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It'll probably be a jet ski or inflatable boat packed with unfathomable amounts of stored chemical energy, but you're not wrong.
That's won't do much more than blow a hole in the side. What you need is an explosion under the keel, creating a force upwards, then a vacuum sucking it down. This will break the keel in half, sinking even the biggest ships.
As you can see here.
Get ready for an Israeli false flag operation
Israel doesn't need one. The Iranian regime has already turned the world against them by slaughtering their own people last month, and their people already hate them, and so if they just attacked outright, most people and countries aren't going to care. They'll just say something like "Oh no, anyways we urge all sides to show restraint".
We have already travelled so far past the Nyquist Limit on that, the official signal is almost all Israeli-US Non-Harmonic Distortion. Barrages of aliasing travel up and down the frequencies of communication with no apparent harmonic relationships being expressed.
The meaning of "false flag" loses relevance when the true flags are just as false.
I think this, and other heavily distorted topics are the motivation for the push for Internet ident measures among all of the major powers. There's no way to separate the signal from the noise at scale when all of the socials help obfuscate the sources and there are no AESMs for this kind of jamming.
Do we really need to bomb Iran again?
Can’t we just… not?
Israel is a settler colonialist state using pseudoscience and “Zionism” which is just the same repackaged ideology that justified the extermination of the indigenous population in the United States. Israel is a settler colonialist project that’s main objective is the systematic extermination and land absorption of the Middle East. It’s Manifest Destiny all over again
Yeah Huckabee just said the Bible states they will rule the land so they should just take Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. He's probably testing the waters for pushing greater Israel
They want their Armageddon and I’m sure they will have it. Sadly.
He also said "they" is an ethnic group who descended from Abraham, but also literally anybody who says they're a Jew because it's religious, but you don't have to be religious because it's ethnic but Palestinians shouldn't be DNA tested to prove they're Jews who converted and are closer genetically than the Jews of Europe, all in the same sitting.
The mental gymnastics he went through to justify without outright saying it that Israel is for primarily white Europeans...
So true and I think if I read correctly two of Abraham’s sons started the Muslim religion so aren’t they descendents of Abraham too by that logic? I’m not a fan of religion and government mixing at all
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If we want to see this stop, we need a revolution. We need to build a worker-led anti-imperialist movement.
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If you have a better way for Israel to forestall elections and reckoning for their failure to keep their ghetto under control we would love to hear it. Because using the epstein blackmail to force the US into starting our new forever war, Persian Gulf War III, is what we are working with here.
And there will be no shortage of pretexts to reopen hostilities no matter of peace agreements afterwards, hence the forever part. We had to cross over to hit a militant group, terror group, whatever. Every time Israel's leaders' approval ratings are down or they are facing a vote they can pretext up another round of Iran war.
The beauty of it, for them, is that Iran is nearly powerless to respond. They've a non existant airforce, rudimentary missiles and air defense, and are fundamentally compromised in their communications on a base level allowing near total visibility in what they are doing. Satelites, drones, the air forces, it's fun killing people that can't fight back! /s
The irony of the "mad mullah" propaganda by the Zionist US media is that Shia teaching is dead-set against the development of nuclear weapons and always has been. If the Iranians had copied North Korean and developed the bomb Trump wouldn't have dared starting a nuclear war.
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Are there a lot of fishermen out there for Hegseth to soften his murder boner on?
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