That did not improve their security conditions or their ability to achieve victory. If anything we should expect to see massive build out of conventional forces.
I am so close to being done.
I have almost a full week for editing and honestly depending on how productive this weekend is it very well could see a full week for edits.
I would strongly recommend against doing a PhD on this condensed of a time scale, but it is clearly possible.
hate typing, but also like, voice notes mean I have to turn off my music for good(ish) transcription.
VERY ANNOYING!
I think it's very uncertain that anyone's security situation would have been improved by the use of or possession of nuclear weapons. Israel has nukes they could easily have used them in fact the same squadrons that would've been tasked with delivering air delivered ones were in this war.
Nuclear weapons are weapons not magical totems. They are expensive to procure, even more expensive to operate, and require real infrastructure along with integration with other weapons systems to be effective.
they're gonna do stabbed in the back theory to jd vance but because they're all too stupid to live now it will somehow be done in a way that pisses off a large swathe of their base in the rw media ecosystem and lead to at least two internecine assassination attempts anyway good night
Fun fact: did you know that if you served in iraq and were injured in an attack that had a connection with Iran, you could sue Iran in federal court and receive damages taken from the Iranian assets that the USG froze?
The very same assets we are agreeing to unfreeze