Cabbage Man
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@owenjonesjourno All the Iranian people need is some help from us. Or are you antifascist but pro-theocracy?
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This you @visegrad24?
Just like Moscow Times based in the Netherlands larping as Russian. Visegrad doesn't represent Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Czechia, rather a certain state in the ME. Lying to their followers to make them seem authentic.

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@Sabine821075 @nxt888 @lourda_v Disproven tired narrative that has been debunked over and over and over again 🥱🤡
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Think about what it meant to be a small country watching American power in 1999.
Yugoslavia.
A mid-sized European country with a functioning military, a real air defense system, genuine capability.
Not a weak state. Not a failed state.
Seventy-eight days of NATO bombing.
Almost no ability to respond.
Missiles falling on Belgrade.
Infrastructure destroyed.
No counter-strikes against NATO territory.
No strikes against NATO allies.
No ability to escalate in ways that changed the cost calculation for the other side.
Just absorbing it.
Until Milošević surrendered.
Now think about what it means to be a small country watching the Iran situation.
Iran closes the most strategic waterway on earth.
Strikes the largest LNG facility in the world.
Hits one of the most defended refineries of its strongest regional adversary.
Issues a counter-threat to a presidential ultimatum that is credible enough to make the president withdraw the ultimatum.
Publicly laughs at the reformulated American position.
Watches the United States go to China for help.
Watches China say no.
And the strait is still closed.
The same world is watching both of these events.
The same world is updating its model of what American power means.
Vietnam was one update.
Afghanistan was another.
Iraq was another.
But all of those were updates in the category of:
"American power is costly and has limits."
They were still, fundamentally, about the giant stomping through someone else's house and eventually leaving, having caused immense damage but finding it wasn't worth continuing.
This is a different update.
This is the update that says: there are actors who can make the giant stop mid-stomp.
That update is categorically different.
And it is being received. Right now. In every capital that matters.
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We watched Iran methodically and systematically dismantle every single fucking US radar in the Middle East with drones and missiles and this nigga comes in and says “the US anti drone tech is crazy, it’s really good!”
Must have been the wind destroying those THAADs I guess.
Defense Politics Asia@DefensePolitics
I think its a massive mistake to assume US isnt prepared for drone warfare. The amount of US companies with crazy anti-drone tech I seen so far, is amazing.
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@NotsoScuzzyBear 10 NATO shekels to you my good goy, thank you for being such a good anti imperialist
You braindead insect

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@onetallorfour Russia admitted to allowing NK troops to participate in kursk. So not in ukraine.
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It wasn't long ago all the rando communists would dogpile on you for saying Russia was using North Korean troops
Russia is still the fortress of world communism
War Crimes@warcrirnes
North Korean Army in Action: Official Footage from Ukraine War
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@AlanRMacLeod @ObrenC Yes, all of Europe, EXCEPT Serbia, Belarus and Russia Almost 200 years ago, in 1835, Serbia adopted the Constitution of Sretenjе, which defines: "Every slave who steps on the soil of Serbia is a free citizen".
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@Wizardgames15 @pobedman @robert_savitsky Woah Woah dont use facts and logic here. You'll scare the retard!
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@pobedman @robert_savitsky Last I checked. Bubbles(air) is buoyant. Why do some of the “bubbles” travel down and sideways and not all generally in the same direction as you would expect if they were being acted on by the buoyant force opposing gravity? Just explain that.
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@Eurofedmonarch @CopsBrian Good so you agree with the russian liberation of ukraine right
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@CopsBrian I don't really care that much about legal or illegal anymore everything illegal happens
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The fuck did you think stopping a genocide looks like? Essays? Insta posts? Fucking loser
Niall Ó Dochartaigh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🔻@partizan2020
Never forgive. Never forget. #Yugoslavia #Serbia #NATO
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@Eurofedmonarch He's right it was illegal but sometimes doing something illegal is the only morally right thing to do.
The idea that legal= right and illegal=bad is redundant
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@RWApodcast I fucking KNEW as soon as they said targets near st petersburg were hit that they went through baltic chihuahua airspace. It was the first thought that entered my mind. God I hate the collective west
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Libya negotiated.
Let's be precise about what happened to Libya.
In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West.
He paid reparations for Lockerbie.
He dismantled his nuclear program.
He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda.
He did everything that was asked of him.
He negotiated. He complied. He normalized.
In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months.
His own military turned against him with Western backing.
He was captured in a drainage pipe.
A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed.
Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera.
"We came, we saw, he died."
The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet.
And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years.
This is what negotiated security guarantees look like.
This is the documented outcome.
Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding.
The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up.
The lesson is not complicated.
The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess.
The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
"Negotiations" this word the people of the world hate most. You can stand against the devil fighting. The moment you stop you're done.
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When you lose your fleet HQ, several other nearby bases, your troop complement is forced to hide in civvie hotels, your base in Erbil is on fire every night, your CGs retreat or stand off, the most important waterway on Earth is closed to you and there isn't shit that you can do about it, half of your wunderwaffen AD batteries are dead, multiple large radar arrays burned, you are forced to retreat from most of your Iraqi colony, and your enemy can strike you anywhere within a 1500 km radius at will, heh well, in the business we call that 'all strategic targets safe'.
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"Haha those silly Iranians just firing their silly little rockets at their Muslim neighbors, not hitting anything!"
*CENTCOM Naval HQ bursts into flames alongside borderline irreplaceable multi-billion dollar military assets and US forces have to beg Iraqi militias for a ceasefire to be allowed to flee from the Green Zone*
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Your argument: Israel is small therefore it needs the US to regime change Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran... But Israel is really powerful and cunning and so it plays the US (which is much much larger than Iran, for instance) like a puppet.
I prefer the simpler explanation; the US wages war against oil rich countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia, Venezuela, and Iran for geostrategic reasons of its own as laid out by and documented in umpteen strategy papers published by umpteen US think tanks.
No, the tail does not wag the dog. And you're helping shield US imperialism from its global crimes by saying it does.
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I continue to see influential accounts on here insist that this war is not primarily driven by Israeli foreign policy goals. It's possible to argue against this by sifting through media reports about who called who in the lead up to the war, and this is the tack most people take. But I'd like to build a case for Israeli strategic primacy through a different route.
Place yourself in the shoes of an Israeli strategic planner, and assume that your principal strategic goal is Israeli hegemony over the Middle East. It should be uncontroversial to assert that eliminating Iran is a necessary (and perhaps the most important) component of this goal, so I'll skip over justifying that. How can this be accomplished?
The IDF consists of 170k active duty personnel, and is suffering recruitment and retention issues. The IAF packs an outsized punch considering Israel's size, but it's ultimately a mid-tier air force with ~250 fighter airframes (most of which are F-16s and F-15s), no bombers, and only 11 refueling tankers. The Israeli Navy is a souped-up coastal defense force and can't be expected to operate in the Persian Gulf.
Compare this to Iran, which has a manpower pool an order of magnitude larger, tens of thousands of drones and thousands of ballistic missiles, an asymmetric naval force focused on area denial, extensive proxy forces, and hugely favorable terrain for defensive operations.
There's no chance of deploying an IDF ground component onto Iranian soil. It's an impossible prospect on a political level for any other state in the region to support this, and Iraq and Syria stand between Israel and Iran. Even if the Iranians didn't outnumber the IDF by a huge margin, sustaining some kind of invasion simply isn't on the table.
The best you can do in terms of direct offensive operations is the following:
• Launch a short campaign (remember you're limited by refueling aircraft) of aerial attacks using standoff munitions like ALBMs
• Insert agents into Iran and have them launch drones from within the country
• Try to arm and support proxy forces within Iran, or organize multiple small invasions
• Orchestrate political violence, protests, terrorist attacks, etc
The Israelis have attempted all of these, and so far none of them have seemed to fundamentally shift the strategic picture. This leaves one option on the table: get the United States to fight Iran for you. Considering this has been an Israeli goal for decades, and one administration after another has balked at the prospect, it's not an easy task.
You'll draw vast sums of money out of a network of American Zionist billionaires to influence an election. You'll need the closest possible connections to US leadership, ideally agents within the executive's own family. You'll want to have your people involved in the US foreign policy apparatus, putting them in between the US government and Iran, so you can control negotiations. You'll need people within the Department of War, though having an agent as Secretary of War would draw too much attention. Once all of this is achieved, you'll stand a chance of orchestrating events to suck the US gradually into direct combat with Iran.
You start off by provoking the Iranians into attacking you. Hit some embassies, assassinate IRGC personnel, launch airstrikes on Tehran. Keep pushing about the dangers of an Iranian nuclear weapon, make sure the US treats it like a red line. Pressure the administration into participating in a limited strike. Bide your time when necessary, then suddenly escalate again. When it seems like an off-ramp might be coming up, find a red line and cross it. Keep going until American hegemony itself is on the line. The sunk cost fallacy will ensure events unfold in your favor until American boots hit the ground.
This is, of course, exactly what we're seeing. You can make a case that this war is really about China, or energy markets, or defense industry profits. There are sound arguments that some US interests overlap with Israeli goals. But it is *very* hard to make a case that this war isn't significantly the result of decades of Israeli soft power, influence operations, and espionage.
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Quote: “The omission of Croatia from the conventional Holocaust studies is like a book whose first chapter is torn out”, and that the attacks on Serbs in the NDH were “ the earliest total genocide to be attempted during World War II”.
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