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by dreghgh 1y ago
The PLO pulled out of Beirut in the early 1980s after being given guarantees from the international community that the remaining Palestinian population, unarmed civilians, would be protected both from Lebanese Christians and Israeli forces.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
What if they hit US bases using 'plausibly deniable' cutouts? The Glorious Revolutionary Militia of country X, using Iranian built and supplied drones or missiles, blows up young American soldiers in a country half the electorate
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by dreghgh 1y ago
They just hit population centers in Israel with high explosives this week. Clearly if they had a nuke they would be able to deliver it.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I think austin-cheney's point is largely right. Iran has fought a series of proxy wars against Saudi, ever since the Islamic Revolution. The Iran-Iraq war was the first one, with Iraq funded and supported by the Gulf states. Supporting
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Can you clarify which part of the constitution is being ignored here?
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Just because you didn't know something until 24 hours ago does not make it a myth.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I live in a major world city with considerable immigrant populations from many parts of the world, and saw some of the pro-Palestine demonstrations yesterday. There were numerous groups of Iranians protesting against Israel's actions a
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I'm not sure you know much about Iran. They did spend a lot of the oil revenue on both education and developing their economy. Compare them perhaps to Saudi Arabia, a similar sized country with much more oil and much fewer people. Saud
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by dreghgh 1y ago
One way of looking at last week's ballistic missile attacks is that they were a way of demonstrating Iran's ability to retaliate in the wider region. If Ramat Gan is not safe, then the UAE's resorts and airports, Saudi's
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by dreghgh 1y ago
> Where do you think they've got the weapons from? Ultimately, from the United States taxpayer. Who supply the Egyptian military government, who turn a small proportion over to the Islamists to keep them from too much rabble-rousing
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by dreghgh 1y ago
There's only 3 problems with this old claim. 1. You have to define 'Israel' quite carefully to make it work. Palestinians in East Jerusalem cannot vote in Israeli elections. Is East Jerusalem part of Israel or not? 2. There a
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by dreghgh 1y ago
"Yes, we did lie. But in hindsight, our lie did not affect anyone's decision making. The truthful part by itself was enough to convince everyone who was convinced."
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by dreghgh 1y ago
91 also happened in a brief period where Russia was holding back from supplying end-of-line military hardware to anyone who wanted to take a shot at the United States and its clients.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Compare military spending by Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and the United States (only Middle East related) with Iranian military spending, over the four decades of Iran's shadow wars with these countries and isolation by much of the res
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Did you read the appendix? 85% of respondents have a college degree, with the actual proportion in the population being 28%. This survey is heavily weighted towards emigres and people who know emigres.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I think what you are missing is how vulnerable the United States and its allies are in the region. There are much much softer targets than Tel Aviv, many of which Iran has successfully attacked in the past. The argument that the Iranian peo
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by dreghgh 1y ago
The problem with this argument is that the case for war with Iraq was repeatedly made as "Iraq has WMDs that they are willing and ready to use".
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Yes, this was also said about Iraq in 1991.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
The thing is, the United States is self sufficient in petroleum. But domestic prices will go up to reflect the effect on world supply. Arguably the same could happen given widespread use of non petroleum sources of energy. Prices will go up
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by dreghgh 1y ago
> This is probably what happens when your government isn't very competent and you don't have mathematicians doing game theoretic simulations for you? Religious government or not, Iran has plenty of engineers, statisticians, sci
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by dreghgh 1y ago
It might actually be a good thing to get banned. Possibly it's in your interest not to continue to do business with companies like this, but on any given evening you might abandon your long term interest for the sake of short term conv
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by dreghgh 1y ago
You've invented gambling.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
But most people clean their own toilets in their house.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Yes you are completely right. All the analysis is done for a game where one randomly chosen person with money gives one other randomly chosen person one dollar at each time step. Some of the conclusions might be similar since random process
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by dreghgh 1y ago
I would assume a lot of what is losing views on news sites are the articles designed to capture "what time is the super bowl" type searches. The article features the question in the title or standfirst, the answer comes after 3 pa
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Iran enforces domestic copyright internally but not international copyright.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
But are they being improperly incentivised to do so by the state of California?
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by dreghgh 1y ago
Natural gas is perfect for peaking as it can spin up quickly and costs little when not burning fuel. Natural gas especially newer more efficient installations will probably be profitable for a while because as renewables become a bigger pro
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by dreghgh 1y ago
The calculation is somewhat bogus since comparing a sphere and a torus with the same radius isn't really valid. The author should either compare the surface areas of spheres and toroi with the same volume, or vice versa.
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by dreghgh 1y ago
What about 8?

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