Tl;Dr you’re declaring war on Lebanon.
Then just admit it, this bs dance is childish.
You’re either at war with them or the Lebanese are innocent bystanders where you have to minimize collateral damage, can’t have it both ways.
Tl;Dr you’re declaring war on Lebanon.
Then just admit it, this bs dance is childish.
You’re either at war with them or the Lebanese are innocent bystanders where you have to minimize collateral damage, can’t have it both ways.
that can’t be employed at scale as readily
Well there’s your problem right there:
You’re concerned we can’t scale up arbitrary killings? Would you prefer something on a larger, more industrial scale, perhaps with large, gas-fueled ovens?
Killing should be hard, and it should be personal, not vaguely waving a hand in a general direction. You should know their name and hopefully have filled out a few forms beforehand.
If you want to kill somebody, when you aren’t at war with their entire country, then BE SPECIFIC.
Drone strikes that take out a known Al-Queda leader: ✅
Drone strike that takes out a random Afghan wedding: ❌
Ok, on the one hand, yes, blowing up Hamas is funny.
OTOH, this is not cool, bombing random people is a problem.
The US has this wonderful system called the Hellfire R-9X which is basically a flying slap-chop that ginzus a single target with 9 pop-out blades. Can we hand a couple over to the IDF and Mossad so they stop randomly blowing up parts of Lebanon?
It’s not killing Hamas that’s the issue, it’s the collateral.
Exponential funeral growth.
Russian cultural paranoia.
They cannot consider themselves safe unless they have a ‘perimeter’ around Russia.
The thing is: that needed perimeter is always growing, eventually your country becomes part of it, ask Poland and later east Germany, Afghanistan, and eventually, your country.
Their country, their responsibility.
The Germans learned that lesson the hard way.
Uhh, maybe 2 decades ago, they sold all those weapons on Wish.com, where do you think all those super-yachts came from?
This is beyond the pale.
But not surprising. Not for Russians.
Trump’s coin dropped already.