She did do a 5 month walk on it a few years earlier. So it’s not like she disagrees with you, she just also wanted to get that record.

There are a couple things working in the defender’s favor. The payload isn’t nearly as heavy or large, so the rocket actually is quite a bit cheaper. This means putting multiples up for each ICBM isn’t impossible. Also countermeasures deploy after re-entry. The SM-3 taking out a satellite was a big deal because it means it can hit stuff before re-entry and the protective covers come off. This also significantly cuts down on the number of intercepts required because Russian missiles actually carry a whole bunch of warheads and decoys.

So yeah it’s still pretty hard to stop every warhead, but it’s not the same situation as the 1980’s where we’d be living in a post nuclear wasteland with every major city obliterated. Which is the point. We can go on as a country with a few craters. We cannot go on if we eat a thousand warheads.

To add really quick, it is a lot less missiles than people think. For example the Russians have 5,500 warheads. If all of them were slated for ICBMs then that would be around 500 missiles. Less because their smaller yields fit 15 per missile. And they aren’t all slated for ICBMs either. Their current idea of ICBM defense is actually to send up short range nukes and nuke their own sky. They also have submarine and plane warheads which are dealt with by other missile defense systems. I don’t want to make it sound like nukes are no big deal. I just don’t want people thinking we’re in the same situation we were 40 years ago. It would be a lot less devastating today.

We have more than one of them?

Well, we’re probably working on that with the SM-3. They took out a satellite with it so hitting a mid course ICBM shouldn’t be too hard.

I wish it weren’t so. Kindness is often just a choice.

Yup. We’re conditioned to tip everyone

Oh good we finally trained them enough. Can we please get rid of captcha now have the next portion?

I mean… That still works. In Iraq the US Army routinely ran bait ambushes in areas AQ was known to operate. Oh look a single vehicle and they’re waving beer bottles around. That’s not a trap at all… Meanwhile there’s an entire infantry platoon traveling dark and silent just out of the light behind them.

HEMA is not combat. It’s tournament fighting. In combat you’ve got a thousand spearmen on either side looking to stick you with a sharp stick wherever they can.

I was thinking about stuff like chili but that’s fun too.

What’s more important, an old painting or the people enjoying it?

Yes, withholding weapons from people murdering civilians is directly analogous to murdering civilians yourself.

Perfect logic. Unassailable.

Certainly at every step of the way since we keep answering yes, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Farmers don’t usually fence in their fields. You’re thinking of live stock farming.

Or and this is nuts, but the Ottoman Empire was building up the area and urbanization was happening. Nobody got replaced, it was just more people moving in.

Biden is done. There’s no comparison with Trump anymore.

Yes. They’re currently engaged in massive war crimes, including the use of starvation as a weapon as identified by the US State Department. They are absolutely ineligible for military aid.

But they aren’t actually defenseless. They still have the most sophisticated military in the region.

That’s a hilarious assumption when we’ve done this with everything up to and including 2,000 pound dumb bombs in the last year.

That would make their version of parliament roughly half Palestinian. More if the right of return was generally enforced. (Just allowing them to move back into the country) So the resulting country would actually be pretty fair to them as long as the apartheid part really is gotten rid of.

Just do anything as long as you don’t have to be inconvenienced. Got it.