Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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    3 hours ago

    Ah yes, desalination plants - the top priority military targets when invading a country to free its people.

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    Conventions on war crimes are a mutual agreement on restraints both parties place on themselves. They work, as long as neither party wants to lose face or support by being the one to break their word, and as long as both parties can afford to.

    Trump never gave a shit about keeping his own word, let alone anyone else’s.

    I’m not sure Iran can afford to keep theirs now.

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      He is actively hoping for retaliatory action from literally anyone so he can justify calling for martial law and suspending the constitution.

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        and the democratic party establishment will actively oppose him, saying “just wait and see until you lift martial law, we’ll vote you out so bad, and then keep sending money and weapons to israel just like you did”.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.

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    I thought we arent supposed to hurt civilians in a war according to international laws but yelp it is indirect and also US is above all those things

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      Oh that’s because this isn’t a war. I mean come on learn the difference.

      Since it isn’t a war there are less rules and we ( the USA) can just do as we please with no repercussions at all. None at all.

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    Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you’re invading somewhere, you don’t want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.

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      Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It’s the billionaire way.

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        From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term “frontier” combat zone that’s highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).

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    “We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!”

    Bombs desalination plant

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    the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they’re gonna live.

    Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War