• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    14 days ago

    Attacking neutral ships in the Straight of Hormuz isn’t demonstrative of “establishing a fair economic order”.

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        13 days ago

        Neither the U.S. nor Israel has territory in the Persian Gulf, so airstrikes on U.S. bases aside (which are themselves valid targets), blockading the straight harms neutral powers far more than it does the U.S. or Israel.

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          The Gulf states are nowhere near neutral—aside from actually bombing Iran (which the Emirates and Saudi Arabia have done), they house the US military personnel and infrastructure that make prosecuting the war possible. Until those are gone, America does have territory in the Persian Gulf.

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        13 days ago

        Just because there’s one bad guy doesn’t mean the other one is the good guy. This isn’t Hollywood.