Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel's water comes from desalination plants, and now we've given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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[+] 146 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    beacon of democracy? when was that? it was always a shitty racist money first country from the beginning

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    You mean there same country that vaporized two cities' worth of civilians?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Weak virtue signaling, real chuds know the firebombs were worse.

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    The strikes against Qatar and UAE are hardly military in purpose though...

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  • [+] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Lots of collateral damage then

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Couldn't be more military.
    Took out US radars and equipment and troops and made them run from their bases.
    And just now S.Arabia too:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/iran-war-updates-oil-brent-wti-crude-110-gulf-gcc-uae-iraq-saudi-arabia-kurds.html

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Lots of the collateral damage affected plenty of civilians then. I must admit I've saw so much about that aspect that I assumed it was intended.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    IDK about civilians.
    I do know Iran doesn't target civilians.
    But also that the US military nearly completely abandoned their bases in those countries.
    They got housed in 'civilian' hotels, appartements, etc in those countries.
    If you've seen so many videos you surely saw the american filming from a flat right? Same happens in ukraine where the news was complaining evil Russia hit a civilian hotel and so many innocent civilians.
    While the videos show victims carried away in uniform and 2 days later the ukro army fires the guy responsible for holding a military meeting so close to the frontline. Military using civilian infrastructure makes them a legitimate target.
    Iran has very good intel on where they are since the population doesn't see them as enemies unlike their sell-out governments.
    If anything, it's another warcrime by the US since they shouldn't put military targets among civilians.

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  • [–] 104 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Iran already had a water shortage, this is pushing a wounded critter into a corner and expecting it to not fight for its life.

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  • [–] 62 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    That's genuinely some of the most despicable shit

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Smells Like Trump War Crime

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That was dumb as fuck wow.

    Not that it was every in question in this war but...

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Ah yes, because nothing says "sound military strategy" like depriving civilians of fresh water.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Remember that cruelty is the point with this administration

    Stealing truckloads of cash from the working class isnt enough, they need to see the poor and defenceless suffer needlessly in order to get their kicks.

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 97 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Learning war crimes from their daddy Israel

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, desalination plants - the top priority military targets when invading a country to free its people.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago*

    the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're gonna live.

    Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War

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  • [–] 56 points 8 months ago

    Did they mistake it for an elementary school?

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Something something Collective Punishment something something Geneva Conventions

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago*

    Fucking shitters. There is no rock bottom.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    finally the US is safe from Iranian unsalted water! mission accomplished Orange man

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This really is our generation's Viet Nam, isn't it?

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think we re-enter the middle east in some capacity every 5-10 years since like desert storm. Its not new. People are just sick of it. It could be weapons, it could be troops. We never really take our hand off the wheel over there.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    that was real fighting with troops, even if with disproportionate means.
    there is zero possibility of boots on the ground here. This is the standard US tactic of cowardly bombing from a distance they use since then to avoid another US casualties trauma.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I thought we arent supposed to hurt civilians in a war according to international laws but yelp it is indirect and also US is above all those things

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Oh that’s because this isn’t a war. I mean come on learn the difference.

    Since it isn’t a war there are less rules and we ( the USA) can just do as we please with no repercussions at all. None at all.

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  • [+] 39 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Iran's issues are literally because of US imperialism. Their economy isn't doing great because of insane illegal sanctions, and their paranoia comes from having been under siege their whole existence. I believe things will get a lot better for Iranians after the aggressors leave the region.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    The economic issues were a direct result of US foreign policy.

    ​In a January 2026 interview at the World Economic Forum and his February testimony before Congress, Scott Bessent took credit for engineering a "dollar shortage" that triggered a currency crisis and mass protests in Iran.

    Bessent used phrases such as "Making Iran broke again" and described the resulting economic turmoil as "economic statecraft with no shots fired."

    Through sanctions, the dollar shortage and currency crisis/hyperinflation led to the collapse of one of Iran's major banks, which led to the protests prior to the war starting.

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    As an Iranian, I hope that Iran can show restraint here. Please do not target desalination plants, and be mindful when attacking power plants in the Gulf region. These countries are extremely weak and fragile, power outages and water shortages could cause massive widespread suffering that I wish upon no-one.

    With that said, pipelines in KSA and Azerbaijan should probably get a visit from a 136 as soon as possible.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Every other country in region, Israel included, is much more dependent on desalination for water than Iran as a country. Unclear why they want as many dick moves as possible.

    IIUC, on same day Iran apologized for attacking neighbours, this attack was launched from Bahrain, one of the/the most dependent desalination country on earth, that is a rock throw away from Iran.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    absolutely criminal

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Hitting critical civilian infrastructure like schools, hospitals and desalination plants are all war crimes. As are double tap strikes where you bomb the same place later to kill aid workers. I imagine Israel asked the US to join in Israels ongoing campaign of war crimes so they dont have to be alone in that. When the US whitewashes its crimes in a few years I suppose Israel will hope to blame the US for all of their years of war crimninaity and sleeze their way out of their own accountability.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    In response to OPs question. I am really wondering if this the point at which the US, especially under Trump, plays the "blame the Jews" card.

    We've been watching the right wing shift towards anti Israel views. The tucker Carlson crowd etc.

    Maybe Trump is too demented. But, I feel like his defining characteristic is to be good at "reading the room".

    I just don't know where it goes with the evangelical Christians that think this needs to happen to bring back Jesus. That's literally the 20% of people that always agree with Trump. But, honestly, at this point. I think they will follow Trump and the pastors will give them a reason to hate the "the Jews".

    I just don't see how Trump gets out of this otherwise.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    They (bipartisan USA plus UK, Germany and so on) have zero scruples right now about persecuting the antizionist Jews for opposition against Israel, so when the cannibalising of vassals finally hits Israel they will immediately drop all the pretense and go openly antisemitic.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think he risks being returned to the Earth if he turns on Israel.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    Israel is a piece. If this war ends up threatening the one true ruler of the US, Capital, it won't matter what Israel wants.

    I think this is the part that a lot of people will eventually be shocked by. Because they are following the wrong "leader".

    Israeli interest and Israeli leaders are absolutely interwoven in American foreign policy. But, if the interest of capital see it within their best interest to drop Israel, they will.

    Now, I think this will be mostly symbolic, I don't think US military support would ever drop. Or even much in terms of capital investments in Israel. But, I can definitely see them using Israel, specifically Benjamin Netanyahu, as a scapegoat for the failures that have already occurred because of the war with Iran.

    And, this would bring support in from a lot of Trump's base that he has lost to the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owen narratives. If Trump played it well enough to capture their antisemitism, while at the same time, not entirely alienating his Christian Zionist base by using Netanyahu as "the problem" instead of directly blaming it on Israel.

    It's just my though. My brain is rotted at this point though. I hate all of these people but am way too aware of how they shift and manipulate their narrative when things don't go as planned. It's a path forward I could see him taking.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Nothing Says "Trump Rapes Children" like...checks notes..."War crimes!"

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you're invading somewhere, you don't want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It's the billionaire way.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country's ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term "frontier" combat zone that's highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction

    i'd say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can't just be moved out of the way when there's danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    That low level of area-specific stability can be achieved with proxy forces or mercenaries guarding corporate facilities

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Fuck off, thousands of people are dead this is not a 'distraction' its peoples lives.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster's point.

    The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.

    With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The "War on Terror" was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.

    And it's working. I haven't seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.

    Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    New candidate for most pointless war in American history?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Iran, contact me if you're ever somehow able to start targeting the US mainland.

    I'll adjust your fire.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    NATO terrorism knows no depths.

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