Andrew JenningsMar 6
I have been thinking all day about the Americans attacking and sinking a ship that was unarmed as it was attending a diplomatic ceremonial event. These are barbarians, and the sooner we sever ties the better. #auspol
Show threadMyViewMar 6

@andyjennings

This one ...?

"An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
—Ryan Grim"

Show threadUlrik Nyman ⬡

@MyView @andyjennings I am starting to hope that Iran destroys as much US military capacity as possible.

We need the USA to not have the global military power that it has had previously.

Mar 6 at 8:28amWeb
Show threadBenjamin Balder BachMar 6

@UlrikNyman @MyView @andyjennings agree, but there's no way Iran will inflict any deterrence whatsoever on US/Israel war mongering. The only way to start the long journey towards a free and peaceful world, is to stop contributing resources to the war machine. Europeans need to dump US ties and negotiate diplomatic solutions, ending NATO without resorting to stockpiling more weapons as a means to counter US power.

We build more roads, we get more cars. We make more weapons, we get more wars.

Show threadMyViewMar 6

@benjaoming @UlrikNyman @andyjennings

The USA's weapons industry is what gave the US the money, and power, it has has since WW2 ...

Fact is, the US GDP grew from $88.6 billion in 1939 to $228 billion in 1945 to nearly $1.7 trillion by 1975 ...

And their Reds Under The Bed propaganda has ensured a steady supply all over the world since ...
And as other countries saw it, started their own weapons industry ... weapons are big business.