There’s no coalition this time. You’re on your own murca (well you’ve got your boyfriend Israel but they’re a bit tied up massacring children at the moment)
Unfair to Israel. They are also massacring women, the unarmed, the injured, the red cross etc etc. They are massacring or killing just about everybody. So please be fair to their efforts and not just limit them to children!!
Their snipers activelly target children in Gaza and they activelly supported their boy Epstein with his sex ring using children.
There's clearly a very special relationship between Israel and children.
Not just shooting Children, they often aim for the groin.
Looks like they recently killed a 19 year old American citizen too, but he was brown so they will get away with it
How do you know about this? Did they forget to kill a journalist somewhere?
There’s no coalition this time.
The US is allied with a host of Middle Eastern dictatorships and monarchies
The Bored of Peace
I can't believe the EU commission took it seriously. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/20/eu-ministers-to-grill-commissionss-suica-over-attendance-at-trumps-board-of-peace-launch
It's sanewashing what's clearly an insane initiative.
Quite right. The Trump administration are the ones who decided they don't need allies. Fine, then there is no obligation for America's old allies to help America.
Maybe there should be an official alliance between America's old allies: Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. A big free trade area with Americans excluded.
"America first! We don't need anyone!"
Trump:
Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford, in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime
Can someone please do that to us.
Death to Amerikkka
Ah yes, potential attack! It's like a repackaging of the WMD argument...
Not that I doubt Iran's crazed potential in the least, but currently the only potential attack comes from the US to cover up domestic sewage...
What will be the first target, "one way or another"-Greenland or Iran?
Ah yes, Mr No-Wars warmongering again
What could possibly go wrong? The short victorious "war" rallies citizens, especially those who the nationalistic (MAGA / NRA). It diverts from domestic issues like employment, the economy, ICE raids etc. It allows low scrutiny and speedy legislation changes. All at the low low cost of lives and future threats of retaliation.
And remember how we treated the Afghani's who helped the coalition during that war? Yeah, there will be absolutely no local support this time round.
A petty note, but an important one… afghani is the currency not the people. They don’t like being called that.
Source: spent a year there with some friends
That's good to know, thanks!
Is there a demonym they (people who live in Afghanistan) tend to prefer...?
Afghan is the demonym for nationals from Afghanistan
That makes perfect sense. Thanks! I think I was overthinking it hahaha.
I didn't know that!
there will be absolutely no local support
You sure? Iran itself was eager to work with the US when Obama lifted sanctions. It's just business. People know and don't take it personal. After Syria, people in Iran know that they won't get democracy. And yet they are doing some revolting.
Yeah. The US and UK abandoned those natives who supported them on the ground in Afghanistan, left them to fend fo themselves after the Taliban took control. Seeing that, why would and Iranians put themselves in the firing line to support the US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Iranian_protests
Must be that they hope that it turns out well for them,
Initially sparked by frustration over record-high inflation, food prices, and currency depreciation
or sanctions work.
There is a difference between a (somewhat) (maybe) spontaneous protest the the wider community is involved in, and treason. Supporting a foreign power in an invasion is going to get you and your entire extended friends and family group executed after a stay being tortured in a dungeon.
Addressing an estimated 250,000 people in Munich, Reza Pahlavi - who has called for the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic regime - denounced a crackdown on recent protests there
https://feddit.org/post/25854413
Some people want the Shah back.
Plot twist of the year: Starmer found a spine?
Maybe. Or maybe he's suffering pressure from the rest of Europe.
Just cynical calculations, he doesn't have the support to declare war and it would be political suicide for him if he did. Israel owns him, he made his name in purging the party of people opposed to Israel's abuses, during Corbyn when they purged the party of him and all of his supporters mostly under bogus bigotry charges, accusing and removing more jewish people of anti jewish bias than others per capita.
Well, well. The worm turns.
Second praiseable move of the UK in the recent days
What is the other one?
The arrest of former prince Andrew
Arresting Andrew
Didn't they let him go though?
I had to look it up because I’m not super familiar or exactly following it, but yes he was. However, he is still under investigation.
I’m just assuming the arrest is what the other thing the commenter was hinting at.
Released under investigation, they don't just arrest the king's brother on a whim, pretty sure they're pretty sure they can get a conviction.
So are we ready to admit that Israel has our government occupied yet?
TFW the Brits are like, nah, we don't want to help you overthrow the shah of Iran.
This whole thing can go haywire (including many civilian deaths), especially under Trump. It makes sense for UK to tell them to leave UK out of it. Besides, while going after Iran's regime is somewhat popular opinion - US doing it on the other hand suddenly makes it sound much more controversial.
I'm with you, on all counts. And I think not wanting to touch USA's shit is a legitimate take right about now. Shit, it was the wrong take to back in 2001/2003, and it was the wrong take back in *checks notes* most of US history, but right now for sure. We got our own problems now anyway, many of which were directly caused by the USA, so...
Trump insulted all EU military fairly recently so that's probably a double nah from the former allies...
But hey he has his board of peace now, with all the ...oppressive... countries in it, perhaps they'll send highly trained soldiers to die in Iran.
Somehow I think not.
Well good they won't need to, it's been done since a while
Yeah I know it was just a geopolitical history joke. :)
Maybe the Diego Garcia thing will be enough of an excuse to not go to war with Iran on Israel's behalf?
There is nothing that would prevent our lawmakers from doing what Israel tells it to, blackmail of them fucking children and whatever else, it finally explains a lot, and Israel isn't really hiding it anymore, they are reveling in taking the mask off.
As soon as they start the forever war, Israel will find endless excuses to go back in, bomb this, assassinate that. Weapons programs, terrorists, whatever excuses they come up with. This will never end, and that's the idea, Israel's governmental leaders want to forestall elections and a reckoning as they've decided that the politicians that failed should stay in power to deal with the fall out from that failure despite not admitting fault and blaming others.
The rest of their governmet, appointed by their politicians, supremely corrupt and unilateral for 25 years when the semblance of a left collapsed, either believes those politicians or pretends to because they think they will benefit. They revel in their absolute military advantage, able to bomb any of their neighbors with near impunity, as they are unable to well respond if at all, and backed by the US that they've compromised so thoroughly they are almost openly showing off being the ones calling the shots ordering the US around. The UK is owned by Israel too, make no mistake, they just have to kowtow to their citizens more in their anti war sentiment more, for now.
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