The counter to this is that Iran could have — emphasis on could — built up such a massive ballistic missile arsenal and impenetrable latent nuclear weapons program that this in itself is almost as effective as a nuclear deterrent against Israel. The evidence of this is the unprecedented damage that their missiles have had on Israeli society and infrastructure, all of which has been reinforced by Israeli military efforts to censor the reporting on the seemingly large-scale damage of these missile barrages. Still, a functioning Iranian nuclear weapons program might have deterred this fighting from ever happening in the first place — or it could have actually led to nuclear war 🤷

Last point! But amid reports of intensifying Israeli military censorship of video/imagery of damage from Iranian missile barrages, the videos that are now managing to come out show that Israeli missile defenses are not working. These defenses might be starting to outright fail, actually. The strikes appear to be ongoing and seemingly unstoppable. This was reportedly captured by the crew of an Indian naval or shipping vessel

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Empirical learning today: Iron or gold domes are expensive strainers.

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Totally agree. Technology evolves too fast to invest in this stuff, it seems

I have no idea about military stuff, but evolution looks pretty slow. Basically still throwing big exploding stuff at each other. The promise of "domes" to prevent the big stuff to reach its target looks like a fantasy, as shown by the scary videos shared this past week.

Domes seem pitched as valid protection, but they at best reduce casualties.

Actual diplomacy and real "give and take" attitude looks like the only way to have zero casualty. A dome of reason.