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In the Middle East everyone fights with everyone else and everyone is in covert or open alliance with everyone else. Simultaneously.
by ReptileMan 6mo ago
In the Middle East everyone fights with everyone else and everyone is in covert or open alliance with everyone else. Simultaneously.
- trollbridge 6mo agoAnd for extra fun, the U.S. sometimes likes to jump into the fray.
- Cyph0n 6mo agoSometimes?
- missingua 6mo agoEvery ~10 year or so. As opposed to the locals who experience it daily, either war or the conflicts-between-wars.
- appointment 6mo agoThe US has been doing air strikes in the Middle East on a regular basis since ~1990, and they extensively support the military adventures of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- Ladioss 6mo agoThe US is more of a bouncer on behalf of Israel than anything else, really.
- deepsun 6mo ago-- Moshe, why are you keep reading anti-Semitic papers? -- I just like to hear how powerful and clever we are.
- anigbrowl 6mo agoDefense of Israel was the primary justification offered in a recent State department memo asserting the legal basis for the war with Iran. Unusually, its publication was not announced on social media or to the press, unlike most state department official pronouncements. Anyway, rather than being opinion, this is (for the present) the official position of the United States government. https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-legal-adviser/2026/04/operation-epic-fury-and-international-law#_ftnref3 https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-legal-adviser/2...
- thaumasiotes 6mo ago> Defense of Israel was the primary justification offered in a recent State department memo asserting the legal basis for the war with Iran. It's funnier than that. The justification is "self-defense of its [the USA's] Israeli ally".
- hannofcart 6mo agoArab Bedouin saying: "I and my brother against my cousin, and I and my cousin against the stranger."