How are you supposed to make peace with a pedophile rapist who has staffed his office with racist Warhawk morons who are convinced they can do whatever they want with complete impunity, and they start bombing you while you are under diplomatic negotiations (twice!)?

Oh I think it’s even standard practice to do just that. But when the bully swings their dick and says there’ll be war if the don’t get their will, what’s the target supposed to do? Just bend over without at least trying something first?

There’s no motivation for the bully to see any reason there, their stance is that if they wanted, they can just take all they want, they are more powerful. Any “peace talks” before actually testing the merits of that assessment in real battle consist entirely of them demanding whatever they want and only path to “peace” is the smaller one just accepting to get fucked.

So, then when the bully comes around, it’s only sensible that the one in the right there defends their rights to exist and their right for sovereignty and all.

Just reflecting on Russia vs Ukraine here, but I suppose the same is true for Iran vs Israel/US too.

The US government: "It's just a special military operation, absolutely not a war. Hmmm? Department of War, no no it's always been Department of Defense".

Meanwhile, Trump: "The war..."

Well that's actually a really good point. We already know that Russia is sharing intel with them and even if China wasn't doing the same, I'm sure they have no problem with "sharing" that intel at a price.

With this perspective I'm actually somewhat convinced that the move could have more to do with outside perception (be it for Americans or for the rest of the world).

Still, there's no telling what the quality or timelines of the imagery they're currently getting is like. The difference between having 10 second old images and 4 hour old images is huge, and we really don't know what they're getting from Russia. So with that in mind, they don't need one more avenue to get that data, especially one that could be more immediate imagery.

Edit: As another user points out, these images aren't being blacked out entirely, they're just being held back on a 72 hour delay. This does indicate that the company isn't trying to prevent their images from being seen, they will be seen. But they can't be used for tactical advantage on the battlefield, 3 day old information is not very useful for that.

So, make of all that what you will.

That's completely detached from reality. You could confirm that by talking to anyone in the military.

Probably half of our service members joined up just to pay for college. They're not in the military because they're psychopaths... it's just a viable option for moving up in life. Many Americans hope to pursue advanced careers, but they can't afford college and don't have many job opportunities in their home town. Well regardless of what your town is like, the military is always hiring; and the recruiters are convincing. If you're 20 years old and stalled out in your career, it sounds like a real good deal. Again, that does not make you a psychopath. AND regardless of what you think of service members, the effectiveness of the US military is exceedingly evident, they hardly need me to speak for them.

While I don't have an answer for your first question, there is a really good answer to the second.

A delay is a perfect solution for eliminating the tactical advantage that its imagery could offer, while still maintaining an eye on the region, not letting war crimes go unnoticed.

The delay rather than a blackout actually reinforces the idea that this is really about not providing intel to Iran. Three day old troop positions are totally useless, those troops are somewhere else now. A delay is totally sufficient to make their imagery non threatening. But if they were trying to hide the actions of either side, a delay wouldn't be enough, they'd need to hold those images back forever. Meaning, they aren't trying to hide the truth.