• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    What’s your actual fucking goal?

    I’d wager that the part they aren’t saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

    1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

    2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

    3. War fits into the “law and order” narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

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      5 days ago

      Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.

      They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.

      Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.

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      5 days ago

      \4. Zelensky told him that Ukraine has it in their Constitution that they don’t hold elections during times of war. He thinks this applies to the US Constitution.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it’s distracting from.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        yeah, I hate that “EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION!!!” now.

        It’s fucking NOT. I’m sure they ARE trying to do some things as distractions, but most of it is just simply evil.

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          4 days ago

          The annoying part is that the Epstein files would never turn many cultists. Most are fine with it or are willing to look past it. Many just reject that it exists.