No. of Recommendations: 3
Which is what we're looking at here. There doesn't appear to have been anything that would be analogous to a recent flood or earthquake. Iran didn't do anything to the Kuwaiti systems. So this is more analogous to the "clear day" collapse, rather than something where there's an immediately obvious likely intervening factor.El wrong-o. They've been firing missiles into Kuwait:
https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/iran-attacks-smoke...So the Kuwaiti antiair folks have been on alert for some time now.
BTW "clear day" collapses happen usually due to some external factor. Your analogy ain't working, my friend.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article3092...The team is focusing on three “higher-likelihood” hypotheses out of its initial 12, each arising from construction flaws that doomed the building. The collapse could have been triggered by failure of a slab-column connection in the pool deck, where the structural design did not meet building code standards. Steel reinforcement was missing or misplaced and eaten away by corrosion. Heavy planters and pavers added years later to the poorly-draining deck increased the load on a support system “that was already functionally and structurally inadequate,” the report says. Prolonged exposure to water in the parking garage, where residents had complained about flooding and ponding, corroded steel bars and degraded concrete in the basement columns that were not built to proper strength. Those brittle columns or the failure of a slab-beam-column joint in the southeast part of the tower, close to the pool deck, could have been the cause of the collapse.Even "clear day" events have root causes.
But I don't think there's any reason for your "head shakes" over this point.Plenty of them, actually. This board has several bad takes that turn into "accepted fact" when in reality they're just...really bad takes to begin with. Such as the conflating of the political and military preparation, for example. Do you think that Kuwaiti forces and the US Air Force have never worked together before?
I also notice that you didn't provide any examples of posters here being GLEEFUL about these strikes. It's only been a day or so. Were you unable to find the ones you were recalling?I was referring to the immediate jumping to ""poor planning"" and general dumping on Hegseth absent any evidence whatsoever. You did it yourself, in fact.
The coordination and planning that has gone into these strikes has been remarkable. That this board is unwilling to even ack 1/1000th of it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
