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Biden orders strike on Iranian-aligned group after 3 US troops injured in drone attack in Iraq (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes western imperialism has been at an impasse with religious fanatics who prefer living in the dirt for much longer than you've been alive.

    You have on one side blind western greed and pragmatism and on the other blind mideastern greed and idealism. It's intractable. Can't say I have any sympathy at all for people whose idea of good government is having some muckety muck from church come to your house and shoot your mother in the head because she taught you to read when you were a little girl (looking at you, Afghanistan).

    Not like the Zionists are any better. They don't care if you teach your daughter to read as long as they can pick the book, otherwise they will bomb your dirt hut and the whole village into still dirt but just more spread out again.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 2 years 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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    • [+] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Merry Christmas, every billionaire shareholder in the military industry

    Fuck everyone else

    • America
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [+] -14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    "Shall we leave our illegal military base here?"

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    If the Iraqi government didn't want US bases in their territory they could literally just tell them to leave

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