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Naaah, I’m pro expansion. I even want Nigeria to take Bakasi back, and dare Cameroon to challenge our navy. We’ve seen how useless smaller countries are, and I prefer the larger countries. ☺️

Kill vehicle of a US THAAD Talon interceptor missile reportedly found in Syria.

Let me start from the beginning: The OP said "Civilian infrastructure and Universities". Your decision to focus on Universities alone is a straw man and cherry picking. intentionally oversimplifying and narrowing down the argument to focus on just one particular thing, to make it easier to attack. Let me state what is known or at least claimed by one side of the war: * At least 600 schools and education centers have been hit, including 30 universities (reported by Al Jazeera. Don't know if they did any findings, but they published it). * 300 health facilities hit (This is claimed by the Iranian Red Crescent Society. You can say it's Iranian, but it's a member of the International Red Cross societies) * Banks and bridges have been struck (both sides agree this is true) * nearly 10k civilian sites have been hit (This claim is, I think, from the Iranian foreign ministry, so I don't know what to make of it, though. But it was not disproven, so keeping it here) You may not agree with some things above, but we can both agree that your 0.1 probability calculation is way off. > "Wouldn't put it past a regime that unalives its citizens to do that to themselves to win public opinion etc.". It's interesting the language used here. If you were trying to argue objectively, This is a big giveaway that it's not. This is in the same league as "Russia blew up the nordstream for public sympathy". There is no documented record of people blowing up their top education institutes. In fact, the evidence proves the contrary. This is like suggesting the US will blow up MIT to influence public opinion. > "Let's not also forget the context of Iran deliberately blowing up civilian infrastructures down the malls,", again, another unsubstantiated claim. There is no reputable outlet reporting this, and it's completely made up by you. > "Since the OP doesn't criticise the actions of Iran on civilian infrastructures in countries that aren't directly fighting Iran", is also out of this context. Ignoring the claim of "aren't directly fighting Iran", you know nothing about anyone's opinion on this, so bringing it here to score cheap points is funny. Did I mention that this is a Red Herring? yeaaa. > "The OP in a nutshell was making a very low probability accusation with absolutely no evidence to draw from, and then goes ahead to put the pilot on trial and pass a judgment.". Nothing in the tweet is about judgment. You just made that up completely. The tweet is about how they'd be making money in the future from this, while they were in reality blowing up civilian infrastructure. And, the "low probability" claim you are making is also wrong, because you are choosing either deliberately or not to focus on universities. > "WSO was rumoured to have been protected by Iranians(civilians)". Bringing rumours into the play. We won't be dealing with rumours here. > "This pilot following order should not be rescued by those who gave him orders after he had an accident from following their orders". This is a strawman. Again, the original tweet is about making movies in the future and portraying heroic acts, while in reality, they were destroying civilian infrastructure. Nothing was said about whether they should or should not rescue the person. Frankly, this entire thing is a big waste of time. I just find it hard to shy away from arguments. Your entire write-up is mostly you pulling things out of the air to try to make up an argument. For someone who came into to tweet screaming "logical fallacy!" here and there, your entire write-up is full of it. The original tweet is extremely simple and uncomplicated. It's amazing how you derived all of this from it.

NEW: Hundreds of American service members were involved in the rescue of a downed U.S. weapons systems officer in Iran. The operation did not involve a firefight between U.S. and Iranian forces, according to a senior official, but U.S. forces did fire weapons to keep Iranian personnel away from the rescue site.

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

Tonight’s operation in Southern Iran which resulted in the successful rescue of a Weapons System Officer (WSO) onboard an American F-15E Strike Eagle downed Friday over Iran, involved hundreds of special forces troops and other military personnel, including members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, dozens of fighter and strike aircraft, helicopters, and cyber, space and other intelligence capabilities, officials tell The New York Times. Senior military officials described the mission to rescue the airman as “one of the most challenging and complex in the history of U.S. Special Operations” given the mountainous terrain, the airman’s injuries and Iranian forces rushing to the location in the mountains of Southern Iran. The WSO evaded Iranian forces for more than 24 hours, at one point hiking up a 7,000ft ridgeline, a senior U.S. military official said. U.S. attack aircraft dropped bombs and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the area where the airman was hiding. As U.S. Special Forces converged on the downed airman, they fired their weapons to keep Iranian forces away from the rescue site, but did not engage in a firefight with the Iranians. In a final twist after the officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran. Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airman, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into the hands of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

🇩🇪 BREAKING: Germany now requires all men aged 17 to 45 to obtain permission from the military (Bundeswehr) before leaving the country for more than three months.