Might as well get paid when the US retreats again

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Saapas@piefed.zip · 52 pts · 70d (9 replies)

I get the joke but Iran got pummeled with a lot of bombs, with many dead and loads of infrastructure destroyed. Not great, even though they won

Famko@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 70d

Peace deal won't even last because Israel decided to attack Lebanon across the red line marked in the deal.

LouNeko@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 70d (4 replies)

Since when do governments care that their citizens are dying?

Saapas@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 70d

Greenland's government might

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 70d

When the number of citizens is smaller than an acceptable standing army? 🤷‍♂️

bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 70d

Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 70d

Iran did which is why they kept fighting

Gladaed@feddit.org · 3 pts · 70d (2 replies)

Not that many dead, Iran claims about 3.6k dead. Many times more than that died during protests in Iran this year.

Carmakazi@piefed.social · 5 pts · 70d (1 reply)

It's not nothing. We invaded Iraq and ruined the entire region for 20 years over less.

Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 70d

Yes, but not excessively high.

Zephorah@discuss.online · 41 pts · 70d (3 replies)

Hegseth and Trump are dumbasses so now 300 billion in taxpayer money goes to an asshole government that abuses women. In addition to the extra paid to go to work each day.

Rothe@piefed.social · 27 pts · 70d (1 reply)

But he made all the oil and gas company oligarchs even wealthier than they already were, and in the end, isn't that all that matters?

hOrni@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 70d

No. It also matters, that people stopped talking about the Epstein files. For about 12 hours.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 70d

The worst part? There were Iranian nationals all around the world that had hours of the tyrannical governement being removed by Trump.

Instead he helped them become more powerful than ever.

That betrayal is terrible, but very on brand.

Hasherm0n@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 69d

This is almost the plot of a movie that came out in 1959. The Mouse That Roared

Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 70d

Can you say it Lauder?

Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 70d

We wouldn't invade Greenland. It would interfere with us filming the Mars rover footage