Israel launches airstrikes on Iran
www.bbc.com
Explosions are heard in Tehran, as Israel's military says it's carrying out "precise strikes" on military targets.
  • BeamBrain [he/him]English
    41•2 hours ago

    Does anyone here have a guess as to why Israel is trying to solo the entire Arab world Middle East in the middle of an ongoing colonial uprising?

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]English
      25•2 hours ago

      I have used this example before: imagine you have a revolver with six bullets - they will become obsolete and unable to deal any damage to your enemy in 10 years.

      While you only have a 10% chance of killing your enemies right now, it will be 1% in 10 years time.

      What will you do?

      Do you use those bullets now hoping to deal at least some lasting damage to your enemies, or do you hoard them until nobody is afraid of them anymore?

      For Zionists, this will be the end of their ideology, the end of their ethnostate project. What becomes of Zionism when it comes to that? It makes sense they have to deal damage now than later.

      (The bullets are US/Israeli air superiority, and what will make it obsolete are modern Russian air defense systems that once supplied to Iran, will end Western air supremacy altogether in the Middle East)

    • barrbaric [he/him]English
      46•2 hours ago

      I can think of two possibilities:

      1. They’re copying Nixon’s “Madman Theory”, where by being violent and unpredictable they can extract greater concessions from their opponents. This is your “De-Escalation through Escalation” they were talking about a while ago.
      2. Israel now views this as an existential conflict and is trying to disable their opponents while they still have enough munitions to do so.
    • FunkyStuff [he/him]English
      19•2 hours ago

      The only way towards de-escalation is coming to the negotiating table with Hamas. Negotiating with Hamas sets a bad precedent and, in the long term, compromise’s the entity’s ability to keep Palestine down. Their economy is already severely compromised as it is, so I think that going out with some kind of last hurrah and trying to accomplish all their goals at once is probably more appealing than having to back down, recover, and attempt to do it all again a decade from now.

    • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]English
      23•2 hours ago

      They may see with the US risking getting into a war with Russia and wanting a war with China that their own time to pull the US into a conflict to settle the region’s problems in their favor using the might of the US is quickly drawing to a close and will likely not exist in a few years so why let a crisis go to waste when they can try and get the US to take out Iran and Hezbollah for them which would allow greater “isreal” to become a reality. It’s an expansionist mindset too. Also fascists gonna fascist.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]English
    44•2 hours ago

    Here we go. Now did they have an ounce of sense and just pound the desert and a few unimportant places and claim otherwise in their propaganda so Iran has an out not to retaliate in kind? Or more likely did these deranged zionists hit important things and Iran has to hit back even harder and kill US troop scum manning their air defenses as well? At which point the US can either leave with its tail between its legs like Reagan did Lebanon in the 80s or escalate in some way including potentially war.

    I hope the people of Iran remain safe regardless of outcome. I hope the colonizers of the zionist occupation continue to feel and be very unsafe as they should be until they stop their genocide and dismantle their apartheid regime.

  • EstraDoll [she/her]English
    25•2 hours ago

    fuck me i already bought a fifth of gin planning on drinking tonight. god damn israel and the united states