• iowagneiss@midwest.social
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    9 hours ago

    International relations noob here. I get why we want to do this, and sure, do it, but it feels like the real plan is to just keep funding Israel while they do a little ethnic cleansing both countries’ leadership wants.

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    16 hours ago

    Mangolini asked Netanyahu not to do this, but he went ahead and did it anyway, banking on it putting the US in a position to be forced to get involved in this war. Mangolini is conflicted because he wants to get the approval of all the dictators, especially when they treat him badly (just like his daddy). But plenty of GOP/MAGA are against getting into wars so Mangolini doesn’t want to anger them. It’s a divisive issue for the GOP and maga base because it’s support Israel vs wait but not go to war for them.

    My guess is it should have enough GOP support to pass in the Senate (I know Rand Paul and at least a couple other repubs would support it, but other than Paul who is willing to defy trump, do the others have the guts to vote for it if Boss says no?). As for the House magats I assume they’ll just vote however Daddy tells them to. I’d think he would like to have an excuse like this for not joining netanyahu’s war.

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    17 hours ago

    get ready for the “oppose bombing iran = you hate freedom and are literally a traitor” narrative from the GOP

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        8 hours ago

        If this happens, it is going to be plain as day compared to Iraq. Bush 43 had some benefit of the doubt thanks to 9/11 and getting respected leaders who were seen as nonpartisan (Powell) to sell it.

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      16 hours ago

      My stepmother on father’s day: "I absolutely love what Israel is doing because the US didn’t have the balls to.

      They’re going to be fully behind going to war…

      🤮 🤮 🤮

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        15 hours ago

        yep. hoodwinked by a conman into thinking it’s a great idea to send troops off to die in rich peoples war

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          14 hours ago

          But just think of all the oil we’ll get. We’ll have … like … free gas forever!

          — some Bro-caster in the near future

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      17 hours ago

      People are going to be Freedom Jogging or whatever freedom fries esque bullshit they cook up like last time.

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    18 hours ago

    It’s all just symbolic, from a symbolic play-pretend opposition party. War will happen. Republicans will force it on us, maybe even a declared war for the first time since World War II.

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    18 hours ago

    Oh NO! This is Atrocious and AGAINST our Strategy of doing LITERALLY EVERYTHING TRUMP WANTS!

    -Chuck Schummer and the DNC!

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    18 hours ago

    Good. I really hope this passes, but if it doesn’t, some people will be on record supporting yet another pointless war in the middle-east.