I don't think comfort class would do much for him at this stage.

I don't think the targets The Donald's claiming will be targeted are the ones that are actually being targeted. I bet most everything has coordinates for targeting as well as other data, but he's not gonna let them know what he's really targeting. The US has devices like the 30,000 pound laser guided GBU-57a/b. Targets will be chosen for strategic rather than cultural reasons. I'm sure the ayatollah and the president both know this, so perhaps the Iranian 6,236 target message is for their populace rather than the US president. I don't think GEOTUS is actually going to strike their cultural sites, but maybe he's trying to get through to them that he could strike their cultural sites just to see if there are any secondaries when they blow up.

Looks that way to me.

I looked on Google images, and he had more than one ring of that style: https://www.wionews.com/opinions/the-killing-of-iranians-general-qasem-soleimani-and-its-consequences-271884

It would be nice to have additional confirmation that it's him. There are pictures of him with a pinky ring as well as no rings at all.

Do they have his prints and such? I don't think it's the same ring either. It''s possible that he had more than one ring of that style. Maybe he can be identified accurately from dental records.

The US forces had a very clear idea where Qassem was. I think there was reliable leak free ground intelligence pinpointing his location. It's possible they'd managed to keep an eye on him from the air, but I think that's unlikely since he'd probably been inside at least once since he was at the embassy, and he didn't last as long as he did by being careless.

The whole embassy attack stinks of an ordered, planned event. Perhaps they were expecting a more aggressive response from the US, but what the US has done seems measured and effective. The implication is that individuals in charge of attacks can be identified and neutralized.

They can rouse the locals to attack, but if the leaders can be determined and killed, finding new leaders for attacks will be more difficult.

It's likely that the situation at the embassy had been closely monitored, and responses to various scenarios had been planned. At least now the people in Iraq and Iran know how attacks will be responded to, if it wasn't patently obvious what would happen before.

I don't know if this would help, but recording all activities around the polling stations as well as everyone who enters or leaves the area at the time could at least partly verify that the vote totals are correct. Rather than enforce voter ID, people who didn't have ID would have to consent to their photo being taken, and sign a document stating that they were the person casting the vote. For people with ID, they would have the option to show that.

More problematic would be a system where votes would be marked with a serialized hash value. If all votes had to be tagged this way, it would provide evidence about which box a vote had gone into, and the count of serializations could be compared to the count of total votes. There are vote secrecy issues with that, but there are similar problems with the voting machines as well.

With electronic systems, if the data from the voting machines was recorded for an independent audit, the data from those systems could be correlated to the final results.

I think there would be opposition to any of these ideas. As private citizens, if the plates of any of the buses used to drive voters around were photographed, we could figure out if they were driving buses full of people from station to station.

Even if Grandpa Biden wasn't so creepy, corrupt, and confused, what does he really have to offer to voters? I think the fact that his son is a philandering crackhead is less relevant than Joe Biden using him to launder money. Hunter Biden has shown poor judgement on many things, so he might not have been the best person to entrust with laundering money.

Although Mr. Sniffy's public comment about getting the prosecutor fired is interesting and is essentially direct interference, the payments to Hunter Biden seem to be the problematic part we should focus on. Hunter has no skills that would be useful to a Ukrainian energy company, so the payments were for something other than his expertise.