Underrated comment. A lot of people don't realize it's only about money and always has been; the kleptocrats ruining this country only care about one thing: line must go up

Third hand info, but I heard on a podcast a few months back that the building had been an irgc hideout... like 10 months prior. With the administration's complete knob-gobbling of AI, and no assets on the ground to provide updated intel, it's likely that the AI said "shoot that one", no one bothered to check before pushing the button, and the fathers and brothers of 150 little girls became all the more radicalized against the US.

So I wrote that, then decided to do more research than the DOD did and double-check things.

It's worse than I wrote.

It was an IRGC building adjacent to an IRGC compound... in 2016. (the podcaster misspoke and said months instead of years)

[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying](This article from The Guardian) details it quite well.

The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.

Ooooo....a one stop shop!

See: GPU and RAM manufacturing.

And the Democrat who's elected will be at best a centrist DINO who won't do anything to move the needle, playing into the eventuality of a Trump 3.0.

I will never not use the opportunity to post this: https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:

First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.

This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.

And, sure enough, here we are now with a Democrat in the White House. Following their Two Santas strategy, Republicans are again squealing about the national debt and refusing to raise the debt ceiling, imperiling Biden’s economic recovery as well as his Build Back Better plans.

And, once again, the media is covering it as a “Biden Crisis!” rather than what it really is: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s and 1990s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.

Things are so bleak my mind automatically answered "decoy conscripts."

In this particular case it'll probably be something we already have just cheaper and more specified. Personally my money is on automated AA designed for drones specifically using relatively cheap parts and firing cheap munitions like small caliber rounds to detonate drone payloads. Will probably still cost a hundred bucks or two but that's well within acceptable costs if they work well enough.

Drones work both ways. If the attackers are using drones in the US, what stops the US from using drones in the attacking nations? If anything, it's even more of a reason not to attack. China in particular wouldn't want to deal with what Ukraine is doing to Russia. So many high value industrial targets to bomb. A few bombs in Shenzhen and the production capacity that's lost by people escaping the city is mind boggling.

But the thing to consider is that the defending nation doesn't need to be an economic powerhouse, the attacking ones do. You could cripple the US's economy and more than likely they wouldn't give up fighting... whereas if you're on the attacking side and your economy is damaged, people will start asking why the war is even necessary.

Whoa!

How the hell did you leaped from a discussion about "could NATO without the US defend Europe from a Russian attack on it" to "Europe attacking Russia"???!

I don't know which hole that Russia-Propaganda-favorite strawman was pulled out of, but it stinks and has nothing to do with the point that was being made, either by me or in my understanding by anybody before me.

All of a sudden it's like the charge of the tankie brigade around here.

NATO was a cold war alliance, so it's been on shaky ground since 1993. And the fact that it dances to US interests, and the US is plain that their interests might override European ones, is just becoming more obvious because Trump is too stupid to lie well.

People forget now, but original support for Ukraine against Russia started under Obama (Euromaiden had lots of US support), and the wide open support under Biden.

Trump I, while more hesitant, also supported Ukraine, and has often been foolish enough to remove restrictions the Democrats had on them. Remember his first impeachment was due to putting conditions on the military aid he was sending to Ukraine (pre-invasion).

The october surprise should be fun. And by "fun" I mean "what the fuck is it now?"

Cue Micro Rube-io clamoring for the dismantling of the ICC and ratcheting up his "international left-wing antifa terrorist" rhetoric to not only go after anyone left of MAGA, but also cancel the midterms by declaring a state of emergency due to "terrorism".

I don't doubt it but it's the big orange idiot in charge. That does randomize it a bit. I mean what's kept him from making stupid decisions so far?