If you have to surrender unconditionally, you can't negotiate. If you can't negotiate, it's not called making a deal. If you have to pound people into oblivion to get a deal, it's the worst deal making of all. POTUS should rename to DOOFUS--Delusional Oaf of the United States.
Not even joking, the most important intelligence the CIA ever uncovered about Vietnam was that we are a poetry loving people.
Pete Hegseth calls himself a warrior. The word I would use to describe him is dishonorable. Killing people or inflicting suffering is not something anyone should ever be proud of. Shame on him.
Have I mentioned that 20% of the Vietnamese population had died of famine during the Japanese occupation in WWII? We're a poetry loving people. This is the context under which the US deemed bombs to be appropriate. Just bomb people until they agree to become you. This is "western civilization."
These were not isolated incidents. Walk around the Vietnamese countryside now and you still see bomb craters in rice fields in the middle of nowhere. The US dropped something like 5 tons of bombs per capita. They could have given the Vietnamese 5 tons of food instead.
BαΊ‘ch Mai, the main hospital in North Vietnam, was bombed in 1972. 100 bombs. There was no "mistaking" it. Now I want answers.
The US bombed hospitals and elementary schools in Vietnam, too. When my mom was a first grader, two out of her three first grade classes were killed in a bombing. And they were a country school, all children of farmers, with no connection to anyone in central government whatsoever.
Found something on the bombing of the university in 1972.
You know, this happened in Vietnam, too, but when I studied the Vietnam War in high school in the US, I kept being told they were "mistakes." When my mom was a first grader, 2/3 of her fellow first graders died in a bombing. My dad's university was bombed, too, and had to rebuild from scratch.
I would rather those women break the glass ceiling on awfulness. We will never know. One thing for sure, Biden looking the other way as Israel normalized attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure pushed us into a very dark chapter of human history that won't end with the war on Iran.
After 47 years, why would Iran pick this moment to attack the US? Just when the US is imploding all by itself, shooting its citizens on the street, breaking alliances left and right.
Why would Israel pick this moment to attack Iran and Hezbollah? Maybe because Trump will be out of power soon.
Don't forget, they are also fomenting right-wing extremist and separatist movements, undermining their allies' democracy.
Somewhere out there, there are parents staring at small shoes that will never be worn again. And no accountability from the American government. Just Pete Hegseth shitting on international laws and rules of engagement. He's writing checks my American children can't cash. Are we talking about this?
Today I learned that Armageddon is a real place. And it has a ticket booth and opening hours.
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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
Marco Rubio, official government game theorist, on top of his already long list of jobs.
Seen here articulating something so illegal, he'll soon be reviewing all the games with the words "prisoner" and "dilemma" in the title.
This war is pointless--there's no actual plan to deliver regime change. It's destabilizing a volatile region and ultimately lay Iranians will bear the brunt of the conflict. When there is a humanitarian and refugee crisis, the US is over there, we're over here. We should really be against this war.
The US is the same country that's shooting its own citizens and threatening to annex its neighbors and allies. Israel is the country that's "settling" land that already has people living on it. I don't know what they are giving us but I'd take my chances not being their allies.
As a British citizen, I do not consent to giving other people a legit reason to shoot at us. Shooting at people, or aiding someone else to do so, is giving those people a reason to shoot at us. The US and Israel are not the good guys and if we support them, neither are we.
Since when is assassinating leaders of another country a legit tactic, even in a war? Hypothetically if some country declares war on the US and takes out POTUS and members of the cabinet on day 1 surprise strikes, they'd be immediately labeled terrorists forever and ever?
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My heart goes out to the people of Iran. Being shot at by three of the most unscrupulous governments in the world at the moment, at the same time.
Sam Altman was such a cool guy before OpenAI. Is there anyone money and power don't corrupt?
the best episode of puppet regime so farβ¦ even though itβs not.
I'm fucking mad. Killing children is not ok.
It's been over 12 hours. Where is the official explanation for the attack on Iranian children? Where are the international condemnations?
This is the shit that fuels terrorism and puts every citizen of every country that's ever allied with the US or Israel at risk. We must demand accountability.
Adding "diplomacy" to the list of extinct concepts I'm going to have to explain to my grandchildren.
I'm old enough to remember when CNN introduced the right wing - left wing debate format for every issue as if they were both intellectually honest. When it made Tucker Carlson an anchor. Here we are, 30 years later, and the right-fringe views are mainstream. Is it ok if I'm not sad that CNN is dead?
