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Yeah, but there aren't that many Shia and most of the Shia that might like the regime already live near the region. Hence why they can have regional militias but not real international reach, unlike the Sunni terrorist groups.
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Which is a massive ringing endorsement for open borders.



Iran doesn't really have that much reach to get support from Muslims broadly. They originally posted the message in Persian, which is a limited regional language at this point, and represent a minority of Muslims in terms of sect. Iranians outside of Iran, unlike other countries, generally tend to be very secular.
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They are saying he was summoned because Iranian comments were geared toward stirring up the Muslims in the UK



Specifically Iranians. This is the second time in as many months that the Iranian ambassador to the UK has been summoned.
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they appear to have no had to play against our superior military


No, they've been preparing for a long time. The mosaic defense and the degree of independence each command has is something unlike other regional actors and more like Western militaries. Their goal is just survival. Their calculation is that they can survive the window of US interest in the region, given Trump's attention span.
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Argentina has less military power now than they did then.



And they do not have an interest in taking their military seriously, given the fact that they still haven't really fixed their budget issues, their procurement issues nor their training issues. They are a long way away from projecting power to even the Falklands. Literally everything the tards say about Europe in terms of their defense spending is actually true of Argentina.

They have no pressing geopolitical need that actually drives interest in the military at the societal level.
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On the other hand, in the Fortress Americas future, why let the Caliphate keep/get their foot in the door via Falklands



In this scenario, which is not really going to happen, the UK would already have unfettered access to the North Atlantic. Nothing in terms of what allowed the UK to become a preeminent seapower, in geopolitical terms, has changed other than the UK becoming a junior partner to the US. As in, they still have freedom to access the Atlantic with no way to limit that access, in contrast to a state like China.

The US and UK competed in that exact area when both were ostensibly aligned along cultural ties. In this supposed scenario of some caliphate, or any mildly competitive UK, why wouldn't the same hold true? I'm not understanding the belief that the Falklands is some sort of lynchpin to Western Hemisphere security. No one believes that.
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“Even under a very optimistic scenario” regarding a peace deal, the outlook is “just prolonged weakness and hardships for the people rather than recovery,” she added.



This is absolutely true, but until people acknowledge that the IRGC has a cosmic goal, nothing is going to happen or change.
No. Brazil actually has a burgeoning defense sector (which could, with the right investment, could eventually compete with the likes of Turkey and South Korea) and the Brazilians and the Argentinians have worked together on several projects. They are also on the same side with regards to the Falklands, but even then, Argentina doesn't really seem to possess the capability to project power that far, and I don't think the Brazilians would go so far as to ally directly in such a potential situation.

The truth is that Argentina has no pressing international security issues, or rather, security issues which require them to actually take procurement seriously.
The basis of the reading and writing and even math should be direct instruction. The limit is training of teachers, which is why I don't think we will see wide adoption for a good bit.
Lol. Argentina is like two procurement cycles away from actually being competent and even then, there is no guarantee. The same problems that you tards accuse of Europe is actually true of Argentina. Years of underfunding, failed procurement, and almost no attention paid to the military in Argentine society makes it a much more complicated problem than simply 'arming' them.
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Spain succumbed to the same tolerance mentality hundreds of years ago.


That is an absolutely wild take on Spanish medieval history. It's also incredibly wrong. Tolerance had nothing to do with it.
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if early symptoms go unrecognized and/or undiagnosed, your type of pathology does not allow for negative long term side effects of a drug or vaccine?


No. I am saying that there will be evidence of damage at the cellular level now even if in this hypothetical, there are some long-term effects. There are limited methods by which the human body eliminates toxic insults, and thus characteristic patterns of injury. I am saying that if you proclaim there are going to be long-term effects of one vaccination cycle, the evidence for such claims will already exist in the body.
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what type of pathology are you referencing? be specific please.



As in, the patterns of cellular injury do not hide themselves so that symptoms only appear years later. That is not the way things work. If the vaccine was the cause of long-term injury, you would see characteristic injury patterns and those patterns would be directly linked to a symptomology. Let's take nephrotic syndromes. Without getting into too much detail, structural damage to kidney tissue leads directly to measurable lab values (such as hyperproteinuria), which has other symptomatic effects that result from the original cellular injury (as in, edema, hypercoagulable states, vitamin D deficiency, thyroxine deficiency, etc.).

It is exceedingly rare (and I hedge here only because medicine is so voluminous) that there is a toxic insult that is so quiescent that it appears on nothing, not blood work, not biopsy, not scans, and then suddenly would. It isn't the way the pathological mechanisms of the body work.
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Well what she is saying is that there have been 3 such cases across the US in the past week (two in Arizona and one in Ohio (I think?)) that were attributed to a fungal infection that has a less than 1% fatality rate and almost all of those deaths occur in elderly immunocompromised individuals.


Again, it depends on the actual cases. There are several scenarios I can think (such as immune injury when young, chronic infection, co-infection, genetic disorders, immune dysfunction, vague symptomology which hides how serious the infection actually is and on and on) that could potentially cause death in young people from fungal infections. Without a detailed history, it is impossible to ascertain the cause in a definitive sense.

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So what's someone supposed to think when the official "cause of death" is obvious bullshite?



I mean, you aren't required to have an opinion on every little thing. Society might demand that we have disparate events fit into narrow worldviews, but in the spectrum of human experience, this has likely happened somewhere someplace before. The difference now is that we hear about it and can discuss it when we are far removed from the actual situation.

I can understand the notion that perhaps this is linked to something insidious, but until we see the pathology in each individual case and actually investigate, there is no way to actually link these together in a meaningful way.

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at worst there could be some downstream medical problems?


This is not the way pathology works.
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I just noted that people like yourself would dismiss her opinion based on her being a nurse


Well, part of the issue is that nurses and doctors are trained differently. If I was trying to convince people that the vaccine was the cause of some condition, the way you would structure arguments, present evidence, gather data has to be a particular standard. Ultimately, it has to result in a consistent, reproducible symptomology. Everyone is free to make the style of argument which would most convince other people in the field, but they don't. The work, on a sentence level, is generally sloppy and when they do try to do a mimicry of the type of that argument structure, they give themselves away with wild statements which no serious person would make. Here, she makes no attempt to even reach that standard and just dismisses the stated reason outright. Why should I even take her argument seriously, without knowing anything about the patient?
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TigerDoc, crazy4covid and onmydeigrind will be here shortly to tell you the Covid vaccine is the best medicine ever made



You could put me on my arse at any time and post the histopathology. Or start another thread about how much I hurt your feelings little dude.
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But this is not the action of a neutral country.



We are neutral with respect to the Falklands issue. But we are far closer allies with the British. We have no such association with the Argentines and likely won't in the future.
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even lending them ships iirc.


We did not.
Yeah dude. Either stop menstruating and stay on topic or continue whining that you misread my initial post so thoroughly that now I think you are retarded.
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We are now in 2026 and I'm wondering if you can provide a list of what Great Britain has provided the United States over the past 250 years in terms of either defense or any other action that has been a significant benefit to the United States


Well, the US and the UK have not been allies for that stretch. For a long time, they were our main competition in North America as well as the North Atlantic. They also served as a barrier to entry to Mediterranean politics. The fact that the North Atlantic is no longer an area where the US has to expend resources against the UK is a massive win. Working together in the North Atlantic (which really occurred once the UK retreated from North America to focus on other possessions) has been so central to American foreign policy that even a policy of competing in the Arctic is based on assuming that the North Atlantic is not an area where the US has to needlessly expend anything.

Again, if we want a world where we are not allied with the UK, and instead we compete with them, that is a situation where the externalities are worse than what we have right now. Why would anyone willingly cast aside the UK if the UK is one procurement cycle away from competing with the US again?