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Jun 15 2025 03:04pm
Please explain further on this take.

Without Israel the U.S. loses so much intel and a key strategic location in the middle east. It makes it MUCH easier to address regional threats over there.

When people ask why does the U.S. help other countries so much. Democracy...thats why. You want to be forced to speak Chinese or Russian or worse have your country constantly hit with terrorist?


Sure,

I hear this brought up often that Mossad is top tier intelligence, but seldom substantiated with evidence. How did they get caught so off guard about Oct Invasion?

As for strategic positioning, US can position its Navy to strategically impact any part of ME. The ground game is negligible minus some ports.


As for helping other countries, 100% it's good for US diplomacy and foreign policy direction. Its also simultaneously true Israel receives a disproportionate amount of US aid (hundreds of billions with billions annually) with pathetic returns (liabilities)

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Jun 15 2025 03:10pm
UK and Canada are both vassal states of the US, it's not uncommon for sovereigns to put their assets in their vassal states for plausible deniability


A bit of a tinfoil stretch IMO. Reuters was the agency that had two of their journalist gunned down by US military in Iraq if memory serves right. They have definitely made blunders, but have done much better remedying them. I recall their executive leadership board, at least for the Thomson legal side of business (former f&r) being almost entirely British nationals. Surprising when it was supposed to be a merging of equals between Reuters and Thomson back in 08'.
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A bit of a tinfoil stretch IMO. Reuters was the agency that had two of their journalist gunned down by US military in Iraq if memory serves right. They have definitely made blunders, but have done much better remedying them. I recall their executive leadership board, at least for the Thomson legal side of business (former f&r) being almost entirely British nationals. Surprising when it was supposed to be a merging of equals between Reuters and Thomson back in 08'.


That's fair, my assessment is that Reuters is a propaganda tentacle of the now-dying LWO (so-called liberal world order, otherwise called the old regime) of which Britain is closely associated

They're always machinating their fake news in support of the LWO, but these aren't very smart people so they make alot of mistakes

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Jun 15 2025 05:22pm
You could just say you got it wrong and we move on.


i stand by my position with the caveat that my initial wording was poor.

I agree with Elite's position.

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Jun 15 2025 06:42pm
Are we still saying after all of the Mossad moves we've seen on display, that Israel was well and true caught off guard about 10/7?
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the information sharing is two-way, mossad benefits ENORMOUSLY from american and british intelligence. israel is also one of the biggest perpetrators of spying and exfiltrating sensitive US information

The U.S. already has major military bases in Qatar (Al Udeid), Bahrain (U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet), Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia - the 'geographic location advantage' is completely overstated

i'd argue the fact that the US supports Israel so strongly makes diplomatic relations even WORSE in that area. we should stop supporting genocidal maniacs like Netanyahu full stop


Yes, the US has overstated the importance of Israel for a long time. But it's a sunk cost fallacy at this point. The many politicians, especially the insanely brazen ones like Mike Huckabee cannot recover politically because their ties to Israel are so strong that if the narrative turns on Israel, it also turns on them, even more so. I think a lot of them are realizing that most of the west is sick of Israel and the gaslighting isn't working anymore.
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Are we still saying after all of the Mossad moves we've seen on display, that Israel was well and true caught off guard about 10/7?


Mossad absolutely knew and let it happen. Israel is always looking for justifications and narratives that make them look like the "victim". Its been the number 1 out of their playbook since 1948.

Israel uses its civilians as human shields. More than Hamas does. Every Israeli accusation is really a confession.
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Jun 15 2025 07:40pm
Mossad absolutely knew and let it happen. Israel is always looking for justifications and narratives that make them look like the "victim". Its been the number 1 out of their playbook since 1948.

Israel uses its civilians as human shields. More than Hamas does. Every Israeli accusation is really a confession.


Its not mossads job its the Shin Bet job to recognize incoming attacks.
But keep the conspiracy going 🤦

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Jun 15 2025 07:54pm
Its not mossads job its the Shin Bet job to recognize incoming attacks.
But keep the conspiracy going 🤦


So we're saying Shin Bet was caught completely off guard for 10/7?
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So we're saying Shin Bet was caught completely off guard for 10/7?


They were, they believed Hamas wouldnt try something as bold as they did.

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