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[–] TonoManza@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 25 minutes ago

US supported genocidal apartheid state opening up a 3rd front? Where have I seen that before?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

So like, this is the end of Israel yeah? I just don't see how the Israeli state can continue

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 54 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

i just woke up from the explosions what the hell

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 35 points 1 hour ago

please stay safe comrade heart-sickle

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 14 minutes ago

Stay safe!!! cat-trans

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 2 points 15 minutes ago

Here we go again doggirl-sweat

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago

Fuck

I knew I shouldn't have wished to live in interesting times

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

Say the thing Bart!

There's no way this could end badly

Hurray!!

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 1 points 8 minutes ago

Dump your Aramco stocks.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (7 children)

Does anyone here have a guess as to why Israel is trying to solo the entire ~~Arab world~~ Middle East in the middle of an ongoing colonial uprising?

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 25 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I have used this example before: imagine you have a revolver with six bullets - they will become obsolete and unable to deal any damage to your enemy in 10 years.

While you only have a 10% chance of killing your enemies right now, it will be 1% in 10 years time.

What will you do?

Do you use those bullets now hoping to deal at least some lasting damage to your enemies, or do you hoard them until nobody is afraid of them anymore?

For Zionists, this will be the end of their ideology, the end of their ethnostate project. What becomes of Zionism when it comes to that? It makes sense they have to deal damage now than later.

(The bullets are US/Israeli air superiority, and what will make it obsolete are modern Russian air defense systems that once supplied to Iran, will end Western air supremacy altogether in the Middle East)

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 37 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Iran isnt in the arab world

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The fuck, how did I just learn this today

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 18 points 1 hour ago

Darius the great has been obscuring your mind with magics beyond the grave

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 46 points 2 hours ago

I can think of two possibilities:

  1. They're copying Nixon's "Madman Theory", where by being violent and unpredictable they can extract greater concessions from their opponents. This is your "De-Escalation through Escalation" they were talking about a while ago.
  2. Israel now views this as an existential conflict and is trying to disable their opponents while they still have enough munitions to do so.
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 2 hours ago

lebensraum speedrun any%

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

because the US wants this -- gotta get WW3 nice and hot without having the blame

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The only way towards de-escalation is coming to the negotiating table with Hamas. Negotiating with Hamas sets a bad precedent and, in the long term, compromise's the entity's ability to keep Palestine down. Their economy is already severely compromised as it is, so I think that going out with some kind of last hurrah and trying to accomplish all their goals at once is probably more appealing than having to back down, recover, and attempt to do it all again a decade from now.

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 23 points 2 hours ago

They may see with the US risking getting into a war with Russia and wanting a war with China that their own time to pull the US into a conflict to settle the region's problems in their favor using the might of the US is quickly drawing to a close and will likely not exist in a few years so why let a crisis go to waste when they can try and get the US to take out Iran and Hezbollah for them which would allow greater "isreal" to become a reality. It's an expansionist mindset too. Also fascists gonna fascist.

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 44 points 2 hours ago

Here we go. Now did they have an ounce of sense and just pound the desert and a few unimportant places and claim otherwise in their propaganda so Iran has an out not to retaliate in kind? Or more likely did these deranged zionists hit important things and Iran has to hit back even harder and kill US troop scum manning their air defenses as well? At which point the US can either leave with its tail between its legs like Reagan did Lebanon in the 80s or escalate in some way including potentially war.

I hope the people of Iran remain safe regardless of outcome. I hope the colonizers of the zionist occupation continue to feel and be very unsafe as they should be until they stop their genocide and dismantle their apartheid regime.

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 3 points 48 minutes ago
[–] FugaziArchivist@hexbear.net 33 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

timed with Game 1 of World Series?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 hours ago

Not how I was expecting to get reminded the world series started

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Bnova@hexbear.net 10 points 52 minutes ago
[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 30 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Were they actual military targets or just apartment buildings and hospitals again?

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

apparently they struck "across the city of Tehran" according to US state tv news

[–] TheFinalCapitalist@hexbear.net 28 points 2 hours ago

you forget that those hospitals are hamasbollah

[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 23 points 2 hours ago
[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 25 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

fuck me i already bought a fifth of gin planning on drinking tonight. god damn israel and the united states

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

I just got some Havana Club I'll join you

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 hour ago

I'm trying to save some of my whisky for when Biden croaks in a month.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 hours ago

Very, very bad.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 2 hours ago
[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

British Braaaaapcasting Corporation and all they do is broadcast fart noises

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 29 points 2 hours ago