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Stakes for whom? >100 kids got murdered the first day of this "low stakes" war
by lejalv 7mo ago
Stakes for whom?
>100 kids got murdered the first day of this "low stakes" war
- keybored 7mo ago“Iranian kids may die... but that’s a prize I’m willing to pay.”
- 1234letshaveatw 7mo ago"I much prefer nuclear conflict"
- keybored 7mo agoPropose a nuclear free zone in the Middle East, propose a global nuclear free zone, propose to cooperate with other nuclear powers to disarm. But that’s apparently not the real concern at all.
- 1234letshaveatw 7mo agoThe USA
- 1234letshaveatw 7mo agoHow many protesters were killed leading up to it?
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- keybored 7mo agoHow does bombing a school help protesters?
- teleforce 7mo agoImagine the NATO reaction if on the very first day of Russo-Ukrainian war offensive is by Russia performing missiles bombing murdering 100 kids studying in Ukraine primary school. Trump candid reaction to the Iranian school incident when asked by reporter was "I can live with that".
- pjc50 7mo agoThere were significant civilian casualties right from the start of the war in Ukraine, and several massacred villages. Russian air defense shot down a civilian airliner mostly full of Dutch nationals and the response was just condemnation and tweaking the sanctions a bit.
- teleforce 7mo agoMy heartfelt sympathy to the MH17 victims and families, but the airplane was flying in the risky warzone. That does not discount the fact that it's an atrocious act by the Russian backed military. However, to send missile to primary school killing hundreds of school girls on the very first day of the war, if intentionally is just pure evil.
- shiroiuma 7mo agoIt wasn't intentional; the building was used by the military years before. The US had really badly out-of-date intelligence and was negligent in updating it. There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school. Remember Hanlon's Razor, and remember how incompetent the Trump Administration has been in everything ever since he took office.
- srean 7mo agoBut 10~15 years outdated intelligence about an area considered a significant adversary that is penetrated by oodles of humint sources... hard to believe. Israel has hit schools before knowing full well that it's a school (in war against Egypt). May well be policy. Many of these kids would have been kids of IRGC. Likely that was the reason.
- anabab 7mo ago> There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school. Objection. For a hypothetical actor wanting to set the world economy on fire there might be a benefit of enraging the enemy to lower the risk of early deescalation.