• Jentu@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      Why do foreign leaders need to be pulling the strings for the US to do what it always has done? Seems like that framing is trying to deflect responsibility from the US.

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        3 hours ago

        No its responsibility for everyone involved in the US you think having Israeli government officials in the Epstein files is a weird coincidence? They probably raped children together to reinforce their diplomatic ties.

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          2 hours ago

          That doesn’t mean that Israel controls the actions of the US. It just means they have similar interests. If the US wasn’t fully supportive of these war crimes, they could stop providing weapons, funding, and intelligence to Israel. Hell, they could even instigate a coup and abduct Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir. Trump plays a convenient fall-guy for the empire but they won’t get rid of him so long as he’s useful. Should these wars end horribly for the capitalists in the US, getting rid of trump (likely with the epstein files as the reason) serves to reinforce people’s shared belief that the US has bad individuals, but the system itself is fine since it can remove bad individuals. No need to consider that this system creates people like Trump, then puts them into power when necessary.