#uswars — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uswars, aggregated by home.social.
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Dr Emma Salisbury is a navy expert.
She "just finished up doing media for today, here's a summary:
- Uranium plan bad
- Kharg plan bad
- Blockade plan bad
- AWACS loss yikes
- Leaving Iran control of the Strait is a strategic defeat
- Even if US stops, Israel/Iran won't
- Everything is astronomically dumb
- All-encompassing yikes"[via Bluesky]
#policy #foreighPolicy #military #Iran #warOnIran #USWars #lessons #CENTCOM #humour #demandDestruction
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"There are plenty of US military publications on lessons learned and highlight reel upon highlight reel of open-source analysis. We have entire think tanks, journals, and internal knowledge repositories to share battlefield lessons learned and to understand the enemy. But it seems the rumors about those lessons being confined to small corners or hubristically ignored by leaders seem to be affirmed. It’s not that we’re taking mass casualties from the Iranians the way we would from the PRC, it’s that the way we are losing equipment is embarrassing because we know already how to mitigate these losses. We are making conscious choices to be stupid. I know there’s a lot of government scandals these days, but these are the kind that will get a lot of people killed."
Tony Stark writes: https://www.breakingbeijing.com/p/what-did-we-learn-centcom
#learning #policy #military #Iran #warOnIran #USWars #lessons #CENTCOM
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it was only thanks to the sacrifice of #ChelseaManning,Julian #Assange and the #WikiLeaks journalists that I discovered the #UmbrellaAgreement regulating #USMilitarybases in Italy and their key role in #USwars from #Afganistan,#Iraq to #Iran
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THE AWFUL ARITHMETIC OF OUR WARS - The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/the-awful-arithmetic-of-our-wars/
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For Lior Sternfeld, a historian of modern Iran, Israel's regime change fantasies ignore realities inside the Islamic Republic and risk repeating historic mistakes. She told:
At the start of the Iran-Iraq War, one of the key factors that helped consolidate the Islamic Republic was that all the opposition organizations essentially dissolved themselves. That’s what allowed the Khomeinist faction to come out on top. But once the war began, the opposition, led by the Tudeh [the Iranian Communist Party], announced they were ceasing operations, because now the homeland had to be defended.
Back then, one of Saddam Hussein’s explicit goals was to overthrow the Iranian regime. He said so openly. And even then, they used the exact same language we’re hearing today from the Israeli leadership: “The Iranian regime is weak, it will collapse in two weeks.”
https://www.972mag.com/why-everything-israelis-think-they-know-about-iran-is-wrong/ @iran
#WMD #SadamHussein #Israel #Iran #imperialism #IranWar #IranWars #oilAndGas #nuclear #NPT #mollahs #proliferation #USWars #IsraelWars
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"The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat."
by Craig Mokhiber : https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/rogue-states-the-illegality-of-the-u-s-backed-israeli-attacks-on-iran/#Israel #Iran #imperialism #proZionism #colonialConvergence #war #oilAndGas #nuclear #NPT #geoPolitics #squash #brutalization #USWars #IsraelWars #israeliWars #internationalLaw
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On the neocons all over again – Amir Tibon in Haaretz:
The experiment would ‘go something like this: American companies will begin operating in southern Gaza, under the supervision of the Israeli military, in a "humanitarian compound" surrounded by barbed wire. Two million Gazan citizens will be concentrated in this compound to get food and aid, while Israel will take over the rest of Gaza and use the pressure put on Gaza's population in order to topple the Hamas regime.’
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‘If all this sounds familiar to you, that means you've probably lived through the Iraq War and the "happy" days of American contractors operating under military guidance in an attempt to "separate the local population from the terrorists" and replace the regime, but it's unclear with what exactly.’
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‘Two decades later, they are promoting their Gaza plan in similar fashion – and so far, despite all the rage about the "neocons disrupting his agenda," the president seems to buy it.’https://www.arnongrunberg.com/now/blog/18004-many
#GazaMethod #ongoingGenocide #OngoingNakba #continuousNakba #GazaGenocide #Hamas #neocons #invasion #occupation #collectivePunishment #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #method #procedure #USWars #allies #proZionism #erasure #deletion #obliteration #elimination #eradication #crushing #grinding #settlerColonialism #colonialism
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country
@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel
#disillusionment #disgust #power #leadership #traitors #personalSafety #feelings #emotions #indignation #moralBeauty #beauty #values #principles #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs #USWars #lawAndOrder #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #CambridgeSpies #Cambridge #spies #ColdWar #psychology #Stalin #cult #personalityCult #hagiography #history #ruthlessness #proZionism #WeStandWithIsrael #StandWithIsrael #masculinity #longRead #geopolitics #Zelensky #Ukraine
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Daniel L. Davis is a retired United States Army officer. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan.
Davis is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Foundation of the Koch brothers.
Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director. On Wednesday, the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story against Davis ; neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin helped spread the Jewish Insider story to his 4.9 million followers; within hours, Davis was informed there would be no job.
https://thecradle.co/articles/gabbard-withdraws-war-critic-from-top-intel-job-following-smear-campaign-by-pro-israel-groups 🧵#Koch #isolationism #foreignPolicy #USWars #israelLobby #Gabbard #StandWithIsrael #proZionism #ADL #USPol #USPolitics #JewishInsider #NationalIntelligence #DNI #administration
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"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins
#Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful."
#Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”
#VincentBevins #indonesia #ColdWar #USWars #anticommunism #history #ThirdWorld
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Watch a conversation with Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization) about the support of the United States to the israeli escalations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETBWThM0g
(with Spanish subtitles)
#supremacy #dehumanization #USWars #war #nationalism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #propaganda #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #MiddleEast #imperialism #ideology #USA #USPol #DianaButtu #GenocideJoe #Zionism #stateViolence #islamophobia #ongoingNakba #USIsrael #escalations
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"The Israel Lobby and U.S. #foreignPolicy" is a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published in 2007. In it, they emphasize that the lobby is not a cabal or a conspiracy but simply a powerful interest group, like the National Rifle Association of America or the agrobusiness lobby.
“Since World War Two, the United States has been involved in every nook and cranny of the world, fighting wars here, there, and everywhere. And to do that, you need a very powerful administrative state that can help manage that foreign policy. But in the process, what happens is you get all of these high-level, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the intelligence community — you name it. And they end up having a vested interest in pursuing a particular foreign policy.”
Watch John Mearsheimer discuss the US #DeepState: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0&t=70s
#israelLobby #Trump #Biden #proSionism #MiddleEast #NATO #USA #USWars #Bush
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New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman had a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
#FAIR: https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/ via @FAIR#raceMaking #NYT #media #racism #ThomasFriedman #columnist #NewYorkTimes #manipulation #warCrimes #USWars #coloniality #propaganda #genocide #callToGenocide #reputation #whiteSupremacy #manufacturingConsent
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The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeathsBlair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet
State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.
(to be continued)
#Post911Wars #WarOnTerror #unjustWars #warCriminals #Blair #Bush #Sarkozy #entitlement #presumption #fragility #insecurity #stats #mortality #wars #diseases #starvation #costing #internationalLaw #costBenefit #IHL #casualties #collateralDamage #warCrimes #terrorism #counterTerrorism #war #warfare #civilians #ethics #grievability #StateViolence #violence #anthropology #epidemics #pollution #statistics #mortality #demography #diseases #injuries #conflicts #USWars #deaths #politics
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Ongoing
Today US and Britain escalated the regional war and sent bombs onto #Yemen.
#Biden said the #airStrikes were carried out with the UK military and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and NL.
Wikipedia: "fighter jets carrying precision-guided bombs were deployed from bases in the region and from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier. Surface ships and the USS Florida submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles."
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"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "
Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history
#SimoneWeil #Weil #AncientRome #Cesar #cesarism #empire #imperialism #crush #smash #histoire #destruction #USWars #IsraelWars #conquest #Rome