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Jon Notabot's avatar

Where are the adults in the world?

I keep saying this one, specific thing: the US kneeling before Israel from the start of the genocide in Gaza set a precedent in the world about what is or is not tolerated in conflict. Under former President Joe Biden, Washington became a willing partner in Israel's savagery - war crimes became standing orders. Trump was obviously going to take this even further. The aggressor world has since taken notice that openly using mass horror tactics against civilians is a new norm. All of this courtesy of Israel, the Epstein class, and of course, team Purple.

Istvan Kash's avatar

I recall Biden’s administration gave the green light for the Pakistani military to do a coup against the elected leader Imran Khan. Now that military leadership is negotiating the talks between Iran and the US all while breaking their own cease fire with their neighbor, Afghanistan. The US’s destabilizing tentacles seem to reach everywhere.

Ian Weniger's avatar

For all India's might, Modi's anti-Muslim campaigns seem to disqualify his country from acting in any capacity as a negotiator with Iran. And yet Pakistan might be working to improve its relations with the USA to keep those green lights coming. If Iran agrees to LEU and USA to leashing ISR, then they just leveraged their nukes to the next level of imperialism.

George Leone's avatar

There’s a familiar pattern here: a military power insists it’s hunting militants, then leaves a trail of dead students, shattered mosques, and obliterated homes. The U.S. pioneered the euphemism of “military‑age males”; Pakistan is now recycling it to justify turning Afghan villages into free‑fire zones. Call it what it is — a scorched‑earth campaign against a population, carried out under the cover of counterterrorism.

Antonia Lhamo's avatar

Life is not easy, building that university a source of pride and a prayer for progress. Inexcusable that Pakistan, a poor country who knows the great effort it took should THEN reap such violence upon the Afghans. The US could offer the world an alternative to violence, they could work to stop the hideous violence of the Israelis but instead they join them & offer the lowest vilest violence. We are the world, we are the adults, we DEMAND THE END TO VIOLENCE NOW.

Karen Ashikeh LaMantia's avatar

Another casualty of Israel's domestic and foreign policy seems to be the treats to people in border areas, now practiced in Lebanon and several neighborong nations, by undeclared war. Targeted for death, violence and chaos it seems, not for disputes or actions of their own but because they MAY be part of an group ( by being a man who happens to be near a dispute), of a certain age and potential to fight, and going about the business of life that somehow MIGHT pose a threat to those at war or conflict. This "unofficial" warfare may be undeclared but is as deadly a threat to both peace and the surroundings for both nations. The threat to general harmony and to the ability of a society to carry on for the good of all of its people are threatened. What can be gained when war is made against those who may be friends, or could be foes. Who are you fighting, anyway? It looks suspiciously like you are fighting yourself.