• SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 hours ago

    Come on… This can’t be true. The yanks must have known that Iran would strike back.

    It would be very funny and I hope that it is true. I just don’t think it.

    • draco_aeneus@mander.xyz
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      7 hours ago

      It wouldn’t be the first time the USA has employed the “Imma strike you, but if you strike back you’re a peace hating savage” tactic. They’ve done it several times already. For any country that acts diplomatically in good faith, it puts you in quite a tough spot. If you strike back (especially if you strike back harder), then you’re risking escalations, but if you do nothing, then your enemy has gotten a free strike in.

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        6 hours ago

        the fact they called it everywhere a “pre-emptive” attack says it all when Iran had not intention whatsoever of starting this conflict