• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    As Tehran residents evacuated the capital in increasing numbers, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, threatened to make Tehranis “pay the price” for Ali Khamenei’s decision to keep firing missiles at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli attack.

    This is literally an adult… saying “why are you hitting yourself”.

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        9 days ago

        Iran has the right to self defense just like Israel, so are they not now justified in killing 30x as many civilians like Israel does?

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      11 days ago

      Does Iran have operational nukes? They’d probably respond in kind. If not, they’d probably launch basically everything they have at Israel.

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        They do not, that’s kind of what this whole deal is about dude. And they’ve been launching what they have at Israel for a few days, it’s not much.

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          Most countries, Israel included, don’t possess the material for a protracted war. Most Non-US countries can make war, at best, for six months.

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          It’s not much? They broke through the iron dome, that’s a bit more than not much my dude.

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            9 days ago

            It’s not nothing but Israel is bombing targets on Iran’s eastern border right now, that speaks a clear language.

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      I don’t think they will, but I’ve been thinking that one way Israel could get current and potential future enemies off their back for good would be if they finally showed the world that they do possess nukes and are not afraid to use them, possibly by making an example of someone. I do hope they won’t prove quite so callous.

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    11 days ago

    Why is Isreal bullying Iran they didnt do anything to deserve this.

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      Netanyahu has had a hard on for regime change in Iran for 30 years. Israel wants to destroy every country in the region that is pro Palestine. With the help of the US neocons, he has virtually succeeded; turning Syria, Libya, Iraq, Sudan into failed states that pose no threat to Israeli hegemony.

      This policy was first set out in the 1980s by Israeli strategist Oded Yinon who called for breaking up Arab states into weak, sectarian mini-states (Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, etc.) fragmenting states in the Middle East to weaken them

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    I would t call what Israel is doing as a genocide. Not yet at least. But we clearly are seeing how Russian air defenses are basically useless against American 5th Gen fighters.

    Maybe Russia needs to figure out their shit before they sell defensive systems that do nothing.

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      Hm, I’ve had this feeling that I can express thus: these missile exchanges, decoys, air defense saturation and “War of the Cities” feel like dry runs for nuclear exchanges. They are perfecting the launch and psychological warfare tactics.

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        Israel will never use a nuke. That would be the end of global economies. They care about money more than they care about nuking Iran. They don’t need to nuke them. They have complete air control. They can do whatever they want with explosives now.

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        It’s always serious and prep at the same time.

        They’re seriously fighting over resources and land, and prepping for the future wars to come because everyone knows the resource wars are around the corner