I am convinced that Israel has realized that it can't survive a drawn out conflict, and will endlessly provoke literally all of it's neighbors until things have escalated to the point that the US feels the need to properly enter the fray.

Edited: Bad wording on my part in the first one. I'm just tired - not awful

  • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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    22 days ago

    Israel was using white phosphorus in lebanon but..... Lebanon is the one escalating?

  • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]
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    22 days ago

    Israel is completely fucking nuts. Genocide isn't enough. Time for a large scale regional war. Fuck them and fuck the US who is equally as complicit in this insanity

    • refolde [she/her, any]
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      22 days ago

      Might want to reword that, just so it doesn't come off the wrong way. "As if genocide wasn't enough" or something

      • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]
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        22 days ago

        Well the thing is genocide is already the most evil crime. That's what I'm trying to point out. And regional war will also cause massive death and destruction. Basically the evil Israel is down to do seems limitless. I am convinced Israel would be happy to wipe off every middle eastern country off the face of the planet. They know the existence of Israel as it is now is a complete glitch in reality. And they're losing their minds. And they won't stop.

        • RaisedFistJoker [she/her]
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          22 days ago

          she's saying that someone could accidentally read your comment is "Genocide isnt enough [of a punishment towards israel, for being nuts]", not that your point is wrong

          • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]
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            22 days ago

            Oh ok. Yeah that's not what I meant. I don't have the American or Israeli mindset

        • Pentacat [he/him]
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          22 days ago

          What makes you think they only want to wipe out everyone in the Middle East?

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      Fascists are always like this, because fascism is at its core an ideology without any material grounding. It's all fantasy.

      They imagine themselves as the supermen that can never be stopped and can never lose, that every loss they've ever had was only a temporary setback and that they are always marching towards Greater Israel. Their whole project isn't based in reality.

      The Germans were exactly the same. It's really fascinating watching history repeat itself despite a near century of "progress"

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Escalation is when you patiently allow the enemy to continually ratchet up the level of violence.

    The more patient you are the more escalation it is!

    • hyperobject@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      I can never tell what you people are even trying to say at this point. Can we just lay things out instead of trying to turn it into an epic one-liner or sarcastic quip? What are you even trying to say?

      When are we ever going to be in a more serious situation than this? Can we just talk normally instead of being like "Iran is chudpilled tonight!!!" and filtering everything through ten layers of internet irony that most people moved on from after 2017?

      I do well on all the autism tests when lying to get a lower score, so you're obliged to answer or it's a dick move.

    • TanneriusFromRome [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      22 days ago

      That's a fair point

      I had meant purely that I didn't recall a Hezbollah retaliation as wide scale as this before now. Clearly they're being intentionally provoked, and are not in any sense the aggressors here.

      What do you think is a better way to say it? I will edit

      Edit: I just made it super academic and it fixed it as far as I can see.

  • Pentacat [he/him]
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    22 days ago

    The US will properly burn to the ground if our kids get sent to die in “Israel’s” war. No chance the US enters without Mossad doing a false flag mass casualty attack within the US.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    22 days ago

    And Western media will continue to do all sorts of mental gymnastics to make it seem like Hamas are the ones that are holding up talks.