Taking it to another level, there are several cases where people who weren't dying experienced the NDE (ex: Nurses, loved ones at someones bedside, etc). They actually witness what the dying person might have been experiencing when dying.
It's quite interesting to see how much earth is typically above ancient ruins. Cities built upon cities for 1000's of years where a street or building was once at ground level and now is 2-4 stories beneath our modern world.
While visiting Vienna, there are ruins on display in Michaelerplatz (central Old City), so cool.
I've always been confused how this works. Did people shovel soil on top of buildings then build new buildings on that? Why? Did it accumulate naturally perhaps during periods when a site was unoccupied? Would some buildings be higher than their older neighbors, with entrances above street-level until everyone else caught up?
I believe in Rome, it was mostly flooding/alluvial debris. But yeah, sometimes buildings would collapse and they would just build again on top of the ruins.
There definitely are instances of buildings being misaligned.
In my ancestral family home there was a door wat ground level, but originally it had a few steps to get to it; the outside ground had gone up by some 40cm with sediments over a century or so.
In this case, I think not: there's paving stones under the dirt, if the building had sunk those would have to be comparatively higher up (they don't weigh as much) but they still lay at the front of the steps.
(or I should say, laid, sadly the building had to be levelled after an earthquake)
This was the core reason Trump was elected. His MAGA base wanted to see the country burned to the ground. If they couldn't participate in the "American Dream", they didn't want anyone else to either.
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I would encourage all young men and women to avoid the military. Who in their right mind would want their young men and women to serve under this administration. Just avoid the military period, nothing admirable serving a country that doesn't respect democracy and freedom.
I disagree. If this ceasefire had not happened, the US and Israel would bomb all of Iran's electricity and fuel facilities. That's what was supposed to happen today, and is what forced Iran to the negotiating table with an hour to spare. China and Pakistan told Iran to come to the table, and negotiate, because they do not want a collapsed Iran.
Without electricity, there is no modern life. There is no ability to communicate, run a financial economy, pay salaries, etc. Without fuel, there are no logistics; there is no capability to transport an army. Nor is there an ability to transport food; it would cause an enormous civilian crisis, and this would cause massive riots.
Iran would collapse, within a week. It would devolve into factions, and a civil war would start, similar to in Syria.
The US and Israel have been sitting on this card the entire time. They don't want to do it, because it would cause near permanent economic damage to Iran.
Now reason without water, aka Israeli + GCC desalination. Iran with shit water situation is still less existentially water stressed. Iran 5% vs others 80/90%+ dependency on desalination = once Iran demonstrated survivable regional strike complex, they own the top end of escalation ladder that can take out everyone with them while coming out least harmed.
This not to mention, relative to US performance / conemps, i.e. going back to standoff munitions, there's not really enough discretionary high end munitions to take degrade all Iranian infra vs Iran has enough in reserve to take out all regional desalination. Nevermind US expending 1000s more TLAMs / JASSM(ER)s leaving it unprepared for any other near peer conflict. Reminder Iraq was 20% size of Iran, and so far US+Israel only flew ~20% of sorties via Iran than it has Iraq. Even factoring in precision munitions, US would have to expend more munitions than it has to actually cripple Iran on par with Iraq.
they dont want to do that attack, because Iran can still respond in kind, and both Israel and the US have some value in electricity, oil, and water existing around the gulf and in Israel.
if you make Iran pay that war cost ahead of time, what are you gonna negotiate for after?
Navel Defense? Missile Shields? Good luck with that....
They would be better off building bunkers that can house millions of people for the population to retreat into (at least in Cities). Is the US Military that inept that they don't see what war has become? It's basically streaming live from Ukraine.
If there is one thing I have noticed is that big military powers can be stopped and exhausted by much smaller countries using off the shelf tech. America still needs to learn that lesson and Iran might be the place where it happens....
I find it interesting the Trump thinks he can walk away from this. He shit the bed and now wants everyone to sleep in it. I don't know what kind of pressure the Gulf States can exert on him, but I believe they are in a position to economically harm the USA. I believe there will be a ground war and the poor bastards that have to carry it out should be watching every Ukrainian drone video they can. Like Zaluzhnyi said, War is not what the West thinks it is, the machines will eat them alive.
The EU is already preparing if Orban is re-elected. They are working on 5 different options with the last one being Hungary ejected from the EU. Highly unlikely but they still have it as an option. What is incredible is they have a state that is doing everything it can to give Russia control over all of Europe and they seem almost indifferent.
Indifference is the right word. America thinks Europe is one country. In reality my country has had no economic or cultural ties with Hungary since the Roman empire and couldn't care less.
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