Instead of sending them to jail, which is bad but they would at least have a roof and food, they will probably take their sleeping gear on cold days to make sure not all survive. Then they will probably still try to blame it on anyone trying to help the homeless, as can be expected from fascists.

is just not something that Iran would ever do, for religious and moral reasons.

That is a good point.

Perhaps Iran could find a middle ground between nukes and doing nothing of the sort, like destroying all power generation of the colonists next time sothing happens or even iradiating oil wells, or just holding the US responsible for the colonists attacks because if they are already sending missiles to one nuclear armed entity they might as well send to two.!?

Either way, this attack has shown that they can and will do something, but how much they are willing to do against the imperialists is indeed still an open question.

It would be very interesting to see Germany get couped, leading it to be more subservient to the US and leading to its, and Europe's, faster breakdown.

lol

Hadn't thought about this but now I'm wondering what else was projection.

I admit things would change if Russia could suppress entirely or nearly entirely France’s nuclear strike capability and say air-burst a nuclear weapon outside Paris to intentionally cause an EMP effect to bring down the power grid and electronics but not directly kill that many people.

The first part is what I was just thinking about as well. Avoiding a nuclear strike by using conventional strikes while striking nukes to really send the message, and if they can destroy enough of if it they can just say that MAD doesn't work between them anymore and ask for terms for peace, like France getting out of NATO or something like that.

But about the EMP that could be a good idea, specially considering the damage that could cause to the EU's economy if it destroys many factories and such. Althou I'm not sure how much damage it would do to nearby countries as I think the it needs to be blown up quite high up and has a big range but I might be mistaken.

Though I am unsure conventional weapons will do anything but make Macron angry, it may be the the fact we are that the point that only a nuclear illustration will sober the west and Macron may be so deranged he will only double down in the face of that and use French nuclear weapons.

Russia kind of has to use nukes here because if they don't NATO is just going to increase troops to Ukraine little by litte and will obviously use Ukraine, at first, and their own forces later to attack inside Russia as well, but will Russia really do it? Or at least something close to it?

I remember them not doing much when the colonialists used one of Russia's planes as a shield to attack Syria. They did get the colonialists to stop attacking the north of Syria after that I think but will they continue not doing much in this case too or will they finally show where the red line is?

I'd guess, if they can indeed project power there, it would mostly be the ships coming from the middle east itself. Unless they got long range drones or a submarine that we don't know about.

Frankly in the face of the neocons I suspect there can be no peace, without such a show of force as a limited nuclear strike at minimum

This is an interesting possibility for avoiding WWIII, but what kind of target would be hit?

Breaking the frontlines wouldn't really be possible I think especially with Russia's own troops nearby, so perhaps an attack against a logistics base behind the frontline or even going for the NATO countries' base far at the rear so NATO couldn't say they got attacked in their own territories?

Another possibility could be a nuclear attack against the first country Russia engages with, but I'm not sure they would do that.

then how would continuing to stay and waste resources

Never forget that the bourgeoisie is being paid a lot for those resources and I doubt the politicians that serve them and also take some profit from this are in any hurry to stop.

Go pigs! Gooo!!

Does anyone know any good resources on the drone war in Ukraine or some good write ups on battles using them?

I haven't actually checked much about the war since the second day but was interested in advancements made there.

They have so much that such an attack doesn't cost them much, it might even give some people some votes, plus there are other things beyond money and resources to look at, like how they want to be "seen as capable" or how these people probably believe their own propaganda after repeating it for so long.