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New comment by fastasucan in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fastasucan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:16:30 +0000

Someone is drinking the cool aid.

>Where does that leave Europe?

Where does it leave US without allies?

New comment by fastasucan in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fastasucan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:10:17 +0000

>if we end up in another war.

If you end up in another war.. the coming month? Do you think Trump has had enough? Ans that the coming presidents wont start one?

New comment by fastasucan in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fastasucan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:06:16 +0000

>Iran has been buying and building all of this military infrastructure at the expense of living conditions for its people just for this very attack,

And how much is US spending?

>just for this very attack, only to have almost everything obliterated.

The spending was apparently justified.

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:53:31 +0000

Well, what should people infer from Trump either pleading og trying to threaten for help every other day?

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:46:59 +0000

Wait, are you talking about the US government now?

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:45:05 +0000

Its equally misleading to pretend like the bases have just a couple small benefits for the US. Come on, please. You dont believe it either. Ah yes, the post world war doctrine has been so that the us can have more flexibility. Sure thing. What a waste it has been for European Nations to have sacrificed lives for Americas wars the last decades.

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:35:54 +0000

>What I think would really happen, is the rest of the world would suffer and run out of energy. Not the US.

Then why is it the US that is crying about opening the Strait? You know there are oil produsers outside of the US?

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:33:32 +0000

"Bored", is that what you call thousands killed, a massive national debt and a political minefield?

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:24:51 +0000

This is interesting. Even though its many years ago most of Europe have a big open wound from WWII. That might be a missing ingredient for the american people to be less trigger happy when it comes to bombing other countries. The act of bombing a school full of children would have turned everything on its head in my country.

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:17:20 +0000

If thats important its counter intuitive to show that agreements about not getting any nuklear arms is worth nothing, and wont stop you getting invaded.

New comment by fastasucan in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:13:01 +0000

So you are saying the US has no problems with killing civilians; women and children?

New comment by fastasucan in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:05:57 +0000

Or every student have the books they need, and are free to bring them home.

New comment by fastasucan in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

fastasucan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:54:55 +0000

Usually you have to prove the effect of introducing something new.

New comment by fastasucan in "Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland"

fastasucan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:55:38 +0000

The total weight probably ends in a 0 or a 5.

New comment by fastasucan in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

fastasucan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:58:21 +0000

No the smart meter communicate with the charger.

New comment by fastasucan in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

fastasucan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:56:50 +0000

Many homes in Norway has this. Its a smart plug in your fuse box. For me it offsets EV charging untill the electricity is at its cheapest, it also cuts down on heating for the peak hours etc etc.

New comment by fastasucan in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

fastasucan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:01:30 +0000

>Israel would probably be fine with a moderate government in Iran. A moderate Tehran doesn't encourage Hamas and Hezbollah to randomly lob rockets into Israel.

I don't think they would be happy having a moderate government that could still evolve Iran into a regional leader.

New comment by fastasucan in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

fastasucan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:15:27 +0000

What if they couldn't grt an answer, should they just not publish in that case? And why would they link to the press release, they are not a propaganda office.

New comment by fastasucan in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

fastasucan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:11:42 +0000

I wonder how long it takes (it took?) before Americans think this is how it all should be, and that this is how it is in every country.

New comment by fastasucan in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

fastasucan — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:02:30 +0000

Not maybe, they do. And noone wants their product so expensive that people starts looking for alternatives.