• FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It would be weird to be in Khamenei’s position. I assume it’s a great honor to him to be named supreme leader, but i’m super sure that guy will be killed by a strike in a matter of weeks. I’m certain he’s sure of the same.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Notice how this is actually Netanyahu’s strategy!

    NOW the US CANNOT get out of fight-with-Iran, exactly as Netanyahu needed.

    Machiavellians’ strategy is never what non-machiavellians would presume…

    ( I feel like Vlad Taltos, in that old swords-&-sorcery book, where he suddenly understood the significance of someone being a Yendi/machiavellian-race…

    Doh!

    Oh, well:

    at-least I caught-on NOW, even if it would have been better to have clued-in when the strategy became-visible, before. )

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Stop whitewashing the usa. Nobody forced the usa to go along. Even Biden was aware that Israel was preparing the attack. Instead of putting pressure, he kept pretending that he was concerned