yunyun333
9mo ago
You don't need a real conspiracy reason for this, biden was a corpse and kamala is energetic.
yunyun333
9mo ago
I mean it is pretty silly that there were race riots against migrants because a british-born son of Christian immigrants mentally snapped, although the police/govt response would have been the exact same if it had been the most stereotypical middle eastern channel crosser.
But it was also pretty silly when there were mass protests because an american cop kneeled on an american guy. Hell, apparently their sportsballers are still fucking kneeling - even we stopped doing this after like a year.
yunyun333
9mo ago
Kamala's VP pick is in: Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota. Shapiro was apparently off the board because of some botched case from a decade ago. Although Walz is an unknown to most American voters, he conveys "midwestern good vibes" and seems like a pleasant enough white guy. Probably will be harder to go after than JD vance. Any minnesotans got any cool stories about him?
yunyun333
9mo ago
Sharon said a lot of things to a lot of people. Perhaps he didn't want to be seen as too strongly endorsing a US invasion of an Arab state. We do know that he was working with zionists in Bush's cabinet to help launder pro-invasion information to the administration:
The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
A former IDF brigadier general also criticized Israeli intelligence along similar lines.
yunyun333
9mo ago
Killing of Hamas leader 'doesn't help' ceasefire talks, says Biden
Mr Biden said he was “very concerned” about rising tensions in the Middle East. "We have the basis for a ceasefire. He [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] should move on it and they [Hamas] should move on it now."
He said he had spoken to Mr Netanyahu earlier on Thursday and had promised to protect Israel "against all threats from Iran", which has vowed to retaliate. Iran is Hamas's most important backer and is an arch-foe of Israel.
Is Israel Deliberately Provoking an Escalation That Might Drag the U.S. Into the Conflict?
Israel could have killed Haniyeh anywhere in the Middle East, yet deliberately chose to do so in Iran during the inauguration. That's not daring – that's the very definition of provocative.
Israel left Iran no choice but to retaliate, the scope of which remains the big question mark. But Israel also outsourced "escalation dominance" by handing to Iran to decision over whether to escalate. That's a legitimate course of policy – except that Iran may not see it that way.
The worst case scenario for Iran is an escalation that somehow involves the Americans. Iran's prize asset, its "military nuclear threshold" status, could be undermined in such an event if the United States, even reluctantly, is dragged into a conflict and attacks the Iranians.
This is where it gets interesting. Who has no interest in such an escalation? The United States, whose makeshift Middle East policy will now have to be revisited, and Iran, which clearly prefers attrition and low intensity.
Who does have a vested interest in an expanded war? Mr. Netanyahu. Which is why the conventional wisdom in Washington over the last 36 hours is that Israel carried out the Haniyeh assassination deliberately in Iran and intentionally on that day.
Does Netanyahu actually want to drag the US into a much larger war with Iran? Or is he content to strike humiliating blows against them, safe in the knowledge that the US's aegis protects them from massive retaliation, and Iran lacks the ability to pursue more fine-grained responses. Biden certainly doesn't seem to be happy either way, as his response to a wanted terrorist leader being eliminated, in a fairly elegant and collateral-minimizing way, shows.
yunyun333
9mo ago
Hamas Political Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Iran, Organization Confirms
Hamas claims he died in a 'raid'. Pretty hilarious that after 10 months of puttering around the gulf states he goes to iran and instantly gets dropped. Iran really needs to worry about internal security rather than nukes.
yunyun333
9mo ago
Her border stint was also the source of the only organic and funny kamala meme in existence. sure the VP doesn't do much but if you take away this then what can she tout of her service other than not being biden/trump?
yunyun333
9mo ago
Wonder what his goals were here - are 2000 pound bombs really that necessary still? Getting republicans to clap like seals while his own generals are telling him to make a peace deal isn't going to do much to advance real war goals. Biden also gave his own speech hours later, perhaps intentionally to overshadow it - full respect to joe if that's what he was going for.
Seriously though why do Rs love this guy so much? He has like a 20% approval rating in Israel. Is it just because of his historical track record of disrespecting dems?
Now we see if 3 months is long enough to rev up a credible presidential campaign.
He doesn't mention picking a successor, but may in a speech later this week.
E: He endorsed Kamala. Obama did not, calling for an "open nominating process", and didn't even mention Harris.
yunyun333
9mo ago
i don't see anything about him being a prostitute. he did bounce from being a nudist activist to an antivax election denier though
yunyun333
9mo ago
When some random schizo tried to kill nancy pelosi and ended up severely injuring her husband, plenty of people on the right spread some bizarre spurned gay lover conspiracy and made fun of the victim for it. There were people on this forum taking it somewhat seriously. I don't think any side gets a high ground on this.
yunyun333
9mo ago
Shots fired at a trump rally, he was apparently bleeding from his ear but alive enough to fist pump to the crowd while getting pulled off the stage by security.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/13/us/biden-trump-election
Did Biden call in seal team six?
yunyun333
10mo ago
Did Vietnam result in meaningful improvement? Judging by Iraq our counterinsurgency skills were still lacking.
yunyun333
10mo ago
France's left coalition NPF appears to have won the election, with Macron's party in 2nd and the RN 3rd.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ck7gydwgvy8t
I haven't faintest clue about how the french electoral system works but perhaps Macron was correct to call an early election.
yunyun333
10mo ago
Bolivian General Attempts 'Worst Coup Ever', Asked to Leave Army
Hundreds of troops and armoured vehicles had taken up position on Murillo Square where key government buildings are located. One armoured vehicle attempted to smash down the entrance to the presidential palace. Soldiers later withdrew from the South American city.
The military leader in charge, Gen Juan José Zúñiga, had said he wanted to "restructure democracy" and that while he respected President Luis Arce "for now", there would be a change of government.
He was later arrested, seconds after telling reporters the military had staged the intervention at the president's request.
Was this guy really controlled opposition or just a moron? Strange to cancel your coup right after banging down the president's doors.
yunyun333
11mo ago
i don't think the jews were worse than arabs, at least in their intentions. certainly, if the arabs had won, the end result for jews would have been worse than expulsion. but expulsion was still a Bad Thing, although there's nothing to be done about it now.
yunyun333
11mo ago
Fifth: the Arab governments' invitation to the people of Palestine to flee from it and seek refuge in adjacent Arab countries, after terror had spread among their ranks in the wake of the Deir Yassin event. This mass flight has benefited the Jews and the situation stabilized in their favor without effort.... Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homeland, while it is we who constrained them to leave it. Between the invitation extended to the refugees and the request to the United Nations to decide upon their return, there elapsed only a few months.
so it was about deir yassin. people panicked and left of their own volition... because they believed they would be massacred
yunyun333
11mo ago
morris's view is basically the same as yours - Both sides did awful things, which is what happens in wars. The Arabs were the losing side and my view is that if people commit major mistakes in history they pay for them and perhaps that’s how it should work out. The Palestinians should have agreed to a two-state solution.
yunyun333
11mo ago
i don't know what postmodernism has to do with this. it seems entirely possible to determine what in fact happened in 1948, whether arabs left because arab leadership told them to leave, or because they were afraid of being massacred, or because they were forcefully expelled by jewish soldiers, or for any other reason. motivations are more nebulous but you can look into official idf documents (plan D) and what leaders such as ben gurion wrote.
yunyun333
11mo ago
benny morris changed his political views and said "transfer/expulsion is good actually", but he is still willing to call it such.
the willing flight narrative has been thoroughly taken apart by israel's "new historians". here's a thorough review of the historiography: https://www.zochrot.org/publication_articles/view/51011/en?Were_they_expelled
Like the Irish journalist Erskine Childers before him, Morris found no evidence of instructions or directions by the Arab Higher Committee, or any Arab government for that matter, to the local population of Palestine to leave the country. All he could trace was instructions by the Arab Higher Committee to local commanders to secure the evacuation of women, children and old men from the areas of danger.
some other examples:
israel's secret campaign of poisoning arab wells, countenanced by david ben gurion
benny morris, who certainly is no bleeding heart leftist: "In truth, however, the Jews committed far more atrocities than the Arabs and killed far more civilians and PoWs in deliberate acts of brutality in the course of 1948, and noted that only 6 out of 392 towns and villages that he examined were abandoned due to Arab orders
yunyun333
11mo ago
They're maybe tangentially related to Biden stopping some shipments of bombs and threatening further restrictions.
yunyun333
1yr ago
divestment is a pretty clear goal. it's worked before
yunyun333
1yr ago
a few hours ago: US approves Rafah op. in exchange for no Israeli counter-strikes on Iran
so maybe israel isn't going to go through with that. or they just really don't give a shit about what the US wants
So is it safe to say that at the start of the next big war a bunch of important submarine cables/pipelines all get cut simultaneously? A bog standard chinese container ship "accidentally" cut a baltic sea pipeline last october, the houthis managed to fuck up some cables in the red sea, it clearly isn't that difficult.
Anyways in this case it was always blatantly obvious the ukrainians did this, they had something to gain, and the americans weren't going to give germany a slap in the face like this.
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