Iranian news agencies reported that the building was "flattened" during the Israeli strikes.

Why? Why would you brag about this? What possibly could this do other than destablize Iran and push it into further violence and chaos?

Oh right, that is exactly what the US and Israel wants…

Make no mistake, Trump doesn’t give a fuck about the Iranian people, he and the other forces alligned here want Iran to turn into a Libya-type failed state situation.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    27 days ago

    Violence and chaos is the point. Neither Israel or the US have the means or motivation to actually occupy Iran with ground forces and to build a new government from scratch. Hell, look how well that worked in Iraq. The goal is instead to turn Iran into a failed state that is completely incapable of providing even the most basic services to its population. A collapsed state can’t build effective missiles or support proxy wars outside its borders. At best you can knock together a few hamas-style bottle rockets in garage workshops.

    Right now the goal is to wipe out the government leaders and military assets. When that fails to result in the overthrow of the Iranian government, the US and Israel will move on to civilian infrastructure. The power grid. The water systems. Fuel production and distribution, bridges, ports, rail lines, etc.

    If they can’t topple the Iranian regime, they’ll leave the Iranian regime ruling over a pile of ashes, a nation with the infrastructure level of Somalia.

    You can’t install a friendly government with air power alone. You can however do enough damage to a nation’s infrastructure that it can’t even keep its own people alive, let alone have the spare resources to affect things beyond its borders.

    That is the real goal of this war. To turn Iran into a failed state.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
    30·
    27 days ago

    Nazis being nazis. If there’s a god up there, this is the right moment to manifest and make of Israel a parking lot.
    And while at it, you know, maybe have the rapist orange get a good nice and painful incurable cancer. But don’t get ahead of yourself with the cancer stage. We want him to suffer a long and slow death.

  • 3jane@piefed.caEnglish
    7·
    27 days ago

    Trump wants to put a puppet or quasi-puppet in place as happened in Venezuela, where the vice-president Delcy Rodriguez was allowed to keep power apparently in exchange for accepting that the Americans will seize oil tankers and give back only a share of the revenue.

    No benefit or regime change for the people of Venezuela. Iran stops threatening Israel and probably the US gets some oil revenue.

    Trump repeats what works for him.

  • moonshadow@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    26 days ago

    Man I don’t know why it surprised me, but “building with 88 people inside flattened” and “no injuries or deaths reported” right next to each other was a bit jarring. They really don’t see the other as human at all…