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Oct 20·edited Oct 20

you are really missing the mark on this one. Israel has not crushed or succeeded at anything, they are in deep trouble. Lost escalation dominance vis-a-vis Iran. Have not crushed Hamas which has reconstituted its forces completely. It's Iron Dome has now been proven to not even be able to defend its most precious military assets against Iranian missile attacks. The incursion in lebanon is doing nothing.

Civilian bombing campaigns and killing leaders have never been effective in the history of war.

Furthermore, the liberal wests opinion is turning against Israel which means any sanction effort would entirely annihilate the country (although I suspect Israel will just threaten with nuclear weapons in that case).

Iran is not a key architect. Israel is. Get your history together, the neocons together with Israel have written about these exact middle eastern wars we have been having 30 years in advance in their seminal work post berlin collaapse which you can all find on wikileaks. I.e., the iraq war, afghanistan and now Iran wars were in the planning. The USA and Israel wanted these wars, and they just needed a match to light the fire.

This Iran war is because Israel wants a war with Iran/USA to 'remake the middle east' in its own image. Anyway, the the neocon-israel foreign policy for the middle east has but only failed. And this will fail too.

Goodness are you entirely wrong on this one.

Iran is not the one that would get sanctioned. Oil would shoot up to 200 euros a barrel if Iran wants to. All the cards are in the hands of China-Russia-Iran, and they know it. They control production (china), they control the resources (Iran/Russia, and China in the resource rich countries) to a far greater extent than we do. Without China tens of millions of people would die tomorrow in the west, because we wouldn't have any medicines, China having monopolized key components of the medicine fabrication supply chain. And it's not just medicines, it's everything. They have monopolized the refining of all basically all minerals in the world, and these industries are incredibly low-margin, incredibly capital intensive, and we would never be able to compete with china on global markets.

They are just keeping us alive, hoping our system works enough to start recognizing these changes in world order. They have entire armies already sitting inside our countries, they are on top of all our critical infrastructure (because China makes basically all of that), China builds all the ships in the world, and the USA builds.. basically none; and also can not build any ever anymore. That takes decades. So who will have the biggest navy in 5 years? In 10, in 15? China is able to listen into anything the Pentagon does because Huawei makes all of its equipment (and there are no replacements to Huawei; according to the Pentagon) and more.

Turns out if you liberalize everything you have nothing.

It's the end of our empire (personified by Trump that wants to end the empire structures such as NATO). The sooner we wake up the better.

China is just sitting quietly and patiently allowing us to screw up again and again and again and again. Why would they stop this.

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