[knorker]

> It likely wouldn't be kinetic, but nukes didn't stop us from chipping away at the Soviet Union.

So all it stops is kinetic attacks? Do you not think that's a big deal? I'm pretty sure Iran and Khamenei think that's a big deal.

What do you mean by "How does that factor in here right now?"?

It pretty obviously does. How does it NOT?

> I don't buy the public story that this is about regime change.

They had Khamenei killed.

But this is also a topic very different from the nukes one.