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Gotta love how people with power always seem to prefer pointless, performative, symbolic actions instead of doing actual helpful work toward peace.
It's kayfabe, because in reality, these motherfuckers support genocide as long as they can profit from it.
Call it what it is: a sternly-worded letter.
What exactly would you have them do?
In geopolitics, strongly worded letters (That is, diplomacy) is how most shit gets done. You want them to walk up to the podium and fight the thug? Shit aint as simple, or black&white as being able to do what they can. If they piss off the US they get bitch slap with toddler tariffs, as long as the biggest bullies in the yard hold the stick its really, really fucking hard for the normal sane people to actually do stuff. It's not like the US has warhawks in office or anything though, so other countries without much political pull should do more.....
Yes shit sucks, yes it could be better, and im very sure that the people in power (who actually want to) would be doing more if they could. Its not virtue signalling, its not kayfabe, its not performative. Its diplomacy. Its the difference between two teenagers throwing hands at a disagreement and two adults talking civil and constuctive. Want more to be done, help take the stick away from the bullies.
How does anyone profit from the genocide?
Dead people can't own land. Murderers can take that land. Profit.
They don't own it now and won't get justice in the future
Are you one of those pro-Zionism cranks or am I missing a trick here?
Why would criminals murder people when breaking and entering to rob them? mystery, there's no profit incentive in murdering the people who live in the house you are robbing and might try to defend it, call for help, or tell everyone you robbed them
No, most robbers come when you are on holiday and don't murder you. Not going to follow that elaborate allegory any further but good one 👍
you know you're an idiotic troll, that instead of denying or even understanding the metaphor, which is apt.
you made up a ridiculous scenario that doesn't apply. like, are you implying that the British took over India when all the Indians went on vacation?
The fuk. Do you think the entire global military industrial complex is running at a loss and doing it all for charity?
It's a pissant country, it surely cannot run the military industrial complex.
From my European perspective it's good to have a weapons industry: for one thing the automotive industry is fucked now and we have a need for defense because of the brave new multipolar world that some people here are so fond of.
So pros and cons for the military industrial complex certainly. I am not fond of the military interventions of the last 20 or so years, I need to add that.
Not having Afghanistan and not disturbing the order in the middle east would have been better.