Yes but that’s not really what I’m saying. My point is that Starmer has been very clear (in his slimy lizard way) that the UK would be helping America.

Yeha that’s why “defensive” is in quotes, but the idea is that America is only allowed to use UK bases to bomb Iran’s offensive capabilities.

It’s gotten worse over time, but none of this is new in principle. Jingoistic propaganda, institutional racism, religious exceptionalism, brazen lies and open hatred have been core parts of Israeli ideology and strategy since before Israel existed.

And past US administrations. Something something black sites.

Didn’t he literally say he’d allow their use for “defensive” strikes? He’s never really been hiding it.

“GOP housing bill” isn’t a string of words I expected to read in 2026.

Democrats need to HAMMER this home: Trump’s war costs EXACTLY this much at the pump, every day. There needs to be a ticker on every news broadcast showing live gas prices around the nation.

Except then they’d have to actually oppose the war, and they won’t do that because their donors support imperialism.

He’s spoken out against “singling out Israel due to anti-Jewish hatred,” but from a quick Google he hasn’t outright defended the genocide.

or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.

Setting aside the accuracy (or lack thereof) of your statement, you think Harris wasn’t a Zionist? Really now?

Costa stressed the need for the EU to protect the international rules-based order, which ​he said ​was now ⁠being challenged by the United States, and for all parties in ​the Middle East to return to ​the ⁠negotiating table.

“We must avoid further escalation. ​Such a path threatens the Middle East, Europe, and ​beyond.”

I mean his heart is within a 10-mile radius of the right place, but the fuck is this guy going to protect when he can’t even condemn the illegal war of regime change that started this whole mess? Like at least pretend to have spine if you’re going to act like the protector of international law.

Trust me, if scientists were running the world we’d have stopped the use of oil.

Even the “good ones” will be more focused on making sure everyone else knows that they didn’t want this

And how anyone who badmouths their favorite war criminal (cough cough Obama) is a Russian agent trying to sow division and aid the fascists. There’s unfortunately very little true anti-imperialism in America.

If Karma were real Americans would suffer, period.

The current state of the Western world in general should do wonders for one’s belief in karma.

Well nuclear weapons or being a Western lapdog, but yeah pretty much.

Kinda but the US (and therefore Europe by distant, unreliable proxy) controls the Arab side of the Gulf, so while it was playing with fire there was little reason to worry about it unless someone did something extremely stupid (like, I dunno, start a war with Iran). But then again Europe never had any real say over US foreign policy/warmongering, so I guess they’re the worst of both worlds in that sense.

Gulf oil has basically been the sword of Damocles hanging over their neck for decades; of course they’ve got plans for when it’s cut off.

Good riddance.

I mean sure but it nearly doubled in Europe.

There’s no malice you should put past any US administration. Weddings aren’t any more okay to bomb than schools.

No, this is what happens when (neo)colonial empires bomb people. Past administrations just happened to prefer weddings instead.

Jacobin should be ringing bells louder than anyone that these two are lame ducks who don’t represent the DNC, the voters, or even Dem members of Congress.

Is this non-lame duck DNC in the room with us right now? The assertion that this isn’t just how they always are warrants justification.