I’m convinced the reason there’s so many warmongers in the USA is they’ve never felt the impact of war on US soil. If the bombs were dropping here they’d be against it. People don’t learn until it happens to them & if we don’t stop our imperialist government it will happen to us.
@ProudSocialist@HollerWV I think I've learned without experiencing it myself.
My own father, who was a medic, had a human ear in a velvet box from Korea.
You don't really need to see anything more about war.
@_iamblakeley@Terrilltf We CAN acknowledge the brutality of the Iranian Regime, but should we? I don't think making excuses for this deplorable behavior is a big mistake.
.@RubenGallego was one of the few Democrats giving concise and clear statements about why this war is so bad. But he's gonna vote to fund it, so all of those statements were just nom noms for gullible people desperately wanting some leaders of character. All lies.
Forcibly displaced Lebanese are now gathering along the sea; they have nowhere to go; Israel has announced its intent to make conditions that render civilian life unsustainable. A second genocide. Now in Lebanon.
The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise.
We were the hosts.
I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless.
The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president .
The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind.
The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation.
We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack.
Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane.
A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.
I identified literally hundreds of former Israel lobbyists working in American newsrooms, writing and producing the country's news (including on the Middle East).
Read my bombshell investigation here:
https://t.co/CnCFymOjEQ
@AaronBastani@MazMHussain You can't only blame Israel. Arms manufacturers and other military contractors have a lot of power too, and they are for every war.
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation.
Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.