• AreaSIX
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    2026 days ago

    How does the attacked country being a “paper tiger” influence your judgement of whether it’s shitty or not to attack it? Is it less shitty to attack a country because it’s perceived as being weaker? Is it only shitty when the attacked country is able to defend itself? Why? That would make the Israeli genocide on Palestinians “less shitty” too, since you know, “Israel has been beating the shit out of them for years now.”

    It’s an interesting moral compass you’ve got there.

    • Kushan
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      2526 days ago

      I read his post as “as shitty as this is, it’s not likely to break out into a full scale war we’ll get pulled into”. It’s not about it being morally okay, or at least I didn’t take it that way.

      • @errer@lemmy.world
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        426 days ago

        Exactly. Israel (and the US) will bully Iran but it’s not going to turn into WW3, as some commenters are suggesting. Iran just isn’t very threatening militarily anymore.

      • AreaSIX
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        325 days ago

        Ahh, ok, got it. So it’s out of an extraordinary callous attitude where bombing of people is shitty when and only when they impact my life.

        • Kushan
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          425 days ago

          I think you’re putting words in their mouth with that view. That’s not what was said at all.

    • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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      526 days ago

      How does the attacked country being a “paper tiger” influence your judgement of whether it’s shitty or not to attack it?

      It’s the “I’m the center of the world and this does not look like it’s going to affect ME so everything is alright” point of view