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There's some reason to believe this one. For instance, the sudden rise of Epstein's List on top of every feed seems to suggest that someone doesn't like what Trump is doing or is about to do.

Second, I'll just allow myself to hope that somehow a piece of sanity reached Trump.

Credit where credit is due. I like this Trump dude at this exact moment.

It's actually China and Russia who's funding them currently.

If we consider UN as being the main arbitrator on who gets to launch a war, then to mention a few instances....

1950: North Korea illegally attacks South Korea.

1956: Soviet Union illegally invades Hungary.

1956: Israel / France / UK illegally invade Egypt. All invaders withdraw after UN condemnation and international pressure.

1964: USA illegally escalates Vietnam War.

1967: Israel launches the Six-Day War, illegality debated.

1968: Soviet Union illegally invades Czechoslovakia.

1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel.

1974: Turkey illegally invades Cyprus.

1978: Vietnam illegally invades Cambodia.

1979: Soviet Union illegally invades Afghanistan.

1982: Israel illegally invades Libanon.

1983: USA illegally invades Grenada.

1989: USA illegally invades Panama.

1990: Iraq illegally invades Kuwait. Got their ass kicked by UN-sanctioned forces though so that worked out fine.

1999: NATO illegally bombs Yugoslavia.

2003: US and UK illegally invade Iraq.

2008: Russia illegally invades Georgia.

2014: Russia illegally invades and annexes Crimea.

2015: Saudi-Arabia illegally invades Yemen.

2022: Russia illegally invades Ukraine.

I probably forgot a few. No ill meaning meant, just missing knowledge.

The Bible specifically allows killing as an act of war and considers it different from murder. The protagonists of the book also steal stuff all the time.

These commandments are for controlling behavior inside a society, not outside of it.

Trump is a senile and a deeply unserious person. His existence makes me believe that souls might exist because he very much seems like a person without one. He doesn't think about his actions deeply which is why I believe that if he suddenly turned religious, I don't think much would change.

Would it be better if he was, though?

It's weird when two horrible entities in the world hate each other. Is it popcorn time?

Well, in a democracy it's important that people who want this can try to make it happen via official procedure, which this is.

That said, the people who want this are assholes and probably in bed with Russia.

I suppose the hit on Bin Laden couldn't have been launched without significant presence in Afghanistan. Why you stayed there after that though was weird. That seems to have been Obama's mistake.

More than many people did, though. Including you.

That would practically guarantee boots on the ground in Iran and a regime change in 3 months.

Iran's leaders are dumb, but I don't think they're that dumb.

*edit* hate to repeat a standard antisemitic trope, but Israel would have a big reason to fake that

Yeah, citizens and nuclear weapon research are perfectly equivalent targets.

>The USA responded by attacking the wrong country

Not just one! They got Osama bin Laden eventually though so amazing success

How about moving to non-fossil alternatives? Like 4 decades ago? Gee that would've been a great idea.

>So they will most likely use terrorist attacks, targeting civilians, because that’s the best hope they have to end the war: when the people back home get serious about ending it as they’re taking losses.

Remember what happened the last time a major terrorist strike happened in USA? That's the number one way to get ordinary civilians of a democracy to support an actual war almost 100%. It's the kind of strategy that makes Pentagon say "yeah lol be my guest let's see what happens".

That's how they've viewed US citizens since about 1979. Trump is an asshole, but going after the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in the top 100 worst things he's done.