Israel is Coming Apart at the Seams, It Seems

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  1. Ancalagon

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    While some will be disappointed the Zionists didn’t suffer more this is actually a great outcome for everyone in the region.

    This means Israel doesn’t have to respond with a massive retaliation and more the IRGC shows itself to be impotent the less sway it will exercise in the region.
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  2. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Are you expecting a cookie?

    Telling.
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  3. Ancalagon

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    What do you think is about to happen to oil prices?

    Please be specific.
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    My point.

    Had to and did are two separate things. Let's see which way they go.
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    Eh. I am not sure it will be that heavily impacted.
    I hope I'm right.
    But in general, I don't think voters will care much about whether Iran and Israel are pounding each other to dust.
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    You practically drenched the board in cum when they levelled a residential block to get Nasrallah. If that's the standard, then yeah, I'll take my cookie.
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    They're already going up. Unless Israel now acts in a way that is totally uncharacteristic of how they've been acting lately and Iran inexplicably decides not to use its leverage in the Strait of Hormuz when it's attacked there will be further shocks and further rises.
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    The dumber lefties believe Biden and Harris are 100% to blame for everything Israel does, so they're more likely to withhold their votes the more Israel is in the news before the election. :(
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    ...is this imaginary cookie you want also drenched in cum? :flow:
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    Legally, Iran can't block ships going through the strait. And the vast, vast majority of their own oil goes to China.
    It seems to me like, the only country who'd really be hurt by a disruption of Iran's oil supply is China.
    Prices may have reflexively gone up a whopping 2% in the immediate aftermath, but that's hardly proof of a trend. Actually, the lack of market response in general over the past year is more indicative of what to expect.
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    You get it backwards as usual.

    I in no way celebrated that Hezbollah intentionally built apartments over their command bunker to try and hide it. I wish that they cared about civilian life (even those they pretend to fight for). But if your terrorist buddies cared about civilian life they wouldn’t be terrorists would they?
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    Hopefully they will respond similarly to how they did after the April attack.

    Effortlessly destroy some more of the IRCGs most capable Russian air defense systems.
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    No, your celebrations were indicative of the kind of murderous solipsism that's been typical of the US-Israeli rampage for the past year. It was as if the hundreds of people murdered didn't even exist. They just weren't part of your calculus. Like bugs, of no consequence.

    But sure, keep throwing the word "terrorist" around as if you have some kind of moral high ground.
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    Hezbollah leaders be like:

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    One confirmed death.

    A Palestinian in the West Bank.
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  16. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    I doubt very much that's what's going to happen. Iran firing 200 missiles yet again, this time after they weren't even directly attacked, is a large escalation, and I guarantee you it will be met in kind.
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    I really wish we were closer related to bonobos than to fucking chimpanzees :(
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    You mean they'll hit some Iranian military facilities and refrain from a general massacre?

    Whew, that's a relief. Makes for a nice change.

    No, wait. I bet they'll kill lots of innocent people instead.
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    Fixed that for y-- Oh wait, you weren't talking about Russia :(
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  20. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    You notice what happened last time Iran got uppity and Israel hit them - almost no casualties.

    Why is that?

    The Iranians don't build bunkers under apartment complexes, hospitals and schools because they like using their dead citizens to earn sympathy from idiotic westerners like you.

    What was Hamas slogan again, you know, that charter that you keep saying doesn't apply any more but sure seems to explain how they act, over and over again.

    The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:

    Article Eight:
    Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

    But, once again, maybe you shouldn't try to wipe out the survivors of Holocaust, because the Never Again people take these things pretty seriously.

    If the Muslims terrorists start acting like decent people, none of this would be happening.

    But then they wouldn't be Muslim terrorists then, would they?
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    That'll be because the Iranians possess a measure of deterrence.

    Easy to drop bombs on families who can't fight back. That's the preferred MO of the IDF. Terrorism is literally their military doctrine.
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    Quoth the prophet George Carlin:

    I am sick of hearing about "innocent victims". There are no "innocent victims". If you live on this planet you're guilty. Period, fuck you, end of report, next case, next fucking case.
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  23. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    LOL. If the Israelis wanted the Gazans all dead they could have completely choked off food, water and electricity and they would indeed all be dead.

    When the Israelis attacked Iran it was surgical. If it wasn't, you'd be screaming about their 'terrorism.'

    You are such a simp for the worst people on Earth.

    In the meantime, former President Ahmadinejad just stated that not only was the person in charge of the Iranian unit targeting Mossad a Mossad agent, at least 20 other people in the unit worked for the Mossad too.

    Why? Because the Iranian people hate the evil Islamic fundanemtalist regime that tortures them, murders their women, and has taken away their future because of an evil religion that says that it has to rule the Earth, and the only legitimate government is rule by them.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-...-israeli-agent-says-ex-president-ahmadinejad/
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    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Here's that nice man that died choking on toxic fumes under thousands of tons of rubble of the apartment complex he put his headquarters under in Lebanon saying that all gay people should be killed.

    https://x.com/voteblue8888/status/1840442822719426635

    And here's Hezbollah's record of terrorism and massacres in Syria when they joined with Assad's regime to destroy the resistance against that dictatorship.z

    Who made all this possible? Their masters in Iran.

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    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Oh, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has stated that Biden intends to work with Israel to ensure Iran faces 'severe consequences' for their escalation by firing over 200 missiles against Israel - again.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/01/iran-israel-biden/

    The US is forward deploying two squadrons of F-22 strike craft, and is moving a 2nd carrier battle group into the region in the Med. This will go with the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN in the Arabian Sea, and the Amphibious ship USS Wasp in the Med. And of course we never know where the US submarines are deployed.
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    Feels like Iran vastly overestimated their own capabilities. Rather than being a warning that strikes can go both ways as they seemed to intend, all they've done is antagonize the situation more. Fucking idiots.
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    Khamenei has announced a public appearance.

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    It's coming up to a year now. Be prepared for a cacauphony of lies about burnt babies and mass rapes over the next few days.

    Meanwhile the immediate Israeli response to Irans strikes was to bomb an orphanage in Gaza, killing dozens. And when 8 of their soldiers got smoked as soon as they set foot in Lebanon, they used a chemical weapon on a health center in Beirut.
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    The scale of the attack means it will take well more than a year for its effects on the psyche of Israelis and their military policies to reduce. They're still in post 9/11 mode.

    Unfortunately many who think they can do no wrong don't seem to recognize that killing tens of thousands of other people, mostly civilians, will also leave many years of ongoing effects.
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    Not that I condone Israel's overreaction, but let's not just dismiss Hamas's atrocities out of hand:
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