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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27696648
Remember: If the US Government says it is OK for Israel to do something, that means it is OK for You to do it to your local government representatives. It's not a war crime after all, so why should you feel bad about it?
Nobody would be stupid enough to fall for this..
Brother, the US has been doing this for literally our entire history. We both Gulf Wars, Vietnam, and Korea were all just "police actions", not wars (according to our government). Hell, in history we call our westward expansion the "Indian Wars", but we never declared war on any Native American tribes ever. Those were just "internal police actions".
How well-known were that facts around those events at the time though? The availability of information is much much greater today, which allows people to easily learn about and even see atrocities happening in real time. Was there a similar availability of information to challenge propaganda back then too? I wasn’t alive but it doesn’t seem so.
There were MASSIVE anti-Vietnam war protests at the time. Far more massive than anything we've seen since. And they did recognize the hypocrisy in calling it a "police action" when it was obviously a war.
It's crazy how many people still defend it eventhough they are not even trying to hide it posting tiktoks of their war crimes...
Nobody would be stupid enough to fall for this..
And yet...
Lol just wait until trump starts calling it a “special military operation” too
Except pretending it was a SMO and not declaring war ruined the war for them. It made it politically easier because they could pretend it was no big deal and they didn't draft the politically important kids from Moscow. But that meant they didn't have any infantry so you had tanks just wandering around by themselves and armored personnel carriers with only two people operating it with no persons being carried. That made them easy fodder for those thousands of javelins.
Calling it an SMO was a terrible decision and it prevented them from winning and will be the cause of their loss, when it eventually happens .