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FalArAk said:
I did not know there are a class of people that were exempt from military service in Israel, that's kinda bs.
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religious fundamentalists are the source of a lot of the violence and repression in the middle east and the rest of the world. Them and communists and Russian dictators.
 
rogersmithiii said:
I think it's less than useful to view the Middle Eastern crisis as black and white. Jews good. Arabs bad. Muslims evil. Jews and Christians saints.

It's not that simple.

Imagine if you will, the American Indians get pissed that European settlers took their land, and drove them into reservations after murdering millions of them. They enlist the aid of China, who provides funding and arms, and they take over the northeast US from Jersey to Maine. They displace 700,000 Americans, taking their land, their houses, and their businesses. They take over government, all the institutions, and make all the laws. They let the Americans stay, but really view them as second class citizens who really can't be trusted.

Do you think the Americans who were displaced would roll over, and accept the situation? Don't you think they would be enraged, and would fight back against their oppressors? And what if the Indians cracked down even harder against those who oppose their taking the land back, and started making incursions into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio,etc? If the American lacked the resources and arms to fight a conventional war, wouldn't they turn to terrorism and improvised munitions?

I'm not saying who is right and who is wrong. The Jews need a safe homeland after how the world has treated them for centuries. The Jews need to protect that homeland against enemies. Their ability to survive is at stake.

On the other hand, the Arabs have been getting screwed by the Jews and the west for more than a century, and they rightly are angry that Israel took their land and property.

The entire thing is a complicated, nuanced mess. The worst part is that on account of our support for Israel, that Arab rage is also getting directed at us. With the wide open borders, and the reality that a ton of Arab terrorists have flooded into our country unchecked, it's likely a terrorist incident that makes 9/11 look like childs play will soon be visited upon us. And you know that the gummint will use that as an excuse to take away more freedom, impart more surveillance and control, and implement gun control.
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Found him. The new chief of comms of Hezbollah

On a more serious note- AI is scary. Go to console- ask AI to create you a photo of masked Hezbollah fighter holding pigeons. Ask it to add blurry middle eastern urban background and… Voila.
 

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ns939393 said:
At this point they can't trust anything reasonably new. Old or even second hand electronics must be getting a premium now across the region.
Who would want to use any recently purchased radio/phone/laptop/alarm clock?

All those dusty electronics that have sat around are getting cleaned up and put back into service.
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Going forward, all nations will have to examine their supply chain safety. The Baofeng question isn’t a joke. The world is turning into a gigantic Mexican standoff, and only supply chain that you can trust is within your own soil.

Lots of Chinese language social media posts are talking about that this incident will give China’s electronic manufacturing a boost of business from the ME region, as anything associated with US or Israel will be deemed unsafe.
 
June4th said:
Going forward, all nations will have to examine their supply chain safety. The Baofeng question isn’t a joke. The world is turning into a gigantic Mexican standoff, and only supply chain that you can trust is within your own soil.

Lots of Chinese language social media posts are talking about that this incident will give China’s electronic manufacturing a boost of business from the ME region, as anything associated with US or Israel will be deemed unsafe.
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Some slightly good news.
Post-COVID the U.S. chip manufacturers have gotten serious about having more chip fabs on U.S. soil. I just met with some Texas Instruments sales guys. Apparently having on-shore manufacturing is an issue with guys like me who use their chips. Their presentation boasted about the chips being made on-shore and that they have fabs in several states. A huge amount is still made in Taiwan and China, but the trend is in the right direction.
 
I doubt any current TSA apparatus is capable to scan 3g of embedded explosives at volume.

What to stop governments from doing this to mobile phones en masse so they can terminate anyone with a push of a button?
 
June4th said:
I doubt any current TSA apparatus is capable to scan 3g of embedded explosives at volume.
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Not sure if serious they pick up trace amounts all the time. Ever since the shoe bomber was a thing they've been focusing in on detecting small amounts of explosives. Or at least let me put it this way even though I don't trust the TSA I believe that the technology to do so actually exists.
 
drgrant said:
Not sure if serious they pick up trace amounts all the time. Ever since the shoe bomber was a thing they've been focusing in on detecting small amounts of explosives. Or at least let me put it this way even though I don't trust the TSA I believe that the technology to do so actually exists.
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The technology exists and works, they just won't swab someone who looks Durkish because racism.
 
Remind me why we wouldn’t want that…

WSJ: “This act of grave escalation will lead the region to what we have been warning against, which is an all-out war which will turn the region into scorched earth,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said in Cairo on Wednesday…”
 
The technology exists to scan a place such as an arena / rally / etc and identify cell phones present. The borg used this to identify victims for the J6 Crusade.

I wonder how long before terrorists with hacker skills figure out how to mass-sms all the cells found with a message designed to incite terror. The pandemonium would be worse than ... well ok, almost as bad as setting off a bunch of charges in pagers.
 
MaverickNH said:
Remind me why we wouldn’t want that…

WSJ: “This act of grave escalation will lead the region to what we have been warning against, which is an all-out war which will turn the region into scorched earth,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said in Cairo on Wednesday…”
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Because there's zero chance that the US stays out of it.
 
namedpipes said:
The technology exists to scan a place such as an arena / rally / etc and identify cell phones present. The borg used this to identify victims for the J6 Crusade.
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That's not really some mysterious technology. Your cell phone is always pinging off cell towers, so you are logged into your provider's network. They've got logs of which phones were pinging off of which towers.
 
not new guy said:
Because there's zero chance that the US stays out of it.
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No boots on the ground, I’d expect. We’re already in it up to our ass, otherwise.

If Harris is elected, China-Russia-Iran-North Korea would probably step on us even harder. If we get dragged in now, that’s maybe for the better.
 

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