We have THAAD
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King Arts
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Excuse me but so fucking what? We aren’t responsible for Israeli funding. They can pay for Iron dome itself. We should not be paying for their security we should pay for ours.
Uh, you do know this wasn't about funding Iron Dome, which is already funded and operational in Israel.
This was about the US purchasing Iron Dome systems for ourselves.
Doomsought
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The fucked up situation around Israel made it a very good testing ground for active defense systems. Part of me wonders if that is part of the reason that politics blocks permanent solutions for the shit show.
DarthOne
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...that would make a disturbing amount of sense.
Last I heard THAAD is...well, it's crap.
Iron Dome has had far more effort and time put into it. It's smarter to just take Iron Dome itself.
It's outside of the parameters of Iron Dome to intercept most of the stuff THAAD and other long range systems are designed to do. It's great that Iron Dome can intercept rockets that are flying predictable paths and there's obviously a place for it in defense but it'd be silly to just think "Oh the Israeli system is good enough. Lets ditch THAAD for 'reasons.'"
You don't need to ditch THAAD. But THAAD is not good at what Iron Dome does. Which is short range interception.
THAAD is better long range
King Arts
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Ahh ok I misread what it was about my fault sorry. Yeah if the Israelites are willing to sell us iron domes we should buy I hear they are pretty good.
I'm not contesting that. I'm saying that for short-range threats, you want Iron Dome. Even if we just fold that into a future THAAD system, that's fine. It's just insane to not admit that Israel has a good defensive system. One that we should acquire, even if it's not actual hardware, but just knowledge. There is no better tested system of this sort than Iron Dome.
I mean, I don't think we should be subsidizing Israel's defense for $1 billion a year--but I also don't want to defund them because the Squad is butthurt that they fired back on Palestinian terrorists.
Arch Dornan
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You are right, there is no better tested system
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Hunter Biden asked for $2m, 'success fees' to unfreeze Libyan assets
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Can't wait for the FBI to ignore this
If you're going to use a source the Daily Fail is just about the worst one you can cite.
Satire sites which just make shit up typically present things more accurately than they do.