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Yeah, which means Iran cannot give up it's nuclear program at any cost.

I mean, they don't, and that was a large motive around the Arab spring in Egypt. But the current state has an iron grip and the populace was exhausted and scared of what happened to Libya and Syria (ignoring that the revolts were very different there, and very different from each other)

I mean given the nature of the strike, I cannot imagine what they can do in response other than declare war formally, other than if maybe they can take out Israels upper cabinet in response? Missiles wont cut it this time.

One issue is that Russia has not been able to supply them with sufficient air defence for reasons that are kind of obvious.

I'd point out Lebanon is secular but has political roles reserved specifically to Shia (and Sunni, and Christian)

I know the various middle eastern states have differing views and are hopelessly compromised, but surely, at some point they have to realise none of them are safe while Israel continues its irredentist stance! They're a mad dog at this point that flout even their close allies, and I'm shocked that a coalition hasn't been formed. Does MBS and Erdogan really think Israel won't come for them the moment they find something shiny they want?

Yeah, this is a generally BK made car, like how the Holden brand were typically variants of GM cars (except for the late model Commodores where it was the other way round and became the Pontiac G8)

Could have just made the bear hexagonal and saved effort.

A lot of people will crash offline. the rest will silo into forums like this one, using search engines that use old methodologies. It'll be like 1998 again.

Different protests are for different things. Often several at once. Sometimes they are a petition (protests in China often are an appeal to the central government against corrupt local actions)

Some are for awareness as you said. Others to build a movement or test organisational capacity. Some are a threat, if you can get a million people to show up every day for a week you can get 10% to show with a rifle.

Finally some are deliberate attempts at escalation. To force the state to expend moral and physical energy against it, to push it to the point of having to show that it's ultimate justification for existing is violence against the working classes. These are the ones that Andor mentions as "breaking the banks" of the state.

And that's the primary purpose of these protest, to force the state to act against a wide swathe of those it nominally protects. LA will burn, but it will burn very brightly.

I'm afraid the post 2020 crisis is more of a 1905 scenario. But there are worse places to be than 1905

I mean, it's gonna suck for the protesters but this is just the sort of over-escalation we want to provoke. Outside of ICE being kicked out it's the best outcome.