• FunkyStuff [he/him]
    hexbear
    67
    2 months ago

    They're at a key strategic position that allows the US to project power into several important targets. Doesn't help that they have nukes so the US can't risk leaving them to fend for themselves without committing omnicide.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        41
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        You hear about the crying drones thing? That was the reality breaker for me. I don't believe in any kind of elemental evil, but I do now see that sufficient depravity can reach more or less the same depths.

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
          hexbear
          31
          2 months ago

          I hadn't heard of this. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/reports-israeli-drones-luring-people-093920198.html

          Every time I think Israel couldn't get any worse, there's always more.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
          hexbear
          13
          2 months ago

          If I was a lich king who had to charge the demon portal with pure evil for my abyssal army to come invade the earth, I MIGHT think about doing the baby crying drone thing.

    • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      37
      2 months ago

      Yeah: Iran, Iraq, and Syria. They just decided to project that force at 3 countries simultaneously. And if it doesn't work out for them, that's going to be the end of their usefulness.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
        hexbear
        18
        2 months ago

        Not just those, though. The west took a huge L in the Suez crisis, but Israel is a way to still have some control over Egypt (which is more or less a puppet state atm). Israel also sits at an important position for projecting power to Afghanistan (lol) and, to a lesser extent, East Asia. South Korea and Japan are much more relevant for East Asia, but Israel still functions as a hub connecting the east and west.