Israel launches attack on Iran (www.jpost.com)
from Chough@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 06:29
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ClownStatue@piefed.social on 28 Feb 06:37 next collapse

Wow. Didn’t see that coming. Not at all. 

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 10:21 collapse

he needed a quick distraction from MR “dead” esptein files.

tackleberry@thelemmy.club on 28 Feb 12:20 next collapse

I would not be surprised if my boi Epstein is chilling out somewhere in ISrael

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 15:30 collapse

not a distraction, just plain old imperialism.

username_1@programming.dev on 28 Feb 06:38 next collapse

Iran: hey, isn’t it Saturday today?!

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 06:38 next collapse

Err, wtf is happening?

3abas@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 06:51 collapse

Israel and the US have begun their war on Iran with a “regime change” as the stated goal. If they succeed, Israel cements its expansionist goals and the middle east is fucked. If Iran succeeds, Israel is fucked.

There’s a small chance of a stalemate and both give up and we go back to “normal” after a whole lot of death and destruction.

The entire middle east is going to be affected either way, and to a lesser extent the world as energy distribution from the gulf will be effected.

exaybachae@startrek.website on 28 Feb 07:16 next collapse

So, who profits from this?

3abas@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:20 next collapse

Israel primarily, US second.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:33 collapse

Also, Trump gets a massive distraction - which he presently critically needs with his approval ratings at the lowest level in either of his presidencies, and the lowest level for the first 100 days of a presidency in 80 years.

OwOarchist@pawb.social on 28 Feb 07:32 next collapse

Also, don’t forget, the US attempts to cancel elections due to being in the middle of a war, despite extensive historical precedent of still holding elections during wartime.

Oofnik@kbin.earth on 28 Feb 07:35 next collapse

I think a "stalemate" is more likely than you suspect - the Iranian and Israeli regimes both benefit from having the other one to demonize.
I suppose regime change is the ideal goal, but even just more war to galvanize support around Netanyahu in an election year in Israel is a win for him.

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:46 next collapse

Regime change would probably mean the same thing that happened in Iraq or Afghanistan. The invading countries will leave a power vacuum and some extremist group is going to take advantage. In Iraq they had ISIS which required a whole new invasion to stop and in Afghanistan the Taliban is now stronger than before the US invasion.

3abas@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:57 collapse

With how much bombing the US and Israel are preparing to do, a stalemate won’t come without major destruction in Israel and US bases. I’m not sure that’ll be helpful for Satanyahu’s campaign.

Zexks@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 16:22 collapse

Uhh the middle east has been fucked for centuries. Nothing thats happening will change any of that.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 06:43 next collapse

Weren’t a bunch of analysis predicting this? The trump administration had apparently requested that Israel strike first to provide a flimsy excuse for firing their own missiles at Iran when the Ayatollah and his gang inevitably retaliates against Israel.

3abas@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 06:52 next collapse

Israel has already stated officially that this was a joint attack with the US.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 06:55 next collapse

Oh no a country slaughtering civilians is going to get invaded… Anyway.

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 07:04 next collapse

This is disgusting. The Zionists are bombing Iran and this is your reaction? Why are you running propaganda for the Zionists?

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 07:22 next collapse

How is this propaganda? The iranian government literally killed thousands of students who were protesting in the streets only a few weeks ago.

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OwOarchist@pawb.social on 28 Feb 07:30 next collapse

Guys, guys. Chill.

Both of these countries are killing their own civilian population. But now one of them is also killing the other country’s population as well. Probably soon to be joined by the other doing the same in return.

Let me just be the anarchist in the room and say fuck both of these countries. Fuck every country. We shouldn’t have countries. And we especially shouldn’t have countries that kill people, no matter which side of an imaginary line they’re killing people on.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 07:54 next collapse

One of these countries is defending its civilian population against US bombs, the other is dropping them, don’t both sides this shit because Iran isn’t perfect.

OwOarchist@pawb.social on 28 Feb 08:11 next collapse

I’m not trying to ‘both sides’ this shit as much as I’m trying to ‘no sides’ this shit.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 08:15 collapse

You can’t no sides when you live on the side that’s dropping the bombs. The actions your words encourage within the west are the same that the most bloodthristy warhawks encourage. You are not supporting the Iranian people’s struggle by opposing the state protecting them from your state.

When a zionist says that Hamas doesn’t support gay rights, do you think they are trying to support gay struggles in Palestine? No they’re trying to justify murdering more palestinians, just like anyone who says “Iran also bad” in this thread.

OwOarchist@pawb.social on 28 Feb 08:27 next collapse

The actions your words encourage within the west are the same that the most bloodthristy warhawks encourage.

I don’t think the bloodthirsty warhawks are encouraging the abolishment of all states, especially the ones that kill people. And, yes, especially the one I live in.

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 08:53 collapse

You can’t no sides when you live on the side that’s dropping the bombs.

Ahh, good old collective responsibility. Always there when you need it!

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 09:02 collapse

That’s not what I’m saying at all, I’m saying to analyze the context of your speech; a US libanarchist opposing Iran isn’t meaningfully different than some bloodthirsty neocon; you’re still supporting the war effort.

OwOarchist@pawb.social on 28 Feb 19:02 collapse

Ah, yes. Any good anarchist should support the authoritarian theocratic state that’s being attacked!

Horsecook@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 08:32 collapse

One of these countries is defending its civilian population against US bombs

Is the US dropping bombs on Iranian civilians? Or are you conflating Israel’s actions in Palestine with this?

I’m not going to be upset about the Iranian government getting killed, any more than I would be if Iran launched a counter-attack on Mar-a-Lago and killed Trump, or Netanyahu. In fact, I hope that happens. Fuck ‘em all.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 08:47 collapse

Is the US dropping bombs on Iranian civilians?

Yes, have you seen literally any time the US has gone to war anywhere in the last 80 years? We can’t even invade Panama or abduct the president of Venezuela without murdering hundreds to thousands of civilians.

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 12:51 collapse

or abduct the president of Venezuela without murdering hundreds to thousands of civilians.

Please don’t form your opinion basing on false information.

en.wikipedia.org/…/2026_United_States_interventio…

Killed:

23 or 47 Venezuelan military personnel[a]

32 Cuban military and security personnel[9]

2 civilians[10]

Injured:

7 US soldiers[11]

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 12:56 collapse

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perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 13:01 collapse

From the article:

afirmo que al menos 100 personas

This would include soldiers and bodyguards.

silverneedle@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 11:36 collapse

Truth.

Damionsipher@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:33 next collapse

Israel has murdered at least 21,000 CHILDREN over the past 30 months. To think that they have any moral standing is moronic at best, but more likely pure evil.

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 08:02 next collapse

You’re referring to confirmed violent deaths. The number of victims including food deprivation, lack of medicine and sanitation and consequent diseases since Oct 7th is above half a million, about half of them children.

Damionsipher@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 09:16 collapse

Yes, I’m only referencing deaths attributed to direct military action - or the IDF’s direct murder of children with bullets and bombs. This is not to minimize the horror they have inflicted through genocidal policy.

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 09:22 collapse

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to be belligerent or anything, just wanted to bring attention to it. Thanks for your reminder of the violence of the Zionist entity, we will not forget this

Damionsipher@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 09:27 collapse

Nope, I didn’t take it as belligerence either, just wanted to confirm I agree.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 08:26 collapse

…and the sky is blue. But how is this propaganda? How is invading another country, propaganda for zionists?

Damionsipher@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 09:19 next collapse

Making a statement that minimizes state violence because it’s against a state that undertakes state violence is still minimizing state violence. In this instance it is minimizing the violence of a genocidal state that is far more violent than the state it is attacking for undertaking state violence.

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 09:25 collapse

I think they mean that you can’t fully trust the narrative about protests you read in the Western media. There is Israeli and US involvement in those protests trying to instigate regime change.

So the OP above is parroting Israeli/US propaganda by saying the protests are a justification for the latest military action.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 07:42 next collapse

So Israel and the United States are going to respond by murdering the rest of them? You do know that they bomb indiscriminately correct? I just don’t understand your argument here. If you’re concerned about civilian deaths how could you be supportive of this. They literally bomb hospitals.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 08:00 collapse

Cool your tits. I didn’t say any of that.

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 08:02 next collapse

Literal “Hamas is hiding in hospitals” levels of hasbara

clot27@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 09:42 next collapse

And your source for that is CIA, right

Grimy@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 11:24 collapse

Well in this case, Casey is literally an LLM bot so it’s probably propaganda. Check their modlog.

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stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:41 next collapse

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NewDark@lemmings.world on 28 Feb 07:57 next collapse

Have you seen Gaza bro?

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 08:00 collapse

Atrocity propaganda justifying Zionist invasion. Literal “Hamas hides in hospitals” levels of bullshit.

foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev on 28 Feb 09:36 collapse

Hamas had it operational bases under civilian facilities such as hospitals.

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 09:42 collapse

Look, this Zionist is still living in 2020, back when people believed this shit!

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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 07:49 next collapse

Zionists are dropping bombs on their population. Iran is defending against Israel and America.

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foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev on 28 Feb 09:34 collapse

too drunk to think?"

lemming@anarchist.nexus on 28 Feb 07:51 next collapse

Ever heard of Palestinians? Gaza? No?

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lemming@anarchist.nexus on 28 Feb 07:56 collapse

You said they are promoting not slaughtering civilians, while they are slaughtering civilians.

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lemming@anarchist.nexus on 28 Feb 08:05 collapse

Hmmm 🤡

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queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 07:17 next collapse

You’ll just believe anything they tell you, huh?

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queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 07:36 collapse

They fed you propaganda for a few weeks to soften you up for the war that they were always planning. It’s so fucking obvious that the “protests” were just a prelude to these strikes, and you just eat it up because you’ll just believe anything they tell you.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:57 collapse
stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:39 collapse

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queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 07:52 next collapse

Over 100 officers were also killed by these so-called “protesters” during the riots, doesn’t that strike you as odd?

The “protesters” attacked police and military targets, armed by Mossad and the CIA. In the chaos many innocent people who got drawn into the riots were also killed, and that’s terrible, but the fault lays firmly at the feet of Israel and the US. They tried to instigate a color revolution, and when that failed they used it as justification for war.

And you fell for it like you always do, because you’ll just believe anything they tell you.

username_1@programming.dev on 28 Feb 07:56 next collapse

Revolution includes attacking oppressors. Those “officers” were defending regime. Crazy bloodcraving regime. Russia ally regime. Religion nuts regime.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:05 collapse

There’s nothing revolutionary about acting on behalf of Israel and the US.

username_1@programming.dev on 28 Feb 08:07 collapse

Yes-yeah, Iranians are unable to act for themselves, they can only do what Israel/USA tell them.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:13 collapse

You’re just ignoring the weapons that the US/Israel provided them, huh?

They sure as shit wouldn’t have attacked police and military institutions without foreign backing.

username_1@programming.dev on 28 Feb 08:19 collapse

wouldn’t have attacked police and military

And would stay slaves as you want them to be, right?

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:21 collapse

And do you think fucking Israel is a great liberator?

They’d just be US/Israeli slaves, and I promise that will be much worse.

username_1@programming.dev on 28 Feb 08:24 collapse

Yeah-yeah, Israel weapons magically turn everyone holding it to Israel slaves.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:27 collapse

That’s getting cause-and-effect backwards.

Israel only gives weapons to people who they believe will be useful. Every single person Israel gives weapons to is someone who will pledge their loyalty to Israel, they’d never give weapons to someone who might turn those weapons back on Israel someday.

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queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:09 collapse

Yeah you never saw a CIA-backed coup you didn’t like.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 08:11 collapse

I sure have, tons of shit they do is bat shit insane but I’ve never fired on civilians in response.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:20 collapse

And if the civilians are armed by a foreign country, with the goal of toppling your government? Should the government just let them win?

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 08:29 collapse

Probably, they are the ones who are being governed after all, if it is a stupid ass decision it’s their stupid ass decision to make.

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:31 collapse

They don’t get to decide for everyone else.

Those police and military personnel, for instance, don’t want Iran to fall. They shot the armed rioters because they wanted to defend Iran. Why don’t they count?

arrow74@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 09:40 collapse

Why won’t anyone think of the oppressors? They gotta feel pretty bad the oppressed wanted their rights…

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 15:36 collapse

Violent rioters armed by Israel and the US are also oppressors. They just want to oppress different factions.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:57 collapse
hoch@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:18 next collapse

I hope Iranian civilians stay safe. As for the government? Don’t care.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 11:08 next collapse

Because it’s worked out great all the other times the US has done that

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 11:26 collapse

Wait, Is Israel being finally invaded?

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Evotech@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:33 next collapse

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NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social on 28 Feb 09:11 collapse

You’re looking at the odds after it already happened. It was like 5% yesterday.

Evotech@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 10:15 next collapse

How does that work

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 16:21 collapse

Republican corruption and crime, mostly.

SethW@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 11:44 collapse

youre supposed to notice the 80 million volume , obviously insiders were betting… is this why people add what i’ve always thought were unnecessary red circles and arrows?

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 13:18 collapse

“Your the reason for unnecessary red circles” is actually a devastating insult.

Geobloke@aussie.zone on 28 Feb 07:39 next collapse

The USA has followed up now according to Reuters

hector@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 09:00 next collapse

We were also predicting that israel would use their epstein blackmail to start their forever war. We were right.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 09:28 next collapse

Sending all those ships to the Indian Ocean. 🤔💡

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 28 Feb 09:33 collapse

Just a lil vacation trip for our poor lil soldiers :3

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 15:45 collapse

i mean, they were openly saying they would do this.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 06:44 next collapse

chose the wrong day to delete the Signal app

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk on 28 Feb 07:22 collapse

could have got some mad skillz real time Hegseth updates if you hadn’t!

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 07:05 next collapse

The Zionist regime’s thirst for blood cannot be quenched… All my support to the people of Iran, I hope this doesn’t turn to disaster for them the same way it happened in Iraq or Afghanistan…

exaybachae@startrek.website on 28 Feb 07:15 next collapse

What is a Zionist and why does one thirst for blood.

blitzen@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 07:40 next collapse

A racist who hides behind their Judaism and think other peoples land is their god given birthright.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 08:00 collapse

There’s plenty of Christian and secular Zionists too it’s really just settler colonialist ideology that uses supremacy and pseudoscience to justify the genocide and annexation of land from the indigenous population

foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev on 28 Feb 09:40 collapse

also there’s plenty of secular antisemitism, usually identifying itself as anti-zionist. Herzliche Grüße!

blitzen@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 20:14 collapse

hides behind their Judaism

NewDark@lemmings.world on 28 Feb 07:59 next collapse

Modern day fascist. This time the “in group” is defined as Jewish Israelis.

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Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 08:04 next collapse

Israel and the associated political ideology of Zionism describes the settler colonialist state that relies on pseudoscience, theology and supremisist ideology to justify the genocide and annexation of indigenous lands.

foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev on 28 Feb 09:39 collapse

the only intellectually worthwhile post i read here so far. thanks!

blitzen@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 20:17 collapse

Ignorance of Zionism is “the only worthwhile post?”

Ya, that tracks…

SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 09:37 collapse

Currently in a country with a US base, currently hearing Iran’s missile blasts. Still on Iran’s side

Riverside@reddthat.com on 28 Feb 09:40 collapse

Unfortunately few countries without US bases… I hope you and your loved ones stay safe

SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 09:46 collapse

You too friend, and I hope things eventually improve without fearful leadership who see the US as the rulers of the world.

clot27@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 07:14 next collapse

Americans think they wont face consequences of their actions, thats why they do this

We need to make them face consequences

GO IRAN!!!

vga@sopuli.xyz on 28 Feb 07:20 next collapse

Hope for a rapid victory and a regime change to something not-so-obviously-shit in Iran. I hope they know what they’re doing.

Not very probable I guess.

i078@europe.pub on 28 Feb 07:35 next collapse

Given the US had a second carrier group move up, they think it might take a while

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 07:51 next collapse

Do you think Israel/America are there to help the Iranian people? How’d that work out in Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya?

clot27@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 08:06 next collapse

Americans will say shit like this and then wonder why the world hates them

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:25 next collapse

Yeah I’m sure the regime installed by fucking Israel and the US will be so much better! 🤡

Hegar@fedia.io on 28 Feb 09:35 next collapse

No good outcome is possible from two brutal murdeous authoritarian regimes attacking a third.

vga@sopuli.xyz on 28 Feb 10:27 collapse

Seems like a much better option that all parties involved in a war are brutal, murderous, authoritarian than if one of them wouldn’t be. Like Ukraine.

sudo@programming.dev on 28 Feb 16:36 collapse

Utterly ignorant of every previous american attempt at regime change.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 07:54 next collapse

I thought this was a pretty good summary of what is happening over there resistusledwarmovement.com/…/full_series_-_iran_h…

fosho@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 19:03 collapse

this looks pretty biased and doesn’t provide any sources for many claims. I’m not sure it’s a trustworthy assessment.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 20:09 collapse

Other than the historical record of regime change intervention that the us government has been doing for decades?

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 20:22 collapse

One can argue that the material seems to be biased when the domain is resistusledwarmovement.com

MonsterMonster@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 08:43 next collapse

That Board of Peace is working really well.

D_C@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 13:49 next collapse

Bored*

PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space on 28 Feb 15:33 collapse

A second FIFA peace prize should fix the situation.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 10:25 next collapse

Iran has the right to defend itself.

kokesh@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 10:36 next collapse

Orange cunt shaking his shriveled dick covered in shit form his overfilled diaper. Way to go, USA!

N0t_5ure@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 17:45 collapse

That first sentence is a work of art.

HollowHawk@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 11:47 next collapse

When evil fights evil is this… good?

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 12:01 next collapse

Average Liberal cheering on the genocidal Israeli ethnostate.

HollowHawk@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 12:10 collapse

what?

yarrage@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 12:15 next collapse

You said a silly thing.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 12:26 next collapse

You are seeing Israel commit genocide and are already cheering on their next genocide.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 12:44 collapse

Israel and the US bombed a girls school and killed 40 girls are you proud of yourself?

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TheLowestStone@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 13:54 collapse

No.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 28 Feb 11:52 collapse

Only if you believe the Iraq or Afghanistan wars were okay (in which case you'll have to reasonably argue they were worth the millions killed, wounded and displaced in the process).

HollowHawk@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 12:14 collapse

Well you’re right… seems to be same. Bad guy attacks bad guy saying to free people. A few years later thousands are dead, no one is free but some of the bad guys made good money.

I guess but i don’t have all facts

brachiosaurus@mander.xyz on 28 Feb 12:15 next collapse

For any US soldier reading this thread: you are attacking another country to cover up for your pedophile president.

tackleberry@thelemmy.club on 28 Feb 12:19 next collapse

US government protects pedophiles. Their soldiers have no option than to comply.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 13:27 next collapse

Yes, they do. American soldiers MUST disobey illegal orders.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 13:54 next collapse

This is not clearly illegal. Disobeying these orders would get you a court martial, and they will say it was legal.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 13:57 collapse

It depends on the orders.

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Feb 21:00 collapse

Like when they invaded vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela?

Yeah they’ll totally not follow orders…

Cethin@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 15:41 collapse

As the other comment says, these aren’t illegal orders. Wrong? Obviously. I don’t think there’s anything that could possibly make this illegal though. The only potential argument is that only congress can declare war, but that’s been pretty much fucked since the end of WWII. It’s illegal for them to tell you to target civilians. It’s legal for them to tell you to invade some foreign nation, for any reason.

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 14:25 collapse

The land of the free pedophiles.

spirinolas@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 12:27 next collapse

We need to call this the Pedophile War

Monument@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Feb 15:06 collapse

Yup. Apparently the Clintons testified in front of Congress yesterday regarding the Epstein files. That’s not high on the list headlines today.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 12:37 next collapse

The consciences of those honourable men and women serving their old country (the usa) must be taking a severe beating.

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 12:56 next collapse

If Iran was not the country it currently is, I would condemn the attack.

Iran being the country it is, all I can say is - I doubt if this brings about any beneficial change.

There are very few examples of regimes collapsing purely due to aerial bombardment. I can recall only one example (Libya) and it had opposition in control of some cities, ready for battle with government troops (which got bombed on their way to attack the opposition)… and not much happiness resulted from it anyway.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 13:13 next collapse

The US and Israel bombed an elementary school and killed 40 Iranian girls are you proud of yourself?

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 13:29 next collapse

It’s their own fault for not being born someplace good. /S

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 16:15 collapse

Proud? Please explain because it seems you’re not replying to me.

I live in Estonia, that’s in North-Eastern Europe unless you know. We aren’t bombing Iran and couldn’t even if we wanted badly.

But our ally (Ukraine) is being bombed with weapons purchased from Iran and subsequent designs improved upon Iranian ones. I am also keenly aware that the Iranian regime has killed well over 10 000 of their own people to supress protests, and maybe as much as 30 000 (though I’m not convinced it’s that high, it just seems the realistic top end of the estimates). That’s a lot.

I am also aware that Donald Trump does not do humanitarian interventions, so the “current thing” is not a humanitarian intevention. It’s a boring ordinary war with one ruler (a wannabe tyrant named Donald Trump) going at another ruler (an actual tyrant named Ali Khamenei) who failed to submit to his demands. There seems to be another ruler involved, a wanted war criminal called Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be cooperating with Trump. This makes it embarrassing to look at, emphasizing that the current thing has nothing to do with international law.

A humanitarian intervention arguably could have occurred on the night when the IRGC and Basij started shooting masses of people. It did not occur.

In the best case, the “current thing” could have some side benefits to the Iranian people, but those are unlikely to become realized and could be dwarved by unpredictable harms caused.

As a result of the situation explained above, I find it impossible to say any words of support to anyone involved, only criticize them all. The word “proud” implies support. So you are extremely wrong to think I’m proud about anything happening there currently, and I don’t think others should be either.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 17:34 collapse

Iran sells weapons to Russia because the West sanctioned Iran for opposing genocide.

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 19:48 collapse

Sanctions on Iran pre-date the genocide in Gaza by a long time.

goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Feb 14:51 collapse

Iran was not the country it currently is, I would condemn the attack.

I wonder which countries played roles in it becoming like that. This would be what the 4th time Israel and USA have done/attempted regime change?

perestroika@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 16:10 collapse

I know the history. It’s bitter.

70 years ago, Iran had extremely poor relations between government and parliament, but could have come through of that period without the UK + US organized coup.

The Shah could have been influenced and moderated, but nobody gave a damn.

The Islamic revolution was not the only possible outcome of the revolution to oust the Shah, but it was allowed to go that way. Nobody gave a damn.

The Iraq-Iran war could have been prevented. As it happened, it gave the ayatollahs legitimacy. They could claim to represent Iran as they were actually defending against an Iraqi invasion.

So, one act of malicious interference by the UK + US, several acts of the international community (note: of that time, with peculiarities of that time) not having any damns to give, and one act of malicious interference by the dictator of Iraq. And the various strikes and assassinations by Israel.

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 15:05 next collapse

It’s like the USA is falling in the void.

hector@lemmy.today on 28 Feb 15:11 collapse

it’s an abyss thank you very much.

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 15:20 collapse

Sorry, it’s like I had to write it down so it started to sink, I guess.

doesit@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 15:15 next collapse

Drill, baby, drill…
And s*** Netanyahu along the way

maplesaga@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 16:21 next collapse

Cruel dictatorship is good?

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 16:40 collapse

why would you shit netanyahu?

BillCheddar@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 16:40 collapse

Where do we sign up to root for Iran?