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Here's the process as I understand it (please correct my errors):

  1. USA likes Israel, a lot for some reason
  2. "Israel" attacks Iran. This whole thing is being done with the USA's airplanes though.
  • Why does the USA love Israel so much?
  • What's the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I'm not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What's the USA gaining here?
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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Pedolini’s boss netynahu has videos of him raping and killing children because Epstein was Mossad and Netanyahu has been trying to get the United States to attack Iran for 40 years. Israel is a settler colonialist project that is using pseudoscience and the political ideology of Zionism to annex land and commit genocide against the indigenous population. Israel’s imperial goal is to control most of the Middle East as an empire. They have bribed and blackmailed most of our politicians for decades and America is now going into deep debt to realize the “greater Israel project”

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

not to mention ehud barak was rapist , one of israeli former prime minsters.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

because he has to testify in epstein recently so hes trying to attack iran to distract the news from epstein.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The 1% has divided the working class along imaginary lines on a map. We will fight, suffer, and die until we all collectively realize that our leadership class is more our enemy then the working class of whatever nation we are fighting.

But that is just lame nerd shit. we should blow shit up and flex our dicks on the world stage because our lives are so empty we need something to keep us busy. Or else we would wonder why we cant feed, house, and care for everyone despite our unprecedented technological development.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Its a lot of things all at once, theres the control of the oil, control of a shipping route, undoing what the cia did, then theres also the biblical side where they are trying to fulfil prophecies to bring on the second coming of Jesus (to probably install a figurehead to use to control people), also this helps Israel get the biblical lands back, which they so obviously want, also they want to get rid of the Shiite Muslims across the world, also theres real estate opportunities for these rich assholes to cash in on, like they're already out doing with gaza, the board of peace is just an auction house. It also distracts from the failing economy and the tariffs, the ice Gestapo, the authoritative fascist dictatorship that the US has become, the technocracy thats being implemented to replace the current system, its also a giant man baby who keeps getting his ego bruised, who will punish the haters for their slights against him, could be he's full blown Dementia boy now and no ones stopping him from doing insane shit. Could legit be a peace operation, but the last one's more of a fantasy than the others.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 112 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Israel allows the U.S. to maintain a foothold in the Middle East and have an influence in the region (which is plentiful in natural resources like oil), that's the gist of it. The U.S. also has a large Jewish community that is generally pro-Israel (not all of them, but many are. In recent events, many Jewish groups in America are now condemning Israel for their war in Gaza, starving the population, all that heinous stuff)

Iran's government has made it clear that they don't like Israel's existence (due to their displacement of Palestinians, various war crimes, that sort. They also don't like that they are so heavily American influenced). They don't like the U.S. either, as they believe that they are an imperialist power that wants to take advantage of the Middle East. That is one reason that the United States deems Iran an enemy. Note that Iran's government's viewpoint is not necessarily the same as those of the Iranian people. Additionally, the state of Iran funds many proxy terrorist groups across the Middle East, all of which do terrible terrorist things, which the U.S. doesn't like at all (especially when they do terrorist things against American citizens living in the Middle East).

Israel and Iran's rivalry (and you can include the Saudi Arabia, UAE in this too) is mostly down to wanting to be top dog in the Middle East, having the most influence and power, and it doesn't help that they have very different beliefs (not just religion, different styles of government, different policies, that sort)

TLDR:

U.S. supports Israel for Middle East influence

U.S. don't like that Iran's government is anti-America and anti-Israel, and they don't like that they support terrorist groups either

Israel competes with Iran for power in the Middle East, and have very different beliefs

Please note that I am not trying to incite a political debate. America and Israel has done bad stuff (war crimes, imperialism, etc), Iran has done bad stuff (terrorist proxies, political repression, etc), both are bad in my book.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iran also hates the US for past CIA fuckery that got them to their current policy nonsense

Them, and about 100+ other countries.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is way bigger than just Israel, most of the Gulf Arab states hate Iran and would love to see its government fall. They've been funnelling literally billions of dollars to the Trump family since just before he took office again. The Qataris, Emiratis, Bahrainis, and Saudis are all openly bribing Trump, and this attack is almost certainly at least partially, if not mostly, driven by their talks with Trump behind the scenes.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't like the U.S. either, as they believe that they are an imperialist power that wants to take advantage of the Middle East. That is one reason that the United States deems Iran an enemy.

In 1953, the CIA and MI6 effectively ended representative democracy in Iran when they backed a coup d'etat that deposed Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosadegh. Mosadegh had tried to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which later became a division of BP).

The 1953 coup resulted in the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, ruling autocratically and with heavy support from the United States. This status continued until 1979, when an Islamist revolution deposed the Shah and installed the Islamist government led by a clerical Supreme Leader that exists today.

In 2013, the CIA released declassified documents that showed that the CIA planned and carried out the 1953 coup using all kinds of abhorrent tactics, including bribery of public officials, astroturfed paid protesters, and false flag operations.

So hopefully that explains why the US is "the great Satan" to Iran, and why Iran keeps spouting "death to USA" rhetoric.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

yup, anyone who seriously questions why so much of the world hates the US has nwver opened a history book. there are many many reasons, damn near all of them generally coming back to a sovereign nation trying to check the US's extractive, unsustainable, capitalist-colonialism

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

So why was NOW the time? What's the USA really gaining here with these strikes?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Israel has some real, incontrovertible dirt on Trump that they are holding over him

He's also desperate to have the US at war so he can suspend elections, because he knows that he will be hurt by the midterms

He's also pathetically insecure, and history has traditionally looked back fondly at wartime leaders like Churchill and the like. He's hoping for that

And the worst motivation, but one that I sincerely believe is accurate, is that he wants to use nuclear weapons. He wants to be remembered as a president who pushed the button. He's a child, and he wants to play with all the toys

I hope he dies before he can do more harm

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[–] Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Distraction from the Epstein files, amongst other things. I straight up call this the Epstein war.

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In the past, there have been moves against Iran (sanctions and the sort that are worsening their already mismanaged economy) but the recent strikes have been down mostly because Iran doesn't really have any allies that are able to support them should they get attacked. Russia has their invasion of Ukraine that they are grinding soldiers in, and the Assads have been overthrown in Syria. Their bad bad economy also means they have lots of domestic issues too, making them super vulnerable.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

and many of the naughty Iranian proxies have also been weakened through a hellfire of Israeli and American bombing, like the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Russia is impotent to act. Iran had recent protests indicating that the regime is weak. China has not done anything preemptive and can't do anything now because it's too late.

Best case protests reignites and replaces the regime with something less US hostile. Worst case denies China cheap oil and Russia some war materials for a while.

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’d be amazed at what a cabal of pedophiles will do to protect their secrets.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

The word is horrified, but yes.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

To distract from the Epstein files and make Trump's handlers money on oil.

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[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

because trump raped children

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 27 points 1 week ago

There's a complex set of reasons but my take is:

Trump needs a national emergency so he can implement restrictions on voting in November. He's already cited election interference in 2020 and 2024 as the reason for the invasion. He will use this to issue executive orders banning mail in voting and to ensure ICE are present at polling booths.

Additionally, Trump is very easy to manipulate. If a couple of other leaders like Bibi and Putin said "hey everyone would think you were so amazing if you flattened Iran right now", he would do that, 100%. Some people are saying that someone is blackmailing Trump because they have the unredacted Epstein files, but I don't think you really need that to manipulate Trump.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 27 points 1 week ago

THE FILES WERE MADE TO START WARS. This multinational blackmail campaign has been running since the 80s to let a handful of rich men(and Ghislaine and her sister) control countries, industries, resources, borders and anything else they want.

Also a bunch of billionaires want more money, feudalism, Skynet, the literal Rapture, and other competing bad ideas.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. Republicans since the 60s have only ever had two ideas: invade countries and lower taxes on the rich.

  2. Trump is surrounded by republicans and is a 90 yr old narcissist. He either has dementia or doesn't give a fuck what happens

  3. he has reached new levels of unpopularity due to his status as an epstein style sex predator of kids, his killing of americans in an attempt to punish 'santuary cities' by violating the constitution using ICE as a political tool, as well as tariff bullshit.

  4. trump when in a pinch tries to do a new "newsworthy event" to reset the news cycles. Often it will be some advisor of his that has the idea. Its clear that being surrounded by republicans "invade iran" is probably a regular mantra.

  5. he needed a new diversion and "invade iran" was one of the few ideas left.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago

Well, this one ought to lead to a calm discussion.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump is torn between the neoconservatives like Rubio, formally bolton etc, and Israel that want regime change and his own unwillingness to go full troops on the ground. The neocons successfully get trump to blow up Obama era deals designed to keep the peace by catering to Trump's ego telling him he can get a better deal than Obama, in reality they don't want a deal and want to escalate but this is the best they can get.

So trump goes to the negotiating table only to find out that Obama's deal is the best he can get. Frustrated and unwilling to admit Obama was just as good a negotiator as him he begins to blame the leaders for their intransigence. The longer this goes on the dumber he looks for blowing up the original deal and not being able to get a new one, all the while Iran is enriching more uranium to try and push the US to accept the old deal.

Then Venezuela happens and he comes up with a new plan, if you can't change the deal you can at least change the negotiating team. He can take out the leader, use them as a scapegoat for the long stalled negotiations, sign the same deal and call it a win. Maduro repeatedly said he was willing to play ball with Trump but it would be on similar grounds to the Obama era deal but trump couldn't go back to the US and say he re-imoosed all these sanctions for nothing, so he took out Maduro, got a reason to declare victory and went home.

My guess is he's trying to do the same here, say all the issues with negotiations were because of the Ayatollah, sign a new version of the same deal with Trump branding like the USMCA , declare victory and head home.

Is Israel gaining something that I'm not seeing? Destabilization the main goal?

Yes, Israel doesn't want regime change because they know hatred for Israel is so broad that it will survive a regime change, especially one triggered by a war of aggression started by them. They want to turn Iran into the next Syria and get them to turn all of their ire inwards instead of at them.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 16 points 1 week ago

So this is one where actually it really makes no sense for the US to attack Iran - this comes down to a bad president making impulsive decisions. It certainly benefits Israel. Trump seems to think he is untouchable after attacking Iran last year and kidnapping Venezuela's president. This war seems to be him shooting from the hip and not being restrained by those around him from making very bad decisions.

From a US strategic point of view, it can't achieve regime change in Iran by bombing the country (it'd need troops on the ground) and it has low supplies of air defence munitions thanks to selling stocks to Ukraine and also using up some supplies in it's 2 day war against Iran in 2025. Going to war now is foolhardy - Iran just needs to prolong this war beyond a few weeks and the US will be in trouble. It will need to pivot to a defensive posture to protect its allies in the region as defenses run out, which will be tough and cost US servicemen and women's lives. It will also cost a fortune to prosecute this war without any real benefit.

US allies in the middle east have been drawn into a conflict they certainly didn't want, global trade will be disrupted by closing the Strait of Hormuz (a very major shipping route), oil prices will spike and could stay high if oil infrastructure is damaged in the war, air traffic will remain disrupted and the gulf states economic hub plans (building up Dubai as an Economic centre etc) will be damaged. It's possible this could even tilt the global economy to recession, or even precipitate an earlier end to the AI stock-market bubble.

This war is looking like a major strategic blunder by the US; more stupid than the Vietnam war (which was at least thought-out by strategists). Its likely the Pentagon was against this war, but sadly Trump and his clown-car cabinet are pulling the shots. It's a war that's goals cannot be achieved, yet will costly the longer it runs.

[–] Solitaire20X6@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

POTUS Donald Trump intends to use America's wars with Iran and Venezuela as justification for cancelling the US midterm elections for Congress. That will prevent the hugely unpopular Republicans, today all Trump Nazis, from losing power.

It shouldn't work; the US has had plenty of wartime elections, and the POTUS should not have that power, anyway. But US law means nothing to today's Republicans or the Nazi, Donald John Trump.

Trump will decree the midterms cancelled; blue states will tell him to fuck off, while red states will agree. Half the country won't even prepare their polling places. The whole mess will go to SCOTUS, and in flagrant disagreement with the US Constitution that they're sworn to uphold, they will side with Trump. The midterms will be cancelled. The 2028 POTUS election will similarly be cancelled. The Republicans will remain in power without the support of the majority of the US population, and Trump will be a full-fledged dictator and POTUS for life, free from prosecution for his numerous crimes.

Trump is the most powerful and successful criminal in US history, and his iron-fisted reign of terror continues because the Biden Administration was too feckless to bring him to justice when they could. If Trump wasn't POTUS, today he would be in jail or house arrest, and barred from further participation in US politics because of his J6 insurrection. But he is POTUS, and he's all too happy to abuse that power to the fullest to remain a free and happy Nazi.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh you are new to this? America has always been on Israel side, for decades. Its their proxy for operations in the middle east.

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

“[Supporting Israel] is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” US senator Joe Biden, 1986.

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To answer why, I have a theory. (I apologize beforehand for any ignorance, I only know a very minimal history of US - Iran)

  1. Government. The US has wanted to control Iran from a long time, and succeded once in 1953. When the revolution of 1979 happened, they lost their hold in Iran's goverment. They have constantly been trying to topple Khamenei's regime since then. Khamenei was getting old, and if he names a successor and they come to power, the current regime system will be cemented and more difficult to overthrow from outside. And I think the release of Epstein files has accelerated the whole process, since the connections between politicians/influential people of various countries and the US/Israel are getting revealed to the world.

  2. Oil. After the Russio-Ukraine war started, America has been trying to stop countries from buying Russian oil and make them buy crude oil from American companies. The US needs to get hold of two things now - Oil wells (Venezuela, Arabia, Iran, I think Palestine too, I'm not sure) and trade routes. Iran has control over the Strait of Hormuz , which transports about 1/4th of world crude oil trade.

  3. Dollar. Both Maduro and Khamenei were trying to change the currency of oil trade, that is the American dollar.(This goes back to some agreement made between USA and Saudi Arabia)

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want a very good in depth answer: https://youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo

The gist of it is that the USA, KSA, and Israel all want Iran's current government to be toppled as they are a direct military/economic/political threat.

What's the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I'm not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What's the USA gaining here?

Israel is an ethnostate so they do ethnostate things, which means constantly attacking anyone they view as "not us". Iran happens to be on the top of that list after Israel's former enemies, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and KSA were passified via the US or Britain.

The US and KSA also want to secure their oil regime, and now that Venezuela is dealt with, Iran is next.

Why does the USA love Israel so much?

They have a significant economic and military investment in Israel, and many of those Israeli billionaires are a part of AIPAC, which successfully lobbies the US to do what they want.

A bonus is Christian zionism which reinforces the idea that Israel must exist to cause the second coming of christ, or the messiah for the Jewish zionists.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

At the most basic level, the Trump admin likely has plans to make bank on it. Perhaps bribes or "deals" with oil companies, Israel, weapons manufacturers, etc.

Also, a part of the MAGA coalition consists of Zionists (the Evangelical Christians and Zionists Jews [both are death cults, IMO]), which makes it easier for Trump to do these things without too much opposition from MAGA. And, groups like AIPAC have been somewhat successful at tipping the scales of US elections against politicians that don't support Israel.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

To distract from Epstein prosecutions. Also, war is a great cover for unpopular domestic policy.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

the timing of when he has to testify, plus more epstein high profile individuals are getting named too.

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[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

I imagine that there's no real consensus response to what you've asked, given that the official reasons are pretty murky. My take, for what it's worth at least:

Epstein was likely connected to Israel. From bits and pieces that've been reported about timelines and from the email archives, it seems like he sold information to both Israel and Russia -- typically blackmail material for use as leverage against people in key positions in politics / business. Many of the later emails relating to Trump, appeared to talk about the dirt Epstein had on Trump, and efforts to potentially sell it to others.

This blackmail material, combined with the massive amount of money thrown at US gov candidates by things like AIPAC, results in 'close ties' between the US Govt and Israeli interests. Basically, to control Americas government, if you can 'buy' a majority of the candidates via PAC funding or blackmail material, you can control the overall tone and direction of America's international politics.

In terms of 'why now' and what they gain....

So the Epstein files note above is just 'another nail' in the common american's support for Israel -- even before those links were made more apparent, public opinion had largely soured due to the brutal treatment of Palestinians. Israel as a state has been increasingly an apartheid regime -- mostly in its alignment to far right fascist motifs involving xenophobia. The US right also aligns with this general sentiment -- the people currently in the administration, for example, practically all cheer on figures like Jack Posobiec, who romanticizes figures such as Spain's Franco, a fascist dictator who literally came to power with the backing of Hitler. They maintain this notion that 'they' are the sole custodians of civilization, so any atrocity they commit against 'others' is justified and right. So timing-wise, it's definitely best to do this sort of thing with Trump's administration in power -- they'll be gleeful willing accomplices, no need for much convincing.

Also entering in to the arena, would be the emergence of powers like China, and the perceived deterioration of the USA's global influence. Israel as a state, exists because of the USA -- Trump likes to say that about Canada, but Canada doesn't really have a bunch of neighbours (other than the USA) that want Canada dead for having a history of "pre-emptive strikes" and so on. If the USA were to fall into significant decline, Israel's existence would be in clear jeopardy. In order to survive, Israel likely needed to trigger a conflict before America's hegemony deteriorated too far -- to survive without a 'singular' military hegemony's backing, Israel needs to have the entire power dynamic of the middle east destroyed and remade with them as the defacto/unchallenged 'power' of the region.

Add in to the mix the Tech bro oligarchs, who all want their own baronies -- or 'free cities' as they like to call them. These folks actively bank roll efforts to destabilize states. Their reasons seem to vary a tiny bit, but the end result/drive is the same: they want to have the ability to control cities/people, without worrying about government controls/oversight/regulations, because "they know best". So they're completely in alignment with the other areas in which we're seeing dramatic increases in authoritarian traits. So there's practically unlimited money available for any sort of atrocity that can benefit the richest 0.1% at the expense of everyone else.

Most of what's above speaks to the conditions that set the stage for the event.

As for the very specific timing, it's still highly likely that Trump is just trying to mute the Epstein stuff. What he gains is less coverage of Epstein. He is America's dictator, so what benefits him, benefits America. That simple.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

That "some reason" is their governments are the same entity. Israel is the USA and vice versa. This is essentially why Iran attacked USA military bases, not because the USA also attacked them. Both entities share the unashamed tendency to expand as an empire, against international law. Israel sees Iran as their only real menace close to them. Imagine China in Central America. Why now? That's Trump and the Epstein case variable. What gains the USA? They are loosing all kinds of influence against China and Russia, they are trying to regain hegemony through oil and the dollar.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Let's not all forget that Israel is not finished eradicating Palestine, but now everyone is looking at Iran. Violence in Gaza will again escalate but now with no coverage because a bigger war has started.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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