• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    34
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    Forced by who? The Republican Congress would likely say Iran deserved it, and even if they didn’t Trump would dismantle any group the executive branch is supposed to use to enforce them as he was pushing for with Russia .

    Their biggest trading partner is China … not sure what they would do

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2324 days ago

      It has nothing to do with a ‘republican’ congress.

      Democrats wouldn’t stand up to Israel either and you’re delusional if you think otherwise.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            2
            edit-2
            24 days ago

            You know that they put the sanctions on Russia right, even with a Republican Congress. Or do you forget how the sanctions were held until Trump came into office and stopped allowing the executive branch to uphold them?

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1124 days ago

              That means democrats would stand up to Israel?

              This is what I mean by delusion. You people are so far gone you can’t even realize it.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                4
                edit-2
                23 days ago

                Sanctioning Israel if they dropped a nuke on Iran? Absolutely. I’m not even a democrat but you are living in another world if you think they wouldn’t. What realm of insanity are you living in.

                Post a nuke being dropped Iran only gains sympathy for standing up for the Palestinians.

                Democrat Congress members are idiots who were way behind on what their constituents wanted and had money funneled to them. But there is no way they would be able to support Israel after that and ever be elected again

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  623 days ago

                  They wouldn’t even stop supporting Israel when they started committing a modern holocaust, let alone actually sanctioning them.

                  They were also perfectly happy to support Israel even if it stopped them getting elected.

                  If Israel nuked Iran, the Democrats would do some performative brow furrowing, call for Israel to show restraint, and send them another billion dollars

                  • @[email protected]
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    1
                    edit-2
                    23 days ago

                    If you look at that chart, it even shows partly why. Sympathy for Palestinians didn’t hit above 50% of the democratic party till 2024/2025. Which means those members elected were elected in a time of less than 50% support for Palestinians. Also sanctions as being discussed are made by Congress which has not had a Democrat majority since 2009. So there is not way they could have passed any sanctions the Republicans didn’t negotiate to agree with. (Which those charts show less than 20% of Republicans having sympathy towards Palestinians at all times since 2001). So it would be career suicide for a Republican to vote for such, as their constituents don’t want it.

                    If it were voted on again now, we would likely see 100% Republican Congress support for Israel and 40% support from Democrat Congress support, which is rediculous… But fairly accurate of how that graph would indicate.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  1
                  edit-2
                  23 days ago

                  Yeah, you’re just going to keep moving goalposts rather than admit you’re wrong.

                  You did it once and I gave you a pass, but twice is inexcusable.

                  I’m going to ignore you now. Goodbye.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              523 days ago

              And they didn’t put sanctions on Israel. In fact, they sent them record amounts of free weapons

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                123 days ago

                I know, that’s the part where I said the Democrats congressmembers were slow and had been funneled money from Israel for their campaigns. When they were elected into office support for Israel was over 50% in the U.S. in 2023 it was still over 50% so it was borderline rediculous. In 2025, support for Israel is only over 50% by one of those 2 parties. As for the other guy saying I’m moving goal posts… The post is about Israel having nukes and the media not mentioning them while discussing war with Iran, so I didn’t find it off topic to say this was about Israel possibly using nukes on Iran, but oh well. We’ll just have differing opinions.

                Hope you have a good day

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  023 days ago

                  Democrats congressmembers were slow

                  They weren’t slow, though; they were very swift in supporting Israel.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      123 days ago

      I’m talking about the present, where everyone knows Israel has nukes but not officially. Not some future scenario where Israel nukes Iran.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        123 days ago

        Why would you think they would need to be sanctioned for not using them? China and India both have nuclear weapons and have small skirmishes (granted not as big as this) and we don’t discuss sanctioning both of them for it. I would think threatening to use or using them would be the only scenarios where sanctions would be “forced hand” for lack of a better term.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          223 days ago

          China and India both have nuclear weapons and have small skirmishes (granted not as big as this) and we don’t discuss sanctioning both of them for it.

          nor india and pakistan. that’s the conflict I worry about more.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            123 days ago

            I saw elsewhere that Pakistan stated they would be attacking Israel back with nukes if Israel used them against Iran. Which is why I assume it’s a given they won’t be used and we won’t have to worry about them coming into play

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              123 days ago

              Which is why I assume it’s a given they won’t be used and we won’t have to worry about them coming into play

              yeeeah, I do wonder about that. the world has seen what a few madmen can get away with for a decade here and there… doesn’t seem to be stabilizing.