The joint statement from the E3 — France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — is a master class in evasion. “We did not participate in these strikes, but are in close contact with our international partners, including the United States and Israel,” they declared. The text also lists all the references and rationalizations used by Iran hawks — “nuclear program, ballistic missile program, regional destabilization and repression against its own people.”

Not a single reference to the international law that explicitly prohibits aggression. It is particularly Orwellian that the European leaders “urge the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution,” when Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was literally doing exactly that the day earlier in Geneva.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    One might argue that is one of the primary strategic goals of this attack, to with vigor fracture any kind of foreign policy unity Europe could develop with regards to Israel, The US or Russia, thus allowing domestic fuckery with rightwing movements within specific European countries to individually derail efforts to mitigate the behavior of Russia, Israel and the US.

    If things get more ethical than might makes right than Russia, Israel and the US stand to lose massively in the geopolitical sphere, this is an attempt to shatter these ideas in our minds so that military empires can get back to killing without having to even bother trying to justify it.