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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    Iran, contact me if you’re ever somehow able to start targeting the US mainland.

    I’ll adjust your fire.

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    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”.

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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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    “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

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    a bit weird how the beacon of democracy will bomb schoolchildren and water supplies for the population, but the regime terrorists are only striking military facilities and infrastructure so far 🤔

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      And even weirder that EU condemns Iran’s attacks and not USA’s. Only Spain had some dignity, the rest are crap.

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        beacon of democracy? when was that?

        They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.

        Just because the US calls themselves that doesn’t make it true.

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      We can already ascertain (I trust certain sources) that the US has likely lost more military personnel than the Iranians, to say nothing of the trade in production (including trade war limits making some hardware functionally irreplacable), cost, depletion of stockpiles, economic leverage of the strikes. They’re really “smoking 'em while they’ve got 'em” since the Mossad network and Starlink strategy collapsed. Seems like they lost hope.

      If anything this attack could be one last stab to slow the development of Iran, which is intruding into very high tech industries dominated by the US and western Europe, such as pharmaceuticals and even nuclear fusion in due time.

      The west fears having to unleash the power of certified genius women (and men, but it’s much more pronounced how their talents benefit Iranian industrial capacity and affect this war, they are a huge driver of the missile program) the way Iran and China have. Girlbossing and slaying is more about inflating the size of the high value service industry.

      The future is bright, actually. Our horizons were limited. I think humanity will become something unrecognizable. One day all people will understand death on their own terms, without metaphor. Do not fear the genius women. Sexual selection is the reason we aren’t scraping bugs out of tree bark. This will be even better.