Today's nugget: C++ constructors in C

 


Can't be used for allocating on the heap, though. 

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 2 different camera angles of Vahdati air base getting bombed into the stone ages got lions wondering if they got a tip that the Ayatollah was there.  Sadly another case of bombing the organized military when the threat is drones launched from minivans.

The idea of bombing power plants over the straight or Hormuz struck lions as a bluff.  It would create a humanitarian crisis & they would just bomb the living daylights out of Tel Aviv in return.  The enemy still has access to the airspace.

Assumptions were made about the strength of the Iranian regime after the uprisings of December.  In reality, the regime was nowhere as close to falling.  Trump went in assuming it was another Saddam Hussein with no drones, no effective missiles, barely hanging on after his people revolted.

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On Monday, as predicted, it was a bluff.  Now framed as Iran seeking a peace deal. A ceasefire & return in 10 years a la operation Iraqui freedom, when US is better equipped to deal with drones & escort tankers, sounds like a good idea.

 The media was a lot more receptive to the weapons of mass destruction concept than it was in 2003.  But the whole thing was handled disastrously compared to 2003.  A case of planning on a quick in & out, not positioning any assets to deal with what happened later.

 

 

 

  

 

 

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