Sometimes there are only paywalled links discussing particular topics that are interesting.

These aren’t even remotely comparable. Iraq had 70s Soviet technology, while Afghanistan didn’t even have that. These are precisely the kinds of wars the US military is configured for where the opponent can’t hit back. Iran is technologically on par with the US, and even surpasses it in some areas like hypersonic weapons. The US has no equivalent to Iranian drones either which it’s forced to intercept with multi million dollar missiles. We can already see how Iran has been able to hit US assets all over the region, and the US can’t do a thing about it.

If you look at the size of Iran it becomes quite obvious that the US can’t possibly bomb enough of it to even make a dent in Iran’s industrial capacity. This is going to be a war of attrition with Iran fighting on its home turf while the US is forced to ship what meager weapons it’s still able to produce all the way across the ocean.

Not to mention that Iran also has land routes to both Russia and China that go through friendly territory. So it will be getting all the material support it needs, the same way Ukraine currently gets support from NATO.

The US hasn’t been in an actual war since Vietnam. There’s a lot of mythology that’s been built up that leads people to think that American power is invincible, but now we’re seeing it actually tested by an adversary that can fight back. I don’t think we’ll be seeing any triumph of the will here. Material reality always wins and it’s not on America’s side this time around.

huh?

It would’ve been through the API access, so they’d get paid.

I guess we’ll likely know in a month or so how this all develops.

I think the reason they’re making noise is cause they want to make a case to ban Chinese models entirely. Right now they have a problem that Chinese models are open and anybody can download and run their own version. That directly undermines the whole business model of providing them as a service. I bet they’re going to try and argue that since DeepSeek and other Chinese companies stole their IP, these models are now illegal and can’t be used in the US.

It’s entirely possible that there’s going to be a mass uprising against US backed regimes in the region. Any regime that openly allies with Israel isn’t going to last long.

Target the depots and destroy them with artillery.

When you definitely understand how artillery works. 🤣

Again, not clear how the US plans to neutralize long range missile capability of Iran.

Iran has firm support from Russia and China with supply lines running through friendly territory. Russia alone outproduces all of NATO militarily right now by a factor of three. Iran itself has a large industrial base, and can outproduce the US in things like missile production. It’s obvious that the logistics for the US are far worse than they are for Iran here. I also don’t really see Iran lacking in friends at all. It’s pretty clear they’re getting a lot of economic and military support from both Russia and China.

Also, this might be a surprise for you, but Iran can choose which ships they allow to sail through the strait of Hormuz the same way Yemen allowed Chinese and Russian ships to sail through Suez.

The Iranian military will be able to produce missiles long after the US military loses its capacity to do so because China isn’t blocking rare earths supplies from Iran like they are form the US. The Americans have no meaningful capacity to produce critical inputs themselves.

NATO spent a huge chunk of their existing stock piles in Ukraine over past four years, and their production capacity is laughably low. Once the US runs through its missile supplies in the next few weeks, it’s not clear what options they have at that point.

Meanwhile, if you think that the US is going to break up political face of Iran by bombing then you’re absolutely delusional. There’s been no single conflict in history where this actually happened, and Iran will certainly not going to be the first here.

You quite literally have no clue regarding the subject you’re opining on here.

reverse engineering this stuff is pretty challenging unfortunately

How would that happen exactly? Look at Ukraine, Russia’s been bombing it for four years now, and Iran is three times the size. There’s no realistic scenario where Iran can be defeated in a quick war here.

For most use cases though, you don’t really have much of a benefit of running Linux over Android on a phone though. There’s enough Linux compatibility on Android already to make it work seamlessly with your Linux devices. In my opinion, as long as the stack is open source and well supported, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s Android or Linux based.

Where are they going to purchase them from though is the question. The US was barely able to produce any, and that was before China cut off rare earths supply.

It would’ve been a cool world if we got Linux that could work seamlessly between desktop and mobile. Imagine if you had architecture where apps were built as services with an API, and then you could connect either desktop or mobile UI to them. Heck, at that point you could even make custom UIs across apps, or pipe them together the way you do with shell scripts. And then you could also have a device like a phone which has all your apps and data, and you could plug it into a dock with more memory, GPU, etc. So, you wouldn’t have to juggle a bunch of devices and sync data between them.

You can install Google app store in a container, and all the apps I’ve used work fine on it out of the box. It absolutely works fine as a daily driver.

I’d argue that Graphene is a better thing since it’s based on an OS that’s been designed for mobile from the ground up. I expect it’s going to be a while before Linux UX on mobile catches up to desktop, but Graphene works great already.

I just got a Pixel 9 last week and put GrapheneOS on it. Couldn’t be happier with it so far. The install was completely painless using web installer. All my apps worked out of the box. Google Store works fine in the sandbox. UX is good, and you don’t have any of the crap Google normally loads like all the adaptive services, and all the other junk that runs in the background.

The Burger Reich isn’t much better at producing missiles than it is at producing artillery shells. Perhaps you don’t understand that artillery shells are much easier to produce than missiles, and if you can’t even produce the former you have no hope of producing the latter in any quantity?

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/iran-weapons-trump-troops-defense-00797801

You sound like an utter ignoramus.

I expect it will go as long as Iran decides it needs to go. They control the escalation here.