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Feel free to use this a megathread for the US/Israeli war on Iran.

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[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 216 points 1 month ago

Fascist USA and Israel are the biggest threats to world peace. They are the axis of evil.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 208 points 1 month ago

First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country's leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.

Death to the burger empire.

[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 month ago

The scary part is how they succeed in their objectives. I'm still not over Maduro's kidnapping and how they pulled it off. It's freakish.

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago

Kidnapping Maduro didn't accomplish any of their stated objectives in Venezuela. It looks like the White House didn't even confer with energy companies about the viability of expanding their oil production?! They flipped their script immediately afterwards and claimed they won. You'd have to be a doomer to believe it.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 41 points 1 month ago

These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago

Although, it's worth noting that this was largely a stunt. The US did not have the ability to actually invade Venezuela or to topple the government.

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[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

The scary part is how they succeed in their objectives.

US government spends more than a trillion dollar on war each year.

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[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago

Can they really be a “threat” when they’re actively killing people all over the world?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 month ago

Yeah, more accurately they are the active enemies of world peace.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hmm yes I think I will remove the respected leader that opposed Iran having a nuclear weapons program. 👀

[-] F_State@midwest.social 69 points 1 month ago

That was widely expected to die soon of natural causes anyway

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 month ago

In a society that reveres martyrdom above all else 🤔

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago

I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.

Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.

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[-] totesmygoat@piefed.ca 19 points 1 month ago

Well they created isis last time they displayed their level of stupidity. This time... Super isis?

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Yes the goal is 100% super-ISIS they wanted to get this going in Xinjiang and Central Asia. ISIS is actually smart here's the thing. The US benefits from having a higher level of productivity due to advanced technology, and basically cannot survive without laying waste to entire regions to keep them underdeveloped + access resources.

Read Value Chains it's great https://annas-archive.li/md5/0ca2108287828ca6508816b7ecbe9a3e

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 62 points 1 month ago

The Greatest Satan. Thanks for confirming, comrade. I don't believe USA/Isntrael without confirmation from non-liars.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago

No probs, same. If it's a "trump says" source, then it's immediately sus and we need at least a confirmation from the other side.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Khamenei was the main reason Iran did not develop nuclear weapons up to now. With him gone, that becomes a much more likely scenario.

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[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Results of the imperialist aggression:

An 86 year old dead

150 school children vaporized

Regime is still there

American bases in the zone turned to rubble

Strait of hormuz closed

[-] frisbird@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

86 year old AND 2 subsequent generations of his bloodline - his daughter and his granddaughter

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

israelis and their obsession with blood feuds uh, it just came to me why they murdered them.

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Will the americans ever tire of all this winning?

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 month ago

Israel going unchallenged in the region will be the worst possible outcome if Iran falls.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 month ago

Rest in peace. May the US Empire and its dogs crumble.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 month ago

Whelp.

He was 86. I don’t know to what extent he was still in charge. It may have been anywhere from still fully in charge to just a figurehead.

[-] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 52 points 1 month ago

That psychotic demon netanyahu needs to be sent back to Lucifer.

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[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago

The first thing to die in war is the truth.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

Truth and more than 80 elementary school girls.

[-] Pissed@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Of course, but it wouldn't make sense to lie about this, either way he was a 86 year old, and I'm not going to pretend that the Iranian regime was a paragon of freedom.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

That regime has been practicing for this very day for DECADES. They have plans B, C, D, E, F, and G on the books.

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[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

Liberals truly believe Great Man Theory

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago

It's sort of a core part of their shield, if great man theory wasn't true they'd have to reckon with the global structures of terror they support instead of just blaming putler and the orange man while screaming vote blue no matter who.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

So the US has taken action against two heads of state in two months, and the rest of the world is not at all worried?

I mean, if fair is fair, this should be a free-for-all, so I'd be all for Netanyahu, Bbukele and Putin going up in smoke next.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

They actually let him stay in his house? Did they want him as a martyr or something?

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 45 points 1 month ago

He was 86 years old and dying. I'd want to stay in my own house too

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

At that point he might have just wanted to go out on his own terms, and martyred by the USA are great terms to go out on by his ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if this strengthens the resolve of the true believers.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Well war over now right? Trump said the goal was regime change. We'll mission accomplished. Right?

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