocably illegitimate by the vast majority of its own population following its massacre of over 30k of its own civilians and injuring of over 300k over the course of two days in January.

No problem with $200 billion for "regime change" / "finishing the job" in Iran. Would like to see $200 billion more spent in Ukraine.

While Trump was an idiot to start a major war with Iran the only thing dumber at this point would be failing to finish the job.

Mirroring an SSD? Does TRIM even work with mirrored SSDs?

This is indeed exactly what happened. In 2019 Iran said it would not respect the enrichment limit and a year later it went further publicly stating it would not abide by any limits.

The deal was violated by the act of US backing out. Noncompliance by one party is per the agreement itself grounds for the other not abide to their side either. In an alternate reality where the US stayed in and Iran decided to violate you would have a point.

In this particular reality it was in fact the US who violated the deal not Iran. This means any Iranian noncompliance including refusing to be bound to limits and or preventing international monitoring is per agreed upon terms no longer a violation of the agreement.

The JCPOA did not seek to prevent Iran from enrichment. It merely capped the size of enriched stockpiles and limited enrichment to around 4%.

Most critically the deal imposed an extensive monitoring regime to verify compliance.

I tried finding details of what the crew will actually be doing over the next 10 days and the answer seems to be very little. According to planetary society:

"During the mission, the Artemis II crew will test Orionâ(TM)s various capabilities in deep space. That includes life-support and environmental systems, manual piloting and proximity operations, and communications and navigation systems."

"The crew will also contribute to studies of human physiology, sleep, motion, and other biological responses to space travel."

Somewhere I remember recently seeing a chart of Russian bandwidth by protocol and HTTP3 was the first to drop out. You could even see the fallback to TCP manifest in the chart.

This is the most improbable theory of Putler's systematic erosion of Ruzzian Internet I've ever heard. The degredation of sites, Internet blackouts and bans on hundreds of VPNs predate Trumps war of choice against the Iranian regime. Current steps are a logical progression of previously employed boiling frog tactics to replace the Internet with a state run intranet.

Problem: Parents are incapable of parenting
Solution: Government mandates age flag at OS level

Problem: Kid installs software that ignores OS flag bypassing "protecting kids online"
Solution: Government mandates only approved software can be installed

Problem: Kid bypasses government restriction on approved software
Solution: Government forbids existence of unapproved computer hardware and operating systems preventing bypass

Government mandates on operating systems are very much "the hill to die on".

Normalizing imposition of government mandated constraints on the execution of software that accomplishes nothing is far more dangerous than the fools errand of asking websites all around the world who owe you nothing and are comically outside of your jurisdiction to accede to the impossible multiplicity of global regulatory demands. This is an inversion of responsibility that works no better online than it does IRL.

The only coherent solution is parental controls, third party site certifications, whitelisting, content filtering systems and services..etc.