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In a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.

The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week. From Kashmir to Khan Younis, Hodeidah, Port Sudan and Kursk, the only sound is of explosions, and the only lesson is that the old rules no longer apply.

Indeed Fiona Hill, the policy analyst and adviser to the UK government on its imminent strategic defence review, argues the third world war has already started, if only we would recognise it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah literally no one is “warring” over this. They aren’t even making harsh comments. Everyone it seems wants the Muslims dead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

IDK why Israel is getting off so easy, there is clearly moral opposition to it, but nobody is doing anything?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, the moral opposition is actually pretty low. On here, yeah, we don’t want genocide. But, think about the average angry uneducated citizen of the world. Muslims are often seen as terrorists because so many of the terrorists follow Islam. They might think: not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. Which is obviously not true because there are plenty of non-Muslim terrorists. But you know how people are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree that there are problems with Islam extremists, just as there are problems with other extremists. But obviously we should not solve the problem by becoming the problem ourselves. In Gaza Israel is the extremist, and it is insane that Israel is allowed to control it like it was some sort of criminal ghetto prison.
As I see it, Israel is a failed experiment, and the countries behind it need to step in and resolve the situation and at a minimum stop further Israeli settlements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, regarding the ghetto prison, Egypt has worked with Israel to block the western border. Yet they are allowed to wash their hands of it.

Additionally, the county most behind it was Britain, given that they controlled the territory and handed it over. Then, additional blame falls on every member of the UN for resolution 181.

This just supports my opinion that a large chunk of people are not actually interested in genocide, but more interested in using it as a weapon to crush the United States. They completely ignore the other counties currently supplying arms, like Germany. Where are the Genocide Merz chants? There is also a global Muslim genocide going on, but if you ask the ML, they will deny it completely, and call you names—which means it is true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Additionally, the county most behind it was Britain,

I think there was pretty hard pressure from USA, and USA even wrote into their laws that they are required to protect Israel. Laws that are still used to explain why USA protect Israel even when Israel behaves like a terrorist state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The US is not required to do anything, although we do have the MOU, which is up in 2028.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because they still claim to be victims

It's a huge part of the Israeli identity to claim that they're persecuted for their religion

I don't care about their superstition.

I care that they commit atrocities, do truly foul things for the US so that the Americans can maintain deniability, all while being disgusting hypocrites

Israel only exists so that the West has a permanent presence in an oil-producing region. That's all it ever was

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago