Thinking a bit more broadly, one thing that comes out pretty clearly in the beating the Iranian regime has taken over the past two years that one hopes many countries are watching is how much better it is to be a friend of America than, say, Russia or China.
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Israel, I suppose. But indulging your friend's worst impulses isn't healthy for you or them.
Can’t wait to hear about Assad’s re-election by the way.
Neither of them. That's the point.
You don't need to outrun the bear, just be faster than the slowest runner.
So when others are so ridiculously bad, you don't have to be absolutely good. For example, the US has not invaded its own NATO allies, unlike, say, Russia did in the Warsaw Pact (TWICE).
also bunch of cheap missiles fucked israel up so bad they had to beg america for help, and couldn't even cause mass protests, let alone regime change that was their objective
who tf cares if china and russia don't help
i don't think this kind of measure would be taken just to aim some tourists.
thanks !
Currently it is shipped to india, relabled and shipped to Russia, and Russia smuggles it to North Korea and Iran using their dark fleet
Militarily we even sold them helicopters, france and israel sold them missiles, sweden sold them submarines
US stopped cooperation after the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989
No one wants embarrassing friends with weapons they dont know how to use.
Iran, notionally a significant player in the revisionist team, got basically nothing from Russia or China since Oct 7.
The 'West' is a good friend to have, if you can have it, for your security. Team Dictator, by contrast, never fails to disappoint.
Good. They will all fall, one by one.
Given that both Russia and China have pretty strong ties to Israel it's not too surprising
no one would've gotten on board if it didn't benefit them too!
The only threat is you Nazi psychos murdering innocents.
Ur "friends" were bombed into surrendering to a Nazi terrorism protection racket
and even before that, biden was much more constrained than i expected him to be, and had only allowed the use of long-range US munitions into russian territory after the election
I peg your pardon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
(On the other other hand, I don't know that anything would have produced peace with AZ, alas.)
- somebody attacks you, Russia looks away
- Russia invades you
Were I to pick allies, I’d go with France and Germany. They mean it, they keep their word, they’re still rational and both are scaling up fast.
Over the last two decades? Not enough, obviously. Iran's weapons have done more for Russia than Russia has done for Iran, I feel confident asserting.
If Russia had given them or sold them weapons sufficient to defend themselves, we'd know.
Much of Israel's lowkey courtship of Putin over the past 20 years was about preventing this.
This terrorism is despicable, evil and unforgivable and it's not earning you "friends". It's entrapped vulnerable vassals temporarily, and when your grip starts to slip, there is going to be a reckoning.
You have no friends.
You have enemies and allies you've threatened.
Your entire worldview is based on committing horrific acts of terror against innocent nonwhite foreigners.
Maybe you should go recite the Pledge of Allegiance like a good little imperialist.
Congrats, you've set a new self-outing speed record! 👏😀
I think what's clear at this point is that when America finishes collapsing, there sure as fuck won't be any sympathy for America from the rest of the world.
Fuck terrorists.
This just underscores how you don’t want to end up in US shitlist.
& Canada has to worry about US invasion
India plays both sides with Russia and USA
Pakistan plays both sides with USA and China
I'd say we're pretty even
Russia and China combined have attacked less countries than the USA in the last 30 years
the only thing countries watching this should be learning is that the USA is a psychotic rogue nation that will destroy anyone who refuses to kowtow to us
OTOH Trump is doing everything to detach Europe from US.
NATO's 5% target means the US can fuck off from Europe, it's not needed for anything and europeans wont help US in the future.
By humungous bribes.
That said, I'm not sure being a friend of America will be helpful for most countries in dealing with *this* administration.
since the dawn of genus homo, i suspect
Like. Sure. Okay. That's supposed to push countries *towards* us?
Part of what it signaled is Russia and China are weak security partners.
But it is an impact of the strikes and broader Israeli air campaign, which whatever one thinks morally (I was against), are a true thing about the world.
https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social/post/3lrwnexjtcs2n
That makes a lot more sense.