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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Of course they did. Israelis are war fucking criminals, bloodthirsty murderers.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Man, Israel really turned from victims of fascism to fascists themselves, bent on conquering everything they can.

Now they're hell bent on expansion, how well did that go again in the past?

The only reason they've been able to do this shit so far is because now we haveore fascists again. Hello trump, you. The only way this stops is when people, countries, start standing up and start fucking giving Israel the finger.

Fuck that "but wewe poow jews, wemembew jews and how we were treated??!!!". Fuck that shit, that was nearly a 100 years ago and pretty much nobody has forgotten except for Israeli Jews. Those that should have been the first to remember were the first to forget. This has NOTHING to do with anti semitism, this is anti fascism. Israël is a fascist state.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hello beginnings of WWIII!

Not 4, just 3 with a !

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I can't believe people are still in denial. You have the world biggest superpower simultaneously attacking several countries and threatening to attack all their closest neighbors.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its actually hell how we allow this to happen how we allowed the formation of zionist state in the first place its disgusting

Truman supported them even right after his security thwarted a mail bomb aimed at him by Zionists.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Are we calling this whole situation in the middle east and Europa a world war yet?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

Remember how innocent we were the FIRST time Trump bombed Iran and we thought he was starting world war 3? Such sweet summer children were we.

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

I am. We don't need permission to call it what it is.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 210 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

Man, I really hate being on the Axis side. I hope we lose.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 117 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We already lost. Trump got bullied/suckered by Israel into this mess without a clearly defined American win scenario. Israel has one and they are getting it. The US does not, because Trump is weak and catastrophically dumb, ignorant, narcissistic, and incompetent.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

We... we lost two THAAD radar arrays, already.

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-destroys-second-us-thaad-system-uae-radar-qatar-early-warning-iran-missile-dominance/

We... can't intercept too many missiles without those.

They're like $1.5 billion USD each, roughly adjusted for inflation.

And... I think there were only like, 12 of these things, total. Anywhere. As of a week ago.

We reportedly have been trying to take away the one we use in South Korea, to redeploy it.

This is ... beyond completely tits up.

Trump is saying the US Navy will just escort any willing vessel through the Strait of Hormuz.

And... what, we're gonna use all our fleet defensive systems, to .... shoot down the missiles that Iran can build 10x faster than we can build interceptors?

Taiwan is now completely fucked, if anyone hasn't figured that out yet, we will now almost certainly not have enough missiles to repel an invasion from the PLAN and PLAAF.

This is... extremely bad situation, if you are generally a fan of yourself and other people not dieing a violent death.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're not only squandering their position as a global leader and the good will of our allies, but the military might and defensive capabilities too.

They're literally going to make the continental US vulnerable to attack by wasting so many resources in this pointless war of aggression.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They're moving at least one from S Korea to replace one of the destroyed ones. Hopefully it gets blown up too.

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[–] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 42 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Epstein was the ultimate life insurance policy for Israel. Most of the americal leaders are in their pocket because of the kompromat he collected for decades for the foreign agencies (Israeli and Russian it seems).

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Some are saying that this is a brilliant tactic by Trump. They took Venezuela, where China gets much of their oil, and now we've blocked Hormuz, where China gets the rest of its oil. They think this will crush China.

But China still has about a 100 day reserve. When that runs out, they will do something to get leverage for more oil - like take Taiwan. They need the oil, we need the chips. We've always worried about them taking Taiwan, and now Trump is going to force their hand with his "brilliant" chess playing.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hope that we do an Itlay

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

People who will win: defense contractors, evangelical christians with investments in Israel, oil companies that can pull the "make money" lever at whim, saudi princes and everyone who is going to shore up around the capitalist might of US/Israel's war machine.

People who will lose: anyone who needs insulin, food or childcare.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

No body is going to win this. Everyone loses.

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago

Classic Israeli tactic. Big mate allowed to feel like the tough guy, whilst the little shits do something sneaky and nasty whilst the world looks elsewhere.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 101 points 3 days ago (13 children)
[–] doesit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

a cancer spreading

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fucking psychos. Even at their peak, the biblical Israel was never that expansive. What farcical claim do they even attempt to make to this?

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes they are honest about their intentions: https://archive.is/NGnNv

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Isn't it ironic...

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Their farcical claim has been pretty visible for a while now: they need not only the land they consider sacred and theirs but also a security buffer around it. If pressed, they will explain how a security buffer is not just an arbitrary distance of land but possession of key surrounding geographic positions. And that requires them to go all the way to THIS map.

Their acquisition of the Golan Heights set the template for this. Israel used to enjoy saying that they never started any of the conflicts, but even then they would admit that they annexed the Golan proactively because of its strategic positioning and key water sources in the area.

Clearly they won’t be talking about how they never started any of the conflicts anymore. They think they have more to gain than lose by letting that claim go.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Okay, well in that case all their neighbors need a security buffer too, which includes the key geographic position of their entire country.

See how easy it is to make bullshit claims when you're a fucking sociopathic narcissist who doesn't understand or care that other people's needs are just as valid as your own, and that you can't just take things that aren't yours just because you want it?

Children understand this, but apparently the knesset doesn't. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so close to getting the entire world blown up...

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Hard to imagine only half of the Arabian Peninsula or just a minor sliver of the Levant would be enough. "We're here, why isn't it ours" seems like the Israeli motto.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 3 days ago

Ahhh so thats why we bombed iran.

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Hope for lots of dead Israeli soldiers!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lebanon can’t catch a break.

[–] doesit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

While everyone is looking the other way, they move the borders. Once again. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Gotta do it while the guy whom they can blackmail with epstein videos is in power.

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