That’s not how any of this works. And big assumption about the shooters political affiliations!

The latter, imo, as they have the benefit of existing

Oh hell yeah this is just like Twitter

Good on ya

The lack of concern/active hostility towards doing anything directly about the hostages is the most baffling aspect of this to me.

I’m not trying to be a pessimist or argue in favor of any action, just trying to look at this from the perspective of what America can actually achieve, because I think sometimes even critics of the US overestimate it’s power. Obviously we should be trying anything we can think of to rein this in.

Yeah that’s a legitimate avenue. I need to research what the maintenance cycles are like on those for the IAF, how many parts they have stockpiled. Would also depend on how willing they are to push maintenance. Even if we cancelled future delivery contingent on immediate action, would it stop them?