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[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

Because Israel isn't that big of a country. The countries around them are held back in part because the support of the US and EU is just that big of a stick. Economic sanctions alone can be very rough and actual military support is insane. Not so great at making any good lasting changes but toppling the Iraqi government was very fast. US coalition invaded March 20, Baghdad fell in April 9, a new government was in place by September 3, and Saddam captured December 13. Obviously things are different nowadays with drones and population willingness to deal with the maimed/dead and domestic price increases.

Now if there's Chinese or Russian support then things may change. Russia is still tied up with Ukraine and China is relatively neutral because they don't have that much skin in that area yet.

[-] yeather@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The US also supports every country around Israel with some form of aid. Meaning you aren’t just getting economic sanctions but major funding pulled.

$245 million to Egypt, $496 million to Lebanon, $1.82 Billion to Jordan. You get the picture.

China is fairly pro-palestine from what I have read, which is weird since I would guess the more legitimate Israel’s claims on Palestine would make their claim over Taiwan more legitimate.

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