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Europe looking weak…. Originally Apain, France and U.K. refused to help. Then Cyprus, UAE and Qatar point out maybe they aren’t as reliable if an ally as the US so then they start sending support and ships. Approval ratings for Macron and Starmer dipping. It’s getting rough out there.
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Mar 5 2026 08:21am
L.A IRAN crowd
Why aren't they throwing rocks?
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Yeah. And look, look at this here. Not a
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single piece of graffiti or anything is
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being sprayed onto this piece of
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concrete, right? Not a single bit of
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destruction of property at all. There is
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a very very clear difference between
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these different groups of protesters. No
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whistles, no violence, there's nobody
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breaking the law, there's nothing.
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Yeah. I don't really see anybody wearing
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masks either. Nobody's burning flags.
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So, just keep this in mind. You're up
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against, you know, civilized good people
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versus anarchctic terrorists.


This post was edited by TiStuff on Mar 5 2026 08:22am
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Mar 5 2026 08:33am
Israel does not say they don't have nuclear weapons. They refuse to confirm or deny suspicions(knowledge) that they do.

Also, the "weeks away" thing is true, or a slight exaggeration at most. The targeted distance of the nuclear deal was to keep them 12 months away from producing nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are not as difficult to make as they used to be, it doesn't take years of collaboration between some of the greatest scientists in the world any more, the science is known. The only major barrier is Uranium enrichment.

Under JCPOA Iran was not allowed to enrich uranium past 3.67%, which is suitable for generating nuclear power. As I said, the aim of JCPOA was to keep them one year from acquiring nuclear weapons, which is how long it would take if they only had 3.67% enriched uranium.

Uranium enriched to 84% was found in Iran a few years ago, they claimed this was an unintended fluctuation. Fine, that's possible although not altogether likely, but let's take it at face value... It was not an unintended fluctuation from 3.67%, this would not be at all possible. It's possible it was an unintended fluctuation from 60%. They've been openly enriching uranium to 60%, which is one step under weapons grade. They have enough 60% uranium to make 10 nuclear weapons if it is enriched to 90%. America, Russia and several other nuclear powers could do this in a couple days. How long it would take Iran is somewhat speculative but 2 months is about as high as realistic estimations get. 2-3 weeks is entirely possible.


while this is all true, and im against iran having 60% enriched Uranium, there's something missing. why would a country want 60%? is it only to then enrich to 90%? is there zero other purpose?

of course not, its below weapons grade, but can be enriched to weapons grade quickly, in case of an invasion. having those nuclear sites was the only thing stopping Israel from attacking them for a few decades now. then we bombed the sites into a broken state. they could rebuilt but it may take a year or more. and what happened in that year? well, israel shifted instantly from "they are making a bomb, they're weeks away" to "they have too many ballistic missiles, they're going to attack us with them".

why does this matter? because from the start israel's narrative has been "iran wants a bomb to use on israel", when in reality its actually "iran wants sub-weapons grade uranium to prevent an attack from israel and the united states". they lose the uranium, they got attacked, their leader is dead, they can only really launch missiles and wait for an invasion.

and to top it off israel told us they were going to attack, knowing that our bases would be shot at in return, leaving us no choice but to strike first. to preemp a reactionary strike by iran.
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Mar 5 2026 09:42am

Land of the free :lol:

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Mar 5 2026 10:16am
Europe looking weak…. Originally Apain, France and U.K. refused to help. Then Cyprus, UAE and Qatar point out maybe they aren’t as reliable if an ally as the US so then they start sending support and ships. Approval ratings for Macron and Starmer dipping. It’s getting rough out there.


In fairness approval rating of Starmer and Macron is always dropping, due to fundamental issues (i.e. they are not good leaders).

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this was pretty funny lol.

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 5 2026 10:17am
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Mar 5 2026 10:32am
Most people can “understand” it. It’s just like you said “brain dead” and probably the worst option possible they had.

If I was them I’d have just took the hit then went in front of the world and said “I don’t know what happened. I thought we were still negotiating and making progress.”

That makes the US and Israel look like bullies. Russia and China would convince MANY EU countries to acknowledge the bullying and put pressure on the US leaving Israel to Fight Iran alone.

Domestic issues will withdraw the US from the conflict early regardless but Iran lost A LOT of goodwill.


I mulled over this point a bit. Across 2000 years, there are almost no clear cases where a country was attacked, did nothing, and gained a good outcome purely from sympathy. Successful examples of restraint - such as Austria after Nazi annexation - only provided a positive outcome because the aggressor (Germany) subsequently collapsed. Sympathy alone rarely forces reversal. Historically, positive outcomes follow shifts in power, alliances, or internal change - not passive inaction by the attacked state.

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I mulled over this point a bit. Across 2000 years, there are almost no clear cases where a country was attacked, did nothing, and gained a good outcome purely from sympathy. Successful examples of restraint - such as Austria after Nazi annexation - only provided a positive outcome because the aggressor (Germany) subsequently collapsed. Sympathy alone rarely forces reversal. Historically, positive outcomes follow shifts in power, alliances, or internal change - not passive inaction by the attacked state.


In context tho, lets say hypothetically Israel post Oct 7th continued down the pathway of the Abraham accords and even granted Gaza statehood for the return of the hostages, literally just gave it to Gazans. but under the pretext that as a new nation if it attacked Israel it would be at war with Israel. what are the downsides?

zionists would be mad, but left wing people, all muslims, and most moderates would have been happy.

Israel would have set it self us with the Saudi wing of islam and the middle east, while taking away one of the biggest gripes the Iranian wing has. build a 10 mile wide DMZ, focus up on west bank, etc.

of course it would never happened, but its hard to see how restraint gives bad results there.
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