tldr: More timely market manipulation (conveniently released alarmist faux journalism introduced onto newswire as US indices reach VWAP)

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    6 days ago

    They planned to bomb us in case we bomb them, so in self defense we bombed them.

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      6 days ago

      That’s literally the official story…

      Israel was going to attack, which would have lead to Iran attacking US allies, so the US attacked Iran first.

      It’s the same as a kid saying:

      If I had taken his lunch money he’d have fought back, so instead of asking I sucker punched him and took it. I didn’t do anything wrong, it was self defense!

      Like, that’s the logic our foreign policy is operating under right now.

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        5 days ago

        The previous bush-era logic of “Dave slapped me because I was an asshole to everyone in the class, so now I’m going to torture and kill Rick who kinda looks like Dave to me” was not much better