• @Linkerbaan
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    319 days ago

    My man this is top tier IDF propaganda. Nothing is true.

    • @Carrolade
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      If Egypt was a rival, why not help hamas or leave the Gaza border open? If Jordan was a rival, why help track Iranian missiles? If Syria was a rival, why have American military bases?

      Meanwhile, estimates put Hezbollah fighting strength at 60k. IDF has 300k enlisted.

      Israel almost certainly has nukes.

      The problem isn’t IDF propaganda, it’s your propaganda that cannot acknowledge any difficult truth, because of your pretty clear goal in aiding the Jihadist quest to reclaim all of Palestine.

      edit: Oh, and I almost forgot. Hezbollah is Shiite Muslim. Most of the rest of the Middle East is Sunni Muslim. It’s a lot more complicated than some basic conflict.

      • @Linkerbaan
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        119 days ago

        Israel is waging a 7 front war. Why do you think Biden sent aircraft carriers to defend against Hezbollah?

        • @Carrolade
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          Power projection, maintaining our reputation and a threat. We send aircraft carriers all over the place, there will always be one or two near any ally threatened with attack. It’s why we buy them.

          It’s really just Hezbollah at this point. Hamas barely has a couple brigades left, if that. Houthis are too far away to do much asides shoot at ships in the Red Sea. Not sure where the other fronts are. You think Egypt is going to invade or something? Jordan? Syria? Iran going to march through two countries to get there?

          • @Linkerbaan
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            119 days ago

            Power projection, maintaining our reputation and a threat.

            I don’t even know what this means. Just make up words like " we have to look strong" and hope people buy the propaganda I guess.

            • @Carrolade
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              Well, “we have to look strong” basically sums it all up, yeah. To quote a famous American saying, “Walk softly and carry a big stick”. We’ve been doing it for centuries, google Commodore Matthew Perry for an old example. Another good example would be Reagan reactivating our old Iowa class battleships just because they looked so dangerous, even though they were basically obsolete in the era of aircraft.

              Making a threat can be very useful, it’s not hard to understand. Same reason a dog growls or a cat hisses.

              • @Linkerbaan
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                019 days ago

                Posturing like israels Bitch doesn’t give off strength vibes to me. Especially when Ukraine actually needs those weapons against Russia.

                • @Carrolade
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                  019 days ago

                  Hamas doesn’t have nukes. If Russia didn’t, we probably would sail into the Baltic and posture.

                  And yeah, you do have a point with Ukraine. We don’t have any signed treaties with them like we do Israel though. Just the Budapest Memorandum, with its very soft wording.