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I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
by jacquesm 8mo ago
I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
- haritha-j 8mo agoThey'd probably go all in, kill the leader of the nation, kill some of the successors in line, bomb the daylights out of a bunch of civillian sites, wipe out a girls school, sink a few ships... oh wait.
- myth_drannon 8mo ago[flagged]
- inglor_cz 8mo agoAnd some of the perps of the terror attack on Munich Olympic Games escaped retribution completely.
- thyristan 8mo agoYes, but Germany isn't the US. We do believe in the "rules-based international order", meaning that there will be a strongly worded letter, some discussion in the UN security council, ending in a veto by China or Russia. Followed by years of nothing at all, a memorial and yearly speeches at some day of rememberance. I'm not sure if this is any better.
- myth_drannon 8mo agoWest Germany's response to Palestinian terrorism was horrendous. But again, it's all about power. When Arabs have the most important resource in the world, you have little choice and have to submit. Lately Germany improved by much and grew some spine.
- heraldgeezer 8mo ago[flagged]
- mdni007 8mo agoYes thank god the US was able to retaliate against the countries directly involved with 9/11... Hypothetically, imagine if it ever comes out that one of our greatest allies was involved? I wonder what the reaction will be from Americans? The craziest is thing is that nothing would happen even if it were true
- igleria 8mo agoMenem, the president at the time, and many more made every effort to cover up who was responsible. Only in Argentina you get such an attack with no group taking responsibility. Justice system in Argentina is corrupt as hell.
- jacquesm 8mo agoExplain that 9/11 response thing again to me please...
- netsharc 8mo agoIf Iran managed to get an American incel to shoot it up, the US regime would just shrug, "oh well, what can you do"...
- pjc50 8mo agoPeople routinely - well, at least every few months - shoot up US schools. They are radicalized online. There is a common pattern to the radicalization. However, it's ""forbidden"" to point that out or suggest restricting the supply of firearms to internal enemies of the US in any way.
- rchaud 8mo agoAmericans don't need any encouragement from foreign powers to do that. Congress has seen fit to keep letting it happen by pointing to ancient scripture about the right to develop one's own organized militia....
- klipt 8mo agoDifficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference. We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.
- netsharc 8mo agoSomeone commented, and I paraphrase poorly, "Imagine if Russia didn't influence the voters in 2016; all the racism and bigotry in the USA would disappear!"...
- igleria 8mo agoExtrapolate from the response to 9/11 but with 2026 technology and imagination is the only limit.
- asdff 8mo ago9/11 was when bankers were killed, not children. You have to extrapolate from Uvalde.
- SpaceL10n 8mo agoYep. And when it happens, I'm not even going to be mad. We deserve it for making such a grave mistake.
- wutwutwat 8mo agoInnocent people never "deserve it", anywhere in the world, have some tact. IMO you should still be mad as hell, at the right people
- saberience 8mo agoWhat about a company that killed 20000 to 30000 protestors with machine guns?
- rchaud 8mo agoThe US can't even confirm how many detainees have died in custody in immigration detention around the country, yet they have precise numbers on how many people the Iranian regime has killed? Give me a break.
- klipt 8mo agoIf Iran is unwilling to let neutral international observers confirm the number, that suggests they are trying to hide a number they don't want the world to know.
- rchaud 8mo agoWho gets to define what "neutral" is? According to the US, the International Criminal Court is not fit for this purpose. It certainly can't be a nation-state that's in a military alliance with the US. Human Rights Watch, MSF, UNICEF? Woke grievance factories, the lot of them /s . World Health Organization? US just left it. It's slim pickings out there.
- heraldgeezer 8mo ago[flagged]
- gravisultra 8mo agoWhich Iran did not do. There's a single report from an anti-Iran agency saying that Iran claimed 3,000 killed protesters (not 20k-30k). Iran never said that though, and I would challenge anyone to produce evidence that they did.
- elzbardico 8mo agoI find those numbers hard to believe, as it is obvious that the US was already planning a regime changing intervention for quite some time when those protests happened. You can't trust people who paint Reza Pahlavi as a paragon of human rights and democracy. And neither you can trust every iranian refugee as a lot of those were corrupt members of the ruling government or worse, Savak members.
- heraldgeezer 8mo ago[flagged]
- gpderetta 8mo ago> Can we get a flag feature? there is one already, and you would know if you weren't a new account complaining about "What happened to this site" after a comment from a 20yo account.
- heraldgeezer 8mo ago[flagged]
- manbash 8mo agoYeah, it really wasn't about the school.
- joemazerino 8mo agoThey couldn't, and that's the point. Iran is a state sponsor of Islamic terrorist groups worldwide and have contributed to thousands of deaths, including children. None of it is justified but let's not pretend it's one sided.
- gmerc 8mo agoYour cilivians inflict that on yourself and you do nothing....
- asdff 8mo agoIf we take precedent from other times children in the USA were slaughtered in schools, probably a bit of national grandstanding on either end of the political spectrum then nothing actually material happening.
- jacquesm 8mo agoThe key difference is this would be identifiable foreigners doing it.