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Many people here will accuse the United States of using Israeli tactics and of trying to pull a Gaza on Iran. That's not true.
This time, they're taking a page from the Russian playbook by targeting civilian infrastructure in an attempt to do collective punishment. We can see how much success these tactics have had in the past, and somehow are to believe that it will be different this time.
Looks at history. Dresden firestorms. Nagasaki. Agent Orange. NATO vs Serbia. Current day Cuba.
Russian playbook? It just is THE playbook. Everybody does it and has done it since like forever.
Russia Russia Russia. JFC. The "Russian playbook" while the US had 500000 dead under its belt just in Iraq during the comic book episode of "WMD" and Albright saying it was worth it? On nighttime news? Not in private.
But Russia's the problem. Doing nothing even close to what you claim. Meanwhile Israel just needs to say "tunnel" and oops everything's a legit target, a target of weapons you supply.
Can I get a MRI of your brain? I've always wanted to see a single proton in a vacuum.
Targeting civilian infrastructure is absolutely an Israeli tactic as well
Often it is the case (and documented) that Hamas deliberately used hospitals and residential buildings to shoot from, or for other military purposes. In that case, by the laws of war, Israel is actually allowed to level those buildings - and Hamas are the ones who committed a war crime. A fact that often seems utterly lost in social media posts. Often in war, a party will retreat from or surrender a city, rather than shoot from the buildings, if the defending party is not a death cult.
Power plants can be military targets, and as such valid to bomb. But... Trump has pretty much stated here that he is bombing them as terror against civilians, which is a war crime. So Trump is arguably behaving worse than Israel.
zionist propoganda BS framing. War crimes supporters like yourself shouldnt be allowed to post on social media.