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china could potentially do something really funny
they'll probably just send a sternly worded letter though
Attacking China like that SHOULD be suicidal, but...
I will never understand why Israel can just do whatever they want to nearly anyone.
Furthermore, I will never understand why raining death, destruction, and misery on the world is what they want to do.
Well Netanjahu specifically has a strong incentive: as soon as the ceasefire started and the state of emergency ended, the trial against him resumed. He might avoid prison by lighting the world on fire.
But in general it's to stablize ruling class power by mitigating crisis tendencies from inherent contradictions in capitalism. Over-accumulation, overproduction, falling rate of profit - war helps with all of that. It helps materially by destroying value without cutting into profits, opening markets, stealing inputs, subjugating people for overexploitation, destroying competing productive capacity and preventing threats to imperial power. It also helps ideologically by legitimizing austerity and inflation, undermining democracy and increasing exploitation at home.
War is such an important way to temporarily dispell crisis tendencies or push them on someone else, that if US and Israel weren't doing it, the other imperial core countries (like Europe) would need to do it or risk seeing the end of capitalism.
Nukes
America.
China could certainly cut off trade to Israel in response to this and America couldn’t do shit and wouldn’t even if they could.
Besides, America needs China 1000x as much as China needs America. We don’t produce jack shit. We’re valuable to China as a market for their production but honestly that’s imaginary, you could produce just as much and consume it domestically or even produce just as much and throw it directly into the sea and it wouldn’t change anything because America doesn’t give anything in return besides Monopoly money.