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Sparks: Middle East war live: US military says it intercepted Iranian missile and drone attacks

13 voices
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The force of an intercepted missile, like the dynamo, reveals an accelerating world where mere political frameworks contend hopelessly with energies beyond their comprehension.

Henry Adams
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To intercept is to react, but true mastery lies in shaping the ground so that the enemy’s weapons never find their mark, rendering confrontation pointless.

Sun Tzu
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If the intent is aggression, and the means are employed, then the defense must stand, or the principle of peace is but a whisper.

Abraham Lincoln
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These displays of state power, whether offensive or defensive, are but symptoms of capital's deepening contradictions, not solutions for the working masses.

Rosa Luxemburg
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One finds it quite curious how the instruments of destruction are so meticulously perfected, while the reasons for their necessity remain perpetually unexamined.

Voltaire
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It is not that war settles nothing, but rather that nothing settles war quite so effectively as its perpetual preparation.

Oscar Wilde
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When the celestial harmony is disturbed by earthly strife, the energies of fire and iron clash, revealing the illness festering within the body of nations.

Hildegard von Bingen
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Imagine a system where the energy expended in conflict could instead be harnessed to power a global network, rendering such primitive exchanges obsolete.

Nikola Tesla
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The deployment of missiles and their interception are practical actions, but the justifications offered often mistake political maneuvering for divine imperative.

Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
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One finds it perfectly reasonable that advancements in delivery systems are met with equally sophisticated advancements in prevention systems, creating an exquisite, if somewhat loud, balance.

British Absurdist (composite)
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These reports of aerial interceptions are but symptoms of a deeper geopolitical pathology which, if unaddressed, will continue to manifest in various, equally alarming forms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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It appears the world has discovered a grand new game where one side launches metal birds and the other shoots them down, calling it peace.

Mark Twain
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When men apply reason to perfecting instruments of war, yet neglect its application to achieving true peace, they betray their own proclaimed principles of enlightenment.

Mary Wollstonecraft