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I thought the elected representatives get to vote on every issue that is raised. Do they have a limited amount of votes in the US?

They could have abstained then. Would have had the same practical outcome, but they would not have sent the signal of support to Trump. Also if they had voted in favor it would have shown unity and dedication to fight Trump, something that would have gotten a lot of disgruntled voters back. Instead they made sure to prove that they have learned nothing from the elections and they would rather concede power to Fascism unopposed than stop being murderous imperialists.

How so? By dividing Korea and ensuring permanent US military presence? Because South Korea was and to some extent still is quite authoritarian and massacred a lot of democracy protestors over the past 80 years.

The Korea war ended with two authoritarian states, as they keep being at arms with each other.

If there hadn't been outside meddling maybe we would have a unified, strong and peaceful Korea.

They pay your politicians so that your politicians take your tax money and buy Israel guns with it from your arms companies, who give your politicians money so that your politicians buy their guns and send them to Israel.

They also destabilize a region with hundreds of millions of people, whose countries have vast resources and sit on critical trade routes. If people in West Asia were united, they would quickly move on to become a geopolitical power-house rivaling the EU. if all Muslim countries were to work together, they would be the global superpower.

Oh and of course racism. Lots of racism and murdering brown people. The US and many European countries love that.

So far all the other outlets i have seen reported that CNN reported on it. So the interesting bit apparently only is with CNN.

It does contradict the Israel narrative of how they would have things under control.

I think "cash and run" is rather simple minded.

Imagine doing a larger "raid" at a farm or cobstruction site and take tractors, machines and equipment in the hundreds of thousands or even millions...

As these are also in more remote places it would take longer for any responder to arrive.

“We were able to determine that to the best of our estimation he was an ICE agent. ... We will not look into it any deeper than that,” he said.

So having a shoddy fake card that looks like it could be real on a shoddy video camera is good enough for the police to not investigate further? Human traffickers must be having a blast in the US right now.

People can also fall for and parrot a dog whistle without understanding it.

At any rate it is ridiculous how the New York City mayor race was centered around whether the candidates "support Israel" or are "antisemites".

It is probably a dog whistle for Zionist. Mamdani has been outspoken against Zionism.

It is unfair to reduce them to that. They are also staunch supporters of genocide and imperialism.

I think it would be trivial for the US to bury some bunkers in the desert, choke them full of cameras and sensors and test their bombs on them.

There is no reason why this kind of weapon would be needed to be "life tested" to understand its effects.

Systems that directly compete with defensive systems, weapons on soldiers, tactics and so on need to be tested in actual combat sure.

The only thjng the US learned here is that Iran is not capable of shooting down B2s, which isnt all that surprising.

And why does it have zero chance? Could it be because they oppose it, instead of supporting it? Imagine all Democrats stood together on this and they could get a few Reps over. Even if it would fail, they would send a signal of unity and standing up for what is right, which could get them back some voters the disgruntled with the whole genocide and appeasing fascism thing.

But no, they double down on it.

So things work exactly like they want them to. They get money, the oligarchy gets their interests represented, the middle class gets destroyed, people overseas get bombed and minorities get discriminated. Everything is perfectly like it should be for these people.

For the same reason they are rich. It is a network that is looking out after each other and protecting their class interests. You go there you shake some hands, exchange some numbers and strike a deal or two.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Everything else aside. I can't get over the fact that the White House is now communicating like a teenager getting high with his friends.

Yes i know. But after Iran Israel will move to the next country, most likely an Arab country again, to attack.

War happens, and countries will get flattened within weeks by a coalition

Why didn't the US and UK and France flatten OPEC at its inception? Why did the US fail in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

The military might of the US can flatten a lot, no doubt about it, but it cannot build something to its benefit after, unless it is some smaller countries.

And what happens if the Oil and Gas are cut off to the US and its allies? Even if the US is producing enough by now to cover itself domestically, it would need to jump in for all its allies, unless it wants to loose them. And well, they cannot product this much.

The US couldn't win in Iraq. They couldn't win in Afghanistan.

There is no way they would "win" when the flow of Oil and Gas gets cut off for them, the Gulfs are closed for them and the closest place to stage their airforce would be in Cyprus. The US could use its navy to deny oil and gas to everyone else too, but that would bring the rest of the world against them too. To properly reestablish control, they would need boots on the ground. This would require millions, maybe tens of millions of soldiers. Just between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi, Yemen and Egypt and the Gulf states that is about 350 million people. Add Turkiye, Sudan, Libya, Algeria and Morocco and you get some more 250 million more on top.

In such a scenario the US would most likely sacrifice Israel.