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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If anybody tries to tell you that a geopolitical situation is "too complicated" to understand, in 99.9% of situations they're some combination of a) trying to make you stop caring about it because they know it counters their ideology, or b) they don't understand it themselves and don't want to embarrass themselves trying to explain it. The vast majority of people on planet Earth have the capacity to understand what is going on in Palestine.

There's certainly a good amount of history there, but most history can be adequately simplified, and this conflict is no exception: it began with the British Empire giving away their Middle Eastern colony to fledgling Zionists, and the Palestinians who were native to the land were forcibly driven off in the late 1940s. The land that the Palestinians occupy shrank over time due to continued oppression and wars until the present day. The Zionists fought wars with neighbouring countries like Egypt and Lebanon over the decades, with both victories and defeats, and have conducted sabotage and economic sanctions across various countries in the region with the help of the United States to crush states that would not bend the knee to them (Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran) and install Zionism-friendly leaders in other countries (Egypt, Jordan, the various gulf monarchies outside of Qatar). Zionism, by definition, relies on settlers to come along and take land that was once owned by Palestinians, and their explicitly stated, proud goal is to expand their settler-colony across a wide swathe of the Middle East, into Iraq and Egypt.

Not a single word of that was remotely opinionated. I could give that summary to a Zionist and they could think I was being pro-Zionist, and I could give that summary to a Palestinian and they could think I was being pro-Palestinian. Many (I would hope most) people would agree that settler-colonies that drive people off the land are an anachronism that belongs to, like, the 19th century, and not the 21st. Zionists think that doing all that is fine because they believe that the Palestinians are subhuman; I know this because - beyond all the ones you can find online telling you that that is what they believe and being proud of it - believing a certain type of people to be subhuman is a prerequisite for approving and conducting bombing raids that kill tens of thousands of civilians with only a very minor military advantage to be gained.

With all that out of the way, I also expect this person believes that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is extremely simple (Putin = very bad evil man, Ukraine = epic good guys Avengers), despite, again, there being significant history there that MUST be understood. It's not a difficult history to learn if you have about half an hour of free time and, most importantly, an actual willingness to learn that information.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

I generally dislike basically everybody in the "Youtube Smart Person Who Tells You Information For 10-30 Minutes" sphere for various reasons (Tom Scott and 3Blue1Brown are the least aggravating for me as they're pretty good at staying in their lane), but by far the funniest (and most aggravating) part of their whole project is when they get onto China or the USSR in the middle of a video that doesn't immediately seem like it would be about that, and it just turns into a whole spiel like: "The totalitarian regime of China/USSR is well-known for their extensive censorship and the iron hand they have on the media, with many human rights abuses. According to recent estimates, the gulag system murdered 50 quintillion people under Stalin's terror alone, and not a single person was allowed to speak their mind. If you were the first to stop clapping during a Stalin speech, you would be executed. Anyway, as I was saying, this new flavour of ice cream was invented in the USSR in 1976..."

Like, wow, you're really doing a great job with that Bill Gates grant money.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Europe signing up for their own century of humiliation, no internal force required

The EU is just stepping on a series of rakes and never learning their lesson, Sideshow Bob style, for the foreseeable future

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yemen almost certainly has anti-ship capabilities. My guess as to why they haven't been used much yet is that the plan is to continue going up the escalation ladder via individual strikes on US military bases in the area around Yemen, which they have so far largely avoided and instead focussed on shipping. A US military base under fire can be "ignored" (as in, not publicly broadcast); a US destroyer sinking beneath the waves is a lot harder for the US to shrug away and will be a major escalation. This is the start of the regional war, it has officially expanded beyond Israel/Palestine, but the Resistance is gonna take things steadily and according to the plan that their joint command room has created.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if you post a comment and then click the three dots just underneath it to expand options, you can "Speak as moderator", which pins the comment to the top of the thread. You can then undo that by re-clicking the option.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Source: Resistance News Network telegram.

Member of Ansarallah political bureau, Ali Al-Qahoum:

The battle will exceed the imagination and expectations of the Americans and the British.

The war is open, and the Americans and the British will regret their aggression and pay a high price.

The Yemeni Armed Forces are responding to the American and British warships in the Red Sea.

A fierce war in the Red Sea, and we targeted American and British military sites and bases.

Same source:

The American-British enemy aggression on Yemen targets Al-Dailami Air Base north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the vicinity of Hodeidah Airport, areas in the Zabid district, and the Kuhlan camp east of the city of Saada.

The American-British aggression on Yemen targeted the airport in the Abs District and the Taiz Airport in the Taiziyah District.

There were initial reports of a hit on an American ship in the Red Sea but I immediately did not believe this to be real, and it is seeming increasingly likely that it is indeed not real. Rumors about waves of missiles being fired by Yemen that I also have no idea if they are real or not, but am gradually siding on them not being real, or being overblown. Also rumors of attacks in Iraq that I have no idea about.

The only thing that we know for sure right now is that a) Western aircraft have bombed Yemen, and b) the Yemeni government is not particularly happy about that.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Listen jack, sometimes to uh... you... you gotta start wars. Big wars. Proves that we're serious. The other guy, that uh, that Trump guy... he wouldn't have fought autocracies like Russia. And China. And Yemen. The... wait, weren't Barack and I doing strikes on Yemen a decade ago...? Or was that Afghanistan? You just lose track of time, man. Deja vu, haha. But anyway, the, uh, the reason you gotta not vote for Trump, and gotta vote for me, is that Trump wouldn't do this. He loves Russia. He loves China. He loves Yemen. We can't let it happen, in 2024. I mean, uh, this year. I... the only... ah, god, I forgot. But the important thing is... is that you, uh, you gotta stabilise the Middle East. That's all there is to it. These are precision bombs. Very precise. We're gonna keep this contained, this war, it'll be over in a few weeks. Our best intelligence reports are telling us that.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

PLEASE HAVE SCEPTICISM FOR INCOMING NEWS REPORTS.

PLEASE HAVE SCEPTICISM FOR INCOMING NEWS REPORTS.

PLEASE HAVE SCEPTICISM FOR INCOMING NEWS REPORTS.

There will be a shitload of information and misinformation going around in the coming minutes, hours, and days. Treat every single video or image as false, or from years ago, until otherwise (reasonably) proven true.

Please don't swamp the megathread with reports of "X place has been hit" or "Y place has just been assaulted". Wait at least a little while. Even just 10 minutes. If you absolutely MUST post about it and cannot contain yourself, as is the Hexbear nature, at a minimum preface the comment with something like "unconfirmed report suggests".

edit: quiet before the storm, so unpinning for now. Going to bed. Will repin this comment if/when necessary tomorrow.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago

The regional war begins.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

idk, I'm British and I have total apathy towards my own politicians. unless/until Corbyn or somebody at least as left-wing as him is made a party leader, I will never vote in an election again

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It'd be so funny if Settlerman was the American version of Mussolini

starts with vaguely left-wing beliefs, part of the "socialist" bloc in the country, and then rapidly switches sides to become a genocidal fascist

he'll be President in 2032

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