• running_ragged@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 months ago

    ‘You know our Department of Defence? Yeah, its the Department of War now.’

    ‘What are we doing in Iran? We promise; It’s not a war, it’s self-defence.’

    🙄

    • BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 months ago

      It’s a special operation, where in we call it a war repeatedly, and then back track and specifically point out how we’ve decided not to call it a war because then it would’ve violated the law.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Just out of curiosity: Has the U.S. government actually given any reason for its war of aggression against Iran, which violates international law?

      • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 months ago

        The dead protestors claim is just for the benefit of liberals. Their main stated justification is keeping Iran from getting a nuke.

      • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Well, that same flimsy justification for blatantly violating international law probably doesn’t fly anymore with countries that once saw themselves as allies of the U.S.—countries that the orange mafia boss, however, blackmails with whatever degenerate schemes come to his wreched mind, and even threatens with war, as he did in the case of Greenland.

        Added to this is the fact that it would be very difficult for democratic governments—even if they are infiltrated by U.S. lobbying—to explain to their populations how it fits together to support war crimes such as the direct bombing of a school—or an alliance in which the genocidal monsters in Israel are junior partners. This simply cannot be justified with the usual drivel about the freedom-bringing, righteous global police force, especially since this supposedly oh-so-righteous country operates concentration camps on its own soil, where it unlawfully detains tens of thousands of people under inhumane conditions.

        Even the best spin doctors can no longer spin this in a way that would prevent people from taking to the streets en masse if one were to participate in these crimes.

        That is why the U.S. stands alone against Iran this time. And there are good reasons why previous U.S. administrations never took military action against this country.

        The execution of the Iranian head of state—which the U.S. regime apparently hoped would bring the country to its knees—clearly shows that Dump and his henchmen have evidently dismissed all the generals who still have their wits about them.

        I mean, Iran has been in a state of war continuously since its founding. Anyone who still believes that no provisions have been made in case the head of state is killed can only be a complete idiot.

        But I believe the U.S. regime isn’t actually interested in winning this war, but rather in feeding the arms industry with billions upon billions and weakening international law, which stands in its way. This seems like a kind of economic stimulus program, because if we’re honest, this industry—alongside the tech sector—is the only one in the U.S. that’s still functioning halfway decently.

        So a bloody war is needed to keep them supplied with contracts. And having a distraction from the fact that high-ranking government officials are obviously involved in pedophilia and prostitution and are doing everything they can to cover for their co-conspirators is just a bonus. These monsters are happy to accept the fact that the price is tens of thousands of human lives.

        That is my opinion on this war, which violates international law.

          • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            Yes, you could put it that way. However, I’m more concerned that the conditions in the U.S. will eventually take hold here in Europe as well. While we certainly have a powerful class of billionaires of our own, our system still functions to the extent that even they wouldn’t get away with such blatant and terrible crimes unpunished.

            In that sense, one must almost be grateful to the U.S. regime for having now dropped the mask and very impressively demonstrating where the inhuman turbo-capitalism that the U.S. has always stood for leads.

              • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Oh yes, definitely. In Germany, for example, it’s the far-right AfD, which is essentially a direct copy of MAGA. Unfortunately, the AfD is also very successful, as it receives massive support from the very same billionaires who made MAGA big in the U.S.—such as Musk, who gives them significant reach via Twitter and also financial support.

                To me, this seems to be the dark side of the internet: The logical centralization of services that comes with the medium has unfortunately led to an even smaller group of unscrupulous billionaires now controlling the most important information platforms used by people worldwide.

                I believe that what we are witnessing today—in my view, a kind of new monarchy of the super-rich—is the direct consequence of the network effect inherent in the logic of the internet: This effect has not only made these people astronomically rich, but also ensures that they can now influence public discourse even more extremely to their advantage than was the case in the days of traditional journalism.

                This was already a significant problem with the rise of social media, but with the increasing prevalence of cloud-based LLMs, it is inevitable that, sooner or later, the discourse will shift in a way that benefits billionaires on an unprecedented scale. This is simply because deploying the relevant cloud AI models is so expensive that only multi-billion-dollar corporations can offer them—giving them full control over what people experience as reality.

                The impact on democracies will be significant.

                Democracy, after all, requires informed citizens. But if that is no longer guaranteed—because all the essential sources of information that the average citizen uses have been brought into line with the billionaires’ agenda—democratic processes can no longer function. Then people will simply vote for those fascist parties that serve as the billionaire class’s henchmen and get their support for doing so.

                I am convinced that this is the explanation for the resurgence of fascism worldwide: this ideology is ideal for diverting attention from who is actually the citizens’ worst enemy. So that’s what the billionaires want.