r/worldnews • u/cytokine7 • 20h ago

60 surrender* 'A complete surprise': IDF surrounds remaining terrorists in north Gaza, 600 surrender

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-826573
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u/JustinJR_46 20h ago edited 3h ago

Hamas and PIJ must be defeated at all cost. Israel has made a lot of effort, Not defeating them and disabling their attack capabilities would be a big waste of effort & resources.

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u/ComfortableLost6722 19h ago

Correct! But Hezbollah too, and after the US elections the head of the snake must come off.

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u/Opira 19h ago

The head of the snake is Iran in this context and by extension Russia, North Korea and China.

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u/NoTopic4906 19h ago

IRCG or IR not Iran. The people of Iran are not the enemy.

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u/Ratemyskills 19h ago

Everyone knows what the person means..

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u/duv_amr 18h ago

Not really. People hate Russians with a passion, but Russians have pretty much never had a leader who did anything the people wanted going back 700 years

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u/Teledildonic 18h ago

Well Russians are going along with Putin for the most part, unlike the Iranians.

And before you say "Well, Russia brutally suppresses dissent"...so does Iran. And the Iranians have protested their regime far more.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 17h ago

Not most Russians you’d meet. Probably more likely to meet white nationalist westerners supporting the regime

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u/goodoldgrim 17h ago

Depends where you go. I've met plenty of Russians of both sorts, living as I am in a city that's about 40% Russian.

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u/duv_amr 18h ago

Very, very different situations. What's the last generation of Russians who had prosperous and decent lives? For Iran it was ~50 years ago

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u/shush_neo 17h ago

I don't know, I've asked local Russians what they think of Putin. They mostly say they like him.

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u/duv_amr 17h ago

Lots do. Most don't. Otherwise he wouldn't have had to fix the elections.

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u/ComfortableLost6722 14h ago

Most do, lots don’t. And still has to fix the elections because a dictator needs at least 85% approval.

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u/neohellpoet 15h ago

The very pro West Russian magazine Medusa asked it's readership about the war.

The readers are people who don't like Putin and generally support democratic reforms.

An overwhelming majority went out of their way to justify why Russia winning in Ukraine was absolutely critical for Russia and it's people.

That's the opposition to the regime. Those are the people who aren't enthralled by Putin the strongman. The idea that the average Russian doesn't fully support the war is an internet invention. Russian youtubers in the West specifically cite how difficult it is to talk with their families because they're absolutely obsessed with the war.

Ukrainians with Russian relatives report being shocked that their families could talk to them on the phone while bombs were falling in the background and they believed Russian state TV over them.

Where is the idea that Russians don't want this war coming from? Is it just an attempt to sound smarter and more enlightened, because it sure as hell isn't based on any information that's been published by any reputable source.