Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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    When Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of Russians bought the “special operation to de-nazify Ukraine” narrative. Some still do today.

    When the US invaded Iraq, a lot of Americans thought it was to free Iraqis and destroy WMD.

    It took the end of WWII for a lot of Germans to realize what was happening in the concentration camps.

    Israel is not a special place with people fundamentally different from the rest of the world. People are pretty much the same everywhere, and propaganda works everywhere.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      When Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of Russians bought the “special operation to de-nazify Ukraine” narrative. Some still do today.

      A lot of Western media believed it until the day of the invasion.

      Previously. Previously.