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This was not inevitable. This is a war Israel chose. It could have been prevented. Diplomatic talks were ongoing when the bombers took off for Iran. Israel’s continuing, illegal, unjustified airstrikes are unlikely to achieve their stated aim – permanently ending Tehran’s presumed efforts to build nuclear weapons – and may accelerate it. They must stop now. Likewise, Iran must halt its retaliation immediately and drop its escalatory threats to attack US and UK bases.

This conflict is not limited, as was the case last year, to tit-for-tat exchanges and “precision strikes” on a narrow range of military targets. It’s reached a wholly different level. Potentially nothing is off the table. Civilians are being killed on both sides. Leaders are targets. The rhetoric is out of control. With Israel fighting on several fronts, and Iran’s battered regime backed against a wall, the Middle East is closer than ever to a disastrous conflagration.

Reasons can always be found to go to war. The roots of major conflicts often reach back decades – and this is true of the Israel-Iran vendetta, which dates to the 1979 Islamic revolution. The so-called “shadow war” between the two intensified in recent years. Yet all-out conflict had been avoided, until now. So who is principally to blame for this sudden, unprecedented explosion?

Answer: three angry old men whose behaviour raises serious doubts about their judgment, common sense, motives and even their sanity.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Lol. What about the millions that got them into office in the first place? It's not a gender issue. It's a human nature one - acting out their insecurities by lashing out at the perceived enemy.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

Likewise, Iran must halt its retaliation immediately and drop its escalatory threats to attack US and UK bases.

Apparently defending yourself is the peak of insanity now.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Angry old men ... ruling the biggest countries in the world .. and all of them not caring what they are going to do or not do because they're going to be dead or senile or incapable to do anything within the next ten years.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

This article is fine, but kind of superfluous.

We get it. Everyone can see this. If you don't have actionable advice or some additional insight, you're really just reporting that water is wet.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately not everyone is aware that water is wet. And often there are groups who try and convince people otherwise.

I agree that more ideas need to be put into action that can actually accomplish change for the better, but that requires that people be informed first.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

This freaking assholes are going to do the thing that the last string of Putin's morality didnt allow him to do and give a white card to any future psycopath to use nuclear weapons.

Russia and the USA created this monsters. We need to deweaponize the fuck out of all of them before it is to late.

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