Iwishiwasntthisway

I think they lost the ones with trophy systems to glorified potato guns, when they would have probably have been more useful against rockets and drones and shit

I hope, unlike Gaza, the civilians south of the litani have been able to evacuate.

Safe travels

I mean, the US has saber rattled against Iran for like my entire life without going to war so it's not THAT crazy to think they might have some degree of escalation management. Even the Putin admin was fooled by American unscrupulousness and they're pretty sharp.

I guess this sort of means the US is in worse position than these people thought and is going for those last few crap shoots

That's a good point

I understand the cynicism, but what malicious intent do you think is here? Do you think the ceasefire was optional? That could be, but what is making you think that?

That's wild.

I agree it's naive, but calling it a "sell out" deal entails a compromise in integrity. And the fact that it necessarily included a ceasefire demonstrates the opposite, that they are actually committed to the Palestinian cause, at least to a point. I don't really fault them for at least trying for the best case scenario. We'll see in coming days and weeks how many contingencies they planned for.

Exhausting all possible diplomatic routes is still the most rational options for them. They just keep forgetting they aren't dealing with rational actors.

Can you explain to me how forgoing a deserved retribution for lifting sanctions that would improve the lives of 10s of millions and a ceasefire deal that would save millions a sellout deal? They probably wouldn't have gotten any credit for the ceasefire either, the west would have blasted out some other flimsy narrative immediately.

I keep hearing the election is a factor, but I guess I'm struggling to see why. Nobody in power cares which figurehead is the American "president". Foreign policy isn't up for debate - nobody is even bothering trying to run on an anti interventionist platform anymore. They aren't pretending to ask your opinion.

Target has a forensics lab? What?

They live in the US. They're more CNN brained than anything but they follow shit a lot that way and get really emotional about it