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Notions like "the best defence is offence" and a preemptive/preventive war have existed for a long time, to be fair. It's just that this isn't the first time Israel or the US have pulled that card and it never worked. Hezbollah was founded the first time Israel invaded Lebanon ffs.

Even if it did work in this case, it would be short-sighted, as the injustice in Palestine would continue and it's just a matter of time before things blow up again. "No justice, no peace" and all that.

USA is concerned that Israel is attacking an enemy that can actually cause damage to it. Thats not the modern imperialist way. You should only start a war where you can cause 10x more casualties than you receive. The 2006 Lebanon war didn't go so well for Israel. Looks like Israel is all-in on national self-destruction.

I hope Orwell is down in hell watching his precious western capitalism turn in to exactly the absurd caricature of Communism that he shat in to the world. I hope he's screaming down in the ice with the other traitors.

Makes sense, considering the Democrat's foreign policy people are basically the same people from the Bush Administration.

"De-escalation through escalation", a proud intellectual descendant of "made desolation and call it peace" and "kill them, for the Lord knows those that are His"

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

There's a fucked up old black and white science fiction movie where astronauts go to "Planet X" and... freak out and kill everything in sight because what they find are basically just Earth life forms except larger and just sitting there. The feeemale of the crew screams, they shoot. And then again, and again.

Eventually, the rocket takes off after leaving a magical nuclear weapon that blows up the entire planet. The narrator voice says, at that moment, "we brought civilization to Planet X."

This has that energy.

The tried and true colonialism tactic of "what if we made everything more extreme, that will calm things down."

Let's ask South Vietnam how that went.

Im Stopping the Fire by starting another Fire

In my head I hear John Kirby at a press conference tomorrow "Look, I briefed the president on the 'de-escalation through escalation is some brain genius stupid shit' meme that's trending. He is aware but he will not be commenting on that. So - Mike listen Mike - no more questions about that. That's final. That goes for the rest of you too. Moving on..."

So Nixon’s Madman theory

Also it's rationale not rational

That mistake always drives me crazy.