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The term "genocide" was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in his book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe". His definition described, either the destruction of a nation, or ethnic cleansing. You are accusing Israel of the latter...

The late night comics have been running wild with this one: I think all of them have run multiple montages of guys like Markwayne chastising reporters for calling the war a "war." followed by tons of clips of Trump & Hegseth calling it a war...

i'm guessing the same reason that Korea was a military action and not a war. because Congress had not declared war?

If it's not a war, why does Iran need to "surrender?" https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116182551337254643

U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September, according to a...

Many of the systems the military uses to collect and process intelligence data, analyze it, develop target lists, and pass that data to commanders in the field are already so highly automated that "AI" is matter of semantics in some cases. The...

re. CNN article: If this follows the crashed UFO / retrieval & RE program / biologics narratives, this would be four sources all reporting on rumors flying around the DoD. The sources were "briefed on the matter" - they don't claim to have seen...

"I was just following orders"? But you’d have to get rid of the JAGs.. And allow AI to take actions that violate laws of war or perhaps constitutional rights, and to conduct surveillance. Wait a minute…

I wonder if AI will become a way for humans to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions, a "plausible deniability" tool.

This may be the first war where AI makes kill decisions.

(Edited to add: Spent ages compiling this- I see @NorCal Dave has already covered some of the same ground in post #127, apologies for any redundancy by me). This wouldn't rule out many other possible causes of cognitive impairment, or changed...

I'm assuming that the joint chiefs of staff and Marco Rubio (and maybe Hegseth) got together and had that discussion and made the plan that was then executed. And then there were people tasked with explaining this plan to Donald Trump, who, given...

There are no children claiming they saw a flying object land. They only saw a landed object. Cynthia Hinds paraphrased some children she interviewed over the weekend using phrases like that they saw "a small 'white-looking' object land about 100...

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you mean a bunch of people sitting behind their computers instead of going out there and looking for him? I highly doubt she cares. Or whoever wrote the post cares. I'm not reprimanding you, I certainly don't expect you to fully understand what...