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Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 151

He has killed thousands of Iranians, cost the global economy trillions of dollars, cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, ruined the US's reputation as a dependable and reliable partner, and effectively made the rule of law meaningless... but the exact same regime that does horrible things to Iranians is still in power so... winning?

Would you apply the same asinine justifications if Biden or Obama would have done the same thing? Starting a war that throws the global economy into reverse while increasing average fuel costs for US citizens by at least 30% and climbing, and you would have been just peachy with it, because of the poor downtrodden Iranians?

People don't seem to have any clue of the extent of the oppression in Iran nor are they aware of the extent to which legitimacy has been irrevocably shattered. Saying shit like "because of the poor downtrodden Iranians" is a manifestly ignorant assessment of the situation.

Comment Re:Temu missiles (Score 1) 291

What happens is this. Someone makes a product with a 0.1% reliability.

This is a fallacy.

What happens is it'll be incredibly obvious in tests (which you can afford to do with cheap missiles) if the reliability rate is that low. Why would it be?

Everything about it screams these are a new cheap, almost worthless missile. Particularly the use of the word 'hypersonic' to describe a missile that the US would never call hypersonic (we reserve that word for advanced, hard to hit hypersonic cruise missiles, not hypersonic ballistic missiles that are easy to destroy)

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

Never mind that hypersonic is not a military term, but an aerodynamic regime. You (or pretentiously "we") don't get to reserve that word.

Mass manufacture of cheap propeller cruise missiles is enough to overwhelm the production capacity of expensive interceptor missiles. And hypersonic ballistic missiles aren't easy to intercept, they are possible to intercept. But, much harder than low speed missiles, so you need fewer to overwhelm the stocks of interceptors.

 

Comment Re:"ongoing financial pressure" (Score 1) 151

Plus they hired a military contractor to waste money making stupid ugly delivery vans that are way way behind schedule

Those vehicles are everything the administration hates: they're much safer for vulnerable road users, e.g. pedestrians and cyclists and much more accessible than trucks, with low floor, easy entry and so on.

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