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Any brain damage is much more impactful than you think.
If I could guess it would be grey zone tactics to affect the most amount of people and inhibit their work. If you attack everyone there is less information pertaining to motive than a single target can get you.
I think it is a broad stroke attack that should not occur.
>> The US was attacked.
>Not by Iraq.
Saddam gave material assistance to suicide bombers and network. It would suggest had they not gotten rid of him some of the perpetrators would have tried again. The resulting catastrophe was the result of neighbors meddling in their affairs and an internal domestic power struggle.
>These were the misplaced remnants of the chemical weapons program that Iraq dismantled in the 1990s.
if it was dismantled it wouldn't exist.
>It's simply not credible to claim that there was any sort of sizeable stockpile that the US did not find.
it probably wasnt in Iraq anymore.
source?
The vast majority of the most recent wars have not been UNSC authorized. UN involvement is not necessary for a war to occur nor do they prevent wars or proxy wars between countries on the UNSC. The "modern international system" is an ideal. The US was attacked.
>ancient, rusting artillery shells (from the 1980s)
20-30 years old isnt ancient, they were serviceable, and they had chemical weapons in the quantity for the potential of wmds. That is only what they found, and I imagine there were more not found.
>Nobody would ever have accepted to go to war
There was reasonable evidence they had more that the allied force didn't find. The international community is more to blame for the conditions after involvement than the instigators 10+ years on. A neighbor is beating up another neighbor and both are blaming it on someone else.
It was not illegal
That said we have near zero ability to enforce this at the moment.
Combating climate change will not be fair and it will be hard to swallow with no guarantees of a happy ending. We should not be having this "should we be doing something or nah?" attitude. We really have nothing to lose but the lives of our children.
I am a bit interested in the relationship with Abu Dhabi.
I heavily disagree?
[broken link #33] https://forbiddenstories.org/they-support-us/
"Prominent supporters are:[33]
Can Dündar, former Editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
Khadija Ismayilova, Azerbaijani investigative journalist
Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the U.S.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists[34]
Bastian Obermayer, Pulitzer Prize-winning German investigative journalist with the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung
Fabrice Arfi, Co-head of investigations at French online newspaper Mediapart[35]
Will Potter, U.S.-American investigative journalist
The EU mandate should not include policing of private speech through tangential monitoring services. Some wealthy European countries themselves have rather restrictive laws and approaches to private thought and through recent laws will have access to this information. The EU (non-democratic European commission with little legislation transparency) will likely to continue to grasp for more power as their competition of thought becomes more mimicry of foreign models of power than actual ingenuity.
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parlia...
I hate to say it but I think the Chinese model with 'nationalization' of the internet and IT services has already won and we're in denial. Regional governments, "federations" are likely to continue to reduce global trade through regional nationalization and IT programs.
Imagine the amount of training needed for a government worker to be able to decide that and be familiar with law AND not have a political/financial lean to be able to do that. The US government has already decided they're not going to train their population with relevant marketable skills globally at competitive ages. They've turned education into a private/public dating program to preserve social class norms.
The US government is still too ill equipped, corrupt, and disinterested in regional/global IT regulations. They seem more interested in weaponizing the IT realm to remain relevant across the globe. It seems to me like they're consistently deluded in thinking they can maintain systemic supremacy given movements in india, china, russia, and europe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/equifax-cyberatt...
OPM Hack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
The only way to create software engineering reform you envision is to force a paradigm shift. The only thing that could instigate it would be like skynet with many dead. Though, the unknown damage from OPM could be quite severe.
There might be 'security standards' but neither the government nor private sector can guarantee anything to be safe. The civilization built on IT networks will need to be rewowrked.