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All those Mid East operations were way more for Israel than for the US. At least that's not a factor here.
by morshu9001 10mo ago
All those Mid East operations were way more for Israel than for the US. At least that's not a factor here.
- guerrilla 10mo agoWhat did Afghanistan have to do with Israel?
- morshu9001 10mo agoNothing, I wasn't including Afghanistan in "Mid East"
- bawolff 10mo agoThat's a little like saying "North America" and then clarifying you didn't mean the united states.
- morshu9001 10mo agoNobody considers Afghanistan part of the Middle East
- esseph 10mo agoI bet 95% of the US does.
- jeltz 10mo agoNo it is like saying North American and clarifying that you did not mean Colombia.
- bawolff 10mo agoI was appearently wrong here.
- mkoubaa 10mo agoAbout that
- bawolff 10mo agoIraq was probably against Israel's interests. (Israel hates Iran, Iraq hated Iran. US taking out Iraq made Iran stronger which made Iran more threatening to Israel)
- morshu9001 10mo agoWe did fund Iraq under Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war. By the 2000s, Israel absolutely wanted us to attack Iraq, for example https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-to-us-dont-delay-iraq-attack/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-to-us-dont-delay-iraq-at...
- jacquesm 10mo agoHe would have never been there if not for the USA in the first place...
- yyyk 10mo agoActually, they did not want US to attack Iraq: https://forward.com/opinion/9839/sharon-warned-bush/ https://forward.com/opinion/9839/sharon-warned-bush/
- morshu9001 10mo agoHe didn't say not to attack. It says in there that he told Bush that Iraq was a threat, but that he shouldn't occupy Iraq or try to build a democracy there because it won't work. The rest of the article is 2007 hindsight.
- RobotToaster 10mo agoThis operation is to secure oil so that an attack on Iran doesn't destabilise oil supplies to the USA and Israel.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo agoThat’s one hypothesis. Better: it’s to destabilise Cuba so Rubio can deliver to his base.
- bawolff 10mo agoI feel like OPEC scales up/down production on a whim more than Iran produces. Unless you mean the potential for a boycott like what happened back in the day. However the geopolitical situation has changed enough that i think that is exceptionally unlikely.
- RobotToaster 10mo agoA boycott is one possibility, another is Iran closing the strait of hormuz, mines could take months to remove.
- swat535 10mo agoThe war with Iran and Israel is coming in 2026 (with the support of USA) and I’m certain this move is in preparation for that.
- bawolff 10mo agoI don't think Israel is capable of a ground invasion and i don't think USA has the stomach for it. I suspect they will just continue to try and economically strangle iran and pick off their allies one by one in the hope of an internal revolution (or wait until there is so much economic damage they aren't relavent anymore)
- jrs235 10mo agoThat thick crude requires refineries to crack it...
- CommanderData 10mo agoThe psyops online is quite amusing and insane, painting this as a victory for Venezuela. And weirdly by pro-Israeli account on Reddit. By now my radar assumes Israel is somehow connected like many other events we've witnessed in the past. Venezuelas president was quite staunchly against Israel and it's interests, close with Iran too. Israel is just an extension of the US in the middle east under the branding of Judaism. The desire is to weaken and eventually ignite the region in conflict. Already taking place between Saudi, UAE, Yemen etc. Weakening takes time.
- soldthat 10mo ago[flagged]