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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 191 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Fascist USA and Israel are the biggest threats to world peace. They are the axis of evil.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 182 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country's leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.

Death to the burger empire.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 62 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The scary part is how they succeed in their objectives. I'm still not over Maduro's kidnapping and how they pulled it off. It's freakish.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks ago

Kidnapping Maduro didn't accomplish any of their stated objectives in Venezuela. It looks like the White House didn't even confer with energy companies about the viability of expanding their oil production?! They flipped their script immediately afterwards and claimed they won. You'd have to be a doomer to believe it.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

No, insane costs are due to how the military industrial complex rules the country and inflates prices because it needs more profits. Costs do not necessarily mean more sophisticated or that have an actual improvement in the battlefield. In fact recent trends show the opposite, the cheaper the tech the better output it produces on the battlefield. It's low cost vehicles, missiles and drones that are leading the battle, not 20 trillion F-35s.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

Although, it's worth noting that this was largely a stunt. The US did not have the ability to actually invade Venezuela or to topple the government.

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can they really be a “threat” when they’re actively killing people all over the world?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, more accurately they are the active enemies of world peace.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 103 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 100 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Hmm yes I think I will remove the respected leader that opposed Iran having a nuclear weapons program. 👀

[–] F_State@midwest.social 69 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That was widely expected to die soon of natural causes anyway

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a society that reveres martyrdom above all else 🤔

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.

Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.

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[–] totesmygoat@piefed.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well they created isis last time they displayed their level of stupidity. This time... Super isis?

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago

Yes the goal is 100% super-ISIS they wanted to get this going in Xinjiang and Central Asia. ISIS is actually smart here's the thing. The US benefits from having a higher level of productivity due to advanced technology, and basically cannot survive without laying waste to entire regions to keep them underdeveloped + access resources.

Read Value Chains it's great https://annas-archive.li/md5/0ca2108287828ca6508816b7ecbe9a3e

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 97 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Greatest Satan. Thanks for confirming, comrade. I don't believe USA/Isntrael without confirmation from non-liars.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago

No probs, same. If it's a "trump says" source, then it's immediately sus and we need at least a confirmation from the other side.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 96 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

Khamenei was the main reason Iran did not develop nuclear weapons up to now. With him gone, that becomes a much more likely scenario.

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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 75 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Results of the imperialist aggression:

An 86 year old dead

150 school children vaporized

Regime is still there

American bases in the zone turned to rubble

Strait of hormuz closed

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

86 year old AND 2 subsequent generations of his bloodline - his daughter and his granddaughter

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

israelis and their obsession with blood feuds uh, it just came to me why they murdered them.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

Will the americans ever tire of all this winning?

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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 61 points 3 weeks ago

Israel going unchallenged in the region will be the worst possible outcome if Iran falls.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 48 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Rest in peace. May the US Empire and its dogs crumble.

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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That psychotic demon netanyahu needs to be sent back to Lucifer.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 weeks ago

Whelp.

He was 86. I don’t know to what extent he was still in charge. It may have been anywhere from still fully in charge to just a figurehead.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Liberals truly believe Great Man Theory

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks ago

It's sort of a core part of their shield, if great man theory wasn't true they'd have to reckon with the global structures of terror they support instead of just blaming putler and the orange man while screaming vote blue no matter who.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

The first thing to die in war is the truth.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

Truth and more than 80 elementary school girls.

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

So the US has taken action against two heads of state in two months, and the rest of the world is not at all worried?

I mean, if fair is fair, this should be a free-for-all, so I'd be all for Netanyahu, Bbukele and Putin going up in smoke next.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They actually let him stay in his house? Did they want him as a martyr or something?

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He was 86 years old and dying. I'd want to stay in my own house too

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago

At that point he might have just wanted to go out on his own terms, and martyred by the USA are great terms to go out on by his ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if this strengthens the resolve of the true believers.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Well war over now right? Trump said the goal was regime change. We'll mission accomplished. Right?

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