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by ReptileMan 11 days ago
Because the military industrial complex is acting like socialist jobs program.

If the USA could produce 4000 tomahawks per day, instead of 400 per year the Iran thing would be over.

Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths.
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aqme28 11 days ago
> Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths.

I'd argue that it's not sensitive enough. We've bombed schools and desalination plants.

If your goal in a war is to topple a regime and prop up a more friendly one, then you can't just bomb them to submission. All that does is topple the regime and replace it with a probably worse one. You need to convince the population that the new regime is actually better, and you don't convince anyone of anything by killing their kids.

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wasfgwp 11 days ago
> Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths.

Well depends what you compare against. Also its generally not worth wasting precision munitions (you have a limited amount of them to start with) on non military targets.

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watwut 11 days ago
> Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths.

Its literally bragging about the oposite while intentionally killing civilians.

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ReptileMan 11 days ago
In Iran USA has killed 1/4 of a civilian for every enemy combatant. That is unprecedented by any war level.
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watwut 11 days ago
How could such a thing possibly prove that "USA is sensitive to civilian deaths"?

USA is just not sensitive to that. It is sensitive to lives of own soldiers, very much.

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ReptileMan 11 days ago
Usually it is couple of civilians per enemy combatant. So USA kills civilians at rates many times under the norm.
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watwut 10 days ago
Iran is the norm now? And the USA self reporting about their own civilian victims (or military victims) is somehow to be trusted?

USA is attacking desalination plants and civilian infrastructure. It was doing it in the first stage of the war and led with those attacks in the second.

USA is killing fishermen in pacific. Just to make Hegseth feel like manly man. USA is engineering human catastrophe in Cuba. And it is supporting genocide in Gaza.

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