One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
I saw a comment on the TrueAnon sub that said “if any of you youngsters are around in 50 years when the U.S. admits it blew up the Nordstream, let them know we knew.”
We’re basically at this point with the Iraq weapons of mass destruction narrative. I marched; we knew. The lib friend I marched with doesn’t give a shit anymore. (He’s wealthy.)
The 2k ton bombs that Israel dropped on Lebanon were made by the US. US bombs killed Hassan Nasrallah. I don’t see the distinction between the US funding and making the weapons for the genocide(s) (and probably (definitely?) having US troops in IOF) versus having an actually declared war against Palestine/Lebanon/etc (which the US doesn’t even do anymore anyway).
it is pretty much a universial principal in criminal law around the world that any person who sways another to commit murder, who furnishes a weapon for them, or is an accessory to their crime is also guilty.
The US is doing all three.
To stretch the analogy a bit further, the US's diplomatic cover on the scale of a personal crime would be several other crimes on its own (intimidating prosecutors, tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, etc).
Marching in the summer heat wearing an orange jump suit, a black bag over my head, and my arms chained out in an "enchanced interrogation" "stress position" was one of the first public political actions I took. I couldn't hold the "stress positon" for more than a few minutes at a time, and those poor people at abu ghraib had no choice.