negativeonehalf

It's surprising that Mossad arranged a massive destruction of communication technology without it being the precursor to a major military operation. Very curious why they chose this moment to execute an operation they clearly had ready to go for months.

The informal tone of the document is powerful. Makes you feel like Mr Beast is being real with you, that he really does care about this, and that he wants you to be in this thing together with him.

I mean that the world is best off if the US continues to maintain the global maritime order, and this means there being no credible way of cutting off the US military from being able to mass produce weapons.

Sure, this costs US taxpayers a lot, but whatever, it's worth it.

Chip manufacturing is critical for national security, which is to say world security, if you like the Pax Americana (and you should). This is not some trade war thing. My only actual concern about this is that it may make the US less willing to intervene if the CCP invades Taiwan, and we absolutely should intervene if that happens.

Definitely sad when there is collateral damage. But I don't see how it is possible to fight a war with absolutely zero collateral damage - do you? Hezbollah started firing rockets at Israel on Oct 7 before they even responded.

It is better not to fight a war at all, but this is not always an option.