• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    There’s a difference between known liar Trump, who contradicts himself from one sentence to the next, and Kamala, who is a bog-standard politician. This is just a hypothetical of course, but I think it’d be incredibly likely that Kamala would have continued economically suppressing Iran via sanctions, maybe some half-hearted attempts at another nuclear deal, but would have had advisors presenting what military aggression would mean for the region (including the economic damage of them blocking the strait) to prevent her from pushing this far. She’d likely be another Biden: not directly assisting Israel in aggression, but too cowardly to call them out in any meaningful way.

    Anyone with a functioning brain could see Trump was talking out of his ass on this topic, especially when project 2025 explicitly talks about waging a regime change war on Iran and assisting Israel in bombing Iran.

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      There’s a difference between known liar Trump, who contradicts himself from one sentence to the next, and Kamala, who is a bog-standard politician.

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        She’d likely be another Biden: not directly assisting Israel in aggression, but too cowardly to call them out in any meaningful way.

        Again, there’s a difference between complicity via silence, and complicity via an active bombing campaign. Neither is good by any stretch of the imagination, but the latter is clearly worse than the former.

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          I don’t understand your point. Both of them have a massive track record of lying. But the one thing Trump did actually have was a record of not starting any wars in his previous presidency.

          Both of them are in the pocket of AIPAC but Kamala was signalling that if Iran didn’t agree to a “diplomatic solution” then she would start a war. Which is literally what Trump did was well. He told Iran to give up the nukes. Iran said no. Then he bombed Iran.

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          No, you’re wrong. One is complicity via an active bombing campaign but better PR, and the other is an active bombing campaign with bad PR.

          Both are war criminals that deserve the guillotine

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          The Biden administration actively structured it’s weapon shipments in such a way that they wouldn’t trigger Congressional oversight, they actively ran with the “Hamas 40 beheaded babies” blood libel, they actively condemned anti genocide protestors, they actively sent special forces to build that pier they used for a hospital massacre, they are are as actively complicit as it is possible to be.

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      She’d likely be another Biden: not directly assisting Israel in aggression, but too cowardly to call them out in any meaningful way.

      Yep, in other words BOMBING Iran

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      I think it’d be incredibly likely that Kamala would have continued economically suppressing Iran via sanctions, maybe some half-hearted attempts at another nuclear deal, but would have had advisors presenting what military aggression would mean for the region

      So she would continue to unjustifiably oppress the Iranian people, but in a way such that the US wouldn’t have to face the consequences!

      Your priorities couldn’t be more obvious.