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  • @rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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    75 hours ago

    — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Scott Ritter: ‘Iran should not escalate this, if they attack U.S. troops I will stand with our soldiers and marines’

    @Middle_East_Spectator

    • Why should anyone cares what he thinks? If the wmd thing was a lie and so was this, and you still stand with the aggressor, than you are just a nationalist. What else would that make someone?

    • @Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 hours ago

      what a fucking muppet. How is attacking military bases an escalation when the opponent has preemptively bombed nuclear research facilities in breach of the NPT and the UN charter?

      Iran has a right to defend itself.

      • ICBM
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        65 hours ago

        Reminds me of that scene in In The Loop, where the “very anti-invasion” general becomes “a soldier” as soon as the invasion is declared.