• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I appreciate your well thought response, but I think the comparisons with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are weak.

    For 9/11, the USA had no incentive to let 9/11 happen. And it was a very novel attack that nobody was predicting. Conspiracy theories on 9/11 have no credibility for those reasons.

    Pearl harbor is a little bit different. The USA was definitely pushing Japan and could have expected them to respond. But US leadership thought the Japanese wouldn’t want to drag the USA into the war through an obvious act of war. History is clear that US leadership could have expected it, but gambled on Japanese leadership making a different choice.

    This attack is different. The only surprise is the extent of the success.

    Israeli leadership has been baiting and nurturing Palestinian terrorism for decades in order to have support for land grabs and ethnic cleansing.

    This time they just got burned harder than they expected.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yo we spent like 4 trillion dollars on war. What the fuck do you mean there was no incentive? The billionaires accumulated like half of the countries GDP for 2 decades.