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epolanskitoday at 11:28 AM13 repliesview on HN

The president of peace btw.

I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US.

And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression.

I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.


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tw04today at 1:02 PM

FIFA might be the one organization that can go toe to toe with Trump I’m corruption. And I mean that in the worst way possible. Qatar was using literal slave labor to get stadiums built and the organization just shrugged when informed like it was just another Tuesday.

He could drop a nuke on Greenland tomorrow and they’d probably say they don’t want the sport to be tangled in political disagreements and if anything the World Cup can help everyone heal.

treetalkertoday at 12:49 PM

I know I left that Nobel Peace Prize somewhere … but I can't find it because there's so much America First lying around. I know, I'll ask the aliens and the US men's hockey team if they've seen it.

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JasonADrurytoday at 12:16 PM

>I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.

If October 7th is an "insane horror", what words will suffice to describe the decades of far worse crimes committed by Israel?

Considering the scale of suffering caused by this conflict, October 7th was just a small blip.

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yyyktoday at 12:41 PM

Being attacked should rule out 'war of aggression', but I guess the phrase seems to have lost any meaning in modern discourse. Apparently you can spend all the time calling 'death to X' and then get shocked when others take you seriously.

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qwertoxtoday at 12:48 PM

> The president of peace btw.

Europe is to blame, according to him.

dfxm12today at 11:47 AM

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do such a thing.

jmyeettoday at 12:58 PM

What I would like people to understand is that this isn't a partisan issue. As bad as Trump is, American foreign policy is uniparty. Just look at the rhetoric from the Democratic Party leadership on an Iran strike. You have the likes of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries quibbling over the procedure not the policy, saying Congress needs to approve action, not that that action is belligerent or unwarranted.

October 7 happened under a Democratic president and continued essentially unchanged under Trump. Biden consistently lied about "red lines" and seeing a ceasefire [1].

The problem here isn't one party or one persident, it's America's commitment to imperialism, of which Iran is just one aspect. Since WW2 especially there has been so much regime change done or aided by the US as well as military action, it has it's own Wikipedia page [2].

And what did Kamala Harris promise to change about Biden's Middle East policy? Absolutely nothing [3]. It's a big part of why she lost and the DNC don't want to admit that so they're trying to cover up the 2024 autopsy [4].

Don't fool yourself into thinking anything would be different under a Kamala Harris administration.

[1]: https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/the-biden-admin...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[3]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/8/biden-vs-harris-...

[4]: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaz...

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