Trots? Sounds a lot like them, the sort of "the only thing worse than a hegemonic global empire of terror is a hypothetical one that could possibly maybe emerge if that empire was destroyed" stance
History keeps doing software updates and accidentally erasing the files of everything that came before that date, and socialists are the only ones who made backups so they can remember past events from a grand total of quite literally 2 weeks ago when Israel hit Syria and have also been hitting Lebanon
IT HAS THE OCCASIONAL MISTAKE BUT IS BETTER IN BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF NEWS THAN ANY WESTERN REPORTING ON THE MIDDLE EAST THAT I'VE FOUND
Iran would need a lot of them to cover a large area (probably hundreds to meaningfully cover every Israeli city) as opposed to a nuke which has a wider radius, but I imagine Iran has that quantity of both uranium and missiles that can carry it built up
it's not really a viable strategy for large countries because dirty bombs would (hypothetically, it's never been tested) have a small radius of effect, so dirty bombs are imagined more in the terroristic sense of causing mass panic and disorder in a single city or even a single district in a city instead of a viable MAD strategy, but Israel is pretty damn small.
ultimately I don't know if Iran would go there even in a MAD situation, perhaps their conventional explosions are good enough to make Israel collapse all by itself, and it could go badly and affect the Palestinians too, but it is a possibility, alongside a nuclear reactor strike
it would also be relatively trivial for Iran to land a dirty bomb full of uranium in the middle of Tel Aviv and make it uninhabitable for millennia to come (or at least decades if there are mindbogglingly expensive cleanup efforts), which I honestly think is scarier than a nuke
it's what we ostensibly invaded Iraq over
"Worker struggles of the last three months!"
Hell yeah!
"German rail union goes on strike!"
Awesome!
"Why China is just as imperialist as America!"
...what?
Most media reports say that none of the cruise missiles or drones ever entered Israeli airspace
Hearing new reports that Iran never actually fired their swarm of drones and missiles at all and every "projectile" in the skies above Israel was an optical illusion; every Iranian missile simply spontaneously combusted seconds after launch
leftists: "we want dedollarization"
Q: "okay"
leftists: "how could you possibly think this was what I meant"
Q: "another day another banger"
incredible that the only piece of the puzzle Hitler was missing was letting another party with 99% of the same views as his own exist. then the Germans who opposed the Nazi Party at the time would have just been involved in voting in the other guy to stop Hitler rather than actually taking concrete steps in the real world to oppose the system they live under
the West has so perfectly nurtured the idea that the totality of the concept of democracy can be contained within the sentence "having more than one party that you can vote for, regardless of the views of those parties" that to this day, I find it incredibly difficult to even prompt liberals to imagine alternative possibilities, let alone hit them with the mind-shattering revelation that China might, in fact, be a more democratic country than the United States
I actually completely forgot about Threads, I hear about it even less than Bluesky despite it having a much larger userbase. Is there a big overlap between them and Twitter's audiences?
that date seems slightly wrong, unless this person is broadcasting messages from the future