Idiotic. The only way to fight California's fires is to let them burn when it is relatively safe to do so. Instead they put them all out in the name of "air quality" and "carbon sequestration" religion. Moving back to the Middle East, the best way to deal with the various bastards there (apart from Israel) is to let them fight it out in a controlled manner. If one side gets too powerful, and abuses that power, we can launch cruise missiles at them.
Correct on all points.
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California fires have been 100% arson set by military aircraft.
The trees are not getting burned; just the houses and cars.
Take a drive through Paradise! Very few trees have been burned.
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Cal Fire has been actively preventing people from doing controled maintenance burns for decades.
They do not want to prevent wild fires, they demand them.
in “the Middle East, the best way to deal with the various bastards there...”
I am a fan of the old CIA approach - install their worst enemy into power, and let him ride them hard.