The UN is toothless, don’t expect anything from the UN. General rule is people don’t move to change their leadership (Hamas in this case) until they’re literally starving and that’s what Israel is hoping happens in Gaza so they don’t need to set up and run their own puppet government long-term.
Came here to say this…
I guess that’s one way to shorten life expectancies while maximizing worker productivity…
That’s literally what the return on all the other investment is for: the assumption of risk.
I guess it’s the same shift in mentality as the credit card processing machine asking for a tip for everything by default.
Burn the gun registries and put a few anti tank rockets and some hand grenades in every home within 50 miles of the border, mine the land near the border.
That will at least make it extremely costly to accomplish having invaded at all, and give Russia a reason to stop before they’re so far in that stopping counts as retreat.
Fundamentally different things… Party goers were doing a thing in a place where the government expressly says it’s safe and you don’t need to go around armed. Very different from enemy combatants using hostages as shields.
General rule, 1-2 orders of magnitude more sensitive than we have now.
Which is bonkers considering we’re really close to exact when we measure things like the weight of individual atoms… But we measure using things like the energy the atom releases when being smashed at close to the speed of light. All those measurements have some inaccuracy that stacks, even if the math is precise, so it’s, analogous to using 22/7 in place of pi. you need 10x more granularity to register that pi is 3.141… and not 3.142… need new inventions in the way to measure to know for sure.
Just open a few more Chrome tabs: a couple of Ali Express and Amazon pages and a few YouTube videos and couple Reddit posts, and you’ll be wondering why you only got 32.
This assumes a level of focus, presence of mind, and training to reliably discriminate between injurious and non-injurious active threats and measure your response with non-lethal force on a gamble that your attacker is non going to be physically violent towards you.
Cops fail at this all the time, it’s not reasonable to treat non-injurious threats as acceptable behavior and demand non-police with zero legal protections handle it better.
If you’re going to walk up to a stranger in the street and threaten them, then proceed to advance when they respond with “please stop! Get away from me!”, you have forfeited any right to benefit of the doubt on their part.
Don’t blame the president: WE decided to go in and kill a ton of Taliban, WE decided to spend actual trillions standing up and equipping an army that did not give enough of a fuck about anything but grifting. The ANA did not even try to slow down the Taliban when the US stopped acting as a backstop. Afghanistan never really thought of itself as a cohesive nation, we were never going to change their psyche.
I’d rather blame Bush and Obama for sinking trillions into helping their friends get rich at the cost of everyone pretending we were building a real country.