NoneOfUrBusiness

The US is the one who bankrolled, enabled and protected a literal genocide, which is worse than everything you just said.

America, but Vietnam (and Laos, and Cambodia) is still feeling the destructive impacts to this day.

Stop, don’t vs don’t stop moment.

This is one of the reasons why Donald’s idea of ​​turning around, saying he won, and walking away couldn’t work.

I mean it would—if he actually stopped bombing them and helping Israel bomb them. Unilateral de-escalation only works if you actually de-escalate.

Imagine telling someone even like a year or two ago that in this war Iran would be the “good guys”.

They always have been in conflicts with America/Israel. As it turns out, what America and Israel want for Iran is somehow even worse than the Islamic Republic.

I mean, there’s a good chance that whoever downed the plane did say Allahu Akbar in celebration.

I don’t believe in arrests for speech, but justifying shooting up an airport is not my idea of anti-imperialism. Unless the case is being misrepresented, in which case fuck whoever made this arrest.

Absolutely not. Zionists have a lot of money, but most of those Zionists are not in fact Jews. Western imperialists see their interests aligning with Israel, so they support it with money and influence; it’s really that simple. Thinking Israel controls the West is like thinking the hammer controls the carpenter because he doesn’t want it stolen.

Hell no they didn’t. Hitler and crew didn’t need any help massacring everything that moved, and they were backed by German moneyed interests (you know, the people that stood to gain from his rule), not a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. In the first place, WWII didn’t contribute nearly as much as you’d expect to the creation of Israel; if anything it made the British acquiesce to Palestinian demands to secure their support. WWII was the culmination of European great power politics; besides, interwar Poland was one of Zionists’ most important patrons, and its loss almost destroyed the whole project.

Muslims don’t need places to do so (Friday prayer aside), but they have to pray somewhere and they’re also forbidding praying in the street.

Freedom of religion moment.

Okay you seem to fundamentally misunderstand the current state of the EU.

They are both not as rich, and their power is way better regulated, for instance we don’t have the moronic super packs.

Regulations are tools for the elites to protect democracy (or generally their preferred status quo); they’re useless (or less than useless, see: Germany and Palestine) when the elites don’t want the thing you want. That’s why the so-called political opposition is so soft on fascism and incapable of providing credible alternatives to it; they’re not paid to do that.

With Russia collapsing and losing the war to Ukraine, EU countries that are acting in the interest of Russia, will be way less of a problem, and the traditional values of Democracy in EU will be reestablished.

No offense, but this is downright naive. Russia is a backer of fascism in the West, but it’s far from the cause. Fascism isn’t something that just appears because a bunch of internet trolls want it to; it’s a tool for the elites to distract from their intentional misgovernance. The Nazis didn’t need Russia to bankroll them. If democracy was working you wouldn’t get fascism. Besides, TF do you mean “collapse?” Why are you assuming that Russia will collapse? There’s literally no indication of that happening. Even a significantly weakened Russia can and will keep backing the far right.

But EU has proven able to act when necessary during the Ukraine war.

Uh… the EU spent three years putting all sorts of limits and conditions on the weapons they export to Ukraine, still can’t get off its ass and take Russian money in its banks and has done nothing to restrain the US and Israel from messing up geopolitics in ways that harm it and Ukraine. If reform was forthcoming, it’d have happened to free that hundred billion dollars of Ukraine aid that Hungary is holding up. And this is before we even get to the consistent failure of most member states to meaningfully address the most important crises of the day, such as the climate crisis, the housing crisis, the demographic crisis and the ongoing fuel crisis. Meanwhile they adopt the far right’s anti-immigrant and (even more) pro-rich platform, to the active detriment of all the preceding crises and to the advantage of the fascists. Again, if the EU wasn’t a dysfunctional mess, the far right wouldn’t find such purchase in most of its member states. There’s a reason it’s called Alternativ fur Deutschland, not It’s Going Super Well fur Deutschland.

Also around the world the respect for EU is increasing, and acknowledgement of how EU works for international law, is recognized as being different from USA, where previously we were seen as an American puppet,

Uh… got a source for that? Because let me tell you, y’all are still rightly seen as American puppets outside the Global North bubble. Besides, the EU’s commitment to international law is almost as much of a joke as international law itself; you can tell Palestinians about how the EU works for international law.

This will pave the way for way bigger international recognition and cooperation, and make EU stronger both internally and in outside relations. EU is built on cooperation that benefit us all, this is both among the member countries, and with EU allies and trading partners.

Literally none of this is based in reality. For a representative example of the EU decidedly not benefiting trading partners, look up EU fishing in West Africa.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen international diplomacy this competent before.

China also knows Gulf oil is a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head, so they were more prepared than Americans who seem to (not unjustifiably tbf) believe they’re the kings of the world.

The real reason mainstream media is so unwilling to condemn rightwing nonsense is that it’d break modern physics: Rightwing goalposts constitute a perpetual motion machine. It’s a global conspiracy by Big Thermodynamics.

Fucking please do.

“Look at what you made me do!”

I mean the US’s most powerful geopolitical tool is a toss up between its weapons industry, its dominance in global finance and being the richest country in the world, but yeah NATO is a close third/fourth.

Hezbollah participated in Iran’s defensive war against Israel. They “started” it in the sense that Britain started WWII. Also, you know, Israel was committing ceasefire violations on a regular basis and still had Lebanese territory under occupation.

Either what Ukraine is doing is not okay, or what Iran was/is doing is okay. It’s really that simple.