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  • Saudi has been in a cold war with Iran for decades because it wants to be a regional hegemon and hasn’t been quiet about it. Turkey is more circumspect, giving everybody face while cutting them off at the knees in the shadows. Egypt, by comparison, would much prefer to stay out of everybody’s business and have them stay out of theirs. They’ve got more interests in Sudan and Ethiopia at this point.






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    It has some to do with evolutionary pressure but more to do with water, surfactants and friction in the right application works very very well for antimicrobial purposes and the addition of antibacterial chemicals is potentially harmful to you without benefit(this is why both Europe and the US largely banned triclosan soap). There’s nothing we’d really lose by encouraging resistance to things like alcohol sanitizer which works for most things, though. That works in a different way. The metabolic demands to resist that would include things like spore forming. That doesn’t just appear in a plasmid with some selective pressure like antimicrobial resistance.



  • They often keep that shit in tanks outside, particularly depleted(figuring out what to do with depleted uranium hexafluoride is often a challenge and the US has a truly staggering amount of full tanks just sitting around waiting to leak). Once it hits air you get hydrofluoric acid gas which will spread thanks to the explosion and will kill you in small concentrations(as low as 30 ppm). It’s awful and blowing it up to spread it everywhere is even more awful. The only thing worse would be bombing a purex plutonium reprocessing plant. That is just as toxic in different ways but you can make the tanks go prompt critical thanks to changing it’s geometry and it has actual fission products you can spread around. Those reprocessing plants were a main plank in how north Korea got their bomb.