• mausoleum@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Pff

      Yeah blame America for this danish guy being arrested in his own country for protesting Israel

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      Apparently it’s a Dutch guy, but I stand by what I said and I’m not sorry for saying it. Downvote me all you want, it’s validating.

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          That’s delusional. They’re a nation with ten million people, one of the largest arms and tech industries on the planet, and an arsenal of hydrogen bombs.

          Israel isn’t going anywhere.

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          You’ve got my attention. Why do you think that?

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          Predictable, but unfortunate. I guess this is just reddit for people with slightly more nuanced performative outrage

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            …they would be under sanctions more severe than cuba or russia if the US didn’t veto anything that remotely held them accountable that made it’s way through the UN

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            Because Israel isn’t that big of a country. The countries around them are held back in part because the support of the US and EU is just that big of a stick. Economic sanctions alone can be very rough and actual military support is insane. Not so great at making any good lasting changes but toppling the Iraqi government was very fast. US coalition invaded March 20, Baghdad fell in April 9, a new government was in place by September 3, and Saddam captured December 13. Obviously things are different nowadays with drones and population willingness to deal with the maimed/dead and domestic price increases.

            Now if there’s Chinese or Russian support then things may change. Russia is still tied up with Ukraine and China is relatively neutral because they don’t have that much skin in that area yet.

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              The US also supports every country around Israel with some form of aid. Meaning you aren’t just getting economic sanctions but major funding pulled.

              $245 million to Egypt, $496 million to Lebanon, $1.82 Billion to Jordan. You get the picture.

              China is fairly pro-palestine from what I have read, which is weird since I would guess the more legitimate Israel’s claims on Palestine would make their claim over Taiwan more legitimate.

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          16 days ago

          But they’re the ones arresting a dude for holding a sign

          Hope that helps reframe the terms of my comment, ambassador

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        Bro I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t know how you can watch all these countries suck America boot and not understand where the problem is.

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        As an American, fuck the US entirely. We are vassal of the fascist State of Israel and the entire world should be protesting us.