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Mαττs The Pastafarian Spaceologist 🌌🚀 ⚛️
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Mαττs The Pastafarian Spaceologist 🌌🚀 ⚛️
@VirtualMatt6626
Came for the Math and Physics links ⚛️🚀🔭🌌🌊🐙🌊🐬🌊🪐🌕
Galaxy far, far away เข้าร่วม Şubat 2019
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Correct, it's what most European air forces use. It's also the one that the Kuwaiti pilot used to down three of your airplanes when you showed up unannounced.
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I’ve seen a lot of reasonable people think that NATO actually has stepped out of line with how far they’ve taken this one. It’s downstream from a collective massive blind spot most Americans have to the actual gravity and severity of our behavior abroad
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The Denmark detail is the one that should stop people cold. NATO allies had to genuinely war-game shooting down American planes. Some of their military leaders still haven't fully processed having run that exercise. The most popular app in the country identified American products to avoid buying. And now Trump is demanding - his word - those same allies solve the Strait of Hormuz problem his war created. NATO invoked Article 5 once. For us. Their soldiers died in Afghanistan. He told reporters they stayed "a little back." Their governments remember that. They've drawn the conclusions and they aren't reversible.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Are you still using the Kuwait friendly fire incident to support your delusions
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th You can laugh all the way until the Sidewinder enters your tailpipe, then.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Lmao that's what's so adorable Euros posturing big talk like they have any real strength lmao
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th It really doesn’t matter if you respect it or not, the AIM-9M doesn’t understand respect anyway.
Respect isn’t necessary. You only need to understand the consequences.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th If we had actual hostile intent you can be absolutely sure it wouldn't be one plane and we would give no fucks about you trying to shoot at us but all this hypothetical is pure fantasy and actually starting to bore me
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th It’s the only situation where you’ve been dumb enough to persist. In all other cases you haven’t pushed your luck.
However if you exhibit hostile intent by not following orders, the response *will* be violence.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th I'm wondering if you even read that very brief report? It is called a friendly fire incident where they and I quote "mistakenly" shot down one our planes and since we haven't started bombing them I would assume it was legitimately a mistake, as in they didn't know it was us.
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Oh sorry, it was three:
reuters.com/world/middle-e…
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 It's not our propaganda it's quite literally THEIR propaganda telling us all what they want lol don't believe them at your own peril.
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 Indeed they are not. Nor is India or Pakistan for that matter despite them having nukes.
And no, Iran doesn’t want that. Don’t believe your own propaganda. It’s a very silly thing to do.
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Winding down on Europe as it’s boring, but to be clear: I fully support an alliance where we provide far more than Europe to ensure their defense in exchange for merely using their airspace and bases when we want. But if they can’t meet that very bare minimum it’s hard to justify
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th any real power with the threat of force against is pretty laughable
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th That's the thing though the idea that applying violence against us, would be anything other than suicide is adorable lol we do so out of courtesy and I'm sure we will continue to do for that reason but the cops/criminal analogy isn't accurate you pretending you have
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th as well as not incite wars or conflicts unnecessarily not because of your military strength
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Considering we don't violate your airspace we obviously do think the rules apply but they apply now because we understand why the rule of law is important and we should be the example when ever possible
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th you and you're all dumb enough to fall for it, we the US as a whole and it's government aren't looking to attack or make threatening actions against allies even if they are insufferable and some or even many want us to dissolve current alliances
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th When did this happen in recent history? Don't talk about WW2 because that's irrelevant to today
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th It’s not about stupid. An aircraft that doesn’t follow orders despite visual contact is clearly hostile and must be shot down. To do otherwise would be fucking stupid.
You’ve tried this, it has already happened before, so why do you imagine it wouldn’t happen now?
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th WW2? Before we became a superpower and NATO even existed? This is completely irrelevant
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th For details, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_in…
So to summarize: you will get intercepted, you will get forced to land, and if you don’t do that you will get shot down.
It has happened before so I have no idea why you would doubt it now. Are you guys stupid or what’s up here?
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th During WW2 is an entirely different situation and completely irrelevant to reality today
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@VirtualMatt6626 @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th The only time I can think of when US planes have actually been shot down for this was by neutral Switzerland during WW2. Some American pilots were killed. Usually damaged planes were forced to land and the American pilots were interred as per the 1929 Geneva conventions.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th (which would change the calculus the next time something like that happened where they actually might shoot) but they wouldn't risk starting a war over one illegal but non hostile flyover you can think they would but either your naive or I am and France is actually that stupid.
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@kmh @TytheGreat4 @ThomasNguyen7 @realtonysm1th Except they would never get the green light to shoot they would go through diplomatic channels and make a huge fuss and maybe even take themselves out of alliance with us depending on our response
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