• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 hours ago

    What’s your actual fucking goal?

    I’d wager that the part they aren’t saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

    1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

    2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

    3. War fits into the “law and order” narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

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      4 hours ago

      \4. Zelensky told him that Ukraine has it in their Constitution that they don’t hold elections during times of war. He thinks this applies to the US Constitution.

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      3 hours ago

      Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it’s distracting from.

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      6 hours ago

      Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.

      They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.

      Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.

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        39 minutes ago

        Daesh isn’t destroyed, it’s dormant. This will almost certainly cause a resurgence, they already killed two syrian soldiers in an attack today

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          58 minutes ago

          *the Orange is making the world a lot worse

          *the Orange is Americans are making the world a lot worse

          They have elected this monster and his regime twice

          They refuse any accountability for their reckless behaviour

          They refuse to hold any of their political class responsible