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@CitedNeed

Poppin' off on populists, ass*ssinatin' Assadists and puttin' Putin puffers in the waste-pile - just another day shillin' for Big Empire™️ Jin, Jiyan, Azadî

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1. Somaliland isn't a "breakaway region," it is an entity that volunatrily joined Somalia post-independence, and then withdrew from that union after the Isaaq genocide, which @juliamacfarlane here is effectively whitewashing; 2. Israel's interest in Somaliland has to do with: -interdiction of Houthi operations in the Bab al Mandab region; -placing a counterweight against Turkish and Qatari imperialism in the Horn of Africa; -building out alliances and partnerships with Muslim and Arab states to further entrench the legitimacy and security of Israel in the region. If you think they recognized Somaliland because they want to dump Palestinians there, you're nuts: why would they immediately work to destabilize their new ally? Journalism is dead, and it's corpse is interred at the BBC.
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@roffe_saul The NYT is saying a city ~20 km from a nuclear site makes the city a "prime target" for strikes while discussing one that indiscriminately targeted a civilian residential area. This is like saying Ramallah is a "prime target" for strikes because it is ~20 km from the Knesset.
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I agree that if the job isn't done correctly, or is ended prematurely, we could see a bad outcome. But I think you fail to take a few things into account. Firstly, the window to act was closing: Iran was building stocks of ballistic missiles and drones to the degree that it would have made stopping its nuclear program too costly. Second, as evidenced by Iran's indiscriminate bombardment of core US allies in the Gulf and closure of Hormuz, US interests beyond securing Israel are very much at play. This is further proven by the fact that the Gulf states are now coalescing behind the US and in favor of its actions to cripple or remove the regime. Third, the regime was already on the precipice of collapse before this, which - without action - made it dangerous, but which - assuming effectove steps are taken - make its survival unlikely. Economic collapse, ecological catastrophe (look up "Tehran water crisis evacuation"), and political delegitimization. This is why it is important that the US and Israel continue to strike Basij, IRGC, and police repression infrastructure, to give the Iranian people the chance to act. As for popularity? I don't think the US should or would engage in a major ground invasion like in 2003 Iraq, specifically because it would be both politically impossible and bound for failure. But claiming that governments shouldn't take bold, necessary steps to secure stability and the interests of the state because of political polarization is a recipe for catastrophe.
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@CitedNeed @yashar You are conflating US with Israel. You can't execute a war when 70% of the country doesn't support it. You also seem to think we are better off now. I don't see how this doesn't end in a worse place in 5 years. Anything you destroy while leaving regime in place will be rebuilt.
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Intent can be discerned through actions taken. Israel's actions in Gaza - such as maintaining levels of aid to such a degree that no famine event occured, warning civilians of upcoming military actions so they had time to evacuate, and engaging in a costly ground invasion rather than relying solely on aerial bombardment - belie the notion that they acted with genocidal intent. You're starting from a conclusion you've drawn without sufficient evidence when you claim Israel committed (or is committing) genocide.
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Frip Alice Stein 🇵🇸@comradeddie·
@CitedNeed Ah yes the zionist art of deception- if you define it as “stated intention” and never state your intention to commit a genocide, it’s a get out of genocide free card and we’ll all be too dumb to realize the sleight of hand
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War in Iran has been inevitable ever since the regime put itself on the trajectory of bringing its mantra of "Death to Israel" to fulfillment by fomenting wars across the region. This whole crisis began during the Biden administration when Iranian proxies engaged in illegal aggression against Israel. You seem unable to grapple with the fact that the JCPOA would have simply empowered the regime in achieving its goals by opening up more channels of revenue while leaving potentially fatal problems unaddressed.
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@CitedNeed @yashar No. That was already the status quo. A deal in 15 opened up a diplomatic front. When Trump destroyed it in 2017, he was told not to by the very neocons he's now listening to. He pulled out for one reason. To get Obama's name off it. Once that happened, it was headed to War.
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"Israel wants a failed state"
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OSINTdefender@sentdefender

No way! Israel, who clearly is not aligned with the operational objectives of the United States and instead wants a “failed state” and the total destruction of Iran, supports strikes against Iranian power plants which will ultimately result in the suffering of the Iranian people as well as mass attacks against, not Israel, but energy and desalination infrastructure in the Gulf States. What a surprise!

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It wasn't being an unnecessary drain on resources by going on a regime-backed luxury tour of a poverty-stricken dictatorship that got Taylor to (implictly) criticize Hasan, it was going without a piece of cloth over his mouth. Good enough, I guess.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

If you’re traveling to Cuba or any impoverished community, or just generally, you should be wearing a mask. We’re 6 years into an ongoing pandemic and airborne disease is real no matter how many “leftists” want to scream and stomp their feet and shout RFK talking points

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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל@JewishWonk·
If the Israelis bombed Iran in this manner the New York Times would be saying very clearly that these tactics are war crimes, not adding bullshit context and passive voice. Too many American media institutions side with authoritarian America-hating regimes, the NYT among them.
Gilead Ini@GileadIni

New York Times comes to the defense of war crimes with a "widely believed," and somehow conflates a civilian target with a nuclear site 8 miles away even while distinguishing between the sites.

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@BabooBott678 @yashar OK, so your proposing that allowing the regime to build up its ballistic and drone capacity, fund proxies, and set the groundwork for nuclear breakout while being showered in sanctions relief would have resulted in... peace on Earth? What exactly are you arguing?
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@comradeddie Genocide requires intent; OP expressed said intent. Ergo, OP is genocidal. Not hard to figure out if you use your noggin!
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@DialecticDemon Ah yes, I'm sure a secular, democratic country will just spring up in a region that violently ethnically cleansed all its Jews, and where Jewish denaturalization remains as statute. Of course, the Jews of Iraq and Yemen also enjoy the same rights as American Jews.
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@CitedNeed Dismantling apartheid Israel isn’t genocidal 7.7M Jews in the US enjoy a secular pluralistic society just fine without imposing a brutal apartheid and commit genocide to fulfill a fascist dream of expansion and ethnic/nationalist domination
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@web2scholar Rhodesia wasn't "destroyed," it was dissolved following the Lancaster House Agreement, with Zimbabwe emerging as its successor state. Destroyed means destroyed, i.e. through mass violence and unilateral action. Diplomacy isn't destruction. Glad I could teach you what words mean.
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@CitedNeed So was it genocide when Rhodesia was destroyed?
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Yes, and Graham's point is clearly "we could do [difficult thing], we can do [comparatively less difficult thing]." This is like someone saying "I can drive a tractor-trailer across the country, I think I can walk to the corner and buy an ice cream" and concluding that they meant you need a Class A CDL to get some soft-serve. This isn't to diminish the risks of a potential Kharg Island operation, but just to demonstrate that Graham isn't calling for a sacrifice on the scale of Iwo Jima based on his use of a common rhetorical tactic.
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Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom

Price of Iwo Jima was 7000 KIA and 19,000 wounded

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@BabooBott678 @yashar "JCPOA was the first salvo." No, it was the entirety of Obama's goal - it literally had "comprehensive" in the title. And it would have left the regime richer, more well-armed, and on the verge of nuclear breakout because of its sunset clauses. JCPOA was a trash deal.
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@AntiOrcBerto @IlvesToomas Yes, destroying Shahed factories and decapitating a key Russian partner regime is "helping Russia." I don't like Bibi supporting Orban, but your pearl-clutching about "Israel [being] the enemy of Europe" stinks of the bigotry that your continent has trafficked in for centuries.
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@IlvesToomas Israel is the enemy of Europe. russia is the enemy of Europe. Israel is just a midget russia and they have started a war of choice with hostile US which clearly helps russia and damages strategic European interests. When are some people going to wake up?
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Netanyahu endorsing Orban is an incredibly dumb move 1. Why should Ukraine keep its world class anti-drone teams in the Middle East helping Israel, when both the US and Israel support the most anti-Ukrainian leader in the EU, a man who, reneging on a unanimous EU decision to lend €90M has caused major damage to Ukraine? Why keep its experts in the Middle East to help virulently anti-Ukrainians? 2. The Iranian war is not top of mind for Europeans, it is not an existential threat on the order of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Why further alienate the EU to support an avowed enemy of Ukraine? 3. The countries in the EU most worried about the Russian invasion, the CEE, have also been the strongest supporters of Israel. Why alienate them? Will they support Israel the next time there is an anti-Israel resolution in the UN? Or will they abstain? This was a completely unnecessary move by Netanyahu.
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He has none of these things even in scarcity, which is why Orban is polling so far behind the challenger. A strange concatenation of geopolitics: Russia is interceding in the Hungarian election to help Orban, including with GRU officers in Budapest and an SVR-mooted fake assassination plot, even as Russia assists Iran with targeting packages in the Middle East. Yet Netanyahu follows Trump into helping a Russian client in Europe.

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@adam_louis52328 Ironically, it's an obsession of the genocide accusers. Weirdly, scholars don't resort to this trope when making accusations concerning genocide of Uyghurs or Armenians or Herero. But the collective "stain" is inseparable from their condemnations of Israel and the Jews.
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