CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The genocide of Gaza is being expanded to Iran now. If you don't find war criminals guilty and remove them from power, they continue to commit war crimes. If the war criminals win, and the Iranian government falls, the war criminals will continue with further wars of aggression. No one in the world is safe. Each one of these 28 bombings is a war crime. Prior to this, there were countless other similar war crimes committed in Palestine, and the war criminals continue to evade justice. #politics #NoWar #EndTheWar #Iran #USA #Israel #WarCrimes #EpsteinWars #OperationEpsteinFury #EpicFury

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz sociopathy may not be the right word, but I don't know what you call it when someone supports a war but steadfastly refuses to look at the images of the dead children, hear the voices of their survivors, or to empathize in any way with the victims from that war they are supporting. Of the very few people in my family who moved to the US permanently, my cousins in Los Angeles are the worst. They aren't technically "diaspora" but they have lived among the diaspora in L.A. for so long that they have been brainwashed by all of that pro-monarchy propaganda. I always got along with my cousins well, but I don't think I can anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-khameni-celebrations.html

@KennethBousquet@mastodon.social that is absolutely right. Revenge is not justice, it is just more violence. The only violence used here should be the arrest and imprisonment of the war criminals while they await trial for their crimes.

If you are confused about why Iran is attacking all of their neighbors, the reason is very simple: their neighbors are mostly being armed by the US anyways. So regardless of whether they attack a US carrier directly, or attack an air base in Kuwait or Bahrain, either way they are depleting the armaments of their attackers. They can also grind the economies of these US-friendly nations to a halt as everyone takes shelter, further harming the US and their ability to wage war. The goal is a war of attrition: make the US use up 10 missiles and drones for every one missile or drone the Iranians use. Make their neighbors question the logic of cooperating with the US. This strategy is very obvious, and very effective. There is no doubt in my mind that every single military advisor to Trump told him that this would be Iran's defense strategy. But try telling Trump or Hegseth that they aren't the smartest one in the room, you already know what Trump would say: "YOU'RE FIRED!" There is still always the nuclear option (literally). Although if you watched the interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor I posted earlier, nuclear strikes might be enough to convince China and Russia to begin open hostilities against the US in the Middle East. All people of conscience must oppose this war, and demand the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu face justice under international law. #politics #NoWar #EndTheWar #USA #Israel #Iran #WW3 #WorldWar3 #OperationEpstinFury #EpicFury #Trump #Netanyahu

If you think these decapitation strikes on Iran's leadership is a victory Yes I know, distraction from the Epstein files, blah blah blah, that's beside the point. Anyone who has been paying attention can see the pattern behind Trump's belligerence, attacking Venezuela and then Iran in the span of weeks: these were the two largest oil producing countries that were also reliable trading partners with China. As many astute political commentators have noted, this has been part of a much larger and longer-term pattern of escalating hostilities toward China by the US, and that includes the self-defeating economic warfare Trump attempted with his tariffs on China in the first few months of his second term. So you can be sure that China is observing this attack on Iran's government very closely, and taking notes. Although China has nuclear weapons as a deterrent against open hostilities from the US, I'm sure Chinese military leadership are planning for how the same kind of airstrikes the US is using against Iran right now could be used against the leadership of their own government, or even as a possible strategy for a preemptive strike against the US should hostilities escalate to that degree. And you can bet that this has occurred to US military leadership as well, and they are going to become increasingly paranoid and irrational in their stance against China as a result. If the US can do it to Iran, can China do it to the US? The Trump administration will be having nightmares about it for the rest of their miserable lives, I assure you. China's next move, I am pretty sure, will be to assume an increasingly hostile military posture against Korean and Japan, two countries from which the US would launch strikes against them. Japan and Korea, in turn, will not see China's new military posture as a defense against the US but a threat against their sovereignty (if the US can do it to Iran, why couldn't China do it to Japan and Korea) and further escalate their military posturing. So this is not going to be just a regional conflict contained within the Middle East, this is very rapidly spiraling into a third world war which will involve the whole Asian continent. Russia is already in conflict with the US via Ukraine, which involves Europe as well. I'm sure the Russians still remember what happened the last time they signed a deal with Hitler when the hostilities in Europe began. If Europe decides to side with the the United States in this new world-wide conflict, which seems to be their default position, Russia will form a military alliance with China, and may choose to carry-out a US/Israeli-style preemptive strike" against military targets in Europe and Asia. You would be stupid to think if the Iran conflict winds down, regardless of which side wins their military objectives, that the world will go back to normal after this. So congratulations to everyone who thought "regime change" in Iran was the right choice, all it costed you (so far) was a few hundred American and Israeli soldiers, was it worth it? A few thousand Iranian government executives and the innocent members of their families, was it worth it? A few hundred dead Iranian school children (so far), was it worth it? A commitment to a world-wide conflagration that could potentially kill a billion people including many Americans and Europeans in the very near future. Totally worth it? I'll say it again: all people of conscience must oppose this war, and demand war criminals in the US, Israel, and elsewhere, be brought to justice, or the war criminals will continue to escalate their violence against more and more people. Americans and Europeans, stop applauding regime change in Iran, and start demanding war criminals be brought to justice before this conflict gets any worse, before the war arrives on your own doorsteps. #politics #NoWar #EndTheWar #Iran #Israel #USA #UnitedStates #America #Russia #Ukraine #China #Japan #Korea #WorldWar3