• grendel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What if, and hear me out, what if the F35 pilot would chose not to bomb civillians even very naughty ones? What if, and hear me out, what it the pilot has the same values as the insurgents? You talk as if civil war means random people vs all might of the state. In reality it’s people vs people, and it can be anyone.

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      8 months ago

      You need a fuck-ton of infrastructure to keep fighter jets flying. The service time to fight time ratio is ~18:1. Nothing but an established state has the organization and the logistics supply to keep one in the air.

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        8 months ago

        so what? What if a whole airbase chooses a side or side is chosen as a result of inner struggle and it falls under control of the guys you don’t like? You talk as if it never happened before, take a look at recent civil wars, government doesn’t always keep absolute control over its own assets.

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          8 months ago

          You still would need the help of the entire government to keep the jets flying and armed. No fuel delivery? Cut out of satelite usage? No GPS? You’re fucked and then put in jail and/or to death, because the US have death penalty

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            8 months ago

            You’re refusing to understand what I’m telling you, instead you’re just continuing with “but aktchually”.

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              8 months ago

              What “you’re telling me” doesn’t make any sense. How on earth would holding a little airbase surrounded by the largest military force in the world, and a NATO member?