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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Conveniently you forgot to mention a short list of terrorist groups financed by Iran.

Here you go

  1. Hezbollah (Lebanon) – Iran’s most heavily backed proxy; receives funding, weapons, and training. Operates militarily and politically in Lebanon; hostile to Israel.
  2. Hamas (Gaza) – Though Sunni, Iran supports Hamas with weapons and funds due to shared anti-Israel stance.
  3. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Gaza/West Bank) – More directly aligned with Iran than Hamas; receives significant Iranian support.
  4. Houthis (Ansar Allah, Yemen) – Iran supplies weapons, intelligence, and training to Houthis in their fight against the Saudi-led coalition.
  5. Kata’ib Hezbollah (Iraq) – Iraqi Shi’a militia backed by Iran; part of the Popular Mobilization Forces; responsible for attacks on U.S. personnel.
  6. Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (Iraq) – Another Iran-backed Shi’a militia operating in Iraq; heavily involved in sectarian violence.
  7. Harakat al-Nujaba (Iraq/Syria) – Shi’a militia supported by IRGC; operates in Iraq and Syria.
  8. Fatemiyoun Division (Afghan Shi’a fighters) – Recruited and trained by Iran to fight in Syria.
  9. Zeynabiyoun Brigade (Pakistani Shi’a fighters) – Similar to Fatemiyoun; deployed in Syria under Iranian command.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I mean, Israel is just the USA's preferred method of conducting proxy wars in the region... Not that the Zios aren't also happy to massacre their neighbours, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And Iran and Russia are a close second.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I can finally relate. I just had a Civilisation VI game last night where I was trying to win by the domination method (I'm still pretty tame, waiting for a casus belli to start a war), but suddenly three civs got way ahead in culture, science and military, so if I still wanted to win by dominating, I had no other choice but to just surprise buttfuck all three at the same time. The aztecs had been working on the space race already.

...so yeah, I guess Israel just realised that they need to chop chop before Iran builds the Mars base.

(obvious /s, it's disgusting how such aggressors can just get away like that)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to play Civ III a lot and one of my favorite strategies was to borrow a bunch of money from a neighbor and then attack and destroy him, which would of course wipe away the debt with the only consequence being that everybody else hated you. It was amusing to learn that this was actually Hitler's strategy with his invasion of the Soviet Union (minus the "destroy him" part, of course). Part of the nonaggression treaties between Germany and the USSR was actually a massive loan to Hitler, adding to the debt that Hitler had already racked up to achieve his "economic miracle".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wow, you have yet another thing in common : ). Jokes aside, it's crazy how many things games can teach you about.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't know how they did it, but Israel has made America its personal bitch. Everything they do, America just comes and help them wagging its tail and half of Americans will just nod and follow behind like pups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

AIPAC, it funds politicians on both sides. Our gov't is set up like a mafia payout, and the Zionist are running the show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I don’t know how they did it

This is one of the dangers of having a corrupt government in the modern world that is openly for sale. Conservatives might think it's fine that money can and should influence politicians, but they're dead quiet about the fact that the money doesn't have to only come from American sources.

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

AIPAC - that’s how.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

You don't know how they did it? I thought it was obvious, Israel lobbies all of the US politicians: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe the Russians refer to it as "kompromat"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

while Israel has nukes, and is subject to MAD, there's a ton of debate and uncertainty about how much Iran cares for MAD when they finish their nukes

thats most of the reason why people are worried about them rn if you cant tell

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

It's a theocracy that ritualistically chants "death to America, death to Israel."

Nuclear proliferation is never a good thing. But a regime like that getting nukes is a major crisis.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Because the US and Israel have been killing tens of thousands if not millions of Iranians directly and indirectly over the past century.

Israel and the US helped the Shah build his intelligence forces, which murdered, tortured and dissappeared tens of thousands of people. Then the US lead Saddam Hussein to invade Iran, killing a milliom Iranians over the course of 8 years. How much Israel was involved in that is unclear.

Imagine Poland would have adopted the slogan "death to Germany" after WWII. Would you consider Poland a major crisis? What about Ukrainian sentiment towards Russia since the invasion? If Ukraine would seek nukes in 30 years, would you also see that as major crisis?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a good thing that Israel and the US did everything they could to get Iran to decide not to make nukes instead of antagonizing the poop out of them.... Oh wait.

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