It’s pretty frustrating to see how the Ruso/Iranian axis was able to apply violence in exactly the right way to get exactly what they wanted. Everyone would play their part.
NATO weakened by disagreement about support for Israel. Western left angry and disengaged, leading to right wing (Russia friendly) parties succeeding in elections. Decreased focus on Ukraine.
All it cost was thousands of other people’s lives!
Israel was not the only party being baited and were not the only ones who got hooked.
All it would’ve taken is for nations like the US, UK, Germany and to a lesser extent France to act in the Israel-Palestine conflict in the same principled way they claimed and seemed to have acted in the Russia-Ukraine one.
They didn’t: they criticised Hamas and supported Israel when the latter was a victim of a terrorist attack by the former, which does follow the principle, but then did not turn against Israel when they started victimizing Palestenians (not Hamas, Palestinians) by the thousands.
It turns out the power elites in those nations are not against Fascists murdering civilians, they’re only against non-allied Fascists (such as Russia) murdering civilians but are fine is allied Fascists do it, in other words: their choices are and (one can reasonable deduce) always have been driven by geopolitics, not principle.
It’s was only the profound hypocrisy of some self-proclaimed “world leaders” that made this situation yield broader dividends to the Russo/Iranian axis and it’s only their persistence in putting geopolitical support for Israel above a principled reaction to what is now outright Genocide by the latter, than keeps on yielding dividends to said axis, both within the Western public opinion and in most of the rest of the World.
(It’s actually funny how this has made it glaringly obvious that even though Fascism was kicked out of Germany, it doesn’t seem to have left the hearts of the German power elites, who are at the moment happilly supporting a quite extreme application of the most racist of Fascisms - the full-on German-style massacring of those deemed to be less that human by the Fascists - whilst deploying the kind of propaganda that comes straight out of Himmler’s Book Of Tricks against their own population. Guess the lesson they learned wasn’t that violent Racism is bad, but rather than violent racism against a specific ethnic group is bad, but it’s fine against other groups).
It’s pretty frustrating to see how the Ruso/Iranian axis was able to apply violence in exactly the right way to get exactly what they wanted. Everyone would play their part.
NATO weakened by disagreement about support for Israel. Western left angry and disengaged, leading to right wing (Russia friendly) parties succeeding in elections. Decreased focus on Ukraine.
All it cost was thousands of other people’s lives!
Israel was not the only party being baited and were not the only ones who got hooked.
All it would’ve taken is for nations like the US, UK, Germany and to a lesser extent France to act in the Israel-Palestine conflict in the same principled way they claimed and seemed to have acted in the Russia-Ukraine one.
They didn’t: they criticised Hamas and supported Israel when the latter was a victim of a terrorist attack by the former, which does follow the principle, but then did not turn against Israel when they started victimizing Palestenians (not Hamas, Palestinians) by the thousands.
It turns out the power elites in those nations are not against Fascists murdering civilians, they’re only against non-allied Fascists (such as Russia) murdering civilians but are fine is allied Fascists do it, in other words: their choices are and (one can reasonable deduce) always have been driven by geopolitics, not principle.
It’s was only the profound hypocrisy of some self-proclaimed “world leaders” that made this situation yield broader dividends to the Russo/Iranian axis and it’s only their persistence in putting geopolitical support for Israel above a principled reaction to what is now outright Genocide by the latter, than keeps on yielding dividends to said axis, both within the Western public opinion and in most of the rest of the World.
(It’s actually funny how this has made it glaringly obvious that even though Fascism was kicked out of Germany, it doesn’t seem to have left the hearts of the German power elites, who are at the moment happilly supporting a quite extreme application of the most racist of Fascisms - the full-on German-style massacring of those deemed to be less that human by the Fascists - whilst deploying the kind of propaganda that comes straight out of Himmler’s Book Of Tricks against their own population. Guess the lesson they learned wasn’t that violent Racism is bad, but rather than violent racism against a specific ethnic group is bad, but it’s fine against other groups).