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Source for this article is Israeli news. Sharing because this is the the complete opposite of what has been said to us by american media the last few hours while the markets get manipulated. We will find out in the coming hours/days but figured to share what this other side is reporting

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 6 hours ago

he did this to pump and dump oil stocks just before he announced it,.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Nostalgia intensifies

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

"Rooting for Iran even a little bit" was not on my bingo card a year ago.

I wonder if USA can recover from Trump. November should bring a change, but is it enough? Doesn't look great.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

All 'conspicuous' ballots will be seized

November will come and go

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 19 hours ago
[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Good for them, hope they sink a US warship before this is done.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

So fuck the US, but this is not good. This can create a huge economic crisis and food instability, which would create untold suffering among innocent poor people across the world.

You are allowed to rightfully criticize the US for this war, without applauding Iran sinking ships with fertilizer the world desperately needs to not starve.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

He said warship, not cargo ship.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

To be perfectly frank, with the system we had set up, that was inevitable. It would have been better if it happened 40 years ago, better to happen now than in another 40 years.

Clearly, if one point of failure causes it to collapse within a month, the system was not stable. There was no other path but collapse of the global economy.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A bit too on the nose to call us marines fertilizer no? Shit absolutely, but not fertilizer

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 18 hours ago

One common fertilizer is literally shit. So I guess I did worry more about the Iranians hitting literal shit, than the Iranians hitting US Marines... /s

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 158 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Iran has more credibility than the orange pedophile

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (17 children)

I would not at all go that far. Iran's regime is horrendous and they were murdering and abducting civilians by the thousands for the past year or two. They are just as in need of a propaganda win as fuckface.

Remember everyone: Just because one side is an asshole doesn't mean the other isn't one too.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

the thing is we in the rest of the world are in the middle of a gun fight between two gangs. We like neither of them much at this point but really wish they'd stop shooting everywhere and their bosses just go resolve their issues with knives in a dark alley or something.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I feel like an unwilling participant on the U.S. side. I want my tax dollars to stop going to this shit. First time in my life that I've seriously thought we should stop paying federal taxes.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Preposter said they have more credibility, not that they are less horrible. I feel that's an important distinction

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am aware of everything you said... yet Iran STILL has more credibility than the child rapist pressy

I am not, AT ALL, saying Iran is not an asshole, that's just your strawman

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Every side in this conflict sucks, but I'd still believe the officials in Iran over the officials in the US. The American government is very obviously and methodically lying to our faces every single day and without shame. I don't see a reason to assume the same for Iran, even if they are terrible people.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 day ago

Doesn't change the fact that Irans fucking war propaganda is more credible than the tweets of the President of the United States of America.

[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago

Absolutely but also it isn’t a battle of equals and I always tend toward the underdog. And both country’s domestic regimes are horrible but in the international arena here there is one clear aggressor and that is the USA I hope they get a bloody nose..

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

As someone else mentioned Iran is morally reprehensible but they haven’t been found lying so often like Israel and US.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trump really screwed any attempts to end this war when he started it by dropping bombs while in the middle of peace negotiations. What a fucking idiot. not that he had any credibility to begin with, but now he has negative credibility.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can’t taco out of a situation you weren’t really in in the first place. Remember, this guy had so little credibility to start with, Oman was negotiating for him, lol.

What a fucking loser and literally incredible idiot

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 1 day ago

Keep Hormuz close until The US and Israel pays reparations for all the damage they done, infrastructure and civilian lives, and all that infrastructure is up and running again.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 61 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The markets reacting as if Trump's words are based in reality at all is astonishing.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This shows how bullshit and broken the system is.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't think it was nearly as broken before Trump.

Markets react if the CEO of a company gets the sniffles.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Iran be like

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe we could hand trump over to the IRGC for peace

Dream scenario tbh.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

First, I think Trump should send ICE to "secure" Kharg Island.

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