The Israel-Hamas War Lounge
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Yes. The times have indeed changed.
Remember that at the time the US nuked the civilian population of Japan, the world was a place where things like this were totally acceptable:
I think any country that used a nuclear weapon today would face extremely strong international backlash. Possibly including the US, although we ostensibly still control institutions like the US, IMF, major media, etc.
In 1945 there was no internet to combat lies and propaganda, and most people saw America as the "good guys." That is not the case for Israel, (or even for the US) today. Add to that the hypersensitivity and emotionality of our society and they would really risk a global embargo (outside of their US colony) if they used a nuclear weapon. That, and, as you said, it would not be very effective tactically.
Yes. The times have indeed changed.
Remember that at the time the US nuked the civilian population of Japan, the world was a place where things like this were totally acceptable:
I think any country that used a nuclear weapon today would face extremely strong international backlash. Possibly including the US, although we ostensibly still control institutions like the US, IMF, major media, etc.
In 1945 there was no internet to combat lies and propaganda, and most people saw America as the "good guys." That is not the case for Israel, (or even for the US) today. Add to that the hypersensitivity and emotionality of our society and they would really risk a global embargo (outside of their US colony) if they used a nuclear weapon. That, and, as you said, it would not be very effective tactically.
That's exactly the kind of propaganda they are using now on Hamas and the Palestinians, 40 decapitated Israeli babies etc, lies which the MSM, Biden and many senators have repeated ad nauseum, all the while we are arming Israel with bombs that have been pulverizing Palestinian children by the tens of thousands. There is a big part of the boomercon base and a lot of establishment Dems that are a captive audience for this kind of propaganda.
Hezbollah isn't playing around.
Oh no! It's anudda shoah!
They'll need street squads to get this done, a la Ukraine. What a kvetching mess that will be.
Hezbollah warned them.
Looks like the Houthi's are taking credit for it, it wasn't even Hezbollah. If this came all the way from Yemin, add on our Airlines are shutdown due to a computer glitch, and the losers in the CIA and FBI are probably freaking out.
Military announced the end of the floating pier operation in Gaza.
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U.S. Military Ends Gaza Pier Mission
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that its mission to install and operate a temporary, floating pier off the coast of...
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Wow, that is a long ways.
Iranian made kamikaze drones, like the Shahed-136, have a range of up to 2500km. They can be made from commercially available components anywhere in the world - so imagine how far into the CONUS they could fly, if launched from a cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico, from Mexico itself (considering that Hezbollah is active in Latin America) or even from American soil.
There is no more important thing right now, that we can be doing politically, than to keep our young people from signing up for the draft. I have already heard that if Trump wins that White Nationalist Groups plan to go to military recruiting locations and protesting outside of them. If you know of a young person that is considering the military, talk them out of it. This is a top priority, we must keep our young people from being destroyed by another war in the middle east.
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Now Israel is bombing Lebanon.
They have been bombing Lebanon for several months.
Yes, I meant as in addition to bombing Yemin at the very same time. The amount of US tax dollars they blew threw in this one day had to be a pretty large sum.