I'll never be okay with targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure, but what the fuck did they expect to happen? This is on the Israeli government. They didn't need to start this war.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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They got way too comfortable killing non combatants and lightly armed Palestinians. They made the blunder every major military power seems to have made in the past century of greatly overestimating their own ability to wage war. Just because you're good at handing out beatings or doesn't mean you can win a war.
Boo hoo. Maybe Israel will learn to stop attacking other countries all the time. Wait, no they'll just play the victim as usual...
support for attacking Iran is very high. so they have baked the cost into their calculations I'm sure.
It is only high because of their constant propaganda teaching their citizens to hate human beings that are not them. It is actually pathetic they abuse their civilians like this under a state of constant stress and war.
I mean nobody in their right fucking mind would expect the Iron Dome to be impenetrable. Maybe the Israelis are so high on their own supply (media propaganda) that they actually believe Iron Dome to be 100% safe but it's not.
Fundamentally, the question is what does it cost to launch a missile and what does it cost to intercept one? If it costs $10k to launch a missile but $30k to intercept one, then the economics is on the side of the attacker; Meanwhile if it costs $100k to launch a missile but only $30k to intercept, then the economics are on the side of the defender. That's what you have to look at.
And the issue is that even if Iron Dome would catch most missiles, some still make it through, and what is the cost of that? The damage they do.
I guess a few billion dollars from America doesn't buy what it used to in defense tech.
There was little enough concern when Israel was carpet bombing all their neighbors and causing mass casualty events of innocents daily-- all to steal land, but when a few missiles get through to israel and harm a comparitively tiny number of people, the news is all panic. This all goes to show that the only thing Israel respects or cares about is deadly force visited on them.
Talking with them in any other format is a waste of everyones time. They are so self centered and tribal, they can only understand blunt force. Just for starters they deny every other human basic human rights and dignity. Thats incompatible with every other human on the planet.
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Gaza, Beiruit, Tehran, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
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