Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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    Iran, contact me if you’re ever somehow able to start targeting the US mainland.

    I’ll adjust your fire.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.

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    Iran so far has been the adult in the room. I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that’s nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them. I come from a shithole too and I keep shitting on our government for a good reason, but I would definitely prefer them over being holocausted by US/Palestine occupiers.

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      I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that’s nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them.

      🧐

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      Iran’s issues are literally because of US imperialism. Their economy isn’t doing great because of insane illegal sanctions, and their paranoia comes from having been under siege their whole existence. I believe things will get a lot better for Iranians after the aggressors leave the region.

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    Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you’re invading somewhere, you don’t want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.

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      Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It’s the billionaire way.

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        From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term “frontier” combat zone that’s highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).

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          Yup, very well put. The whole “freedom and democracy for the iranian people” speech is just there to keep up appearances, the goal has always been to turn Iran into Libya. Like i havent heard a single mention of Libya in mainstream media in decades.

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          It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction

          i’d say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can’t just be moved out of the way when there’s danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.

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            That low level of area-specific stability can be achieved with proxy forces or mercenaries guarding corporate facilities

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        USSA has been terrorizing Iran long before anyone knew who Epstein was.
        That whole cancer country is to blame.

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    Conventions on war crimes are a mutual agreement on restraints both parties place on themselves. They work, as long as neither party wants to lose face or support by being the one to break their word, and as long as both parties can afford to.

    Trump never gave a shit about keeping his own word, let alone anyone else’s.

    I’m not sure Iran can afford to keep theirs now.

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      He is actively hoping for retaliatory action from literally anyone so he can justify calling for martial law and suspending the constitution.

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        and the democratic party establishment will actively oppose him, saying “just wait and see until you lift martial law, we’ll vote you out so bad, and then keep sending money and weapons to israel just like you did”.

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      It’s understandable to be pissed at Israel for what they do to Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, but just like the critics of this very dick move: killing civilians is not going to solve anything. It just creates more resentment and hate.

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        killing civilians is not going to solve anything.

        Israel has a draft, both genders.
        Most israelis support the Gaza genocide.
        “Civilians” are a minority over there.