• DankZedong @lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Hezbollah denies the firing of the rocket that killed at least 10 citizens though Israel says it is certain it was them. It is all very fresh so we cannot for sure say whether or not it is a false flag attack to justify a war against Lebanon.

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        Totally not a false flag, israel would never kill its own

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        Why’d he even go on tour, anyway? If you ask me, a leader pleading for funds, while their settler-state is at the risk of being spitroasted is a stupid move

        Besides, they’re getting most of the funds that would’ve went to Ukraine, what’s the need?

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            In the docu Zero Days , about the US+Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran (and the world), Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA, talked about how every time Israel does this, the US military starts wargaming out nuclear scenarios, with the plan of fully backing Israel with its nuclear arsenal. IE if Israel nukes another country, the US military knows it needs to “follow through” very quickly after Israel (meaning help nuke Iran and any other threat in the area).

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                Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons so it wouldn’t be nuclear Armageddon.

                China, Russia, other nuclear powers will wag their fingers at them, maybe slap some sanctions on, get really freaked out and bring their own arsenals to maximum readiness and start taking steps to prepare for such a conflict with the US and to dissuade the US from attacking them BUT they’re not going to get nuked in turn just to avenge Iran or anyone else.

                It would be the US as typical nuking a non-nuclear power, mass-murdering civilians to intimidate and neutralize a region to its enemies.

                We can talk about how it would turn the entire global south against the US for decades but it seems that’s a forgone conclusion so they in a way at this point post-Ukraine have even less to lose than usual though it would accelerate some things. It would also however give credibility to their threats. Once they nuke a non-nuclear power for the sake of a settler genocidal ally they can threaten credibly anyone without nukes to get in line or they’ll do them the same and they’ll be at a relations and PR low-point anyways so it’ll just be this unhinged empire pressing a gun up against the temple of random countries allying with China/Russia and screaming “don’t think I won’t!”. Before Ukraine I would have said doing this would turn Europe soundly against the US but in the position they’re in, even if it makes the US incredibly unpopular among the populations of western Europe their leadership even without the obvious compromises and ideology driven subservience would have little choice given their energy situation but finger-wag, tut-tut and then move on while increasing NATO funding.

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                  The problem with your thinking is, that you assume that other nuclear powers just assume the nuclear launches of the US are not intended for them. They can not assume that, ergo they will have to enact their second strike protocols and launch their own arsenals at the predetermined targets.

                  tl;dr nuclear armageddon 99% of humanity dies, if its lucky.

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          If America ends up entering the war, I want a bigger tax refund next year. If it is a colony, and it is, it’s a shitty one with shitty ROI.

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    The town is Arab, I don’t doubt it was Israel. They get to carry out a false flag operation to justify war with Lebanon and kill Arabs in the process

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    Well true or not isntrael, you have the justification. The racists in the west will believe you regardless. Go for it cowards.