What would happen to a modern(ish) country is every power plant, bridge, and water treatment plant were destroyed inside a one week period?
The US could certainly do this. But it might not be advisable.
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And the purpose of you posting this is?
If anyone thinks that they will be safe and sound from all this they are mistaken. Maybe for now or few more years. But this will roll over in so many ways. Those with the hubris enough to think it's "entertaining" to bomb countries far away may be surprised one day when the chickens come home to roost and face a societal collapse of a similar nature.
What do you think my purpose is?
Does thinking thinks through take that much mental energy you would rather question the questioner?
Cuba went dark recently for 4 days...no power...it wasn't the zombie apocalypse over there.
Yet we are told if the power grid here were to go down, it's the end of the world as we know it.
Truth is somewhere in the middle...you'd be okay as long as you're not around basketball Americans.
Those are my thoughts.
Extreme minority opinion (of one, so far as I can tell): The "US war in Iran" is mostly fake.
The whole thing is absurd from a military standpoint. Iran's air defense is probably 2nd only to Russia, and they can barely get a shot off? Every reported shootdown is extremely mysterious with zero details. The US claims to have completely suppressed air defenses in a few weeks, while Russia is still working SEAD on their next door neighbor 4 years on. It's all ludicrous.
The only destruction I would surmise is going on in Iran is of two types. One is Israel firing a small number of missiles and drones, then letting it be blamed on the US in hopes of antagonizing Iran. The other--and this would be extremely limited--is the US military going after rogue elements of the IRGC that did not and will not adhere to civilian authority. Shit, they're probably run by Mossad officers.
In the meantime, "The Jewish State" is getting systematically worked over by Iranian missile and drone strike. We're up over 100 waves, averaging at least 100 projectiles. Israeli air defense is for display only.
That's a lot of blown up things on the ground and it's why we're getting essentially zero information about damage. This is going to be their last dance and they know it.
I do know for a fact and from people on the ground that there is indeed destruction. Some of which is NOT being reported. But it's interesting that you "Primate98" is pushing for the Jewish line of: everything is fake narrative....
A lot more Americans died than reported BTW.
He only blames parkers, not Jews.
I'm glad when people take the effort to carefully examine what I write, because I put a lot of effort into it. It's particularly gratifying when they make it all the way through the first sentence before it gets blurred into whatever is going on inside their head.
You can pretend otherwise but you know quite well that you did your part in nudging towards the (and I repeat): "The everything is fake narrative".
Your comments were simply a more mild version of Jewish Miles Mathis.
To narrate implies "relating particulars" aka carrying parts together. Nature doesn't narrate...it particulates being.
Narration represents fake; particularization implies real. That's how a jew controls the narrative by artificially narrating nature to gentiles.
You know what disappoints me about conspiracy theorists? Given the rise of generative AI and the incredible amount of attention and controversy it has generated in conspiracist circles, I have yet to see one post questioning any of the numerous videos of purported US airstrikes. A couple of points to be made about that.
First, even if they were all authentic, how could no one even raise the question? You can't tell at a glance, that's for sure. Frankly, even at a glance, they all look like they came out of de-rezzed video games.
The second point is related to the first, and is even more vital. I've come across uncountable fakes in history that are as obviously phony as the walls of a house in a stage play. The only way They get away with it is that no one is actually looking to see if they're fake.
I think normies simply cannot comprehend that these things might be phony, and almost all conspiracy theorists are focused on being right about whatever they think they're right about.
What a world we live in, when you actually stop to look around.
It would cause a humanitarian crisis. Personally, I like Persians. I'm not so fond of the ones currently in power, but I'm not opposed to Persians running their own country provided they don't feed chaos. I think a lot of people would die unnecessarily
What's the necessity of dying?
a) Few suggest humanitarianism to distract many from being effect within cause by affection for one another.
b) Crisis implies a "turning point"...being implies delineation of life from inception towards point of death. Few suggest crisis-actors to shape turning points within the minds of many, like Turning Point USA for example.
If you see a child rapist, they need to die, since they're most likely to commit the same crime again, it becomes necessary to remove them from the planet.
That's your measuring mind establishing a conflict of reason aka want (child) vs not want (rapist), while ignoring that within nature ...you; me; the child and the rapist need to die. Why?
What if coming into being (be-come) and responding to be moved (re-move) necessitates motion?
What if coming into being (life) implies being removed (inception towards death)?
There's two definitions of "necessary." One delineates a requirement the other an inevitability. You're sort of waffling between the two, or somehow, don't see a distinction between the two.
I forced your hand and picked one. The one implying requirement; because, the person you were responding to was using that form.
What if you stopped talking like Deepak Chopra?
It's dude using AI. He occasionally breaks character and posts like a normal human.
It's not AI, he likes semantics, me too usually.
Lol of course the sheriff in town can't see beyond the obvious chatbot.
Which AI can adapt to perceivable inspiration on the fly? AI is based on regurgitating suggested information to tempt users to ignore adaptation.
PROMPT: "You are a recent college graduate who is still entirely up his own ass. Go fucking sperg out in a forum."
Yea.. cool. Thanks, Obama.
Definition implies division (de) of finite (finit) within action (ion) aka division of finite (life) within action (inception towards death).
What's the opposite of necessary? Dispensable aka necessity (inception towards death) enabling division (life) aka the necessary process of dying making each life within dispensable.
tl;dr...There can be only one need (nature) for any want (being) within.
Delineation implies from origin towards outcome aka linear motion. Requirement implies the inquiring mind responding to being (life) moved from origin (inception) towards outcome (death).
Inevitability implies outcome orientation by ones inquiring mind, while ignoring origin. Inevitability implies avoidance of response-ability aka ignoring origin for outcome.
Avoidance tempts one into confrontation against another, hence into a circular conflict (confront vs avoid) while ignoring linear delineation (inception towards death) of being (life).
Choice (life) operates IN-BETWEEN balance (inception/death)...inclining to one of two sides imbalances choice.
Notice that while alive...one cannot perceive ones inception or death. Nature offers SIGHT...few suggest SIDE to tempt many to lose former within conflict for latter.
Distinction implies apart from ONE another...two implies ONE ignoring apartheid by counting together ONE + ONE.
How does nature inspire being to count together? How could a being count together without nature setting apart first?
Manually (manus; hand) picked one by choice. Only within balance can there be choice, and only the force of motion generates balance (momentum) for choice (matter).
There's a natural force dividing each being from one another, before a being can choose to artificially force each others hand.
Person aka per sonos (by sound) implies flowing sound forming instrument (mind structured within).
I try to describe how nature works...you describe artificial responses among beings within nature.
Implication (if/then) implies delineation. Reason (vs) implies circular confinement...if one chooses a side.
Any influencer suggesting information distracts form (life) from flow (inception towards death). Holding onto any suggested information (form) distorts perceivable inspiration (flow).
Free will of choice needs to resist the wanted temptation to hold onto suggested information; definition; meaning; denotation; explanation; interpretation; connotation; illustration; translation; terminology; semantics; exegesis etc.
Why? Because holding onto binds free will of choice.
People attach meaning to words.
Go read some Heidegger or something.
This is extremely borish.
a) A person uses free will of choice to attach self (singular) to a people (plural)...attachment restricts free will of choice. Few suggest artificial pluralism to distract many from natural singularity.
There can be only one.
b) Attaching implies synthesis (putting together)...to put anything together requires each thing to be divided apart (analysis) from one another.
Few invert natural analysis with artificial synthesis to shape attachment among many called "consensus".
c) Meaning implies a measure taken by ones mind from what the mind of another suggested. Being implies all perceivable moving through each ones perception...a being cannot hold onto perceivable without ignoring that all moves.
Meaning implies possession...being implies potential within procession. Few suggest meaning to burden the potential of many with possession.
d) Sound generates in-stru-ment (mind structured within)...only after that can an instrument shape a word, which represents spell-craft.
Words are shaped by LETTERS aka by ones choice LETTING a chosen one shape words. You represent the letter of any word others are shaping for you to use for communication.
Sound cannot be described by words without distracting instrument (perception) from natural (perceivable) with artificial (suggested).
Nature divides being...few suggest words to distract many from division with labels attached to mind.
a) DASEIN aka DA (there) SEIN (being) implies a beings perception of perceivable differentiation from one another as here (me) and there (you).
The issue...if a being labels "here" and "there", then it ignores the ongoing motion which divides each temporary being from one another.
If motion implies singularity, then each single unit of matter within cannot be "here" or "there"....only in-between aka as above/so below.
From a different perspective...if form (life) within flow (inception towards death), then simultaneous perception of living/dying from in-between. If ones mind attaches "here" to living and "there" to dying, then one mentally ignores physical procession.
b) "Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time (1927), is widely considered one of the most significant works of modern philosophy."
"This question (of being), he believed, had been neglected or obscured throughout the history of Western philosophy"
Who defines his work as significant philosophy, while ignoring him describing philosophy as neglected and obscured? Where does the signal come from...perceivable or suggested?
Heidegger's DASEIN implies one thing (sein) among (da) another thing (dort)...a separation from one another. Something aka "sum of things" implies a unification together.
Few suggest unification (synthesis) to distract many from separation (analysis).
IS implies versus ISN'T...that conflict of reason represents mental confinement. You holding onto one extreme while fighting the other...makes whatever I describe from outside seem borish.
FREE will of choice will be perceived as uncultivated by a mind bound to extremes. Why does analyzing this doesn't feel borish to me?
They'd have nothing left to lose, except for their missiles in the air.
Why not discuss what would happen to Israel, if every power plant, bridge, and water treatment plant were destroyed inside a one week period?
Iran could certainly do this.
Why don't you want to discuss how to destroy Israel? Where is your "thought experiments" about bombing Israel? Why Israel is so special, that you don't want to discuss how to completely destroy this shitty tumor on the face of our planet?
What the real fuck? What exactly prevents you to discuss complete Israel destruction?
As for Iran - Unlike Israel, Iran does not depend on desalinisation plants at all. Unlike Israel, Irans power network is built on Soviet blueprints, so it couldn't be destroyed in "one week". US physically does not have enough means and ammunition to do that. Taking in account that all US bases in region destroyed or severely damaged, your "could certainly do this" become stupid cope. US couldn't do anything serious to Iran for a month, and all month US tried to do exactly what you talk about with all its available force.
Even tactical nuclear attack will fail. It would not be a breeze for Iran, but it would not be enough to destroy it. Only using all US strategic nuclear arsenal on Iran could achieve that. But after that, US and its vassals will be immidiately destroyed by all other world with great pleasure and relief.
While it is a thought about Israel, the odds of Iran being able to do that are about nil.
What make you think so? Israel have small footprint, inferior AD and other weapons, the most coward army in the world and poorly designed infrastructure network without any reserves, workarounds and industry to make spare parts.
And Jews, like other semites have noticeably lower IQ than Persians.
Iran need just destroy some key infrastructure facilities and Jews will not be able to survive without water, electricity and fuel. Since Israel AD is an impotent sieve, there is nothing that technically prevent Iran to do that.
If they could do it, they would be doing it now. That's what makes me think so.
Don't let your dislike of Jews make you sound dumb, which is what it's doing.
Persians are not Jews or Anglo-Saxons. They think different, and they are not genociders inherently like Jews or their Anglo-Saxon shabbesgoys.
There is nothing dumb in pointing out Israel vulnerabilities and inferiority. It is not about Jews, really, It is about math and physics. Iran could destroy Israel without any problems and nobody could prevent that if Iran finally decide to do that. Just because Israel have no resources, brains, manufacturing and all that things normal people have. You can't win a war with printing fucking paper money and pushing lies in MSM against adversary with all that real things in volumes.
Do you understand that Israel have nothing?
And looking at perfidious Israel behaviour I think Iran eventually will have to decide to do it. Unhinged squatters on occupied territory of Palestine can't do their insane shit forever unpunished.
Nah, bro. If Iran could destroy Israel to the extent that the US bombed the hell of them, they would.
You have to answer for WHY they would hold back if they COULD do so. Can you, without red herrings about IQ or culture...just pure military strategy?
It is completely opposite. It is Israel would have destroyed Iran by USA hands if only USA had enough brains, weapons and soldiers to do that. But USA never had, don't have and will not have that.
You don't understand simple thing - Persians are not like you. Don't project your behaviour to the people of completely another civilisation.
To destroy Israel Iran have to destroy few main power plants, 4 HV substantions, all desalinisation plants (some combined with main power plants), all Israel ports and the oil pipe from Turkey. That's all. Israel will completely implode after a month. All Israel towns will drown in shit (literally), there will be severe famine and epidemy of dysentery, cholera and other medieval illnesses. Any attempts to provide any help to Israel by air or by sea without ports will be futile. There will be no way out for Jews except unconditional surrender. Panic of Jews and internal hatred will make things much worse. They will literally began to eat each other quckly. If Iran will shoot that scenes on camera from drones and publish them, it will be complete and final death of Israel not only physically, but culturally too.
USA can't do shit even with small Vietnam, being in full force because WWII didn't touch USA, unlike Vietnam allies USSR and China who just recover from severe devastation of WWII. And USA completely lost in Vietnam. Absolutely, without any way to invent even tiny victory in anything.
Iran is much larger and much more developed than Vietnam. It have mach more complex terrain. With small help from China and Russia Iran could sustain any USA attacks indefinitely, until USA will be emptied of any working armour and soldiers.
The only way for USA to inflict serious damage to Iran is to use all its strategic nuclear arsenal. But after that there will be no any USA anymore. Obviously along with Israel.
So, even with full USA support, Israel physically can't survive if Iran decide to really deastroy it.
"Israel physically can't survive if Iran decide to really deastroy it"
Then why don't they?
Nothing. Everyone feels like their destructive plan is somehow the best.
No.
People lived for millions of years with absolutely nothing. If you take their comforts then they will once again continue to live with nothing.
It takes days to thirst to death. It takes hours to go to the coast and boil up some potable.
Even assuming there is no humanitarian deus ex.
Knocking the power plants, water treatment and bridges will cause a ton of collateral damage. Dangerous debris to be spread, ruptured gas lines that cause explosions, many hospitals to shut down, toxic materials in the air, reduce sanitation etc. All these will kill massive amounts of people, to pretend it won’t is foolish.
Is everyone standing on the street right outside the desalination plant? What do you mean dangerous debris? Is the dangerous debris in the room with us right now?
If my town went dark today, I lost my wallet, roads are all blocked, toilet stops flushing, tap pushes mud then clogs... I'd be so fine except for the internet withdrawals. For months, maybe years, without having to think about relocating. E: I'd have to chop wood for winter.
You think every Persian is sustained by The Grid?
No, but bombing them spreads chemicals into the air, it spreads through the area and kill people.
Literally any uneven ground can cause someone to fall over and injure themselves. Bombing bridges will cause just that in areas near them. Small particles will spread from these bombings into the surrounding areas, polluting the air and making people sick.
Civilian infrastructure destruction would kill a ton of civilians and be immense evil - a war crime.
You're using movie outcomes to predict real life.
Meanwhile..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Our forces are too retarded to actually do what you describe.
We would live like my grandparents did.
A superintelligent AI could theoretically shut down every power, water and water treatment plant in a nation. No need for explosives. Some speculate China could do this to U.S today. That would result in capitulation without a single bullet being fired.
A single B2 with a bunker buster could destroy the 3 gorges dam and China would be in the same shoes.
Anyway, there is no such thing as a super intelligent AI.
No, China wouldn't be in the same shoes. Not even close. The Three Gorges Dam currently provides less than 1% of China's total electricity demand. Yet, China consumes more than twice the electricity of the United States. China's annual electricity consumption recently surpassed the combined total of the EU, Russia, India, and Japan. Let that sink in.
Iran has 300,000 bridges
Yes... but, only about 180 bridges exceed 300 ft. And only about 5 are considered strategic or major bridges. I'm sure the Epstein Coalition would have their eyes on these 5. We'll see what happens in two weeks time. Or, if Israel's ceasefire history tells us, a lot sooner that that.
And obviously they have no conscience or regard for international law or targeted assassinations
Flow (inception towards death) destroys any form (life) structured within. Few use destruction to make many afraid by tempting them to hold onto structures...physically (idols) and mentally (ideals).
Whatever is being destroyed...nature works as always. Structures merely represent shapes formed within flow aka transitory existence.
Certain implies "affixed"...uniting states together tricks ones perception into certainty about a suggestion. Nature divides each state of being.
Shifting the "center of world trade" from west to east...requires eyes on the east to distract the west.
I bet you've never gone camping.
That's gambling aka giving up choice by taking chance aka forfeiting choice as a pledge to another.
Aka NOTHING (n) EVERYTHING (ever)...a contradiction in terms.
The meaning of "camp" was changed in the 15c... https://www.etymonline.com/word/camp
As free will of choice one operates within an open field, level space, while needing to resist the wanted temptation of contests, battles, fights, and wars.
Anyway...I'm an early bird, so camping with others was mostly me being busy out in the woods, while the rest was snoring in their tents. Even on schooltrips I got reprimanded for sitting at the lake fishing instead of being at camp for head count.
lol nerd I win
Tempting two losers to fight each other, then declaring one the winner over the other, while distracting both from having lost by fighting...that's how winning works.
Head or tails? Betting on either pledges ones choice to the coin maker, and coin/cuneus - "a wedge" implies a jew wedging itself in-between conflicting gentiles.
Too late I won