Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 27 2025 3:38 utc | 201
Bingo.
I’ll raise you one further:
When your allies politely ask you not to arm yourself with the one weapon that will guarantee your ability to act and offer you “conventional” weapons instead.
And they send you lots of cool toys and weapons with experts to “train” you, as a placebo, to make sure you never get those weapons.
And you develop an even deeper form of Learned Helplessness because you’ve now put the only means of true defense in the hands of others – others who themselves would never relinquish their nuclear weapons.
On top of it all, your paramount leader neuters the nation with a “fatwa” because he believes Desert Sky Daddy is going to defend him when American tomahawks start flying into Persian mosques.
And all these things are the opposite of what the Zionists do.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 27 2025 6:07 utc | 204

@S.P. Korolev || 206
I’m really out of my depth with this, but will say I also assumed a sabotage operation of precursor chemicals. Beirut may or may not be a good comparison.

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 27 2025 7:23 utc | 206

https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1916181339478618424
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out several military operations during the past 12 hours:
1. Targeting Nevatim Airbase in the Negev, northern occupied Palestine.
2. Targeting a military site in occupied Jaffa.
3. Targeting a military site in occupied Ashkelon.
4. Conducting a joint operation targeting disabled aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea.
Our Yemeni Armed Forces continue to strongly support the oppressed Palestinian people and their resistance fighters, and to confront the American aggression against our country. We will never abandon Gaza, no matter the cost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVOyeKd7tt0
Yemen Strikes Nevatim Base AGAIN | “They’re LYING About USS Harry S Truman”
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Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 27 2025 8:05 utc | 208

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 27 2025 7:55 utc | 208
Thanks for that. So true, they surely deserve it if the world was a saner place.

Posted by: Silent Waves | Apr 27 2025 9:39 utc | 210

The inference here is that the USA is looking to kill more civilians:
Pete Hegseth Is Gutting Pentagon Programs to Reduce Civilian Casualties
The defense secretary’s focus on “lethality” could lead to “wanton killing and wholesale destruction and disregard for law,” one Pentagon official said.
Nick Turse
April 15 2025, 7:00 a.m.
The Pentagon had been slowly dedicating more resources to killing fewer civilians in recent years, following a long drumbeat of damning investigations of civilian casualties by the press, nongovernmental organizations, government-supported think tanks, and even the U.S. military itself.
But now, under the control of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Department of Defense is reversing course.
The Intercept spoke with five current and former Defense Department officials familiar with its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response, or CHMR, efforts, who say that the Pentagon is in the process of eliminating or downsizing offices, programs, and positions focused on preventing civilian casualties during U.S. combat operations.
On the chopping block are the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response office, which handles policies that reduce dangers to noncombatants, and the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which is focused on training and tools for preventing civilian casualties.
The Army also recently announced it will make law of war training — which covers basic battlefield ethics, prohibited acts, and rules of engagement — optional, in an effort to remove “unnecessary distractions” and increase focus on “decisive action in combat.”
This comes as Hegseth trumpets an overwhelming emphasis on “lethality” and cuts to programs that run afoul of Trump administration priorities. Hegseth also reportedly plans to overhaul the entire JAG Corps, which is essential to ensuring adherence to the rule of law and upholding the Uniform Code of Military Justice, after firing the judge advocates general of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Trump has also rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes and Special Operations raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted. After Trump relaxed targeting principles during his first term, attacks and reports of civilian casualties in war zones like Somalia and Yemen spiked.
“There is an overt and ongoing effort to completely shut the Center down and to remove CHMR across all the commands,” said Wes Bryant, who until recently served as the chief of civilian harm assessments and senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. “Basically, they are wiping DoD of anything related to Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response.”
MORE…
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/15/pete-hegseth-pentagon-civilian-casualties-harm/

Posted by: Menz | Apr 27 2025 9:51 utc | 212

The Resonance
@Partisan_12
American Singer Jesse Welles with a Surprise Subway Song on Pal€stine
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1916185256215843088

Posted by: Menz | Apr 27 2025 9:58 utc | 214

michaelj72 208
There are several liars talking about Palestinians leaving Gaza by force of bombing and starvation. We know their names and we are tired of listening to their lies. The one telling the truth is our prophet Muhammad , may Allah’s Peace and Blessings be upon him who said , saw, that the Palestinians would not leave their land.
Our prophet, saw, only said what he was told by Allah swt to say, and He said, in Chapter Isra of His Qur’an that anytime the Jews got too arrogant, He would raise a deadly force against them.
There are two things to remember:
The Palestinians won’t leave and the Jews will be humiliated. Everything else is pipe dream gruel of Satan.
Allah swt even today , while 2 million Palestinians survive, would accept genuine repentance if food and a state were agreed to by the addicted liars.
The Palestinians have passed their test and the Jews have Confirmed what Allah swt has told us that the Jews are a menace to the world and liars, except a tiny minority who.practice their religion.
I don’t think we will have to wait for the Jewish Messiah AS to return, for the humiliation of the Jews to begin.
As to the blasphemy of the Jews that Allah swt wants them to destroy the Muslims under their protection in order to trigger them arrival of a different Messiah to the one the West already generates as Jesus AS, what further proof do the Roman Catholics and US Evangelical Christians need to prove that the Jews are liars, than the fact that they deny that Jesus AS is the Messiah?
Are they braindead or something?

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 27 2025 10:10 utc | 216

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And more than that, far far more than that,
it has been proven to Netanyahu that he is protected
when he commits betrayal (as he did on Oct 7th).
If he is willing to betray and sacrifice his own people
in a false-flag and get away with it, then he is certainly willing to sacrifice
American lives if and when it serves him.

Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 27 2025 12:55 utc | 218

Whatever Bushnell was reacting to must have happened during Biden’s presidency, as Biden was still president when Bushnell killed himself. Whatever Bushnell was reacting to I can only assume has become worse under Trump.

Posted by: Lysias | Apr 28 2025 19:09 utc | 220