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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen
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Biden is the top AIPAC recipient.
The aircraft carrier story is nothing more than a cheap excuse. The real reason US politicians support Israel is because of the AIPAC lobby bribing them and the Epstein tapes they are on.
You really need to let this go. US imperialism is not a “cheap excuse,” nor are Christian Zionists. Every time you dismiss the hegemonic US’ agency and falsely lay all the blame on Israel, you’re feeding into antisemitic tropes.
Nope. If anything people should have been completely convinced by now that I am right over the past 20 months. The 'aircraft carrier' is the cheap excuse from the same guy who destroyed the US global reputation so Israel can do genocide.
Are we watching the US and Europe destroying their entire reputation so Israel can do a genocide or not? Nobody can explain this away with convenience factor. This genocide is in no way beneficial to the empire.
Christian Zionists such as Genocide Joe are indeed also a reason this is happening, but they too do not support Israel for any pragmatic cause which would benefit the empire such as being an aircraft carrier.
Countries such as Egypt, UAE and Saudi are infinitely more obedient than Israel which does things like the USS liberty and selling American secrets to Russia.
There are hundreds of explanations, from crushing armed resistance to prevent other movements from arising, to showing military might so other nations don't get any ideas, to being a bandaid to the property crisis in the West, to further increase MIC sales, to just being a blunder, etc...
The American hegemony runs on soft power and American exceptionalism. Showing other nations that they can... starve women and children in a concentration camp... is not what I would call a "great showing of might".
Even the MIC sales in Gaza are not that huge. Ukraine is making the MIC tonnes more money while the Western hegemony fully believes it is doing the right thing.
Gaza is the dumbest and least significant hill to die on for the empire. But it dead set to die on it.
US hegemony runs of military might and financial might, not soft power ffs. There is a reason to the thousands of US military bases all around the world yk.
No the US empire has many ties with other countries in order to allow their bases to be there.
USAID and all the other mass propaganda outlets and mainstream news networks have a purpose. Whitewash the empire.
If you are on Lemmygrad, that should be known to you.
Also, the empire just took the L from the Taliban. So in terms of hard power, nobody is really impressed anyways. A show of hard power would be if they got Ukraine to win the war. Not a genocide against women and children lmao