Comrade_Joshu

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[–] Comrade_Joshu@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Erdoğan is a 🐍. He’s just afraid Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are winning the Muslim world to their side.

[–] Comrade_Joshu@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 months ago

I mean, the U.S. invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with effectively zero pushback or consequences. I think Israel, backed by the U.S., is in the process of creating such a paradigm shift for itself.

[–] Comrade_Joshu@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My thoughts on Israel’s plan. Given their complete collapse into genocidal fascism:

  • Humiliate Muslim nations. If Muslim nations don’t respond Israel will have set a new paradigm where they know they can do anything they like and there’s no precedent for intervention. Then, use that to expand into the Sinai and Jordan, possibly more.

  • If there is intervention: go nuclear. The US might think it will benefit from a contained nuclear conflict by testing out strategies of containing a nuclear conflict. Israel may think it will benefit by restoring the possibility of nuclear war and use that to expand into the Sinai and Jordan, possibly more.

I really think it’s a mistake to not do an oil blockade. The surrounding Arab nations are sealing their fate and will come to regret acting in self interest today.

 

I’d like to learn more about Iran, but without the “Islam/Iran bad” overtones. I’m well aware Iran is far from ideal, far from being socialist, but I’ve been unable to find English language books where the author themselves doesn’t have an admittedly anti/pro-Iran agenda.

Given Iran’s critical position in the Middle East and their increasing cooperation with Russia for weapons/defense I think it’s important for leftists to start thinking about how to relate to Iran. My current perspective is to view Iran as a victim of imperialism and I’m grateful for their support of Palestinians, but I’m not sure how to relate to the reports of extreme repression within Iran. The repression seems totally illogical and self harming to Nizam. I have to assume I simply don’t understand the material roots and relationships that have lead to the rise and sustained rule of Nizam.

[–] Comrade_Joshu@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Non-Zionist search engines?

I started noticing it’s increasingly difficult to find anti-Zionist resources using any search engine, Bing, Duckduck, Google, Qwant, Freespoke, etc.

My key search term was “sea to river,” which is the Zionist antithesis of “River to the sea.” Even with quotes, mainstream search engines results would either be empty or flooded with River-to-sea results. It wasn’t like that a few days ago. Pretty clear there’s a concerted effort effort to control the narrative by making it impossible to know the real history and intentions of Zionism.

I found Yandex to be fairly unbiased and was able to return ample results.