Yeah, I feel like in the long run that's an effect a lot of people, especially within military and analyst circles, haven't fully come to terms with - both the American public and especially foreign allies are going to be very down on the US military, and keen for payback/compensation for this mess.
Not coincidentally, Russian propaganda keeps framing Ukraine as having started the war and claiming "Russia never starts wars, only finishes them".
Same framing in Iran.
There's a Ukrainian parallel here too. Bucha had a much larger impact on westerners than Mariupol did. The scale and intensity of human misery in Mariupol was absolutely off the end of the scale, but you remember Bucha because those were the kind of atrocities RuAF commits when they're bored
Came here to post exactly that!
My kid is learning how to say seal (bcs of Pingu) in the various languages we speak so we had to explain to her teachers that when she says them they kinda sound like:
Fuckah (Foca, Italian)
Fuck (Phoque, French)
And my favourite: Fuck Me (Fakma, Arabic)
She told her teacher she wants “fucka book”
GOATED ANIME
stop
saying
"color revolution"
as if it's a thing and not a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory
British alternate history: Nazis invaded. Everything sucks.
American alternate history: The Confederacy won. Things aren't so bad actually.
German alternate history: Hitler never showed up. Everything is good. No need to look into this further.
The plan was for Iran to capitulate in response to threats, or quickly fold in the face of airstrikes and assassinations, empowering new leaders who then capitulate.
There is no backup plan. Never was.
Their whole worldview is that strength gets you whatever you want and bluster equals strength.
Trump's blockade of Hormuz is basically any domestic abuser wrecking shit just to hurt his victim, purposely breaking something important and then going "now we don't even have this, happy now? Look what you made me do."
Also some blatantly bad AI slop they're using for that design.
Finally, a job I am more than qualified for
The whole world is so much worse off after the past month and a half, and we will all be paying (in one way or another) for this wasted effort for the rest of our natural lives.
The entire thing was basically a whole variety of terrible regimes racing towards impunity or, failing that, vain revenge - all at the cost of tens of thousands dead, and tens of millions of lives made infinitely worse.
It's also the beginning of the end for Israel, regardless of how it looks now.
There was no negotiations, no brokering, no deal.
Trump backed himself in a corner and needed a way out. Iran obliged, because the cost was zero and the benefits were significant (no more US bombing and keeping China onside).
Everything else is wasted effort.
Brave of you to read this screed!
Honestly, I find Varoufakis so enraging he's not stupid, he's just wilfully intellectually dishonest. I can't tell if that's just a grift or he's genuinely deluded himself into an alternate geopolitical reality that doesn't exist in the actual world.
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.
Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.
"He must be tried for war crimes!"
No. The purpose of a trial is to determine the facts of what happened, and based on those facts decide if someone committed a crime.
We know the facts already. We know the crimes committed already. There's literally nothing for a jury to decide.
Over 100 freshly dug graves in Minab for the schoolgirls are seen from above with families gathered around in mourning
Many networks saying Trump is about to escalate to war crimes, ignoring the 165 schoolgirls he killed in a double tap strike. On day one.
The single greatest US military atrocity since My Lai in Vietnam has been relegated to an afterthought.
Mainstream media has horrifically failed us.
I realize one is not supposed to say this in politics, but it is just clearly the case that 77,302,580 voters have blood on their hands for this, bear real, moral culpability for deciding that it was a good idea to put idiot Fox News Grandpa back in power for [reasons].
Almost every moderate anti-US person I know has shifted from "well, we are getting murdered by the US government but we hope the US population will do better in the future" to "the US population will just let their government murder us, why should we afford them any grace or kindness"
I like how they're using pictures of WWII vintage T-34 tanks (I believe this was a batch that Laos gifted back to Russia a few years ago) for the illustration, seems relevant!
No one is validating those "Death to America" chants harder than the American regime.
consistent with a ramp up towards more significant war crimes, also
Bunch of war criminals doing war crimes to rescue a war criminal.
Genuinely, I hope they catch and put them on trial next time. No sympathies. I hope everybody posting "so glad he's safe" know they're just a bunch of slobbering fash-loving war crime enthusiasts today. Screw you and your Luftwaffe.
War criminals.
And the thing is is that American liberals understand this very well when it comes to one very important war of self-defense in Europe and then they immediately abdicate the logic altogether when it comes to another issue.
Interesting! I didn't immediately connect it to that possibility.
Still uncanny that we're suddenly seeing these losses on the same day.