Greta Thunberg deported by Israel in the Mediterranean.

@LeopoldBloom

Once in a while you get one right, Leo. 👍

@Jokersswild
That may be so but the doctrine of US power over the world has been established after we took over from the Brits at the end of WW2. We couldn't even stop the rice farmers of Vietnam nor could we deal with the goat herders of Afghanistan. Without fancy weaponry, our tough guys would have had their butts kicked every time Uncle Sam sent them abroad to fight.

@sree251 we took over control of patrolling the worlds oceans after WW2. And global business has been booming ever since.

@AthrillatheHunt
Took over? From whom? Business is still booming and expected to be booming on with China's Belt and Road facilitating trade away from maritime choke points at the Panama Canal, Suez Canal, and the Malacca Straits.

@Thinkingdeeper it's not like it was a private yacht going to Cyprus. Since the vessel was intending to dock in Gaza without authorization, it could be stopped in international waters. Are you saying that if Russia sends a bomber to Ukraine, they can't shoot at it until it's in Ukrainian airspace?

@LeopoldBloom
"Mind your own business" is the ethic. You don't have the right to pop your neighbor walking across a public alley toward your house until he has crossed your fence.


Whose authorization? Since when have you gotten the right to control the public space around the house you have occupied?


What do you mean by they? The party at war with Russia has not identified itself. Ukraine is represented by a comedian backed by a bunch of cowards including the USA. Russia is the only man fighting with a bunch of women.

@sree251

The "bunch of women" are giving "the only man" quite a difficult time of it.
The "special military operation" was only supposed to last a few weeks at most, in Putin's quest to restore the Russian empire. Lenin did a lot better, and a lot faster.

@LeopoldBloom

You're on a roll, Leo!
That's two things right in two days. Congrats!

@BohemianBabe
Greta's vessel was a sailboat loaded with food and supplies for Palestinians in Gaza. She was regarded as an attempt to delegitimize a gang of thugs occupying Palestine.

@sree251 Yeah, and everyone knew this. Zionists are just going full MAGA when they pretend that Greta Thunberg and Ms Rachel are agents of Hamas.

@BohemianBabe
Greta's campaign was a success. She has shown the complicity of the USA in enforcing siege and genocide in Palestine.

@LeopoldBloom
There is no why. We - and no one else - rule the seas. We can't play favorites. We are either the world policeman or a thug.

@sree251 Then we should have stopped the Madleen, which was attempting an unauthorized landing. None of the people on board had Israeli visas. If your orange lord and savior can deport illegal immigrants, so can Israel.

@LeopoldBloom
Unauthorized? Who is the authority? Illegitimate authority - including that of the US trying to established a rules-based order on the world - will be crushed. It is a matter of time before injustice is trampled. You can't strut forever.

@ron122 doom goblin

@samueltyler2
Arguing about what?

@sree251 your statement that the US rules the seas.

@samueltyler2
It is an American belief that the US rules the seas. This is why no one complains about the massive national debt accumulated thru the years of spending on the military. 11 carrier strike groups guarding the oceans. It has been all show because we never faced a real threat.

@LeopoldBloom
I feel strongly about the US Navy for not defending Greta's freedom of navigation in the Mediterranean. The Israeli naval vessel should be blown out of the water the way we depose of pirates.

@sree251 The US Navy isn't responsible for worldwide shipping, dummy. It's responsible for protecting American vessels, and there wasn't even an American on it. Besides, your orange lord and savior wouldn't have ordered a US Navy vessel to protect her, first because she was never in any danger, and second, he's on Israel's side. And let's not even talk about Pete Hegseth; if it had been up to him, he would have ordered the Navy to blow up Greta's ship. Regret voting for the orange pus yet?

I'm sure you were hoping the IDF would kill everyone on board so you could complain about how mean there are. If it had been up to me, I would have let them land and Hamas could have dealt with them. But if they'd been taken hostage, you would have blamed Israel anyway. She just did it for attention, and she definitely succeeded.

I love the expression on her face as she's on her way home and forced to contribute to the burning of fossil fuel.

@StygianKohlrabi
It wasn't nearly big enough to effect the Jewish population. But either way, nobody is defending Hamas.

@BohemianBabe The birth rate in Gaza is equal to the death rate, so if the population stays the same, it's not a genocide. Compare this to the population drops in actual genocides.

@BohemianBabe The people on the Madleen were definitely defending Hamas. I've spoken to people on here whose only problem with Oct. 7 was that it wasn't more effective.

Acting like no one in the pro-Palestinian camp thinks Israel shouldn't exist is naive.

@LeopoldBloom
No it's not. It's the belief that Israel should be an ethnostate for Jews. If Israel ended the apartheid and gave equal rights to Jews and Palestinians, the Jews would still have self-determination in Israel. But so would Palestinians, which is the real issue.


Duh. Israel has created conditions that push Palestinians towards Hamas.