Originally Posted by
BBadanov
How many beers did you have?
Is there any more advice you want to pass on to the bad actors?
What's with you? Oh I see now, your Irish.
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I think his musings are at least touching a valid point. It appears that more mssiles have gotten through than I (and probably the Israelis as well) would have expected. It appears they were at least roughly hitting where they aimed at, i.e. Iran has sent the message that they can hit dedicated targets in Israel, something that I so far didn't take for granted. Indeed this may help to prevent further escalation since the cost of this has gone up mutually (only then it helps stopping escalation, otherwise there is no hindrance to one side going further and further -cue Russia vs. Ukraine- sad that the 'West' doesn't use this logic there: Fire more missiles into civillian buildings/areas and we'll allow them to ATACAMS/Taurus/SCALP into your Country). That is the way deterrence works - not saying that I'm happy that Iran is able of that -just agreeing to the logic.