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World News@lemmy.world•Israeli settlers beat American to death in West Bank; US says it’s awareEnglish
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World News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump blasts "a lot of bullshit" from PutinEnglish
536·10 months agoCredit where credit is due. I like this Trump dude at this exact moment.
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World News@lemmy.world•The destruction of Palestine is breaking the worldEnglish
83·10 months agoIt’s actually China and Russia who’s funding them currently.
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World News@lemmy.world•The destruction of Palestine is breaking the worldEnglish
615·10 months agoIf we consider UN as being the main arbitrator on who gets to launch a war, then to mention a few instances…
1950: North Korea illegally attacks South Korea.
1956: Soviet Union illegally invades Hungary.
1956: Israel / France / UK illegally invade Egypt. All invaders withdraw after UN condemnation and international pressure.
1964: USA illegally escalates Vietnam War.
1967: Israel launches the Six-Day War, illegality debated.
1968: Soviet Union illegally invades Czechoslovakia.
1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel.
1974: Turkey illegally invades Cyprus.
1978: Vietnam illegally invades Cambodia.
1979: Soviet Union illegally invades Afghanistan.
1982: Israel illegally invades Libanon.
1983: USA illegally invades Grenada.
1989: USA illegally invades Panama.
1990: Iraq illegally invades Kuwait. Got their ass kicked by UN-sanctioned forces though so that worked out fine.
1999: NATO illegally bombs Yugoslavia.
2003: US and UK illegally invade Iraq.
2008: Russia illegally invades Georgia.
2014: Russia illegally invades and annexes Crimea.
2015: Saudi-Arabia illegally invades Yemen.
2022: Russia illegally invades Ukraine.
I probably forgot a few. No ill meaning meant, just missing knowledge.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran issues fatwa against Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"English
31·11 months agoThe Bible specifically allows killing as an act of war and considers it different from murder. The protagonists of the book also steal stuff all the time.
These commandments are for controlling behavior inside a society, not outside of it.
Trump is a senile and a deeply unserious person. His existence makes me believe that souls might exist because he very much seems like a person without one. He doesn’t think about his actions deeply which is why I believe that if he suddenly turned religious, I don’t think much would change.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran issues fatwa against Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"English
31·11 months agoWould it be better if he was, though?
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran issues fatwa against Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"English
351·11 months agoIt’s weird when two horrible entities in the world hate each other. Is it popcorn time?
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World News@lemmy.world•US to withdraw from NATO under Republican billEnglish
211·11 months agoWell, in a democracy it’s important that people who want this can try to make it happen via official procedure, which this is.
That said, the people who want this are assholes and probably in bed with Russia.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
11·11 months agoI suppose the hit on Bin Laden couldn’t have been launched without significant presence in Afghanistan. Why you stayed there after that though was weird. That seems to have been Obama’s mistake.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
7·11 months agoMore than many people did, though. Including you.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
63·11 months agoThat would practically guarantee boots on the ground in Iran and a regime change in 3 months.
Iran’s leaders are dumb, but I don’t think they’re that dumb.
edit hate to repeat a standard antisemitic trope, but Israel would have a big reason to fake that
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
24·11 months agoYeah, citizens and nuclear weapon research are perfectly equivalent targets.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
31·11 months agoThe USA responded by attacking the wrong country
Not just one! They got Osama bin Laden eventually though so amazing success
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World News@lemmy.world•US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of HormuzEnglish
102·11 months agoHow about moving to non-fossil alternatives? Like 4 decades ago? Gee that would’ve been a great idea.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
6·11 months agoSo they will most likely use terrorist attacks, targeting civilians, because that’s the best hope they have to end the war: when the people back home get serious about ending it as they’re taking losses.
Remember what happened the last time a major terrorist strike happened in USA? That’s the number one way to get ordinary civilians of a democracy to support an actual war almost 100%. It’s the kind of strategy that makes Pentagon say “yeah lol be my guest let’s see what happens”.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sitesEnglish
1119·11 months agoThat’s how they’ve viewed US citizens since about 1979. Trump is an asshole, but going after the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in the top 100 worst things he’s done.
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World News@lemmy.world•Argentina inflation tumbles to five-year-low 1.5% in boost for MileiEnglish
3·11 months agoYeah, it was 25% per month when Milei was elected and been going down ever since almost every month. Whether it’s thanks to or despite him is a more difficult question of course.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei – three angry old men who could get us all killedEnglish
23·11 months agoYou’re biased, based on your handle. You think Gaza is important.
I’m also biased, because I live next to Russia. I think defending against Russia in the current situation is much more important than anything that could happen in Gaza. And if you want to take the historical perspective, Russia has violated my country and the people of my country several times during the last 300 years at least, and probably more. Middle East obviously has the potential to beat us on the historical record, given how the whole of human civilization practically rose in that area, but still. It’s not like this is happening for the first time over here either.
It’s not that I don’t care about their tragedies, it’s just that it’s nowhere near a top priority right now. If Russia stops being a crazy asshole, things farther away from my country’s borders may become more important to me. Still, note that if what I’m suggesting is true, Putin and Russia are partially to blame about what’s happening In Gaza. With a handle like yours, you probably cared about Gaza already before Putin’s manipulations, but half of the eyes of the lefties in west were looking at Ukraine. They are not looking at Ukraine anymore, like they should be doing.
Truth to be told, geopolitically speaking it seems much more sane to be on Israel’s side because they’re against Iran, who’s on Russia’s side. And Palestine seems to be kinda on Russia’s side as well so remind me again why I should support them at all?
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei – three angry old men who could get us all killedEnglish
71·11 months agoPlease put an age restriction on politicians, it would solev sooo much nonsense.
While I partially agree on this, let’s consider some cases:
- Hitler’s reign 1933-1945, his age: 44-56
- Stalin 1922-1952, age 44-74
- Putin 2000-?, age 48-?
- Pol Pot 1963-1981, age 38-56
- Louis XIV 1643-1715, age 5-77 or 16-77 if you count coronation as the start (sacre bleu jesus fuck)
- Xi Jinping 2012-?, age 59-?
Youth is clearly not enough. Age limit + term limit might be a useful combination, but it all falls down when you allow somebody to just grab all power anyway and reset all the rules and limits, like Putin and Xi Jinping have done.







There’s some reason to believe this one. For instance, the sudden rise of Epstein’s List on top of every feed seems to suggest that someone doesn’t like what Trump is doing or is about to do.
Second, I’ll just allow myself to hope that somehow a piece of sanity reached Trump.