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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.See after next. I expect the consequences of that decision to explode into a multi-national, multi-continental war roughly along... -
Brad Sallows replied to the thread A Deeply Fractured World.Yep. And as recently as the 1920s and perhaps into the 1930s the border between the US and Mexico was pretty porous, and it didn't...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread AI: Current and Future Political, Social, Regulatory, and Security Dangers.Rogue AI isn't a fraction of the risk that AI capable of all the same things, but under direction of rogue humans, is.
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread A Deeply Fractured World.Always best when someone else volunteers to be the horrible warning. It should be a short leap from "countries have different standards...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.I don't care about the haphazard US administration control of its military power. What I'm looking at is the politics. There are...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.As I wrote, "...and every corporation with operations in a country which co-operates with Iran...". If China is propping up Iran, let...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.You don't try to take the country. You force it into approximately the position of having to be an autarky and let nature take its course.
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.There aren't that many unique mass human behaviour patterns. One of the archetypes is the tyrant or tyrannical regime emboldened by...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.Any country that chooses, on its own turf, by legislation. Suppose foreign-based corporation X does business in/with the US and Iran...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.Blockade and complete interruption of trade is pretty specific. "Give me specifics" is a rhetorical game. It should be clear that I...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.Sure, it was the USA and Israel that provoked Iran into doing everything it has been doing for decades. Surely no-one was stupid enough...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.Almost everything possible hasn't been tried already. Iran is not really being seriously isolated and pressed in all aspects. Too many...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.DIME. All of it. No need to repeat 1930s techniques of accommodations and appeasement. We already know that to the tyrants of the...
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.Beyond that, as far as needed. The alternative is to tolerate some amount of banditry, such as Iran's sponsorship of terror. How much?
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Brad Sallows replied to the thread Iran Super Thread- Merged.The heart of the matter. "We're going to behave like bandits, as we have done for years, and if we think you threaten to extinguish us...