• FortifiedAttack [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    After Iran's massive fuckup I'm no longer confident on predicting how this will go.

    Fully prepared to read about how Israel just rolled in with zero opposition because Anthony Blinken promised each member of the resistance $3.50 if they just didn't do anything.

      • grandepequeno [he/him]
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        19 hours ago

        Iran didn't really retaliate against israel killing the leader of hamas on iranian soil, apparently this was because israel proposed that if they didn't retaliate there would be a ceasefire in gaza, a proposal which iran seemed to have accepted, since hezbollah probably knew about this deal it's speculated that they might've relaxed security a bit and left israel an opening to attack them and, of course, there's no ceasefire in gaza so they lied. And iran believed

        • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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          19 hours ago

          hold on a sec, i need to be brought up to speed here. something isn't lining up for me

          you're saying israel didn't tell the truth????

          alright, that's a wild one. next you'll tell me america was in on this lie with them

        • Autonomarx [he/him]
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          19 hours ago

          do you have a source? seems insane to believe that anyone would honour israel's attempts at negotiation

          • Ivysaur [she/her]
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            19 hours ago

            Nobody really wants war. Nobody except Israel, apparently.

          • grandepequeno [he/him]
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            16 hours ago

            I saw it in the last megathread but going back to it it seemed to just be allegations so it may not be true

          • normal_user [none/use name]
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            17 hours ago

            i think he might have been talking about this https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-ceasefire-talks-iran-attack-intl/

      • Autonomarx [he/him]
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        19 hours ago

        I assume not responding to Haniyeh's assassination and then the new president basically saying Hezbollah's gonna lose