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Mmmm… I'd say it's not too subtle geopolitics aiming to weaken Russia and China and strengthen the US and maybe its European poodles too. Thing I find odd is how China is sitting on its hands. Victory for the US-Israel here paves the way for attacks on China later. But then, China is a gerontocracy.
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It's the morality of the sociopath - because Trump has no morals. We see it in his using the White House as a way to mint bitcoin, his ICE raids, his support for genocide in Gaza. But what of those like the UK's Starmer who prostrate themselves before Trump, and send jets to help Israel?
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Yes, I have seen people saying this, but it's actually a well-established part of the pardons process that people accused of shooting others can be pardoned. SCOTUS says this too: excepting impeachment, "the president’s power to grant pardons is “unlimited” www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/the-...
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Seems more live lambs being eaten up by wolves…
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Yes, this is true. "Israel’s campaigns – propaganda and ground – share one thing: they regard the Middle East as a theatre for domestic politics, reputation management and experimentation in bringing about “safety” on yet-to-be-defined terms." Problem is that Israel DEFINES ITSELF by having enemies
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They can hardly condemn the killing without condemning their own hate campaign. The ones who DO condemn it are probably the worst, ironically, being so indifferent to truth.
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2/2 "in the past 19 months, the US has extended bipartisan support and justification for the bombing of hospitals, the obliteration of every university in Gaza, the collective starvation of 2 million Palestinians and the deliberate murder of journalists" Values betrayed abroad are also lost at home.
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Sure. Some soldiers have more respectable aims and values - I was generalising! But I do think the great majority are like the people in Putin's army today - ready to commit atrocities for a paycheck with the whole process greased by ignorance and prejudice. Not all! But killers are not moralists
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The respect, trust, and support was misplaced. Marines, like all army elite units, are moral defectives.
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People join "elite" army units like the Marines because they like the idea that they can order around and kill other people. If they had any morals they wouldn't join up. They're moral defectives and that's why they are useful to people like Trump.
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That is commenting on this report: uk.news.yahoo.com/israel-attac...
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Yes, there's a vacancy for feeble jokes on social media and Vance is stepping up!
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Hats off to senators who ARE trying to stand up for the people. Thinking of Sen Padilla just, lying on his front in the hall while Noem's goons handcuff him.
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They're not a real opposition, but the tragedy is that they are the only one… That's the cunning sleight-of-hand of Western democracy, you get a choice but the end result will be exactly the same.
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What does it mean?
Ordinary citizens off the streets, "hide in your homes" or be arrested. Don't go to work or risk being seized for deportation. Masked storm troopers stalk the city. No marches, no speeches, definitely no protests. And the final tyrannical twist? We must call it freedom.