Peace in our time!
ultranaut
joined 2 years ago
Yes, Hamas is immoral and does idiotic things from our perspective but it's a mistake to believe that makes them idiots. They didn't just stumble into attacking Israel, and they weren't naive about how Israel would respond.
Hamas are not idiots, the response is exactly what they wanted. A whole new generation of resistance is being bombed into existence now and Israel is alienating its closest allies to do it, for Hamas that's a victory. They expected Israel to kill a bunch of random civilians in a brutal response to their attack, it's not a surprise for them.
How is Biden not yanking the chain? You are commenting on an article about Netanyahu bitching about Biden telling him he must allow a Palestinian state. Diplomacy and international relations and all of that mostly moves kind of slowly for a bunch of reasons, it's not like the movies, but there's a very obvious and public rupture between Netanyahu and Biden at this point. Stopping funding is way down on the list of responses, and it's very unlikely to escalate to that even being threatened in public.
Yes? There's a huge amount of inertia in US-Israeli relations but it's very clear at this point that Biden is yanking the leash and trying to reel Netanyahu into a path towards peace. They aren't going to stop supplying weapons any time soon (if ever), the first step would be explicit restrictions on what the weapons could be used for, and we're still a very long ways from that being considered publicly.
Make sure to get at least one scratching post. It's much better than waiting for them figure out which furniture makes a good scratching post.
That does seem very suspect. Maybe it's adjusted for miles driven? Even though less driving happened, per mile driven the rate still increased.
The US certainly has a long history of doing terrible shit but the facts are really clear here. Iranian proxy forces are trying to sink civilian ships. There's not any moral ambiguity about those actions, civilian ships are not legitimate targets. You can't go around trying to blow up everything in a major shipping lane and then not expect a substantive response. Claiming the US is at fault for reacting to this escalation from the Houthis, or that Iran has any kind of moral superiority when it too has a long history of doing terrible shit (and its proxy forces are actively engaged in terrorist attacks against civilian ships), just does not make sense. It feels like maybe your hatred of the US is clouding your assessment of the situation.
That does not look at all like a safe way to transport a puppy. I would expect that the puppy is miserable and could be easily injured so this doesn't really seem like "aww" to me, it's more like someone is potentially torturing and injuring a puppy because they think it looks cute that way.