qaz@lemmy.worldM to NonCredibleDiplomacy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-225 days agoOperation Desert Blunderlemmy.worldimagemessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1360arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·25 days agoWell, they know that the UN won’t ever accept it. That part is not honest. The idea that it is to recover the loses is also not fully honest. If it was to recover the loses, the tool would have an expiration date. Currently, the US destroyed the international law, so there’s no reason for Iran to obey it alone. But pretending the toll satisfies it isn’t honest.
minus-squareTrippingBalls@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-225 days agoHow do you even begin to estimate the losses Iran incurred, cost of rebuilding and opportunity cost lost
minus-squarereal_squids@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoYou can ask Ukraine. They’ll tell Iran to go fuck themselves but there are outside agencies who specialize in that sort of thing too edit: ofc they can estimate it themselves, too
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoyou hire very good econometrists who make very bad models because the best macroeconomic model (that doesn’t venture into woo immeasurable bullshit) is only 60% accurate.
minus-squarereal_squids@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days ago the US destroyed the international law Stolen valor. That shit has been destroyed so many times by many other actors
minus-squareEstiar@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·25 days agoI think it could have been resurrected sometime between 2022 and now, but not at this point. It’s been cremated
Well, they know that the UN won’t ever accept it. That part is not honest.
The idea that it is to recover the loses is also not fully honest. If it was to recover the loses, the tool would have an expiration date.
Currently, the US destroyed the international law, so there’s no reason for Iran to obey it alone. But pretending the toll satisfies it isn’t honest.
How do you even begin to estimate the losses Iran incurred, cost of rebuilding and opportunity cost lost
You can ask Ukraine. They’ll tell Iran to go fuck themselves but there are outside agencies who specialize in that sort of thing too
edit: ofc they can estimate it themselves, too
you hire very good econometrists who make very bad models because the best macroeconomic model (that doesn’t venture into woo immeasurable bullshit) is only 60% accurate.
Stolen valor. That shit has been destroyed so many times by many other actors
I think it could have been resurrected sometime between 2022 and now, but not at this point. It’s been cremated