🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • the controller will likely face charges

    Incorrect. Charges are generally filed in cases of intoxication, intentional sabotage, or willful and flagrant violation of safety protocols, none of which appeared to happen here. It’s already known he was working two frequencies (although it was middle of the night) and dealing with an emergency aircraft on the ground - overworked rather than negligent.

    It is likely for there to be a civil case from families impacted. However, while they would probably file suit against the controller among other entities, federal law means that liability goes to the federal government. It seems quite possible that there will be liability found, and it will probably be primarily the feds who end up paying any judgements.






  • Your question was addressed in the article:

    The intensity of the bombardment has been extraordinary. Some military analysts estimate that the explosive power dropped on Gaza during the early stages of the war alone amounted to several times the explosive yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

    The comparison does not suggest equivalence between nuclear and conventional weapons. The devastation of a nuclear detonation would be vastly greater. But it does reveal something important about the scale of force Israeli leaders have been willing to deploy when they believe national security is at stake. If a state is willing to unleash such overwhelming destruction through conventional means, the uncomfortable question arises: what would its threshold be if it believed it was actually losing a war?