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@FunGuyTy @agraybee Recent works aslo apparently say that the US left because the elites no longer left vietnam was a worthy return investment, that resources needed to be allocated elsewhere.

@FunGuyTy @agraybee How is this a ret con?

That the North Vietnamese were a bunch of scrappy ewoks and not a professional army with state of the art artillery.

@gRayPest69420 @agraybee >No western army would have lasted yet the Vietnamese did. Depends on the context.

@agraybee They still took incredibly heavy casualties. No western army would have lasted yet the Vietnamese did. They of course had anti air missiles but most of their guns were bolt actions that Russia could drop on them

@glenn_tami59618 @Sarkis8188 @ianbremmer @gidonsaar @gnuseibeh A proper two state was never offered. slate.com/news-and-polit…

@Sarkis8188 @ianbremmer @gidonsaar @gnuseibeh That train left the station in 1937, 1948, 1967, 2000, and 2008...

גרמת ביודעין נזק למדינה במופע המחפיר הזה ולא בפעם הראשונה. הורדת לטמיון מאמצים אדירים מקצועיים ומוצלחים שנעשו על ידי רבים רבים - מחיילי צה״ל ועד עובדי משרד החוץ ועוד רבים וטובים. לא, אתה לא הפנים של ישראל.

@ChowdhuryF33314 @policytensor He is given the offical Iranian gov position. This is genuine cope.

@dmolon167003 @policytensor Like I said he is not a military analyst and is only making a general assumption

Again the issue is not that Iran can fire at ships in the gulf. Qatar can do that. The issue — what proves that Iran is a great power — is that the US cannot militarily retake Hormuz, cannot suppress Iranian fire. This is a great military surprise. Caine assured the principals that Iran could be disarmed in what constitutes one of the greatest intelligence failures of all time. What we have learnt the hard way is precisely that Iran is so strong that the US cannot defeat it and reopen Hormuz. That is, it is a great power in accordance with the criterion that has always counter in the history of Western great power politics—the test of the battlefield. “Iran always had- starting around 1950ish or so- the ability to harass or close the Strait of Hormuz. Nonetheless, no one ever considered calling Iran a great power.”

@policytensor @ChowdhuryF33314 not bothered

@policytensor @ChowdhuryF33314 Also using other air campaigns like the one against isis as an example it isnt really surprising that crippling blow wasnt imposed with a month and a bit of bombing, and that they never really had a large window to do so due to oil cost factors so they should have bothered etc.

@JamespWeigel @KenGardner11 @mdubowitz He wasnt exactly hiding. He was killed at his office.

@dmolon167003 @KenGardner11 @mdubowitz Khamenei is unavailable for comment

I’ve been checking multiple sources and assessments on Iran’s ballistic missile capability. The picture that’s emerging is that Iran has lost roughly half of its ballistic missile arsenal and about half of its missile launchers. Missile production, once estimated at roughly 100 missiles per month, appears to have fallen close to zero. The missile production infrastructure has been decimated. Before the war, Iran was on a trajectory to reach an arsenal of roughly 10,000 ballistic missiles within about two and a half years. Now, estimates suggest the regime is down to roughly 1,000–1,100 missiles remaining — a dramatic degradation of one of Tehran’s most important strategic capabilities. There is a strong argument for major military operations to resume to further degrade this deadly threat.

@ChowdhuryF33314 @policytensor It depends on the context of the conflict.

@dmolon167003 @policytensor Iran would have won in every single scenario because the US has no wincon while Iran has every single wincon.

@ChowdhuryF33314 @policytensor If you want to say Iran overall won, fine, i think so too. It was a dumb war which should have never have had happened, but lets be realistic of what occurred and why.

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@Calebclind231 @polemoskarios @slandermepls @Th_Angelopoulos When people have a shtick instead of a personality.

@polemoskarios @slandermepls @Th_Angelopoulos Speak like a dude

Wilson never used the term “non-White”. Not once. Her analytical term throughout is “non-Greek”aka the Greeks' own civic category, defined by language and custom. You introduced “non-White”, built your argument on it, and are now citing her three pages as proof you were right. You were not. You misquoted her framework and argued against the misquotation. What Wilson actually argues is grounded in the Greek text. Homer calls the Cyclopes ἀθέμιστοι (athemistoi) at 9.106, a term (deriving from the goddess of Justice Themis) meaning “without divine law and social order”. He calls them ἄγριοι (agrioi) at 9.175, the same word he uses for wild animals and storms. He calls them ὑπερφίαλοι (hyperphialoi), meaning overbearing and arrogant. Three distinct concepts. “Savage” collapses all of them into one English word that became systematically associated from the 16th century onward with European descriptions of indigenous peoples across the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. That history is not in the Greek. Translating ἄγριοι as “savage” adds meaning Homer did not write. When Wilson flags how non-Western peoples are rendered in the text, she is speaking from the perspective of modern readers, not making a claim about how ancient Greeks categorised the world; we know how: Greeks and non Greeks. A modern English reader does not encounter “savage” neutrally. They carry five centuries of its use with them. That is a reception history argument. Wilson is translating for modern readers. That is her job. Her framing is well grounded too. Thucydides in Book VI names the peoples the Greeks displaced in Sicily: the Sicani, the Sicels, the Elymians. Pithecusae was founded c. 770 BC, Naxos on Sicily in 734 BC, Syracuse in 733 BC. Ephorus, preserved in Strabo, records that Ionians were among the earliest settlers at Naxos. Diodorus Siculus, himself a native Sicilian, records in Book V that the pre-Greek peoples of the island lost not only their land but their speech and their name under Greek settlement, all of them eventually called Siceliotae. He is not an outside commentator on this process. He is its product The Ionian cities of western Anatolia are also the region scholars most consistently associate with the composition of the Homeric epics. The Odyssey was composed c. 750-700 BC. Homer and the colonists came from the same cultural world, at the same time the colonists moved into the same waters Homer used in his poem. The historical facts show that Wilson grounds her argument in the recorded accounts of the ancient Greek history. For the record: I do not like Wilson's politics. I do not like Aristotle's politics either; he defended slavery and thought women were defective men. I do not like Plato's politics; he wanted poets expelled and philosophers to rule as kings. None of that stops me from engaging with what they wrote and assessing it on its merits. That is what Wilson did. That is what you refuse to do. You dislike her politics, so you reject her entire work. That is the thing you accuse me of. Oh, the irony 😂

@polemoskarios @slandermepls @Th_Angelopoulos Embarrassing.

@slandermepls @Th_Angelopoulos The Gods did not gift you with sight. The blind cannot praise beautiful Eos.

@Nigel22222 @AstorAaron @mdubowitz it was consistent for like 90 percent of the conflict

@AstorAaron @mdubowitz Their launches dropping off 85% during active phase of war is a clue.

@KenGardner11 @mdubowitz Israeli intelligence on this conflict has been awful.

@mdubowitz This was, in fact, the Israeli assessment that I read about here right about the time that the ceasefire had started. Which is why I trusted it the most.

@ryangrim He is happy for others to do it.

This guy really wants to touch that stove again