• WhyEssEff [she/her]
    hexagon
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    7 months ago

    israel when provoking a regional war doesn't make the US immediately nuke their enemies surprised-pika

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Don't target American facilities.

    Wouldn't be a problem if the US weren't building facilities half a world awaytook-restraint

      • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        The physical infrastructure is still there but power projection capacity has clearly retracted a lot, a few years ago I would have said this was entirely due to lack of willpower but I'm thinking something a lot deeper has to be badly broken.

        • Owl [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          I think the military industrial complex started out growing its profits by actually growing out productive capacity for arms, then during the W Bush era increased profits by replacing everything with private contractors, and they're now trying to increase profits by not actually doing the work they're paid for. Like the history of industrial capitalism, neoliberal capitalism, and finance capitalism playing out at triple speed.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    America is that kid who encourages the other kids to do something bad and then runs away

    Usually snitches on you to Mrs. Nielson afterwards too

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    It be wild if Iran took the bait and the US told Israel, "Nah, you did this to yourself."

    Fun fantasy.

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it sounds like Iran might retaliate for the embassy and is making it widely known, and the US is signalling it would stay neutral as long as appearances were kept up.

    • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      Not an embassy. Iran has made it clear that should the US push too far their plan is to start blowing up the hundreds of billions of dollars of US industrial infrastructure (oil, refineries, docks, etc) in the Gulf region and North Africa. Most of those state oil companies have their infrastructure owned and operated by US companies like Exxon who then cut them a percentage of the profits.

    • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, '[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. ' The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam that Washington had 'no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.