US strikes water desalination plant in Iran : worldnews

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 145 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

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

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

beacon of democracy? when was that?

They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.

Just because the US calls themselves that doesn't make it true.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 101 points 2 months ago

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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[-] raicon@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

Learning war crimes from their daddy Israel

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 19 points 2 months ago

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[-] lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 70 points 2 months ago

The decade of war crimes

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

consequences of letting Israel get away with all their war crimes. they are now normalized.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's genuinely some of the most despicable shit

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[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 months ago

Did they mistake it for an elementary school?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

That was dumb as fuck wow.

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

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 months ago

Smells Like Trump War Crime

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Sounds like terrorism.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 31 points 2 months ago

It's terrorism when you're brown. When you're white, it's a precision strike.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 months ago

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%.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 16 points 2 months ago

Still illegal, still monstrous.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

oh absolutely, it's a war crime plain and simple

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[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

Iran so far has been the adult in the room. I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that's nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them. I come from a shithole too and I keep shitting on our government for a good reason, but I would definitely prefer them over being holocausted by US/Palestine occupiers.

[-] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Few acts say "crimes against humanity" better than bombing a country's water supply.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 10 points 2 months ago

There's a certain dam in Iraq which could have been targeted at any point during the Iran-Iraq war. Doing so would have guaranteed ended the war in Iran's favor, killing hundreds of thousands of people in a single act in the process.

Some things are not worth doing. Winning like that is not winning.

[-] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

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

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember that cruelty is the point with this administration

Stealing truckloads of cash from the working class isn't enough, they need to also see the poor and defenceless suffer needlessly in order to get their kicks.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

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

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago

"We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!"

Bombs desalination plant

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something something Collective Punishment something something Geneva Conventions

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something something white exemption from the Geneva Conventions.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 24 points 2 months ago

Conventions on war crimes are a mutual agreement on restraints both parties place on themselves. They work, as long as neither party wants to lose face or support by being the one to break their word, and as long as both parties can afford to.

Trump never gave a shit about keeping his own word, let alone anyone else's.

I'm not sure Iran can afford to keep theirs now.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

He is actively hoping for retaliatory action from literally anyone so he can justify calling for martial law and suspending the constitution.

[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

and the democratic party establishment will actively oppose him, saying "just wait and see until you lift martial law, we'll vote you out so bad, and then keep sending money and weapons to israel just like you did".

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fucking shitters. There is no rock bottom.

[-] d3adpaul77@lemmy.org 23 points 2 months ago

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

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

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

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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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[-] razen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

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

[-] facelessbs@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

they will 100% turn against Jews, even all those "I love Israel apartheid and genocide, if you're against it, you're antisemitic and hate jews"

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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[-] BeardededSquidward 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Following Israeli war tactics. Just destroy it all.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

NATO terrorism knows no depths.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

absolutely criminal

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