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It's quite racist (and antisemetic) to think that just because things look similar that they were intended to be the same thing. They're not.

"Oh, you think that this fantasy race that has many of the anti-semitic tropes of Jewish people might in fact be a reference to Jewish people? Well, you're the one who associates those features with Jewish people, not me. Just saying."

This is where the moronic "maybe the curtains are just blue" reddit-tier analysis of literature gets you - completely unable to see any kind of allegory or metaphor, especially when bigots say that, no, that person in that book totally isn't a racist caricature, it's just a person with those traits!

If I wrote a book about a fantasy world where I used lots of sexist stereotypes about women - that they're less intelligent; that they're inherently subservient to men; that they "belong in the kitchen"; that they should be "barefoot and pregnant"; etc, and without ever even making a critical judgement of those traits or showed that the men in that society are bad for maintaining this status quo, then I would rightfully be called a raging sexist by people. They would probably believe I was one of those tradcath, alt-right MGTOW incel people. If I turned around and said "Uh, it says a lot about liberals that they think these traits are stereotypically true of women! Maybe they're the real sexists, not conservatives?" then you would, hopefully (though I'm not so sure given your lack of sensitivity towards Jewish people) call me a total fucking dipshit.

America+Israel are too strong and there's no USSR to prop up a real resistance

Yeah, the strength of America in the region has really been exemplified by their victories over the past few years. The total occupation and defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan was one thing, and now we can see their aircraft carriers and ships bombing Yemen without any response, instantly breaking the Red Sea blockade in a mere few days after Operation Prosperity Guardian united the West. As we see Israel finally bringing their successful campaign in Gaza to a close after taking a mere few hundred troop losses and virtually no vehicles losses to bring down a 30,000 strong Hamas force fortified in a tunnel network, what hope is there anymore? After Hezbollah lost the 2006 war, the writing was on the wall. If only there was some form of unified Resistance that could take on America and Israel, but we simply don't live in that world.

I don't think "like 10 senior officials assassinated" is even remotely synonymous with "dismantled". If these organizations weren't explicitly constructed with the concept of "make sure a dude being assassinated is as little a problem as possible against an enemy that can assassinate people relatively easily" in mind then they wouldn't currently exist because, well, Israel would have assassinated all the irreplaceable people

honestly I'm struggling to think of any conflict where assassination of senior figures has been an important factor in eventual victory or defeat. It certainly throws temporary confusion into the structure as people shift roles but I can't think of a war where I could say "This war would have gone much, much differently if this guy or 10 guys had been assassinated/not assassinated." Especially in guerrilla conflicts. Maybe taking out like, Mao, or Ho Chi Minh prior to 1965, etc would have changed the outcome in some way, but the armies they possessed don't just disappear into the aether. Feels very Great Man Theory-ish.

Whenever I see radlibs going on about how we have to vote for Biden even if he's a genocidal murderer because Trump is even worse, I imagine myself in Gaza, trying to explain to a person there who had just lost most of their family in an airstrike that used an American bomb, why Biden is the better choice than Trump. And they just look at me bewildered, and say "What the hell are you talking about? Who cares about the president? We're losing everything here. We're starving and dying here. Why are you wasting precious energy caring about who the president of America is?" And I feel like such a fucking moron, a godforsaken white Westerner. And I'm overcome with such a sense of nausea that I have to take my mind off things for the next couple of hours.

While intellectually I can understand the motivations that propel liberals that would cause them to think in this way, at the primal level, I just can't empathize or understand how you could possibly look at the videos and images that have come out of Gaza and then say "...yes, but Trump would be so much worse, and so we have to vote for Biden." Are they out of their minds? You're seeing genocidal atrocities that haven't been seen since the (albeit frighteningly recent) days of European colonialism and your first reaction isn't "Oh my god, the Western world truly is the enemy of all humanity," or "Oh my god, I have to do something to help these people, I want to become a doctor or aid worker now," or "Oh my god, I can't do anything but from now on I'll maintain a strict adherence to BDS," your first reaction is "Damn, how does this impact the US presidential election?" We're going to need entire cities dedicated solely to re-education after the US empire has fallen to fix all these peoples' broken brains.

I'm way out of touch with my QAnon lore but isn't Trump supposed to be an undercover agent according to their mythology?

this tracks with my previous assessment of: a significant event because it indicates that the US and friends are a mixture of unwilling and unable to defend major shipping routes despite their apparent naval power; not so much the economic impact it's having on Israel, though lots of minor compounding factors due to the chaos of the war and the fleeing Israeli settlers can have a major net effect.

we'd need either Algeria to start hitting ships in the Alboran Sea, or Hezbollah to start hitting Israeli ports and incoming ships, for the blockade to be truly meaningful economically, but militarily, it's a pretty major development, especially if it escalates to war with Yemen

TLDR: "we're not owned. actually, Russia is the one being owned. no, we're not mad. I swear we're not mad at all"

Georgia isn't in NATO, they're a close partner

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This is the run-up to February 24th all over again. Where an invasion seemed both impossible and inevitable, simultaneously.

We believe that it is absolutely an attainable goal for the Israeli military forces to degrade and defeat Hamas’s abilities to conduct attacks inside Israel. It can be done militarily

you better get started then, because right now the opposite is happening

they can't maintain a supply chain and repairs for less than 200 tanks. world war 2 generals are rolling in their graves. except the German ones I guess. they probably understand the predicament.