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Ok. So we have just taken out all of Israel's foes with force. They are safe now right? We can stop supporting them militarily in every way now right? They no longer need any weapons, intelligence support, defense support, etc, right? If this is the right path to their long term safety then this must be true.
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America / Israel's partnership goes a lot deeper, it started in the cold war, and it's quite interesting. It heightened significantly after 9/11, where Israel spied (and still does) on all of America's enemies to prevent another 9/11, doing a lot of dirty work, giving intel as part of a partnership. I can't imagine both countries ever wanting to get rid of that partnership. This part of the equation is often left out in the conversation, presumably because it's hush hush ultimately.

Pretty sure killing all the enemies just turns the rest of the world into enemies.

This is the gist of Israel's problem. Successful tactically, but no long term strategy. They're increasingly isolated. As Baby Boomer voters lose power in US, Israel's isolation will become more obvious.

The long-term strategy is peace & stability.

Before you ask "how's that going", remember that doing nothing wouldn't result in a satisfactory answer to that question either.

The idea that "killing the enemies turns the rest of the world into enemies" is absurd. Other countries wouldn't follow the Iranian regime into martyrdom. What would be the reason: "we don't like war"?

Nobody likes war, but also nobody likes evil dictators emerging on this planet and repressing 90 million of its inhabitants, and waging industrial scale terrorism offensives beyond its borders.


In history class, we asked the teacher why the British killed these rebels and exiled those rebels. The rebels who led an army and killed many were exiled while the rebel who only had one kill was hung in the middle of his village and left to rot as an example.

She sat they killed some of those rebels, it would have sparked more rebellions. The difference was political power, even in defeat. Mercy is a big part of survival.

It's a bit like law enforcement. If there's no police, criminals are everywhere. If there's too many police, corruption becomes the standard, along with police brutality and profiling. You can never get it down to zero, just low enough.


To be fair, nobody likes Iran

Neither Israel.

Apparently many countries like Israel more than Iran.

Or rather the US likes Israel and most countries fear the US.

The comment is so out of touch. Even Chineses and Russians are disgusted by Iran's culture e.g. how they treat women and many others. Then, there's the saying "you know who Islam hates more than the jews and christians? other slightly different Islam groups."

And these countries are supposed to be Iran's closest allies due to having a common enemy.


Iran was/is Russian ally. Very prominent part of Russia is Chechnya. It is islamic and its leader is effectively Putins favorite pet. It is not as bad as Iran in treatment of women, but it is also not like Russia would care one bit about that.

Russians and Chineses and anyone really absolutely care about who they form alliances with.

Not sure where you get the idea that people don't care who they are friend with. They absolutely don't want to be friend whose culture is considered as disgusting.

They may form an alliance due to having a common enemy but in practice the alliance is just checking a box.


Iranian regime was the entire middle east’s foe, including Irans. Speak to your local Persian.

If by local you mean an émigré, they might be the worst person to ask.

You need to learn your history. The Iranian people have lived under oppressive authoritarianism for 40 years since the Iranian revolution.

Putting it lightly, many Iranian (within Iran) do not support the current regime. Especially not the educated.


People inside iran are echoing the same sentiments as the emigres.

For sure a lot of people in Iran hate the regime. But given their 40 or so years of rule, I doubt they could achieve that without a strong basis.

And yeah Iranians out of Iran definitely hate it too.


To take a break from breaking havoc in Gaza, there was an israeli incursion into Lebanon (which included a fantastic supply chain attack) Then they tried to pick a fight in Siria for some BS reason (intervening Siria for protecting some jew friendly faction inside Siria, a la Russia protecting russiansnin Ukraine), then went to Iran, then continued milling Gaza, and now we are back at Iran, again.

No, support will never falther.


>intervening Siria for protecting some jew friendly faction inside Siria, a la Russia protecting russiansnin Ukraine

It was the Druze and they were actually being killed.

"The friend of my enemy deserves to die" is not an attitude you have to adopt, even if you disagree with the Israeli response to the killings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2025_massacres_of_Syrian...


No, it is you saying someone deserves to die. I correctly stated Israel is invading another country for any reason which is not national security. It is the exact same sht with Russia in Ukrained because Israel also appropiated of Sirian territory.

Israel has enough genocide at home, no need to invade other countries


Have you never seen the word Syria spelled out?

Noted. My brain hadn't adapted to the [appropiate] spelling when typing on a phone screen.

Go to the wikipedia page for Syria and click the dropdown for other languages

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