- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
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.
You must log in or register to comment.
Iran, contact me if you’re ever somehow able to start targeting the US mainland.
I’ll adjust your fire.
Few acts say “crimes against humanity” better than bombing a country’s water supply.
There’s a certain dam in Iraq which could have been targeted at any point during the Iran-Iraq war. Doing so would have guaranteed ended the war in Iran’s favor, killing hundreds of thousands of people in a single act in the process.
Some things are not worth doing. Winning like that is not winning.
Ah yes, desalination plants - the top priority military targets when invading a country to free its people.
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.
These don’t work when the aggressor has not civilian infrastructure in the region. gulf monarchies gonna find out why you dont let other countries occupy your territory.
He is actively hoping for retaliatory action from literally anyone so he can justify calling for martial law and suspending the constitution.
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”.
Finger wagging intensifies
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%.
As an Iranian, I hope that Iran can show restraint here. Please do not target desalination plants, and be mindful when attacking power plants in the Gulf region. These countries are extremely weak and fragile, power outages and water shortages could cause massive widespread suffering that I wish upon no-one.
With that said, pipelines in KSA and Azerbaijan should probably get a visit from a 136 as soon as possible.
Still illegal, still monstrous.
oh absolutely, it’s a war crime plain and simple
Nothing Says “Trump Rapes Children” like…checks notes…“War crimes!”
New candidate for most pointless war in American history?
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
The palestinian genocide made it clear that international law doesn’t apply to USrael.
Oh that’s because this isn’t a war. I mean come on learn the difference.
Since it isn’t a war there are less rules and we ( the USA) can just do as we please with no repercussions at all. None at all.
Oh my bad, i think i read the wrong definition of war. It is a special defensive military operation.
Is it a special military operation?
yes /s
Fucking shitters. There is no rock bottom.
Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you’re invading somewhere, you don’t want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.
It’s clear their plan is to destroy the region and make it a warzone like Libya.
Following Israeli war tactics. Just destroy it all.
Nobody is invading
Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It’s the billionaire way.
Fuck off, thousands of people are dead this is not a ‘distraction’ its peoples lives.
It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.
The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.
With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.
And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.
Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.
You fuck off. I was putting myself in the rapist president’s mindset. Not speaking from my own heart about the totality of the horror of the situation.
From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term “frontier” combat zone that’s highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).
Yup, very well put. The whole “freedom and democracy for the iranian people” speech is just there to keep up appearances, the goal has always been to turn Iran into Libya. Like i havent heard a single mention of Libya in mainstream media in decades.
It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction
i’d say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can’t just be moved out of the way when there’s danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.
That low level of stability can be achieved with proxy forces or mercenaries guarding corporate facilities
i don’t think so
NATO terrorism knows no depths.
“We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!”
Bombs desalination plant
finally the US is safe from Iranian unsalted water! mission accomplished Orange man
the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they’re gonna live.
Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War
The decade of war crimes
century*
consequences of letting Israel get away with all their war crimes. they are now normalized.
