• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    From a different article:

    “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr. Trump said, telling CNN it was unclear who was now leading Iran.

    “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,” he said.

    What’s your actual fucking goal? I don’t get what they intend to hit here. They’re making it actually impossible for Iran to do the thing they want.

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      Ultimately bullies just want to bully. They don’t want anything from their target except to reflect back to them an image of their desired power.

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      What’s your actual fucking goal?

      I’d wager that the part they aren’t saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

      1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

      2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

      3. War fits into the “law and order” narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

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        \4. Zelensky told him that Ukraine has it in their Constitution that they don’t hold elections during times of war. He thinks this applies to the US Constitution.

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        Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.

        They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.

        Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.

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          Daesh isn’t destroyed, it’s dormant. This will almost certainly cause a resurgence, they already killed two syrian soldiers in an attack today

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            *the Orange is making the world a lot worse

            *the Orange is Americans are making the world a lot worse

            They have elected this monster and his regime twice

            They refuse any accountability for their reckless behaviour

            They refuse to hold any of their political class responsible

            • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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              Thanks for outing yourself as someone worth blocking.

              Be careful because Germany is allowing nazis/fascists to increase their power and you are taking zero responsibility. So be really careful how you want to bitch about the US before you have your own ass bitten by fascists. AGAIN.

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        Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it’s distracting from.

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          yeah, I hate that “EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION!!!” now.

          It’s fucking NOT. I’m sure they ARE trying to do some things as distractions, but most of it is just simply evil.

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            The annoying part is that the Epstein files would never turn many cultists. Most are fine with it or are willing to look past it. Many just reject that it exists.

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      The goal is to keep war going until at least November, so it can be used to cancel or ignore midterms. Having no defined goals is essential to that.

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        If we start seeing a bunch of “Don’t change horses midstream” political commercials soon, then I know we’re in a simulation, and the creators are just lazy, pulling from “Wag the Dog” because they’re out of ideas.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          Rhaedas! Rhaedas! Wake up! We’ve been trying to wake you up for months now! Come on, man, wake up! You gotta be hearing us in your dreams, man, come on, man, wakf09234r 5tKT23 #:$LT #$@# $J% $R# $J#$DO NOT CHANGE HORSES MIDSTREAM. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP TRUMP IN POWER SO THE WORLD IS SAFE AND PEACEFUL. DO NOT VOTE AGAINST TRUMP OR WE WILL DO BAD THINGS TO YOU. AGAIN. DON’T YOU REMEMBER? DON’T YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME?

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      The thing they want is an external distraction so people will quit paying attention to domestic issues. Bonus points if Iran actually manages to become enough of a problem to “justify” emergency powers for the president. They don’t actually give two fucks what the final outcome for Iran is.

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      “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,”

      Is that why the US is shooting down it’s own planes already?

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      The only thing they want is for Iran to be a distraction from the Trump-Epstein files and from the midterms in the fall.