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Reminds me of something.
What’s that. Serious question
ISIS map, edited by them from a screenshot of the game Victoria 2.
Thank you
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Welp, regardless of the very real issues in these countries, this is exactly the kind of rhetoric that precedes an invasion, as it did when Putin started publicly questioning Ukraine’s status as a country. This helps cement my assessment that Israel is going to go for a larger land grab with the pretext of building a buffer zone for the protection of its citizens.
Israel be going down down to nazi town really quick. You know what they say, you either die a hero...
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They're not going to stop land grabbing...
As long as they think America has their back. They'll keep going.
And Biden has spent over 50 years saying he'll always support them no matter what.
That geriatric old fuck needs out of office now. We can't wait for January and he's clearly lost all his marbles or he'd be the candidate.
There is real life shit going on and Biden has shown time and time again. He's just not capable of handling it
I mean it is the same with Putin, saying Ukraine is not a real country, he is not going to stop at Ukraine. Something similar might happen in Armenia too, things are becoming ugly.
Biden is stuck with what life was like 70 years ago. Russia was the bad guys then so he treats them as the bad guys now at least.
But he's gone on record saying his support of Israel is due to a promise he made his dad when he was six years old.
He's just flat out not looking at things logically, it's a joke that we're still pretending he's capable of running the country when he's obviously not
I am honestly not sure if it is Biden's decision after I saw how cooked his brains were. More likely he just read whatever his party/vice president decided.
Do you honestly think the people running for office are capable of “handling” this any differently?
Sad part is Kamala or Trump won’t stop supporting Israel either.
Americans need to vote 3rd party but they never will do it.
The eventual outcome of the slippery slope that comes from justifying colonial interests that were legitimized in cooperation with the Nazis under the Haavara Agreement under the vise of religion.
Does Israel really have a monopoly on power? Don't they have huge numbers of settler militia types out there attacking Palestinians and driving them from their lands?
It is the US that has the military power. Israel has already tried going into Lebanon before and failed, so I think if they do it they must be pretty confident that America will come to their aid.
They really really want to draw the US and Iran into it.
As I understand it, some of the settlers have a little military training, but mostly they are as you would expect, very uneducated poor people from very remote places who don't know anything else, and that's on both sides of the borders. Too bad Israel has a far-right government in charge that won't do anything to stop these illegal settlements. I hope they get thrown out in the next election.
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Like Putin sais about soviet countries!? good to know israel is not the bad guy s/
Not really onion-y.
Lebanon literally has a foreign paramilitary group with considerabily political power controlling part of it's territory, so they are arguable not a fully sovereign state. And in the end statehood is not a clear definied concept and what really matter is recognition from other states. A states not recognition another for poltical reasons is not really something strange or absurd. That's pretty much the norm.
It is not the norm, it is becoming the norm. Nothing to shrug about, it is quite dystopian.
And how is Hezbollah not a local military? As far as I know, they have existed before the Iranian revolution.
It is not the norm, it is becoming the norm.
How so? This was much more common in the past. It's become much less of the norm since we have international instituations like the UN.
Nothing to shrug about, it is quite distopian.
right, but this isn't !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world. And I don't think it's onion-y.
And how is Hezbollah not a local military? As far as I know, they have existed before the Iranian revolution.
They are funded by and acting in the interest of Iran. But it wouldn't really change anything if they were local. It still means the government is only partially in control of the country.
How so? This was much more common in the past. It’s become much less of the norm since we have international instituations like the UN.
So it's not the norm, it is becoming the norm. you answered it yourself.
right, but this isn’t !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world. And I don’t think it’s onion-y.
My comment is not the post, the post is onion-y
They are funded by and acting in the interest of Iran. But it wouldn’t really change anything if they were local. It still means the government is only partially in control of the country.
This makes no sense.
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I think US oil interests might have a thing or two to say about declaring Iraq not a country.
The US could be in a leopards ate my face situation if Israel pursues that line of thought into taking destructive military actions in Iraq.
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Nationalist Narcissism begins.
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