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Yeah, and the good Iranians support Israel. The ones that do not are antisemites. The Zoroastrians and the majority non-Muslim population wants the IDF to kick the Muslims out of Persia so they can take their country back the Muslims stole 1,000 years ago. They descendants of from Xerxes, not inbred Muslims, but one of the greats God Kings to ever live. Not the false prophet Mohammed.

They remind me so much of Jews. Diaspora cheering on a war they don’t pay the cost for. Calling each other traitors over political disagreements. Tearing up families. We are not so different after all.

The Republicans have been calling for this war for 40 years. The only reason it happened is shortly after Hitler's death the US ended WWII, instead of following Patton's recommendation to end the war after capturing Moscow. The Soviets had been fighting the Nazis for years and they lost millions of people repelling them. There's no way they could have taken Patton's tank division marching towards Moscow killing everything that moves till they have Stalin in handcuffs standing trial. The IRGC revolution would have never occurred since the US would have won absolute power from WWII. We'd then use nuclear bombs to regulate human morality. Basically, if anyone threatens to expropropriate your private property you drop a nuclear bomb on them to defend your property rights. I really see no other option for dealing with socialists / communists for people who do not want to live under their rule as they are an international movement the Jews stand against the avoid the oven.

Biden was so ideologically invested in his Ukraine policy that he told Americans they'd simply have to "pay the price" for it economically. Trump has now ramped up his own ideological fanaticism, and is telling Americans to prepare for a big economic hit due to his crazy Iran war

The left are the new Luddites from it. There's basically a ton of people on the planet who do not want to live under socialism or communism, and AI allows them to redistribute the left wing priest class's wealth to the laity who really does not care about their theology and just wants prosperity. I suggest reading Nietzsche since he predicted the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, while using his philosophical texts to mock socialists like Marx as deeply hateful people who are shallow thinkers. Even Heidegger wrote about flaws in Marx's thought. Mainly the whole call to action for philosophy to become active for change in the real world. Marx presented his theory as science, but it clearly is not. It's an interpretation of the world, which first requires the ability to interpret. So, Marx's thought is contained within Nietzsche and Heidegger and they point out flaws in it. Mainly, it's a god like omnipotent all knowing position involving science, and they reject it for a return to paganism / Judaism for personal sources of truth. It's a philosophical rejection of Hegel's consensus based truth for personal Existentialist truths. That's why the Dark Enlightenment emerged from thinkers rejecting left wing thought for a return to Western thought prior to Kant and Hegel.

Yes, I keep trying to explain this to people: it can’t actually be a real, major problem AND fake vaporware. It has to be one or the other. And I think it is a real, major problem.

@skeptic_stoic @esaagar Drop a nuke on a city and see if they surrender. If they don't drop a second. If still not a third. If they continue to resist keep dropping till the resistance no longer holds political power.

@esaagar I think using WW2 to make your point here is a bit of a stretch. However, I do wonder if using "unconditional surrender" in the current circumstances is also bit of a stretch. But it is Trump, and perhaps that's his "big ask."

To achieve "unconditional surrender" in the past we had to drop 2 atomic bombs, invade Europe, and support the Soviet Union taking 400K casualties in 1945 alone This is a declaration not only of regime change but of a prolonged quagmire if we don't reverse course

@0millennial @esaagar You arm the Kurds and they kill the people supporting the Ayatolahs. They then probably declare war on Turkey and the US kicks Turkey out of NATO before declaring war on them.

@esaagar The Shia are different. From my essay: Khamenei is dead. So are hundreds of the IRGC’s most senior commanders. The strikes were designed to do what decapitation is always designed to do: create a vacuum, trigger factional chaos, force capitulation or collapse. To understand why it didn’t work, you need a typology. The first category is the hollow state. Gaddafi. Saddam. Strongmen who had systematically dismantled every independent source of legitimacy beneath them — institutions, tribal networks, ideological movements, anything that could constitute a power base independent of their person. That was the architecture of their control. It was also the architecture of their vulnerability. When the head was removed there was nothing underneath. The state was Saddam. The revolution was Gaddafi. Remove the man and you remove the load-bearing structure. You get chaos. You get a failed state. The second category is the coherent national-cultural state. Germany. Japan. Venezuela. Systems with roots deep enough to survive catastrophic pressure — because the thing worth preserving, the cultural and national identity, survives humiliation. Surrender doesn’t negate the self. It preserves it. We will live and we will rebuild. Which is precisely why capitulation becomes available as an option. The Islamic Republic belongs to neither category. It was built on the explicit rejection of the first — wilayat al-faqih is an institutional solution to the succession crisis that shattered the early Shia community, an office that cannot die because the principle it embodies is not located in any human life. And it cannot follow the second path, because within the moral grammar of Karbala there is no rebuilding after submission. The thing being protected IS the refusal. Survival through capitulation doesn’t preserve the self — it destroys the only thing that made the self worth preserving. This is why the first two categories are not just inapplicable — they are actively misleading. They trained the architects of this campaign to see decapitation as a reliable instrument. But those systems either had no metaphysics beneath the strongman’s personal authority, or a metaphysics that permitted survival through defeat. The Islamic Republic was constitutionally engineered to survive exactly the strike that just killed its Supreme Leader. And its theology forbids the exit that Germany and Japan took. The goal was capitulation or collapse. The architecture prevents collapse. The ontology prevents capitulation. There is no third option that decapitation can produce. Husayn did not go to Karbala as an individual. He went as the imam — the embodiment of a principle larger than his life, one that his death would serve rather than extinguish. Iran has constitutionalised that logic. Strike the leader and the principle survives. The resistance does not depend on the survival of the man. It is strengthened through his martyrdom. Within the pluralistic Shia world — stretching from Beirut to Baghdad to Karachi to Manama — there has always been a question of who holds the most legitimate claim to speak for the tradition of resistance. That question is not settled by missiles or money. It is settled, within this moral grammar, by who has demonstrated the most serious commitment to the principle. Husayn’s authority was not diminished by Karbala. It was created there. The Islamic Republic has spent forty years claiming to be the vanguard of resistance to illegitimate power. Khamenei dying under American and Israeli strikes, with the republic absorbing the blow and refusing to fold, is not a refutation of that claim. It is its consecration. The strikes were designed to destroy Iran’s authority. Within the framework that governs the communities now rising, they did the opposite. They proved it. And proof of that kind, in this moral universe, is not merely observed. It is answered. open.substack.com/pub/0millennia…

You can just kill everyone in the region if they refuse to accept. That's what Alexander the Great did to city states that rebelled. You just kill everyone in the city as an example for other cities of the cost of insurrection. People in the Middle East are belicose with rhetoric. What you basically do is pummel them till they surrender. Israel still has highway from Egypt, and they'll take the highway the Ayatolah was building for the child savior who would destroy Israel in a nuclear war. That high way is going back to Israel.

@esaagar Normally I am hawkish, but unconditional surrender is a fools errand. Not even remotely palatable to either side of the aisle.

We probably did not need to nuke Japan. Nuking Japan might have saved American lives though. We were risking the Soviets taking Japan and that would have been very bad for the US and Japan. After we took Japan the Yakuza bought our cars and killed all of the Communists for us in Japan. The Communists were going to execute the emperor, and that is an unacceptable insult to the people of Japan. The only redeeming quality of the Yakuza is they can implement medieval political tactics to eliminate threats to your people through bribes and assassinations.

@esaagar This is a very well intended falsehood as the widely available actual facts are that Japan was ready to surrender without any nukes. The pro-nuking propaganda is all-pervasive, I know.

We could have gotten unconditional surrender from the Soviets too if we just let Patton do his thing. They had already been softened up by Nazis marching on Russia. Patton had the best tanks in the world. He could have killed Stalin with them and ended Communism.

The Palestinians descend from people allied with the National Socialists who did not repent, like the Germans. So, they get generational poverty as a penance till they get out of purgatory, by earning the trust of the Jews by behavior in a manner that the Jews gift them a state. The moral of the story is the Jews offered the land of thieves the majority of the land as a settlement for the crimes of Islam against Judaism, and they rejected it. So, they'll receive nothing a be a morality tale in a religious text about accepting half a loaf when you can't get a full loaf.

Every Jewish person who supports Israel increases antisemitism. Either your religion and the murderous state of Israel are two separate things or your religion is a problem. Show the world your religion is not the problem, condemn this evil. Israelis, change your government now or you may end up with no country at all.

@AcheJ6 @aaronjmate And that's why your an antisemite, and Zionists support using the US military on you to solve antisemitism.

@zerophases @aaronjmate No they're not native or ethnic to that land. In the Bible there's no fake "Israel" state or country. It was a group of people exile for their degeneracy. They've desecrated the holy land with blood and degeneracy. Sodomites all of them demonic Satanism.

Unless you’re a Jewish supremacist, it’s not acceptable to have even one Palestinian death for the sake of Israel’s security and deterrence. Neither are worth the hair on one Palestinian’s head. Israel is an occupying power. It doesn’t have the right to kill its occupied subjects. It has the obligation to stop occupying and killing them.

If you are not a Zionist you are an antisemite most likely. Anyone denying the Jewish claim to the Levant is an antisemite if they grew up Christian as that comes with an education on Christians wronging the Jews. The Jews clearly have the property rights to the Levant to claim it as the nation for their people. The borders are probably legally that of Mandatory Palestine, as during Mandatory Palestine the Palestinians assassinated Arab leaders working on land division deals with the Jews. The Palestinians lost their land because they are antisemites, and with how international law works you have a small window for multiple administration powers to arise and there was only one since the Arabs kept killing Arabs workings towards dividing the land with Jews.

it is antisemitism to accuse someone of dual loyalty simply because they are jewish. but jewish or christian, the loyalty of anyone who identifies as "zionist" is by definition split between america and israel and you can fuck off with your "tropes" discussion

@CynicalPublius @bookshelfbattle You just let the Kurds do what they want. They'll probably ally with Israel and the rest of the Middle East to get to war with Turkey if Erdogan some how turns this trade deal available into a terrible war.

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I'm getting tired of explaining this, but I'll do it again because there is so much stupidity out there. Here is the Seven Step Plan: 1. Decapitate Iran's leadership and destroy its military. 2. A new regime comes to power that will no longer fund Hamas/Hezbollah. 3. Without Iranian arms and cash, Palestinians have no choice but to make a lasting peace with Israel. 4. With the Palestinian conflict ended, the Gulf Arab countries will have the political breathing room to fully engage with Israel as a regional partner. 5. Peace in the Middle East, at long last. 6. Trump once again gets rebuffed for the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of a transgender Coptic nun in Madagascar who rescued a species of hermit crabs. 7. Profit.

@bookshelfbattle @CynicalPublius It does not matter if the people support them. What matters is the leadership supports Western interests and are not International nor National Socialists. Communists and Fascists hang equally from the noose.

@CynicalPublius Anyone who takes over next will do all of those things. Everyone thinks there’s oodles of freedom loving Democracy enthusiasts in hiding over there but there really isn’t.

There is no occupation. The Palestinians allied with the Nazis and lost their land claim from that in an attempt to steal land from Jews reclaiming their land as the Ottoman empire was collapsing and no other empire was there to compete for the land. So, the Jews kind of just moved back.

In what way is supporting Israel better than celebrating October 7? Everything that happened that day, Israel has done too but on a far larger scale and without suffering occupation.

@RealAngelaMc This is just ending a long running cold war causing all of these conflicts. Like 40 years ago the US could have just put a bullet in the Ayatolah's head to avoid all of these wars. There's probably some lesson here from Machiaveli and not delaying violence to play politics.

If it was just about punishing the current administration, he would either vote Libertarian or not vote at all. Intentionally voting for open borders and mass migration that cannot be undone is the most destructive thing you can do for the America First agenda and future generations.

Most of the minorities allied with the Left are antisemites according to the ADL, as 2 billion exist on the planet. I'd believe it since I've met a lot of black antisemites, who despite Jews helping them gain civil rights still do not support jewels claim any land in the Levant. Just seems antisemitic.

The ADL is a hate group and has nothing to do with Judaism.

There was a military blockade on the Israeli border to stop the flow of goods through the border. That was an act of war. Israel blew up Egypt's army in six days because of that act. The Jews still have some of the Israeli highway from when they took the Sinai as fuck antisemites. The only option is war till all antisemites go the way of Amalek.

@aaronjmate “Israel started the war in 1967, and it was a war started preemptively, illegally. As a result of that illegal war, Israel captured territories. A state has no right to retain control over a territory simply for security purposes.” - Prof. Ralph Wilde, International Law Scholar

My understanding is the Saudis have actually improved their treatment of women and minorities. The only reason they had bad treatment is they had religious craziness try to overthrow the government in the 70s, and they had to go hard right on Islamic interpretations to maintain support from Muslims. After 9/11 they murdered almost all of those crazies. There were a bunch of purges over like 20 years by the Saudis to get rid of the people opposed to Westernization. The fall of Iran is the end of the need for the Saudis to play lip service to the religious, and just go hog wild with capitalism to get rich by trading with Israel.

If people who defend a war with Iran to liberate iranian women believed this, they would be virulently agitating for regime change wars in Saudi Arabia and the gulf monarchies, which are incomparably worse. I know virtually no one who takes up this position, which is instructive.