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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So... they're supposed to just sit there passively and let Israel invade their country and murder their people?

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Did you even remember to say "thank you"?

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Israel is really starting to look like Japan in the summer of 1945...

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago
[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

The only move these right-wingers know.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Gotta move that market needle so way somehow

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

And Iran says they will close the Strait if the US does not constrain their IDF allies.

Maybe don't include conditions over other non present entities in your MoU than?

[–] zwerg@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Iran new perfectly well what would happen. Trump just walked into the obvious trap.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a trap, it's their condition.

They never hid it in any way.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And Israel said they won't abide it. They didnt hide their intention either

[–] zwerg@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The trap is that Trump has to stop Israel or the Straights close again. More importantly for him, he would also look week and incompetent if he can't control Israel. Honestly, Iran played a blinder here, and Trump didn't even notice.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't make it a trap.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My comment isn't saying it's a trap, it's a affirmation of yours with more proof that it wasn't a trap because Israel wasn't hiding or lying about anything either.

Iran: We want this

Israel: No.

Nothing out of the ordinary here.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It's the equivalent of Wiley E Coyote running into a brick wall

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All the times Western allies backed bullying of each other for oil and other natural resources, with the bald-faced lies they use as justification and we, the public that pays for it with tax dollars and bodies, and you have the gall to say non-Western alliances have no right to support allies that are being genocided by a Western vassal-proxy state. Peak genocide brain.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have the gall to say non-Western alliances have no right to support allies that are being genocided by a Western vassal-proxy state. Peak genocide brain.

I didn't say that. I absolutely am in favor of Iran closing the Strait in response to Israel bombing Lebanon. I was contrasting the Western narrative with a non-Western one that is nearly identical to highlight the absurdity of the claim as a reason to cancel the MoU.

The MoU specifically included US allies needing to stop bombing Lebanon. Those US allies were not at the table and didn't stop bombing Lebanon. Therefore the US violated the MoU and the Strait was closed.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe don't include conditions over other non present entities in your MoU than?

That's not how that read, to me.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well no mou = closure of the strait

[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

"Trump says" garbage

[–] thepig@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

The art of the deal ladies and gentlemen 🧑‍🍳👌

[–] newton@feddit.online 3 points 3 days ago

Trump ,blablabla