• kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I still just don’t understand why the US is doing this. What do they gain from Israel killing everyone within arms reach?

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      The nut jobs believe the Jews are to bring Armageddon. So the nuts on the Right are waiting for God to kill the Jews for them, and the Left is fueled by fear of being (seen as) antisemitic.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      Higher oil prices. The US has become an oil exporter after all. They also went after Venezuela and Russia for similar reasons.

      The Iranian revolution hates monarchirs, so a lot of Arab monarchies like the Saudis or UAE love this. Trump loves those monarchies for plane reasons.

      US arms industry sells weapons.

      Iran supplied weapons to Yemen disrupting the Red Sea shipping.

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      They buy weapons, a loooot of expensive weapons

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        With money they receive from the US in the first place, the weapons manufacturers then use that money to bribe lobby the US government to support Israel some more and send them more money

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          So the question should be more why is money being sent to them. Buying them makes sense as they aren’t just being given.

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            You have to look at which people get the money rather than which country gets it.

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      The Islamic Iranian regime have been adveseries of the US for decades. IRGC leaders and supporters regulary chant “death to America” and denote it “the big satan”.

      Is it really that mysterious why the US would want to support attacking the Iranian regime?

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      Less brown people and only one country to puppet around. If the whole middle east becomes Israel, and the US controls Israel, the US now controls the whole middle east.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I still just don’t understand why the US is doing this. What do they gain from Israel killing everyone within arms reach?

      Evangelical Christians, aka NatCi’s are in the belief that Israel is the way to begin the transition to the rapture, from squinting at the bible and reading it upside down.

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      Too many people think prosperity is a zero sum game. If you can make life shitty for others, that’s surely better for us, right?

      So keep those wars in the middle east raging, this is terrible for them! Which is great for us… for reasons!

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    They also redirected anti-drone weapons meant for Ukraine to the middle east

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    AIPAC money which funny enough comes from the US government, that is on itself taken out of tax payers money. So it’s a very long way around for basically our government is stealing from us via Israel

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    Now imagine what Kamala would’ve done! Thanks trump! /s

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      I know this is impossible for any centrist to ever think of admitting, but selling weapons to a genocidal regime is wrong even when they’re on your team.

      Yes, even if someone to your left doesn’t like it.

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      Oh no! Facing the consequences of my inaction! Aiieeeee!