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Ask yourself why we don't.

Geographic location, generational trauma, and religious dynamic are not indicators of western liberal democracy. Factors that are: Representative democracy; Free and fair elections; Rule of law; Independent Judiciary; Some degree of guaranteed individual liberties; Independent press; Healthy...

Why not?

To understand the context, one needs to search the Interim Brigade Combat Team and the concept the Americans had at the time that was based on experience from numerous peacekeeping/peacemaking interventions on the 1990s.

A couple ways to look at this. Iranians are playing Trump as a fool and making him look bad as he's all about a deal. Iranians are using this to further reduce Israel's standing with the US by threatening Trump's deal. Possibly, Trump Admin could welcome this as a way to back out of an almost...

All kidding aside, it is useful to go back to look at the (stated) military objectives and (assumed) political war aims and to compare them to the agreement the US just signed with Iran. First, military: Dismantle Iran’s missile launch capability - nope, clearly didn't do that as Iran...

JCPOA 2, after a war that failed to decapitate the regime and lost control of the Straits of Hormuz. Trump's twitter account continues to pay dividends.

Xi has bent him over twice (ran him over with rare earths last year and got him to waiver on Taiwan this year), Putin got the red carpet rolled out for him in Alaska, and even Delcy Rodriguez kept a Chavist regime in place by simply saying "ok" and waiting for attention to turn elsewhere...

Nope. I lied. This man wins the internet.

This man wins the internet for today.

So much winning. Sad, because the real losers will be the Iranian people, Lebanese civilians, and the average taxpayer. https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-art-of-the-non-deal

How you guys got to an entire Air Wing and expansion to Edmonton International Airport from a single report of an ask by Americans for a potential production line is beyond me. Maybe Elon can put some rockets there as well?

Yes. A FLOT doesn't mean the bad guys are all in front of it. This. I call that a break-away. The Germans never really had a Deep Battle Concept - it was uniquely Soviet. The Soviets did consider deep battle to composed of operational manoeuvre into the enemies depth. I'd say this concept...

Foward Line of Own Troops - A line that indicates the most forward positions of friendly forces in any kind of military operation at a specific time. If a picket line is the most forward position of your element, that is your FLOT.

Even if we wanted to, the urban sprawl is now right up to the base, so I'm not sure a continuous stream of strategic lifters taking off and landing would be appreciated by the locals.

I think it already is with all those new specialized commandos. As well, 40, 42, and 45 abandoned a conventional infantry structure a few years back.

Didn't see this coming. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/june/09/20260609-commando-name-change

Notice the difference in tone between CENTCOM and "proportional response" and Pete Hegseth's bravado of "maximum violence" and "kicking them when they are down."

Izyum fell to the Russians on 1 April 22, after they had managed to cross the Donets river on either side of the city. Aside from some attacks towards Slovyiansk that were parried away by the Ukrainians that month, not much happened there until September. May-Aug 22 is actually a good case...