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  • That’s a non sequitur and false equivalence: opposing or supporting both Iran or Israel have little to do with capitalism as a way to govern and tend to be more rooted in self interests. Iran has capitalism as does Israel, now that most kibutzs are in name only it no longer has small scale communism to any real extent either.

    I am not sure what you are responding to as it has been deleted but that really stood out. And as for the last sentiment I can thing of no government or organization that once big and powerful enough hasn’t committed atrocities all the way up to genocide, be it the East India trading companies of the Dutch and British, the many empires through history (including the USSR and US), and all organizations that insulate themselves from criticism and their customers/employees (in the case of companies) or citizens/people (in the case of governments). The west is only notable today compare to most other nations by having more open reporting on what government decisions are being made and their negative impacts leading to more criticism that or more authoritarian regimes. This is typified by the reporting on the Spanish flu during world war 1 where the flu may well have originated in the US and was brought to the trenches killing millions but was reported on openly in the Spanish press while both the Entente and Tripple alliance supressed that news in their respective presses, leading to spain during that time being more representative or the wants of its people than the US, France, the UK, and Italy on the Entente side or Germany, Austria, and Turkey on the other (russia having bowed out by that point to start their civil war).


  • Was it targeting a civilian on densely populated area or was it targetted at a military structure with bunkers and lower density when out in the open during an attack? If it was more the former case it would be closer to the early death toll of Russian missiles striking apartment complexes in Ukraine but with greater destruction. A MOAB has a destructive capacity of approximately 18k lbs of TNT and is usually used in an air burst deployment where as IEDs are more of a small grade explosive used to kill undefended civilians or unsuspecting soldiers or to take out small vehicles.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43%2FB_MOAB?wprov=sfla1