** Weakness encourages the monsters ... appeasement doesn't work **
CLown theater.
They are going to win and we are too far behind technology wise to fight this. Thank dickheads Obama and Biden for this.
IIRC, Iran now makes their own weapons. That, combined with their 12th imam cult (that violence against non-muslims resurrects the 12th imam) makes their attack on Israel unrelated to Russia and Ukraine.
(Not to be confused with the Aggies' 12th man LOL)
LOL, had they read the Bible the “West” would have had lots of time to prepare...
Russia is not a natural ally of Islamic or communist nations. The left in the USA and the EU drove Russia into this alliance by sanctions and false flagging.
> Our indecisiveness in eastern Europe… <
Kinda lost me right there. I consider Putin to be a war criminal. But the Ukraine /Russia war is Europe’s problem. And Europe is plenty rich enough to handle things. It’s not the United States’ problem. We are a debtor nation. We cannot afford to be the world’s policeman.
I do struggle a bit more about the Iran situation. Iran’s goal is not just domination of a neighboring region. Their goal is the complete destruction of Israel. So support Israel. But do it sensibly. No blank checks. No boots on the ground.
lol
Eventually, China will look north to all that land Russia has that is going unused and will take it. Mark my words.
One more mess the neocons are attempting to drag us into.
We should have kept the CIA and the neo cons out of Ukraine. That’s what drove the Russia/China alliance. But that’s probably little to simple to understand for the corrupt minds of the west.
“More truth that certain FReepers here don’t want to hear…”
Don’t want to hear? Far from it, rejoice! The days of the American empire are ending. Forever wars killing millions that only benefit a ruling class. Hollowing out the productive foundations of the nation by attempting to turn other regions (not least of which was China) into our factory colonies. Destroy the very fabric of traditional American culture so as to lay the foundation for a global order. A hostile oppressive security state that propagandizes and spy’s on its subjects (for surely we are no longer citizens). So what “painful truth” do we fear? Who has done more damage to America? Russia…or Washington?
Where did I hear this before? Ezekiel Jeremiah, Daniel, or Revelation?
“If the West had simply given Ukraine enough weapons to expel Russia two years ago, then there is no way that Iran would have considered bombing Israel today. It would have been made clear that attacking a western ally is futile and costly. Israel was put in danger because Ukraine was allowed to suffer — and because too many policymakers failed to appreciate that seemingly-disparate regional conflicts are, in truth, just different theatres of the same war...”
The writer conveniently overlooks two factors. Hamas stated openly they began to plan the Oct 7 attack two years prior, after watching the debacle at Kabul unfold with the US military in disarray.
Second, Biden unleashed Iran’s oil exports right after taking office, freeing up ten times as much in revenues as they were able to get under Trump sanctions, and unfreezing tens of billions more in sequestered funds around the world. Iran had the money to pay for all these weapons and men under arms, and supplying drones to Russia etc. Without Biden’s funding, Iran could not launch a credible threat.
Israel’s actions against Hamas in Gaza in response to Oct 7 is the proximate cause of Iran posturing to make war with Israel now, not anything about the fiasco in Ukraine. If anything, Iran notes that the west has shown declining staying power in Ukraine, after pledging extravagant initial support, and may well deduce that the same will be true of support for Israel in Gaza. That is the real link between the two, which we are seeing play out now.