US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles.
Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not been hit.
The US president said he reiterated the “ironclad” support for Israel’s security in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has had strained relations over Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.
“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said.
“And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people,” he said.
US is gonna go to war against Iran aren’t they? And over something as stupid as protecting israel’s genocide.
First Thought made a great video on what that could look like
Jesus Christ the opening to that video had me guessing for a moment until I calmed down and realized it’s obviously a hypothetical. Given that it’s reported that Iranian officials consider their attack “concluded”, it would be great if all the players stepped away from escalation into open war. The video I linked talks about the pressure on both Iran and Israel to back down, and here’s hoping they do. The world really really doesn’t need yet another open war in the Middle East, USA-involved or otherwise.
Yeah I also thought for a second I had somehow missed a fucking nuclear bombing
I have no sympathy for any US soldiers who die defending genocidal states.
They don’t get a choice. That’s on us.
I think it would be an incredibly unpopular decision by Biden, and the American people would not support a war with Iran. I also think that it would be a tactical mistake, given how many US assets are within Iranian striking distance right now. The US military is having recruiting issues currently, and a war will not help that.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see ISIS attacks in Iran start to happen more frequently.
Of course it will be more sanctions, more pressure to other countries to denounce Iran, more proxy war with funding literal terrorist groups and telling them to hit whoever the US doesn’t like, also probably bomb a few Iranian assests because what actually can they do?
An open war rather requires justified claims. It is gruesome and the horrible results are directly tied to the war. A combination of sinister proxy war, subterfuge, coercion and forced poverty are slow killers and will have way fewer dissidents. It is the name of the game for half of the US
oppressionpolicing on the world.
US will play defense unless Iran does something really stupid and launches a large ballistic missile attack of some kind, or directly attacks US military. Even then, proportional response policy would probably mean strikes against missile facilities only.
No amount of drones sent against Israel will result in the US opening an actual war with Iran.
I feel like that wouldn’t go down well if the US government tried that.
Maybe I don’t understand the average American, but it’s certainly seemed like people realized the last wars in the Middle East were a waste of time and life.
This might’ve mattered if the state worked for the people, but the only people a bourgois/liberal “democracy” serves are the capitalists. And the US MIC would love more war.
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He opposes genocide? And that’s a bad thing why?
Based if true.
Found the Nazi
What’s crazy about this whole situation is Iran attacked Israel because Israel bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria killing a general and 6 others… and governments are telling Iran not to overreact.
Like bruh, how would you react if your embassy was bombed in a 3rd country killing your general and 6 other nationals
And somehow the elected leader of our country is going against the will of the population by supporting israel and dragging us into another massive war.
The word “massive” is an understatement
Stop bailing Israel out. They literally bombed an embassy. They do not need the G7 to help them.
Iran has kept their end of the bargain of not attacking US targets. Of course the US does not keep theirs of not interfering, and shoots down Iranian drones instead.
In a written message to Washington, Iran “warned the US not to get dragged into Netanyahu’s trap”, Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on X, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US should “step aside so that you don’t get hit”.
“In response, the US asked Iran not to hit American targets,” Jamshidi said.
The USA didn’t say they wouldn’t interfere. The opposite was said, actually. Iran has in fact targeted a US Base before although they did give warning ahead of time.
You’re just making shit up OP.
The man really wants his reelection to die on this hill
I’m not voting for Biden.
Fuck the lesser evil.
If this upsets any of you, get mad at the democrats who keep nominating these shit candidates.
Give me someone like Bernie or I will not vote democrat. I will not fall in line. If that means a Trump victory, then so be it.
You’ll only have yourselves to blame just like when you nominated Hillary.
Its likely Bernie would be doing the same as biden here. His foreign policy is basically party line
He supported Yugoslavia carpet bombing. He is just another Biden.
I remember. It was a good maskoff moment for Bozo Sanders.
Nah can definitely blame idiots like you quite a lot regardless of how much Biden is fucking up lol
“All Joe Biden had to do was stay the fuck out of the middle east for a few months and the election was his…”
The US has been tied to Israel since its founding.
No matter who (or what party) was in the white house, the US would be propping up Isreal after the Hamas attack.
Just like it has done for decades.
Wow so glad this is the lesser evil I’ll have to vote for. Fuck this country man.
I left after Trump was elected. The downward spiral marches on it seems.
Plenty of 3rd party candidates to vote for. No one is forcing you to vote for Biden but every vote for Biden is telling him that it’s OK to keep doing what he’s doing. A vote for Biden is a vote for Genocide.
Voting for a 3rd party is a vote for Trump. If you think Trump is less genocidal I have some magic beans to sell you.
No, a vote for 3rd party is quite literally a vote for 3rd party. Stop shaming people because they don’t want to vote for your candidate. If Biden wants people to vote for him then he needs to earn it. Dems can’t just do nothing for anyone and fund a genocide and expect to win on being the lesser evil.
Sorry but that is not really how our system works. Feel free to advocate for changes to our voting like ranked choice but until then voting strategically is the only real way to go. Voting third party as a protest vote does not do shit. It does not get the Democratic party to change their platform. Vote for a progressive candidate in the primaries of you want something to actually change in the Democratic party. Neither major party actually cares about third parties. The last time a third party candidate got a large chunk of the vote was Perot and neither party changed positions afterwards.
You can vote for a super progressive third party candidate in the election but that helps out the candidate least like your position if you are in a swing state. If you are not in a swing state, vote however the fuck you want because your vote largely means nothing until we change how voting works.
Oh so you’re a fascist, I get it now.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Coming to terms with the realities of first past the post is far from fascism. I actively advocate for voting systems that would make third parties viable. Until then, vote progressive in the primaries and send money to progressive candidates in the Democratic party to get them to change their platform. Voting for a different party altogether is not going to change their platform.
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US Empire gotta Empire, even though Israel struck first.
“World’s biggest terrorist organisation supports genocidal sky-fairy worshippers”
Oh, quelle surprise
Ah… election year isnt it?
Aiding and abetting criminals.
There’s definitely something we ask don’t know about the US and Israel. There’s got to be some massive secret. Because there’s no other good explanation.
Israel is the US’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. It’s strategically priceless for US world domination.
Israel is basically where all of the NSA spyware gets developed.
Also border technology.
Money and an influencial foothold in the Middle East. It’s a secret because power and money are withheld from you and all of us.
Religion plain and simple.
Settler colonialism has nothing to do with religion.
Palestine is merely good place for a colony since it’s a bridge between Asia and Africa; israel’s formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named “Colonization Commission”, “Jewish Colonial Trust” and the like.
Theodor Herzl, the founder of “zionism” was a racist who saw it as a rampart of the west in the region.
“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]
Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe. They are thus now israel’s main supporter.
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We’ve heard this all before, U.S. is now agreeing to supply an endless chain of terrorist engagements in surrounding areas of the states involved. Get ready to hear about rocket seiges and mid city suicide bombings. This is so stupid, worst diplomacy ever.
Fuck off Brandon
I’m not voting for Biden ever again.
1 mistake was enough. Independent or bust.
Enjoy living under Trump, then
You too!
I mean we already lived under trump and know what it was like, its not the hellscape they keep pretending will happen.
Yeah, just a million preventable deaths, huge transfer of wealth to the upper classes, lots of children stolen from their families and caged, but my grocery bill wasn’t that high, so I don’t see the problem.
So since more people died under biden, is he worse then?
[citation needed]
This is not controversial, feel free to do a second of research. And Biden had the vaccine too, he really just killed so many.
Holy shit you’re bad at this. “Let me make a broad and extraordinary claim and it’s on you to prove it.”
Here’s why your rebuttal sucks and you’re bad at thinking:
- You have never heard of “burden of proof”.
- Biden wasn’t president when COVID was killing a million Americans, so your point is not just vague, it’s stupid.
- You ignored all my other points completely.
- Your only defense was completely unsourced whataboutism.
- You think claiming “it’s not controversial” is like a cheat code for arguments.
- Your fundamental “hellscape” argument relies on a definition of badness that is so impossibly narrow and dismissive that you’re basically claiming that Trump would only be a bad president if people were literally suffering and dying in the streets in such numbers that everyone had no excuse not to realize it, which utterly invalidates everything any human could do in a presidential term unless they literally went full Hitler.
Looking forward to your trenchant and scholarly “no u” rebuttal.
That’s fine. Just save us your opinion about the alternative shit show that unveils when Trump’s in office. That guy hired John Bomb Iran Bolton as his national security advisor. Trump basically pushed the button himself to kill Qasem Soleimani when his advisors weren’t extreme enough.
If it’s only Palestinians you care about, remember who moved the US embassy in Israel to Tell Aviv. With trump back in office, Bibi could prop up his regime for another 4yrs.
RFK or bust but you won’t get to wash your hands of this going forward.
Will you vote for Biden if he gets us into WW3?
Would you vote for Trump to get us out of WW3 if we’re in it?
I’m going to write in Aaron Bushnell’s name, who already cast the only vote that matters.
A brave soul but not the only person that will suffer.
I’m trans in a red state. If Trump wins I might die.
I’m still not voting for Biden.
Not like it fucking matters, if my state passes a “kill all the trans people” law Biden wouldn’t stop them.
So you’re arguing that both sides are the same? You could argue that he may not stop states from archaic legislation but he’s not going to help them. Every one of the supreme justices that have refused to conserve your rights has been designed in their position by the right. I say live to fight another day. We haven’t come far enough but it’s still far from how things were 50yrs ago. Ever heard the saying don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good? Well, don’t let the epically flawed be the enemy of the tyrant.
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Totally agree. I cannot wash my hands of my complicity in this genocide in my inability to help guide my country to ethical, consistent policies.
I admit, all I can do is try to keep the worst out of power.
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