Like let's put aside socialism, morals, basic humanity. Why the fuck does the west support Israel to the degree it does? Like it only alienates basically every other potential partner in the ME. It can't effectively serve as a barracks state because who would we need that army to fight that wouldn't only make things worse? Their economy is basically propped up by the USA. Yes they serve as a platform for weapons and systems testing, but they don't need a complete blank cheque too it. Like I don't get this logic. Cut em a check and pull bibi's leash and wash your hands of it. Like the logic of "Unconditional 110% support" is just fuckin nuts. Yeah sure a good bit of it us ideology, but there has to be some matrierial calculus in there somewhere. They are basically sacrificing the baby Ukraine over this.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The country is also geographically close to Russia and China

it is not. 1.5-->3.4k kilometres is not close, and there are other 'allies' and clients much, much, closer.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

geographically Iran is pretty crucial for trade routes of the 2 Eastern countries

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You’re right. But China also wants land trade routes with the Middle East via BRI. I imagine having Israel being next to everybody in the region helps disrupt this goal.