This is Trump's Waterloo. He posed as the Leviathan who would bring a stealthy Peace, a smart Deal that averts a war with Iran. Then, with one more gross violation of international law, Netanyahu puts him in a little box: For either Trump knew of the attack, in which case he is no more than Netanyahu's stooge. Or he didn't know, which begs the question why he didn't know and how will he react to being treated like a fool by Netanyahu. Either way, Trump's strongman, dealmaking image is now toast. Either way, he goes down in history as yet another US President that Netanyahu bent to his genocidal will.

I don't really agree with this, considering the reports that the US secretly delivered Hellfire missiles to Israel the day before the strikes.

I don't agree much with the idea that the tail wags the dog in this situation, as it was also revealed the Biden admin never actually tried to stop Israel either. The reports that show Netanyahu & whichever American president is currently in office at odds serves the purpose of taking the pressure off the US while Israel is just expected to do these things. The Trump/Netanyahu reports were much too similar to the reports of Biden/Netanyahu in my opinion.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

whoever still believes that "Trump stands for peace" is simply delusional.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup. I agree. Varoufakis has missed the mark with his analysis before and he got this one wrong too. And the author of this piece gives Trump far too much benefit of the doubt as well. Some people just have a blind spot when it comes to Trump and they have trouble accepting that he's just as much a Zionist as Biden and was never interested in peace. His MAGA base simply got swindled yet again.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yanis is that guy that may seem to be upset at Israel right now but he would be the first in line to celebrate the defeat of Iran if it were to happen, just like he did when Assad was overthrown by the headchopper. Now he is posting videos about US spokesmans talking about the plan to overthrow lybia, syria and iran!, as if he didn't himself celebrate all of these events. What a fucking snake.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Indeed.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Seeing the live footage was just surreal. Like, it almost looks like something out of a movie where some org is firing OP weapons. It was just so fast. Within the blink of an eye it reached target. Air defence systems were nowhere to be seen.

I wonder what it does to do Israeli psyche. Like, you have been fighting a, with all respect, mostly defenseless enemy and all of a sudden you are now being bombed by a much more serious threat. Not only that, but your supposed superior weapons are rendered useless against this kind of threat. I wonder how long the average Israeli stays arrogant when faced with this.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Iran giving the IDF some hypersonic jumpscares.