Because they don't. That's the basic error. Yes, sometimes they cooperate. But the U.S. cooperates with China from time to time. And even with Russia, when it comes to the Ukraine War, especially with Donald Trump at the helm. Is the U.S. now a secret ally of Iran, because the U.S. sells soy beans to China, and Iran sells oil to China? As I say, you have a completely simplistic world view, lumping everything together, and blind to what really goes on.

Oil prices rise, and what's the U.S. answer to that? Lift oil sanctions against Iran and Russia. What does Putin want more than more revenue to finance his war? He does not need to step in in support of Iran. He got everything he wanted out of the conflict already. Even the amount of air defense missiles the U.S. could potentially sell to the Ukraine is reduced, because they are now all fired into Iran, 10 million dollar items, each to shut down a single 1000 dollar drone. North Korea acts according to the well known strategy: "Don't stop your enemy when he is making mistakes". And what does Trump? Getting angrier and threatening to leave NATO, which has nothing to do with the war on Iran, did not want the war in Iran, even warned him that this would be exactly the big blunder it proves to be. But I fully support the other NATO members here: You break it, you own it. Donald Trump led the U.S. in this quagmire without any necessity. It's his very own job to clean up the mess he made.

Quite the opposite, the trumpistan is now a major factor of instability and conflict, worse than even China and on par with the pootin territory.

Trumpistani is a subject of the trumpistan, a territory formerly known as USA.

A switch happened recently from a facade democracy to a weird open kleptocracy with some fundamentalist christianism thrown in for good measure.

Like the failed state of putin, trumpistan's most important ally and ideological twin, the latter is a failed state with a big surplus of arms left over for historical reasons, which are now used in dumb attempts to extract rent by force from all over the place, because the people who run this new feudal empire do not want to pay for it.

It is located right in the middle of the North American continent, squeezed between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico.

Hope this helps,

That's your error in a nutshell.

Yes, they are bad, and I don't want to live in any of the countries. But lumping them together and consider them a monolithic block marching in sync is such a misjudgment of reality, that it is exactly that simplistic world view I am referring to. If the police chases a suspected killer, do you expect the thief to come out in support of the killer, just because both are bad? No, the thief does not care if the police catches the killer or not. He will seize the opportunity with the eyes of the police somewhere else to continue stealing unimpeded. That's what Putin or Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-Un are doing right now. There is no point in defending Iran and getting into the line of fire. The eyes of the world are somewhere else, and they can continue whatever they are up to right now with less scrutiny.

The world is not a superhero comic, where the superhero with supernatural superpowers thumps the baddie and everyone applauds. The world is not a secret agent movie where there is only one real antagonist, everyone else considered bad is in serfdom to him, and his henchmen lack any marksmanship, while the agent will hit two of them with a single .22 round from 1000 yards away. And the world is not a chess game with a limited set of pieces, each with a limited set of legal moves, and you win by catching the enemy's king.

1) They knew it already. Nothing to see here. Iran was always the outcast on the Persian Gulf, being Shiite, anti-monarchist and Non-Arabian.

2) That's the whole point. Iran shows that you can do damage cheaply, and very expensive to defend against, even against an enemy with far superior firepower.

3) It was before, and like Hamas, it is so deeply rooted in society that you have to kill the population, e.g. commit genocide to get it out.

Why should China and North Korea come out in support? Do they gain anything from their verbal support? As long as China gets its oil from Iran (which it does, and cheaper than other countries), it just sits and waits. And North Korea could not care less for Iran, but grins broadly because the U.S. is wasting money and military power somewhere else.

Your whole idea how the world works is very simplistic and in a black-and-white, us-versus-them scheme.

So sorry to disappoint you, but it appears that he is not only profoundly and immeasurably stupid, but also his cowardice matches his stupidity.

Yeah...

The good ones are designed for repairability, because that's done by field service technicians.

Not only is literally every part replaceable, they provide a detailed list of which parts will and won't void the warranty and the warranty ones are a surprisingly small list. Things like replacing our even removing the SSD don't do if you don't have on site repair, or are very untrusting, you can return the laptop without the data on it for repair and reinsert they SSD when you get it back.

Oh also, and this is a really nice touch, the back has captive screws so they're really hard to lose during a repair.

I suppose there are some other crap models but I've not encountered them.

There is no USA anymore. There is the trumpistan, an open enemy of the Western world.

There is no difference between the trumpistan and, for example, putin's pederation in terms of the kind of foreign influence they're trying to peddle.

So your question is completely meaningless.

The trump's bunker buster bombs "obliterated" the Iranian nuclear program in June 2025.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/rel...

Saying more bombs were necessary after this first obliteration is treason against trump the yuge.

Are you calling him a liar or an imbecile?

I stand corrected and you're spot on. A quantum dosing rod is certainly nothing to sneeze at.

Yes, we see some humans aren't nice at all and try to bully everyone, hiding behind a nuclear umbrella and giving an example of their lookalikes worldwide.

We also see how they end up with a smashed and badly blooded nose even when they think they are very powerful, like Putin in Ukraine.

Imagine what it is like, losing the war to a cruel regime of people you despise as weak and just when you thought you hold all the cards and won all the battles...

Unconscionable!

The biggest supporters of the ayatollah, putin and the corrupt Gulf monarchies and other dictatorial powers are the MAGA morons and trumptards like yourself.

The policies that your chieftain helps legitimize are the policies that those dictators hope are the "international law".

You don't want "fissile material" for a dirty bomb because it is useless, these are typically low-intensity alpha emitters.

You want radioactive waste. It is a by-product of fission and fusion and arises naturally when a nuke is used, if the nuke is configured that way. But this is a wasteful use of the nuke, because instead of it being extremely destructive over a very large area in a short time, it becomes moderately destructive over a much smaller area for a very long time, which sometimes may hamper you more than your enemy.

So your best option is the "waste" from a nuclear reactor, but this is also less than optimal, because a lot of it isn't radioactive, you do have to transport it while it is most dangerous, as it's hot hot and radioactive hot. It has to move quickly because its most dangerous components decay fast with time. Once delivered, you have to spread it efficiently, which isn't easy either.

So yeah, it is the least efficient way to use nuclear material.

The proper modern approach is to remove the need for warfare.

Remember that ole scifi book, where one of the commerce princes said "the blaster shoots both ways"?

After the fail of operation Epstein Fury, we'll be getting hundreds of "feel-good" bullshit stories.

In reality, the stupid war of aggression strengthened the regime in Iran and will likely provide them with another source of income, the Hormuz Straits tax, that they did not collect before that.

A trumpistani move that is even more stupid than the tariff trade war with the world.