Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.
Every other country in region, Israel included, is much more dependent on desalination for water than Iran as a country. Unclear why they want as many dick moves as possible.
IIUC, on same day Iran apologized for attacking neighbours, this attack was launched from Bahrain, one of the/the most dependent desalination country on earth, that is a rock throw away from Iran.
“We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!”
Bombs desalination plant
Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you’re invading somewhere, you don’t want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.
Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It’s the billionaire way.
Fuck off, thousands of people are dead this is not a ‘distraction’ its peoples lives.
You fuck off. I was putting myself in the rapist president’s mindset. Not speaking from my own heart about the totality of the horror of the situation.
It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.
The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.
With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.
And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.
Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.
I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.
Or more burnt out than bored maybe.
From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term “frontier” combat zone that’s highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).
It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction
i’d say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can’t just be moved out of the way when there’s danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.
That low level of area-specific stability can be achieved with proxy forces or mercenaries guarding corporate facilities
i don’t think so
Okay
USSA has been terrorizing Iran long before anyone knew who Epstein was.
That whole cancer country is to blame.
Nobody is invading
Following Israeli war tactics. Just destroy it all.
Ah yes, desalination plants - the top priority military targets when invading a country to free its people.
They also made a wise decision preemptively taking out the elementary schoolgirls.
More dangerous than even Khammaaazzz!
New candidate for most pointless war in American history?
Learning war crimes from their daddy Israel
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In response to OPs question. I am really wondering if this the point at which the US, especially under Trump, plays the “blame the Jews” card.
We’ve been watching the right wing shift towards anti Israel views. The tucker Carlson crowd etc.
Maybe Trump is too demented. But, I feel like his defining characteristic is to be good at “reading the room”.
I just don’t know where it goes with the evangelical Christians that think this needs to happen to bring back Jesus. That’s literally the 20% of people that always agree with Trump. But, honestly, at this point. I think they will follow Trump and the pastors will give them a reason to hate the “the Jews”.
I just don’t see how Trump gets out of this otherwise.
they will 100% turn against Jews, even all those “I love Israel apartheid and genocide, if you’re against it, you’re antisemitic and hate jews”
I think he risks being returned to the Earth if he turns on Israel.
Israel is a piece. If this war ends up threatening the one true ruler of the US, Capital, it won’t matter what Israel wants.
I think this is the part that a lot of people will eventually be shocked by. Because they are following the wrong “leader”.
Israeli interest and Israeli leaders are absolutely interwoven in American foreign policy. But, if the interest of capital see it within their best interest to drop Israel, they will.
Now, I think this will be mostly symbolic, I don’t think US military support would ever drop. Or even much in terms of capital investments in Israel. But, I can definitely see them using Israel, specifically Benjamin Netanyahu, as a scapegoat for the failures that have already occurred because of the war with Iran.
And, this would bring support in from a lot of Trump’s base that he has lost to the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owen narratives. If Trump played it well enough to capture their antisemitism, while at the same time, not entirely alienating his Christian Zionist base by using Netanyahu as “the problem” instead of directly blaming it on Israel.
It’s just my though. My brain is rotted at this point though. I hate all of these people but am way too aware of how they shift and manipulate their narrative when things don’t go as planned. It’s a path forward I could see him taking.
They (bipartisan USA plus UK, Germany and so on) have zero scruples right now about persecuting the antizionist Jews for opposition against Israel, so when the cannibalising of vassals finally hits Israel they will immediately drop all the pretense and go openly antisemitic.
Iran so far has been the adult in the room. I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that’s nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them. I come from a shithole too and I keep shitting on our government for a good reason, but I would definitely prefer them over being holocausted by US/Palestine occupiers.
Iran’s issues are literally because of US imperialism. Their economy isn’t doing great because of insane illegal sanctions, and their paranoia comes from having been under siege their whole existence. I believe things will get a lot better for Iranians after the aggressors leave the region.
I was waiting for them to get it, but you know…
I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that’s nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them.
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I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms,
The economic issues were a direct result of US foreign policy.
In a January 2026 interview at the World Economic Forum and his February testimony before Congress, Scott Bessent took credit for engineering a “dollar shortage” that triggered a currency crisis and mass protests in Iran.
Bessent used phrases such as “Making Iran broke again” and described the resulting economic turmoil as “economic statecraft with no shots fired.”
Through sanctions, the dollar shortage and currency crisis/hyperinflation led to the collapse of one of Iran’s major banks, which led to the protests prior to the war starting.
absolutely criminal
This really is our generation’s Viet Nam, isn’t it?
I think we re-enter the middle east in some capacity every 5-10 years since like desert storm. Its not new. People are just sick of it. It could be weapons, it could be troops. We never really take our hand off the wheel over there.
It’s military keynesianism and the US economy has been running off of it since world war 2.
that was real fighting with troops, even if with disproportionate means.
there is zero possibility of boots on the ground here. This is the standard US tactic of cowardly bombing from a distance they use since then to avoid another US casualties trauma.
Nothing Says “Trump Rapes Children” like…checks notes…“War crimes!”
oh they’ll strike back. eventually. they’re hopefully gifting flight sim steam keys to an entire generation of newly radicalized teenagers.
Iran, contact me if you’re ever somehow able to start targeting the US mainland.
I’ll adjust your fire.
Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.
Looks like the vassal states are abandoning their US masters.
Just as the US is running from every base there.As an Iranian, I hope that Iran can show restraint here. Please do not target desalination plants, and be mindful when attacking power plants in the Gulf region. These countries are extremely weak and fragile, power outages and water shortages could cause massive widespread suffering that I wish upon no-one.
With that said, pipelines in KSA and Azerbaijan should probably get a visit from a 136 as soon as possible.
Still illegal, still monstrous.
oh absolutely, it’s a war crime plain and simple
Iran already had a water shortage, this is pushing a wounded critter into a corner and expecting it to not fight for its life.
Oh they are counting on it fighting for its life. Ideally an audacious “terrorist” strike on some liberal city before midterms.
MOssad working hard on it, I’m sure
