I am not sure if I agree that this was started to distract from the epstein files, but I also don’t disagree.
But as it stands? fuckface all but prostrated himself and sucked off the supreme leader on TV (nothing wrong with blowing someone but it would obviously be an act of degradation). Then israel decided they wanted more blood. And that is why we are still there.
And… that is a problem. People are increasingly hoping that iran will be kind enough to give enough ceasefires and oil exports to keep the world from collapsing in the next two and a half years. I mean, we aren’t the Iranian People so maybe? But… democrats aren’t likely to say no to israel. And bibi needs to be at war to avoid his own problems.
So… it is increasingly looking like this war doesn’t end until iran is just as destabilized as Iraq and Afghanistan were.
As much as I hate throwing away innocent lives, the entire instability of the middle East would be solved by bombing Israel back into the stone age.
I’d usually say that it’s not a whole country, it’s just their government, but in this case I don’t see any chance of getting a different government because most Israelis seem to agree with these actions.
The thing to understand is that we have spent centuries (arguably millenia…) fucking up The Middle East as it were. A reductive, kind of insanely offensive, summary is “it is Africa but with oil”. Colonizers basically just drew up random maps with no eye towards the tribes in the region or their relationships/grievances, let things boil over, and then drew new maps that were somehow even worse.
All of which has resulted in many of thsoe regimes being… really really horrible. Like, folk forget that iran were imprisoning and murdering protesters by the thousands before fuckface got involved. Similar to how people (rightfully) fixate on israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people but actively ignore neighboring countries basically doing the “No. Stop. Don’t do that…” meme because… they hate Palestinians too.
Up until “recent” history (ass pulling, but I would say the past 20 years or so?), israel was, shockingly, a stabilizing effect. Everyone else hated them (or profited from saying they did) and it kept conflicts between the other nations to a minimum because israel would be ready to exploit it. In “recent” years though, israel (mostly netanyahu) have basically realized they need to always be at war to maintain domestic power and will do whatever it takes to provoke said wars.
So, pissing on an inferno he set ablaze. If we would all just forget about the Epstein files this would end tomorrow, I wager.
Some companies/CEOs making bucks on this, to be sure.
I am not sure if I agree that this was started to distract from the epstein files, but I also don’t disagree.
But as it stands? fuckface all but prostrated himself and sucked off the supreme leader on TV (nothing wrong with blowing someone but it would obviously be an act of degradation). Then israel decided they wanted more blood. And that is why we are still there.
And… that is a problem. People are increasingly hoping that iran will be kind enough to give enough ceasefires and oil exports to keep the world from collapsing in the next two and a half years. I mean, we aren’t the Iranian People so maybe? But… democrats aren’t likely to say no to israel. And bibi needs to be at war to avoid his own problems.
So… it is increasingly looking like this war doesn’t end until iran is just as destabilized as Iraq and Afghanistan were.
As much as I hate throwing away innocent lives, the entire instability of the middle East would be solved by bombing Israel back into the stone age.
I’d usually say that it’s not a whole country, it’s just their government, but in this case I don’t see any chance of getting a different government because most Israelis seem to agree with these actions.
Short term? Maybe?
The thing to understand is that we have spent centuries (arguably millenia…) fucking up The Middle East as it were. A reductive, kind of insanely offensive, summary is “it is Africa but with oil”. Colonizers basically just drew up random maps with no eye towards the tribes in the region or their relationships/grievances, let things boil over, and then drew new maps that were somehow even worse.
All of which has resulted in many of thsoe regimes being… really really horrible. Like, folk forget that iran were imprisoning and murdering protesters by the thousands before fuckface got involved. Similar to how people (rightfully) fixate on israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people but actively ignore neighboring countries basically doing the “No. Stop. Don’t do that…” meme because… they hate Palestinians too.
Up until “recent” history (ass pulling, but I would say the past 20 years or so?), israel was, shockingly, a stabilizing effect. Everyone else hated them (or profited from saying they did) and it kept conflicts between the other nations to a minimum because israel would be ready to exploit it. In “recent” years though, israel (mostly netanyahu) have basically realized they need to always be at war to maintain domestic power and will do whatever it takes to provoke said wars.