Ship ALBORZ is worth a read. The choice implies what options the presence of the ship creates. Recalling the hull ratio is primary determinant of hull speed, and noting the listed power, the ship is very fast, not that it matters. The C 802 (and what else, and how much improved?) flyers are their primary weapon, probably. Note age of ship. Note again.  50 +   Rust happens.

Some say that the imperial necessity is to conquer Iran, and that this purpose is actively sought. The fellows in Yemen are making this project difficult.

Why comes the Iranian ship?

imho “Ah doubledogdareya” is the message…go ahead and shoot.

Another feature is the well bashed hull plating…this condition makes ship so afflicted very bright radar targets.

Like Fidel pulling his shit up to show no vest armor, is moral vest.

Call me pessimistic – I think the old fast ship will pretty soon sink. After that, however, matters become very dark.   G’nite and let us pray for a better future. 😉

Maybe it’s on topic to remark that the W2 “allied” terror bombings, especially those deliberately intended to intimidate the Soviet Army and leadership, these wanton slaughters of innocents such as Dresden, Heroshima, Tokyo, Nagasaki and many others, which were intended as threats, actually telegraphed an entirely different signal. With an entirely unintended result. Fer starers, the Soviet bomb…and a process that created, with the stray cosmic ray, VVP and modern Russia, the dominant power on earth, imho. Now then, let us think upon what may come of the terror bombing which we see now in unspeakable detail?

Yes, it is as you say. These people are estranged from God. One is minded of Johnathan Hoag, if you know the story.

A remark to semantics. I see in the usage generally, and on maps, “Israel” and “Gaza” and grey areas and pocked colonial outposts of progress (Conrad’s humor)… various namings, if you will…and each with an emotional and legalistic character… I would posit, and maybe also argue, that these are lies, deceptions. In fact, I think the true name is “disputed territory”.

Defining a problem often begins with careful definitions of what you actually know.

Once that’s established, we might examine the matter of Justice. And recall that the means as well as the goal must be just. Noting that’s a deep question…

Imagining learned essay The Missed Strategic Significance of the “$5,000 Cruise Missile”

Seriously, this bit> (from 2003 and with roots well prior to)

https://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml

Now we see what happens…

Oh, the project, which ought to have been studied and even financed by the NZ military, was instead, ugh, “stopped”. Geewhiz, they looked at their future and the simply rejected the lesson. I’d say that was stupid. Now the whole world has locals who have such options. Very Jolly.

Thanks…the old feller and his life and character is well reviewed by Comrade Corbett…several deep dives> https://www.corbettreport.com/?s=john+d+rockefeller

The petro-juice> https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889

excerpt> The theory of the abiogenic deep origin of hydrocarbons recognizes that the petroleum is a primordial material of deep origin [Kutcherov, Krayushkin 2010]. This theory explains that hydrocarbon compounds generate in the asthenosphere of the Earth and migrate through the deep faults into the crust of the Earth. There they form oil and gas deposits in any kind of rock in any kind of the structural position 

Y’all know how I enjoy reading in chemistry… Take the plunge and read along… Kutcherov and Kolesnikov spin out a true story…

O how fun it might be to meet Don Herbert (Mister Wizard) at Abe’s and discuss the abiotic synthesis of petro…   BTW his episode on solutions and NH3 is very good.

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Looks like the nazi pot shot at the landing ship resulted in a very noisy morning in zone 404. Somehow I form the idea that many unlucky fellers from large nazi army HQ westzone are to-day somewhat un-well. I wonder if the dope labs were on the to-do list…

remark recollection that upon Oct 7 affair there were reports of financial profit, “investments”, like 911 affair 😉  Why was the #Hamas attack on the 7th of October? 

Not that it’s all about money…but the cops outta take a look…

Ah! Whiskin’ away some colonial detritus, very much to the good. Perhaps now a bit less divide to rule… it’s an evolutionary process, and much depends on the global, ugh, contests ‘tween whatever we care to name the elements, good and evil? Right and wrong? Devil and God…on how things go.

Speaking of how things go, and an exquisitely elegant and beautiful Lady, (formidable or terrifying to an old feller!)>… do take the time to listen> https://youtu.be/vVSfTbRmp7U

I think it’s obvious, what, honestly, is the difference between the stuff they call dope and the the rest? But the Lady covers lots more.  Chemical (Sulfur Mustard) and so forth…