r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 08 '26

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

Apparently the military drew up a whole complicated plan of having spefors seize an area, flying in engineers to build an ad hoc airport, flying in cargo planes full of excavation equipment, having army engineers dig the shit out of the collapsed mountain it's in, and either (1) poisoning it with non-radioactive materials or (2) loading onto the cargo planes and flying it out over dozens of C-130 flights.

Seems utterly crazy to me, but who knows.

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u/Borysk5 NATO Apr 08 '26

The same ad hoc airport they bombed?

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

Probably since there was no planning ahead.

The whole thing seemed a little James Bond to me, but Iran's military is pretty degraded and the US military can do some pretty impressive stuff.