#minefield

Israel has been at war with Iran since October 7th when an Iranian proxy, Hamas, attacked them. On October 8th, an Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, began to fire rockets into Israel. Then the Houthis, another Iranian proxy, began to attack shipping and also Israel.

Now, what has happened since then is Israel has eliminated those threats, they -- I was going to say de-balled, but decapitated Hezbollah, they dealt with the threat of Hamas and they are now in a position to deal with the threat they've always been concerned about.

Now, why is Israel so concerned about this? Well first of all, Iran has been saying for a very long time, they don't want regime change in Israel, they want the state of Israel not to exist. Now, think about the fact that in the post-October 7 world, they cannot take the risk that they're "only enriching uranium to 60% because they want to threaten to have a nuclear weapon." That is not something they can do.

And by the way Piers, there's something that people don't seem to understand about. You know, we struggle in the west, I really do think we all struggle in the west, to understand the fundamentalist mindset. And let me give you an example of what the regime in Iran is like so that we can all understand what the threat here is.

After the Islamic revolution happened in Iran in '79, the war broke out between Iran and Iraq. And in that war, Iran was at a disadvantage. It was militarily backward, it wasn't financially able to deal with that. You know what they did? They attempted to mitigate that by recruiting as many child soldiers as they could. We don't know how many because they didn't bother to count, but it's hundreds of thousands.

And because some of them were too young and too weak to fight, they didn't send them to the front line. They sent them to sweep minefields with their own bodies. That is what this regime does.

Now, if those people are willing to do that to their own children - 9, 10, 11, 12 year olds - what do you think they would do to the children of their enemies if they get a nuclear weapon or if they get close to-- or if they're allowed to continue funding proxies around the Middle East in order to attack Israel as they've already done.

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day 25: favorite friendship, i love Prototype and Scag so much they're probably my fav friendship in any game i know :3 credits to @lilalienz4ever for the original drawing down below, they make really cute alien drawings