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My understanding is that Iran gave several states, including the US and Qatar, advance warning of their attack. Iran expected that none of their missiles would hit their targets.

I posted Hersh’s article in full four days ago: https://lemmy.ml/post/31954761

Yes, I think he was showing how Trump’s statement was in essence the same as Tacitus’. To plunder, butcher, steal: these things they misname empire; they make a desert and call it peace.

It’s likely a spin on, “They make a desert and call it peace,” so not pro-Trump.

US vassal states like Qatar already supported regime change in Iran.

If you really want to know, I’m sure there are medical journal articles and scientific research papers on why the “hate.”

He’s a slave in the same sense that almost all of us are: a wage slave. What sets him apart is that he’s also a fool for giving his former master months of free labor.

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
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Welcome to NATO, the “defensive” alliance where everything’s made up and the laws don’t matter.

I’m aware; I’ve read it. Considering everything else about Orwell, I don’t think he was a very reliable narrator of events during the civil war.

@grok why are bitcoins being sold off

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I don’t know the state of things now, but a few days ago Iran had severed its internet due to cyberattacks related to the war.

I think the author’s intent was for 1984 to be read as anticommunist propaganda.

Previously:

Orwell was often disparaging the Soviet Union.

He was also a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, backstabbing snitch: Orwell's list.

He was also an imperial enforcer in British-occupied Burma. “I loved Burma and the Burman and have no regrets that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police.”

Animal Farm was Cold War agitprop, which the CIA airdropped on eastern Europe, and they made it into an animated film that you may have seen. The CIA funded the film adaptation of 1984 as well.

More receipts here.

Zeroth of all, this is Lemmy, not Mastodon; followers aren’t a thing here. And first of all, follower-shaming is cringe.

Not only does Pakistan have weapons to reach Israel, it has nuclear weapons to reach it.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen-III

Also, Pakistan borders Iran, which means together they could move such weapons much closer to Israel.

Power aside, Iran is also a major exporter in nuclear medicine & medical equipment.

Ali was a pretty smart cookie. Muhammad Ali's one regret: turning his back on Malcolm X

I’m not stabbing this man, I’m stabbing this man’s liver.