As the IDF has almost completed bombing all of Iran’s weapon production sites, Israeli leaders, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, have ordered the military to carry out strikes on targets that cause economic blows to the Iranian regime.

This included a strike on major Iranian gas infrastructure in the country’s south nearly two weeks ago, and strikes on two of Iran’s largest steel factories on Friday. In both cases, Israel aimed to cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime, according to security sources.

Unusually, the IDF did not comment on either strike.

The intention of Israel is to make Iran into a failed state, this nonsense about helping the Iranian people is paper thin.

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    Destabilizing the middle east was the first 2 wars purposes. Why not the third war? It’s not like this was Trumps idea anyways this was definitely Israel. Trump is the top until Israel tells him to do something then he bends over like Bush for Cheney.

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      I don’t want any CSAM, but we definitely need to see what information they are hiding in the Epstein files. My guess is Mossad runs blackmail pedo operations, and Epstein was just one of their assets facilitating it. Anytime they’re asked about it they send out Mossad-defender Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s lawyer who advocated for lowering age of consent & said rape victims should be jailed, to claim Epstein had no connections to Mossad.

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        I guarantee you the KGB fucked with these people with blackmail too. Who wouldn’t black mail an elite pedo ring full of influential people.

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      Yes but as much as this is Israel’s war, Israel has always gone to war as a Vassal State of the US so this really isn’t as simple as Israel “tricking” the US at all.

      The US wanted this, Chuck Schumer wanted this, Hakeem Jeffries wanted this, all Republican elected officials almost as a rule wanted this. This is the culmination of colonialist processes the US has been deeply involved in for decades, make no mistake. Yes Trump went along with this war with Israel because he is a xenophobic dumbass, but the broader context is important too.

      The people of the US didn’t want this but our voice clearly isn’t relevant to the DNC or GOP.

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        I keep forgetting that Israel is a colony and vassal state not really independent due to dependencies on the UK and US.

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          I just emphasize that because the rightwing of the US is ABSOLUTELY going to try to avoiding grappling with the fact that their politics are so stupid their Golden Baby ran the US into the ground in a matter of a year or two and collapsed US society by turning around and saying “no actually the Jews betrayed us by luring us into a war and genocide!!!”.

          The likes of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes are already doing this.

          As a leftist I think it is important to keep asserting the context that as much as Israel does fuck with and determine US foreign policy, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a sort of bothways corruption and that the US IS NOT a helpless agent in this relationship rather Israel is a Vassal State that has gotten very good at influencing its Suzerain.

          Also if we don’t assert this reality as a boring sort of “well duh! Any large established power will have smaller powers that become representatives in a context for that power right?” then people will turn to truly crazy Candace Owens type conspiracies about jews and about all kinds of nonsense instead of recognizing the much more simple reality… which isn’t to say that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a WHOLE lot of connections to Mossad and that conspiracy hasn’t occurred.

          As a leftist I am already pre-emptively exhausted by all the lazy centrist opinions people will trot out to explain the calamity we are barrelling through right now, no let us not accept this invitation into becoming intellectual babies. See this for what it is, a brutal process using religion and xenophobia to rationalize and disguise base desires of empire.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty