Water is not a solid therefore it is not wet. Wet, in most scientific circles, is the ability of a solid to allow liquids to adhere to it. Therefore water can not be wet. Ice can but not water.
It’s good if you don’t mind the potential loss of life. If it’s seen through at any point before the attack, then it’s done. It also sounds somewhat similar to how the Japanese navy fought in WW2.
Yet, if victory is assured, at that point it would probably be better to blockade the island and bomb it to submission. So loss of life of the troops becomes minimal. Probably staring with the airports and landing strips if possible. Just make sure it is quick, you don’t want the ally to show up.
The one thing you do not want to do is a land invasion. Yes, you might take the island, but it would be bitter fighting from start to finish. If the island holds on long enough, then the reinforcements will show up. Nothing stops civil unrest than an allied nation bitterly defending and fighting using every man, woman, and child, to stall for your arrival. If you were the president making the decision, this would be my advice.
I would also tell you that taking the island will result in a war with the islands allies, and if it’s here and now, public sanctions by the members of the U.N. Think Russia and Crimea.
Ehem, btw space missiles to destroy satellites are a thing now. As for the countries who’ve tried this out, wouldn’t you know it, instigator country, their neighbour, and two countries who’d send reinforcements to the target country. Might be a bit fucked now in all honesty. If they forget about their own satellites and consider it equalizing the playing field in the name of drastically improving the odds of their plan’s success it’d be gg. Without satellites, good luck destroying what the instigator country would be after on the target country. Even navigating the ocean to reach your destination to send reinforcements would become a lot more complicated. That moment where you realize you now need a satellite missile/debris defence system.
Ehem, btw space missiles to destroy satellites are a thing now. As for the countries who’ve tried this out, wouldn’t you know it, instigator country, their neighbour, and two countries who’d send reinforcements to the target country. Might be a bit fucked now in all honesty. If they forget about their own satellites and consider it equalizing the playing field in the name of drastically improving the odds of their plan’s success it’d be gg. Without satellites, good luck destroying what the instigator country would be after on the target country. Even navigating the ocean to reach your destination to send reinforcements would become a lot more complicated. That moment where you realize you now need a satellite missile/debris defence system.
It is not as if there would be no retaliation for a bombed satellite(s), therefore both parties would be going in relatively blind. As you said it is a pain in the ass to maneuver war vessels without it. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_May_Island)
of course naval tech has evolved since then, but similar things are still known to happen.)
The plan is for two different navy’s to coordinate together whith one in the presence of many civilian ships. So, since this is a high coordinated plan, there may be issues. So, to avoid any accident it might be prudent to attack in the day to prevent any confusion. Especially since there is a plan to bring in non combat ships. Luckily, assuming your ally is similar in strength to the U.S. or China, they would either lend you their satellite data, or just flat out protect yours. Though, the islands allies would probably have similar info and strength. There are few if any weak nations that are not allied with 1 or more ‘superpowers’.
On that note, if the allied country(ies) know the location of enemy bases or cities, they could still hit them with missiles. The main issue is just defeating the island before reinforcements arrive. You have . Assuming they don’t just Bomb your mainland.
For the capture of the island…
It took the U.S. 5 weeks to take Iwo Jima, when they had both air and naval superiority. Even with strategic bombing, the capture of a similar sized island (or larger) should still take a similar amount of time. Especially if the island is to far from any drone stations. The only exception would be nukes, but we would not be having this conversation if they were on the table.
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of
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It took 6 weeks to capture Sicily after a successful bombing campaign, while the fighting was not as desperate as Stalingrad or the Pacific campaign. The Axis retreated and the island was captured. Since, in this case, I doubt the army would want to retreat, then we can assume that it would take longer. If the war would be modern, then there would definitely be defensive tunnels spread out throughout the island. Why? Because of their successes in Vietnam and the Middle East.
This is better designed to go into naval combat. Instead of attacking a defended position, if you could divide and surrounded enemy ships. It can lead to a few divisive battles but, after news spreads, the civilian ships would be ineffective.
An absolutely covert invasion would be sending in 6-10,000 covert troops over 5 years. Have them trained to create civil unrest, maybe capture some capital building or kill a few politicians, then send in the ships. Assuming you have already began the naval and air battle, you might have a good enough way to invade.
All in all, this might work, but you want to force the island to surrender. If you are forced to invade, you want to finish it extremely quickly. If the island is surrounded by your enemies vessels, you won’t be able to retreat, and might even lose a significant part of your navy. You don’t have enough time to starve them out.
Opinion: Guys, it’s purely a coincidence that a new variant of concern popped up in Africa shortly after China who’s recently been struck with an outbreak of their own. The timing being at the end of the year almost right on time for Christmas is also just a coincidence. WHO telling countries to not overreact and limit travel to afflicted location as with every other time before also isn’t suspicious at all. No, not at all... Nothing to see here. Nothing at all. Cough cough. I’m also not sniffing on any major doses of copium right now.
Water is not a solid therefore it is not wet. Wet, in most scientific circles, is the ability of a solid to allow liquids to adhere to it. Therefore water can not be wet. Ice can but not water.
Idk if it's against rules to jump right into it but here I go:
I don't know of any definition that limits things that can be wet to solids. For example googles definition: "covered or saturated with water or another liquid." and merriam-websters definition: "covered or soaked with water or another liquid : not dry"
Water also sticks to itself, very strongly even, that is why it forms droplets. Latest research showed that water doesn't stick to water unless there are at least 6 molecules, that means water molecules below the number of 6 are not wet but anything from 6 and above is wet. Therefore water can be wet.
By the definition of webster water is not dry therefore automatically wet.
There are also these old af definitions:
If we define "wet" as a sensation that we get when a liquid comes in contact with us, then yes, water is wet to us.
If we define "wet" as "made of liquid or moisture", then water is definitely wet because it is made of liquid
So by modern and old time standards water can be described and defined as wet.
You can also view 'wet' as what it is, a sensation/feeling not a state. In that case, we use it what humans would feel when touching a fluid like water. Therefore it cannot be not wet due to us having created that word to describe the feeling of water.
Opinion: Guys, it’s purely a coincidence that a new variant of concern popped up in Africa shortly after China who’s recently been struck with an outbreak of their own. The timing being at the end of the year almost right on time for Christmas is also just a coincidence. WHO telling countries to not overreact and limit travel to afflicted location as with every other time before also isn’t suspicious at all. No, not at all... Nothing to see here. Nothing at all. Cough cough. I’m also not sniffing on any major doses of copium right now.
It is expected for viruses to mutate. Whether or not it will be a matter for concern is yet to tell. It might become big though. If you have the money, now is a good time to stock up on the essentials. Things like food, medicine, toilet paper, and water. So that if this gets big you are prepared, and if not, you don’t need to go grocery shopping for a while.
Also, it is likely for there to be multiple different strains, resistant to the current vaccine, to exist and spread soon.
The definition, covered or soaked with water or another liquid : not dry, turns wet into an adjective. It describes how non-liquid objects feel. Therefore water is not wet.
As for water adhering to itself, that doesn’t make it wet. (Unless it is ice.) As I said earlier wetness is a property of a solid, and not a liquid, according to most fields of science.
As for your old definition, made of liquid or moisture, I looked it up and only found it in the presence of the words, if we. I could not find a place using it as a actual definition, instead of a counter argument to water being not wet. A pretty weak argument at that. Of course if we change the current definition of wet to the definition of moist, and add ‘and moisture’ to the end of it, water becomes wet. Yet, we don’t do that. Why? For the same reason we don’t change the definition of ‘hot‘ to ‘when an object gains more heat energy: increase in temperature’. At first that seems like a good definition, until you realize that Ice, Pluto, and Antarctica might become hot under that definition. Likewise when we change the definition of wet, all of a sudden lava, mercury, and cesium become wet. Even though mercury and cesium would not adhere to your skin, and you would not be able to sink into lava. Therefore water is not wet.
It is expected for viruses to mutate. Whether or not it will be a matter for concern is yet to tell. It might become big though. If you have the money, now is a good time to stock up on the essentials. Things like food, medicine, toilet paper, and water. So that if this gets big you are prepared, and if not, you don’t need to go grocery shopping for a while.
Also, it is likely for there to be multiple different strains, resistant to the current vaccine, to exist and spread soon.
Obviously there will be new strains, and multiple strains already exist but just aren’t prominent or talked about since the changes aren’t that significant in them. But major variants of concern that actually get their own special name like Delta aren’t as common. Omnicron showing up now is really quite the coincidence right when China has their outbreak ongoing and they’re scrambling sending people to quarantine camps and even going as far as killing people’s pets while they’re in quarantine.
Having 30 mutations in the spike protein in a place where there was not much vaccine related pressure for the spike protein to evolve is pretty coincidental tbh. Only 6% vaccinated in Africa, yet they’ve been titled the least affected. It could be due to... well, on average just having healthier lifestyles and more robust immune systems, getting vitamin D by being outdoors a lot and not eating all the garbage we eat in first world developed countries is also a boon since they’d have less people with comorbidities. Also, from even before the pandemic, ivermectin was already being used there pretty commonly for parasites which was another plus for them.
Just take a look at Japan who authorized the use of ivermectin back in August in the middle of one of their waves, they’re back to essentially no cases. Though it seems there may also be a genetic mutation more commonly found among Japanese people that helps fight against covid too. It also helps that they’re pretty disciplined and were pretty much already used to using face masks even before the pandemic.
Beta popped up in Africa around October 2020, only a month off, 1 year later, and this time we get the Omnicrom variant from there, the place “least affected.” Earlier in the pandemic I think it was somewhere around April-May in 2020, stories were circulating about China shovelling off blame for their new infections within the country onto Africans which was complete bs, just them trying to cover shit up as usual.
It wouldn’t be much of a surprise if there was something more to it, but that’d just be a conspiracy theory. Kind of like the lab leak theory. Cough cough.
Obviously there will be new strains, and multiple strains already exist but just aren’t prominent or talked about since the changes aren’t that significant in them. But major variants of concern that actually get their own special name like Delta aren’t as common. Omnicron showing up now is really quite the coincidence right when China has their outbreak ongoing and they’re scrambling sending people to quarantine camps and even going as far as killing people’s pets while they’re in quarantine.
Having 30 mutations in the spike protein in a place where there was not much vaccine related pressure for the spike protein to evolve is pretty coincidental tbh. Only 6% vaccinated in Africa, yet they’ve been titled the least affected. It could be due to... well, on average just having healthier lifestyles and more robust immune systems, getting vitamin D by being outdoors a lot and not eating all the garbage we eat in first world developed countries is also a boon since they’d have less people with comorbidities. Also, from even before the pandemic, ivermectin was already being used there pretty commonly for parasites which was another plus for them.
Just take a look at Japan who authorized the use of ivermectin back in August in the middle of one of their waves, they’re back to essentially no cases. Though it seems there may also be a genetic mutation more commonly found among Japanese people that helps fight against covid too. It also helps that they’re pretty disciplined and were pretty much already used to using face masks even before the pandemic.
Beta popped up in Africa around October 2020, only a month off, 1 year later, and this time we get the Omnicrom variant from there, the place “least affected.” Earlier in the pandemic I think it was somewhere around April-May in 2020, stories were circulating about China shovelling off blame for their new infections within the country onto Africans which was complete bs, just them trying to cover shit up as usual.
It wouldn’t be much of a surprise if there was something more to it, but that’d just be a conspiracy theory. Kind of like the lab leak theory. Cough cough.
The first point is a pretty standard politic play that governments do to control public opinion. They act as if they have the virus under control to stop/mitigate any public freak out. It was the same reason they were so drastic with COVID, the memory of SARS still scared the nation. This time, with it barely being a year, there is no way they arn’t going to play it like they both have it under control and being slightly cautious in case of change.
The mutation with a resistance to the vaccine, especially in areas that were not fully vaccinated was warned by the WHO. Whether it was a ‘Chinese‘ or ’African‘ mutation, we will know after some genetic tests. There will be multiple big strains if we do not nip it in the bud ASAP. Also, I think China would be more transparent if this strain mutated there. They have little to gain from lying about this. Once the news comes out, both the world and China’s citizens will trust China less. And there is no hiding it, not from scientists, nor from governments, and definitely not its citizens. They are already suffering enough for the lab leak theory, this would be even worse.
The big issue is not that it is the scenario that allowed this strain in the first place. It is ’big pharma’ lobbying countries like Canada, the UK, and Germany to prevent the waiver of the vaccines’ patents. Preventing widespread vaccination, so that they can make money. Not just in the short term either. These companies know of and probably concur with the WHO that not vaccinating the world would create new and more deadly strains. But, they also have the research and legal protection to create the next vaccine. They will allow this to go on until they are forced to stop it by world governments. I wouldn’t be surprised if the big investors and stockholders of these pharmaceutical companies are funding and propagating the whole anti-vax craze behind closed doors.
Also, could you link me to the articles where China is putting blame on Africa? I could not find it.
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