limonfiesta

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If anyone bothered to read the article, it's not nearly as stupid as it sounds. That's not to say it's a good idea, just that not nearly as dumb as people are making it out to be.

It's designed specifically to handle multiple callers who are calling about existing/known incidents, as a tool to relieve human operators, and simply gather additional details, or provide information to the callers.

So while I can't say that I'm in favor of it, the actual scope of deployment is much different than what the headline would have you believe.

You keep misunderstanding me.

Iran is deploying the exact same anti-air defense strategies that were developed on the battlefield of Ukraine.

That is smart, they we're not trying to not reinvent the wheel.

But it also means that the headline is misleading as it was not them who developed the strategy, or "figured" it out.

It's just a bad headline, which I was calling attention to, but it's not something I would normally devote multiple comments to, so this is my last one.

I read the article and wasn't trivializing their accomplishment.

But that has nothing to do with the editorial choices of The Intercept and the misleading nature of that headline, which is what my comment was directed at.

It's the exact same strategy that has been used by both Ukraine and Russia for years now.

The only difference is that instead of America providing Ukraine their ISR, conducting BDAs, etc., it's China and/or Russia providing those intelligence services to the Iranians.

I understand the changing dynamics of war unleashed in Ukraine, I'm commenting on the subject of the article you posted.

The headline makes it sound like it was some mystery that had yet to be solved, or a problem that hadn't already been figured out.

Defeating enemy air defense is not a state secret.

It just requires a technologically capable military with good ISR and healthly munition stockpiles.

Destroy radars, launch saturation attacks, and persistence.

Some specific weapons may have better, or worse, hit rates due to their technological capabilities, or limitations, but that's not what the strategy ultimately relies on.

As someone who generally supports the decriminalization and legalization of vices, the most persuasive argument I've heard against full drug legalization was that it would open a corporate gold rush to develop the most addictive drugs possible.

Well, that's basically what we have now with legalized gambling.

I'm not a gambler, but I supported gambling legalization, and now we have a corporate gold rush to gamify life and create the most addictive forms of gambling ever seen.

I'm not saying we should recriminalize it, but there needs to be serious reform, such as banning prediction markets and prop bets.

I'd even be open to limiting what types of bets can be made online, such as only allowing parlays to be placed inside an actual brick and mortar sportsbook or casino.