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Now that America are the baddies what sort of world order are we going for

175 replies

CurdinHenry · 12/04/2026 19:44

Surely we can drum up something positive

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DdraigGoch · 13/04/2026 16:40

CookingFatCat · 13/04/2026 16:37

A united Europe could kick ass.

One step closer now that Orban's been kicked out.

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 17:08

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 16:16

Yeh Israel should lay down and die while perpetually attacked and massacred by the Islamic regime.

Is your suggestion that everyone else in the region should as you so charmingly put it “lay down and die”? What about no one kills hurts or maims anyone else? Is it so hard just to accept this bombing is wrong?

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:25

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 17:08

Is your suggestion that everyone else in the region should as you so charmingly put it “lay down and die”? What about no one kills hurts or maims anyone else? Is it so hard just to accept this bombing is wrong?

No. My suggestion is not to start it. Clearly.

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:28

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TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:29

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Maybe you can explain in very very simple terms then what you mean with your comment.

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:32

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:29

Maybe you can explain in very very simple terms then what you mean with your comment.

In a tiny nutshell on the multiverses of history in the Middle East Hezbollah terrorists are using civilian homes inside Lebanon to launch their missiles and rockets toward Israel.

Then the world is surprised why Israel is destroying houses in Lebanon?

Same tactic Hamas used in Gaza, by the way.

NotAnotherScarf · 13/04/2026 18:33

JaneFondue · 12/04/2026 23:47

They always were the baddies.

Yep...they just had Hollywood for propaganda.... like how they won ww2, the Native Americans were evil and how they actually won in Vietnam...

NotAnotherScarf · 13/04/2026 18:34

CookingFatCat · 13/04/2026 16:37

A united Europe could kick ass.

Didn't Germany try that one?

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:40

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:32

In a tiny nutshell on the multiverses of history in the Middle East Hezbollah terrorists are using civilian homes inside Lebanon to launch their missiles and rockets toward Israel.

Then the world is surprised why Israel is destroying houses in Lebanon?

Same tactic Hamas used in Gaza, by the way.

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It is not just houses that Israel is destroying in Lebanon

Hence my question if that justifies killing civilians

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:45

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:40

It is not just houses that Israel is destroying in Lebanon

Hence my question if that justifies killing civilians

Hamas attacks and then hides behind civilians.
Israel targets only terrorists. If civilians get hurt it's because Hamas terrorists used them as human shields.

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:48

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:45

Hamas attacks and then hides behind civilians.
Israel targets only terrorists. If civilians get hurt it's because Hamas terrorists used them as human shields.

Israel isn't targetting only terrorist, that much is obvious. Just watch the news.

Civilians as collateral damage is acceptable for you?

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:50

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:45

Hamas attacks and then hides behind civilians.
Israel targets only terrorists. If civilians get hurt it's because Hamas terrorists used them as human shields.

@TopPocketFind

In fact the IDF arranged safe zones.

The IDF targets militants that hide behind and among civilians, using them as human shields.

Unlike Hamas who deliberately target civilians. Do you know what they did to those beautiful girls at the Nova music festival on October 7th?

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:51

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 18:48

Israel isn't targetting only terrorist, that much is obvious. Just watch the news.

Civilians as collateral damage is acceptable for you?

What news are you watching?

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 19:59

@Mistyglade I think supporting Israel killing civilians especially children is disgusting. If you don’t I think you have become the monster.

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 20:14

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 19:59

@Mistyglade I think supporting Israel killing civilians especially children is disgusting. If you don’t I think you have become the monster.

If you’re supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, who declared war on October 7th against Israel to try yet again to destroy the Jewish state what are you?

Hamas and the media relentlessly push the claim that Gaza deaths are mostly ‘women and children’. This is an age-old tactic, the oldest trick in the propaganda playbook. It’s designed to evoke outrage and cast Israel as a ruthless aggressor.

Several studies have been conducted which revealed that certain news outlets tend to heavily favour Gaza’s perspective, emphasising Hamas’ statistics while downplaying Israel’s side of the story.

The most notable and recent example of this involves the BBC. It was not only found to report disproportionately in Gaza’s favour, citing statistics directly from Hamas, but also went so far as to publish a documentary that was later withdrawn due to its significant disinformation and exaggeration regarding the suffering of children in Gaza.

Do you know the number of kids Iranian middles have killed in the last 2 days?

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 20:25

@Mistyglade So your considered opinion is that tens of thousands of civilians haven’t been killed and maimed by the idf?

ComradeAmoeba · 13/04/2026 20:30

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:50

@TopPocketFind

In fact the IDF arranged safe zones.

The IDF targets militants that hide behind and among civilians, using them as human shields.

Unlike Hamas who deliberately target civilians. Do you know what they did to those beautiful girls at the Nova music festival on October 7th?

What was done to those young people was utterly disgusting.

What Israel is doing is also disgusting. Netanyahu is a maniac, like his pal Trump.

SpaceRaccoon · 13/04/2026 20:32

OP are you cheering for Russia or China then as your new Good Guys? Wee side order of Iran?

PomplaMouse · 13/04/2026 20:33

BrinkWomanship · 13/04/2026 00:29

Iran has not only stated it wants to destroy Israel, the US and the West, it has taken active steps to do so. It’s funded militias and terrorists in the Middle East and the west, provides oil and arms China and Russia, subjugates and massacres its own people, and was working towards having a nuclear bomb that it intended to use on Israel first. it announced this repeatedly. It had a clock in Tehran with a countdown until it destroyed Israel. These guys were not lying!

I know who the baddies are and it’s not Israel and the US.

Israel has shown us that it will work hard to survive (Iran is a literal existential threat to Israel) and the US also will do the same. We benefit from their actions.

Thank goodness they have the moral clarity to know right from wrong and the means and courage to enforce it.

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Imagine celebrating the "moral clarity" of a hugely corrupt, serial sex offender and probable pedophile.

Just disgusting.

ComradeAmoeba · 13/04/2026 20:37

SpaceRaccoon · 13/04/2026 20:32

OP are you cheering for Russia or China then as your new Good Guys? Wee side order of Iran?

Thinking America has had its reputation completely blown at the hands of Trump & co. doesn't equal support for Iran or China or Russia.

TopPocketFind · 13/04/2026 20:39

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 18:50

@TopPocketFind

In fact the IDF arranged safe zones.

The IDF targets militants that hide behind and among civilians, using them as human shields.

Unlike Hamas who deliberately target civilians. Do you know what they did to those beautiful girls at the Nova music festival on October 7th?

Ofcourse I know what happened on Oct 7th

it doesn't justify what Israel is doing in Gaza and now Lebanon.
But you seem to think it does.

And I watch all kind of news channels, national and international. What are you watching if you haven't seen the civilians being killed in Lebanon or Israel admitting they killed the wrong person and innocents near him?

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 20:48

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 20:25

@Mistyglade So your considered opinion is that tens of thousands of civilians haven’t been killed and maimed by the idf?

I don’t have a ‘considered opinion’ of this war. You can continue trying to goad me into saying something despicable like a cheap tabloid journalist would or you could answer one of my many questions.

SpaceRaccoon · 13/04/2026 20:53

ComradeAmoeba · 13/04/2026 20:37

Thinking America has had its reputation completely blown at the hands of Trump & co. doesn't equal support for Iran or China or Russia.

Maybe, maybe not...

CompanyOfThieves · 13/04/2026 20:55

MyLimeGuide · 13/04/2026 00:18

We are fucked without the us IMO

We're fucked without the EU. Thanks Brexit-voters.

TomeTome · 13/04/2026 21:10

Mistyglade · 13/04/2026 20:48

I don’t have a ‘considered opinion’ of this war. You can continue trying to goad me into saying something despicable like a cheap tabloid journalist would or you could answer one of my many questions.

Or you could answer any of mine. If you genuinely are fine with the shear horror of human suffering that Israel has inflicted on the civilian populations of the Middle East I’m not sure why you would feel the need to pretend it didn’t happen.