• Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    It’s probably seen as a great success to the groups that profited from it. Same as trickle down economics, and every evil industrial complex.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    For the past two months, Iran had been in diplomatic negotiations with the Trump administration, and both sides appeared to be getting closer to a deal that would drastically curtail Tehran’s enrichment of uranium and prevent any path to the bomb.

    Then Israel attacked. It acted less to pre-empt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy.

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    22 hours ago

    But but but - I thought it was MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?!

    the guy got his picture in a flight suit and everything!

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      “freedom is on the march”

      And Americans ate it up like the crummy greasy fast food most of them live on.

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        Good comparison with fast food, plenty of folks consume propaganda for similar reasons. Just as there are food deserts there are also information deserts.

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    Well lets see. Dough brain trump is in charge, his defense secretary can’t use a messaging app and virtually everyone else in his administration is probably licking a window somewhere. Yes I think it will be a mistake

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    22 hours ago

    Mistake: Yes.

    Help out Ukraine unintentionally: also yes.

    If the US attacks Iran, there goes Russias Shahed drone supplier.

    That’s why Tucker and Bannon are all up in arms about attacking Iran. That hurts Mother Russia

  • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social
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    This is going to be the breaking point if we actually put boots on the ground in Iran and don’t just engage in drone terrorism and bombing runs. More military action in the middle east is a ubiquitously unpopular platform, and wars that are perceived as pointless have almost always been devastating to ruling party / presidential support. Further, the US military has been struggling to hit its recruitment numbers for years now, and this isn’t going to help that. It also stretches the government’s attention even further, and makes it more vulnerable to dissident activity at home.