> The only military option is a nuclear strike.
oh really? Have you seen Top Gun 2 guys?
oh really? Have you seen Top Gun 2 guys?
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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Just one engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality. 🚀
How it worked 👇
github.blog/ai-and-ml/gene…
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Хочу купить клавиатуру hhkb. Будете меня отговаривать или ну нафиг? (У меня уже штуки три клавиатуры)
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Эти двое женаты уже 8 (восемь, Карл) лет! Да, мы устроили свадьбу, чтобы выпить пивасика красиво 🍻
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Мало кто знает, но @Bandcamp это благодать, снизошедшая в эти наши интернеты с небес.
Пользуясь случаем, передаю привет году 2007, городу Красноярск и группе Кожаный Мöтöр.
Под них был самый крутой угар на концертах и одни из самых костюмированных мошпитов.
Пользуясь случаем, передаю привет году 2007, городу Красноярск и группе Кожаный Мöтöр.
Под них был самый крутой угар на концертах и одни из самых костюмированных мошпитов.
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> launch it from ~/Downloads which does break some stuff
What? What’s wrong with that? What does it brake?
What? What’s wrong with that? What does it brake?
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Вы переезжаете в квартиру поболбше, чтобы было просторнее с ребёнком?
Дада именно это, а большая стена под проектор это просто совпадение!
Дада именно это, а большая стена под проектор это просто совпадение!
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Two pieces of computing history just met.
Commodore is returning to phones, and it chose Sailfish OS to do it. The Commodore Callback 8020 is a flip phone built for stepping away from the feed: privacy designed in, your data kept yours.
The brand that brought computing into e 1980s, now running on the only independent European mobile OS. Built on a shared belief: technology should give people control, not take it.
Read more: commodore.net/callback/
Press release (in Finnish 🇫🇮): sttinfo.fi/tiedote/721414…
Press release (in English 🇬🇧): jolla.com/content/upload…
#Jolla #SailfishOS #commodore #callback #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European
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Прага, купи ПС4! Провода, геймпады и несколько дисков в комплекте
Базовая версия 500гб, не слим
Серый геймпад - лимитка на 20 лет пс
3000кч
Базовая версия 500гб, не слим
Серый геймпад - лимитка на 20 лет пс
3000кч
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Excited to share our most powerful new Claude Code feature: dynamic workflows!
Mention "workflow" in a prompt and Claude will dynamically create an orchestration plan that it strictly follows, allowing you to confidently trust that every stage happens in the right order even across 100s of agents.
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Так, я специально листал до этого твита с историей!
У нас с @gingy_love тоже была такая же козявка из пакета с помойки Пряня (#прянес), которую мы кормили из шприца.
Так вот, удачи, это офигенно что ты её взял!
У нас с @gingy_love тоже была такая же козявка из пакета с помойки Пряня (#прянес), которую мы кормили из шприца.
Так вот, удачи, это офигенно что ты её взял!
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guess what? you wouldn’t even have this “slow startup” problem in the first place if you hadn’t brought fucking react into terminal.
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1. Я их достал, но в хорошем смысле. Мне дали сроки, когда должно быть готово
2. В КОНЦЕ АПРЕЛЯ
2. В КОНЦЕ АПРЕЛЯ
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