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[-] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 1 points 16 minutes ago

Tankies saved Palestine 🤡

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

Why does this even need to be said? I hate this planet.

[-] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Ummm yeah, you’d be surprised at how many people think Trump is anti-war

[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago
[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

As long as the United States exists and the world still uses petroleum, there will never be peace in the Middle East. The genocide is Gaza is nothing more than a business decision by democrats and republicans, to keep the region destabilized so that it can’t resist Western imperialism.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 hours ago

just wait. anti-muslim fear-mongering will start soon, and then we'll go to war. i give it less than a year

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 8 points 6 hours ago

Well, no shit.

I've been phasing out US channels from my social media and I think it's time to block Lemmy politics and other US-focused politics discussion from here as well. I don't have much compassion for what Americans will endure the next however many years, but man, it does suck for everybody else.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 13 points 3 hours ago

all of my friends voted for harris and many of them campaigned for harris, including myself. no compassion is cool though- also cool to take the time to tell people you're not only lacking in compassion, youre good with out-group homogenity in place of actual thinking. it's also good you're just burying your head in the sand, but take the time to ensure other people know that's what you're doing.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io -2 points 3 hours ago

Screw that. I am forced to deal with US politics and culture in enough areas of my life to be shamed for refusing to care about their self-harming tendencies. I don't have a need to care about what the US do to themselves in the same way I don't have a need to care about what Argentina or Hungary or Russia do to themselves. At least Russians don't have a real choice.

Admittedly, I did have the compulsion to write that down here at all, as opposed to those other examples. In my defense, that's because a) I literally wrote that as I clicked the "block" button in this community, and b) it's insanely hard to not pay attention to the US. It requires active effort. This community isn't even called "US politics", it's just called "Politics". The US dominating my media is the default stance of the world, I have to take aggressive action to make that not be the case.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

There has not been peace in the Middle East since the Ottoman Empire and there probably never will be peace in the Middle East for at least several decades more.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

There won't be peace in the middle east until we've moved beyond petroleum.
When there's no need for oil the global superpowers won't need to play the regional powers against each other to take advantage of the chaos for profit anymore.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Israel vs Arab states conflict won't stop post oil economy.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

No, but we'll stop propping up both sides and it will be able to reach some sort of natural conclusion.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

We're not going to stop propping up Israel. It's religious for American Christians, not economic.

[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

There isn't going to be peace in my region until any of the regional powers once again has hegemony. Right now this region is a shatter belt, that is a region where regional and global powers treat as a battleground. That's why a revolution against Syria's government devolved into American, Russian, Turkish, Kurdish, Iranian, Israeli, Iraqi and Lebanese aircraft militias and armies directly involved, with even more indirectly involved.

Sadly the next few decades portend a collapse of the current authoritarian stability and even more Syria-like disasters.

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

There hasn't been peace in the middle east in what 1-2 thousand years? I highly doubt a president was ever changing that unless they nuke the whole thing.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago

I mean, the Middle East is almost as bad as Europe for warmongering.

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