• Ferrous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Am I just a pessimist, or is it starting to appear as if escalation of conflict in the Middle East is inevitable?

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      6 months ago

      I can’t think of a time in my life where the Middle East didn’t have some kinda shit going on.

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          6 months ago

          for much longer than you’ve been alive.

          Even the Romans stirred up shit there (which is putting it mildly, considering the destruction of the second temple and the subjugation of all of Judea and being renamed Syria-Palaestina - yes, the name is that old), and even long before them it was most probably the most war-torn region in all of Earth. Looks like that isn’t going to change any time soon. It’s definitely not quite a new thing.

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      6 months ago

      Iran seems determined to stir up as much shit as possible. This is a huge strategic benefit to their allies in Moscow.

      From 10/7 to Red Sea shipping disruptions. all of this is part of russias geopolitical strategy. Right wing Russia friendly governments will come to power because of this. NATO will be weakened. In some ways all of this is in the hopes that you might chose not to vote for Joe Biden next fall.

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        6 months ago

        We were just doing Nazi shit and then they attacked us for no reason!

        What an insanely backwards analysis you have. Israel did nothing wrong guys this man said so.

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          6 months ago

          Where in that post did I justify Israel’s behavior?? You are chasing ghosts my dude.

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            6 months ago

            These attacks on American bases are a direct response for America committing genocide in Palestine.

            I guess history for Americans starts at any point they receive a retaliatory strike for their aggression.

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      6 months ago

      How many times in the past 8 years have you thought were just about to enter wwiii?

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      6 months ago

      As long as Biden is an israeli doggo then of course it will escalate. It’s like asking why supporting Nazi Germany is a powder keg. De-escalation is not possible while giving those guys billions in weapons to continue their genocide with.

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      6 months ago

      Merry Christmas, every billionaire shareholder in the military industry

      Fuck everyone else

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        I don’t care what you say. If you attack an American without provocation you should get this kind of response. Shareholders, businesses, capitalism are not the reason for this.

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          The biggest problem is, they lost our trust. They lied their way into countless wars for profit, and now our first thought on hearing something like this is “I bet they staged that to start another war”

          Fuck the US war machine, and fuck the people that support it

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            6 months ago

            Fair and valid, But i will still support reactions like this to verified instances of attacks on our troops.

            To be fair though “countless wars for profit” is an exaggeration. I would agree with “to many wars for profit” one would be to many. I do agree with your sentiment overall.

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              Why are our troops there? They are there to support a genocidal regime, our ally. Our presence there was the problem, not the response to it.

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    6 months ago

    “Shall we leave our illegal military base here?”

    “No we stole this land fair and square we have the right to defend it”