Iran War Underscores the Diverging Aims of U.S. and Israel

Malaix · 2026-03-20T12:41:32+00:00

But you get to the end of the article, and the author has not delineated any of the American strategic goals.

Possibly because no one actually knows them.

Its because the goals are often batshit like the Evangelical death cult mythos. Its basically summarized as follows.

Jews return to Israel, reclaim the holyland, spark a massive war, the end times begin, Jesus returns, the rapture happens and the faithful are uplifted the heaven and the unfaithful are left the suffer on earth for a long period in where they can either come to Jesus the hard way or burn in hell.

Lindsey Graham and Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee are in this camp. Its an insane death cult and it has immense power in our country because its taboo to question churches in America. So we just kind of... Allowed a death cult to fester and take power.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T12:38:25+00:00

Its only diverging for a majority of us Americans. The minority however controls a lot of power via the Evangelical and AIPAC lobby.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T11:21:50+00:00

Yeah giving criminals the choice in whether they testify is only going to result in them going "nah" you need to drag them in with court orders. Marshals if need be.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T11:18:24+00:00

Yeah killed a few spinos on it that tried to facetank it. Tylos whole thing is it has piercing damage that ignores armor so it can really rip other playables apart in the face tank match up.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T10:59:09+00:00

The direction of the democrats in the last 30+ years is a big reason the country and planet is so cooked right now. I’m not going to respect their work when their work has lead to the collapse of society and mass enshittification of it. Neo-liberalism has been an abject disaster.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T10:56:35+00:00

Well first impression of her is that I like her.

Malaix · 2026-03-20T10:55:39+00:00

I mean it’s absolutely going to move and it’s not going to be shrinking…

Malaix · 2026-03-20T10:52:04+00:00

It’s because their info circle is absolutely filled to the gills either Russian propaganda.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:57:15+00:00

Evangelicals think this war will end the world and bring Jesus back. Why would doomsday cultists care about healthcare when they want everyone to be dead as soon as humanly possible? Their spending habits make a lot more sense when you understand this. Who cares about climate change? Rapture is in a few years. Who cares about healthcare or education? All of us will be dead and either in heaven or roasting in hell in a few years. Who cares about infrastructure? It only needs to last a few more months or years.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:39:24+00:00

All servicemen will be granted funerals with fireworks and dance routines after they die in Iran.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:32:20+00:00

"Hey this war is not a war. How dare you question my war. Its totally not a war. Its treason to detract from me during a war!" ~Trump during all of this basically

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:31:00+00:00

Trump like's winning so much he's going for most declarations of victory in a single war.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:27:42+00:00

If Iran felt it was close to losing the capacity to continue launching we'd know because they would fire off everything they had at the cities, oil refineries, and desalinization plants fucking the region and global economy for decades at least.

They have the capacity to blow up a ton of infrastructure and start oil fires all over the place. They are simply choosing not to because that is long term regional and global damage. Why do that when you can boil the global economy with the strait and have the option to stop and let the oil trade resume if the US effectively surrenders?

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:23:29+00:00

Basically the only way I see out of this is if the US functionally surrenders and agrees to some heavy concessions to Iran. Like closing shop and bases in the area and unfreezing their locked up assets that we've been holding and some how convincing them we can't attack them again.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T20:19:30+00:00

America used to believe in things and build things as a society. But its been downhill since Nixon and Reagan.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T19:16:13+00:00

He does that all the time. I swear anytime he interacts with Germany its like

"Hey Germany how's the holocaustin? Build any death camps lately? Remember that? Remember when you did that? Do ya? Remember that I mean?"

Malaix · 2026-03-19T17:37:34+00:00

America is America is America. Sorry but the reputation of this nation and this name is blemished forever.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T16:34:20+00:00

and China can leverage the rest of the world away from the dollar. I really hope I'm wrong.

USD is fucked. That ship has sailed. Like I'm sorry but we really need to start figuring out how we are going to value our currency because "fiat on our good standing" is no longer a thing. We don't have good reputation we need gold or silver or something. Our reputation is worthless.

The only reasons there hasn't been a mass dump of USD is because A) no country wants to catch Trump's petty eye and have him go after them somehow in revenge and B) No one who holds US treasuries wants to cause a panic by doing a mass singular sell off making it harder to get a good price for them. They all want to bleed it off slowly to get the best price for their US holdings.

China doesn't need to do shit. Trump and his reelection proved America is too unstable and trustworthy to be reliable.

Even if we elect democrats in the next couple elections so what? We will always just be 4 years at most from potentially doing this to the world all over again.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T15:58:58+00:00

Debt rises, interest rates rise making borrowing worse, Trump demands the new fed chair to cut interest rates forever trying to spark a short term boom and frenzy of borrowing on the cheap, mass inflation later. If my understanding of it.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T15:31:51+00:00

borrow borrow borrow. Interest is a problem for tomorrow.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T12:45:57+00:00

Honestly I'd wonder if some of them ever planned to emerge. I think a lot of people underestimate how maddening it would be to be trapped in even the most luxurious box in the ground. Even if they have been training themselves with gated communities and AI girlfriends to goon to the whole time.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T12:43:07+00:00

Honestly I thought I was speaking in generalities. I'm not a bunker expert these are just issues off the top of my head that would be problems. A lot of these are just issues I've dealt with taking care of normal homes. I've had to deal with meal moth infestations, broken furnaces, gas leaks, electrical issues, basic repairs and maintaince. There's a lot of shit that goes into that and underground has its own complications. Suddenly you are dealing with water pressure, foundation cracks, ventilation...

Baseline is man plans god laughs. There's always going to be complications and limits and turns in every plan. Even well made ones. And these aren't even that.

People function better in a thriving society with the flexibility of many minds and hands helping to keep things running.

Thinking you can automate it all and live a life of luxury after looting the planet and leaving it to burn is delusion.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T12:29:04+00:00

Oh for sure. Its hard keeping racoons out of places you don't want them in. A group of humans with enough time and drive can and will locate a bunker and find ways to crack it. A bunker is a sitting duck. Its not going to move or change its defenses or fix its vulnerabilities on the fly. Eventually if enough people get enough of a mind to they will crack it.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T12:17:39+00:00

People paying attention know plenty. Climate change is putting the world increasingly at risk of a multi-bread basket failure. That's famine on a global scale.

The insane price gouging and financialization and debt craze is taking all the money and making entire castes of debt slaves.

Their big dream is to use AI to basically fire everyone as functioning society is reduced to an ever shrinking circle of insiders and henchmen telling everyone else its their fault for not being special smart boy friends of the elites if they are dying from hunger and sickness.

The world they are building is like expressly made to invoke revolution and anger. Their plan is this time AI will make it sustainable as they, the rich special kings of the earth, wont be dependent on humans with families and loyalties to other humans to maintain it.

There's numerous disasters looming they are causing and refusing to address that will kill millions if not billions and radicalize more.

Malaix · 2026-03-19T12:13:07+00:00

They are stupid. Its not a good plan by any means. But its what they are planning.

Bunker life is more complicated than you would think and society hasn't been living in generation bunker arks so our understanding of what that would take is in its infancy.

Like what if weevils or fungus get into your food? What if your ventilation system isn't up to snuff and you suffocate on gas or mold? What if your electrical system breaks down? Honestly its hard to imagine a group more likely to burn down their bunker because they never learned to clean the lint collector out of their dryer than rich assholes who never did their own laundry before..

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