<![CDATA[Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'....]]>Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... Given Iran is clearly under attack from US/Israeli forces, defending its airspace is not so much an escalation as a perfectly reasonable defensive response (and certainly legal as far as international law is concerned).

But the narrative remains, whatever the media may think its doing, one that privileges the US's positioning on the 'war'!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/6566d6e2-e0a4-4390-ba1b-36dddda333af/its-interesting-that-iran-shooting-down-one-or-possibly-two-us-aircraft-in-its-airspace-is-being-treated-as-an-escalation-....RSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 21:42:41 GMTSat, 04 Apr 2026 07:12:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:35:15 GMT]]>@ohir @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6

Trump has the rock solid support of conservatives in America.
This is not a coincidence.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116345517844327793https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116345517844327793Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:35:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:29:42 GMT]]>Western propaganda like it is 1991 again with "precision bombing" and the mysterious enemy with "weapons of mass destruction". WMD for which the bully USA appears to have a monopoly (Hiroshima, Nagasaki). I'll never forget 1991 lies.

A lot of Western mainstream media will very often self-censor, and obey to the Western status quo. Whether that status quo is not democractic or even full fascist does not matter. And since the decline of paper newspaper numbers being sold it is mouse clicks that have become very important for newspaper management. For example, two column writers in two different Dutch newspapers were laid off after more than forty years because of mouse clicks despite a lot of protest by people writing paper letter to the newspapers. The sad thing is that with readers reading paper newspaper there is no such thing as mouse-clicks that can be counted. People like Trump, Farage, Wilders, and others swinging towards far right, fascism are like gold for newspaper clicks. How else can one explain the daily photos of Trump and Trump's spaghetti sentences on the frontpages. Anyway, the big question right now is how do we get journalists back to doing their jobs ? Which includes to defend democracy rather than helping to be part of the erosion of it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/regendans/statuses/116345496055869314https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/regendans/statuses/116345496055869314Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:29:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:24:58 GMT]]>@gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
> conservatism
Fascism is not conservatism. Nor any other stolen word has suddenly changed meanings in the mind of the free man, because propagandist of supreme leader lies. Please use quotation marks, please, please.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115995911458254842/statuses/116345477440011400https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115995911458254842/statuses/116345477440011400Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:24:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:11:31 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6

War propagandists gonna war propagandize.

It is funny how statements like this are always followed up with comments deflecting and trying to shift the topic to some other 'enemy' of the US empire.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://spore.social/users/houba/statuses/116345424515835770https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://spore.social/users/houba/statuses/116345424515835770Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:11:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:05:30 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 Any form of self-defence is seen as an escalation to the aggressor, the bigger boomier version of "he made me do it".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116345400891000856https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116345400891000856Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:05:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:04:10 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6

The illegal thing is that the US and its rogue leader started this war…
Bypassing Congress and the UN…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116345395636855626https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116345395636855626Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:04:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:55:36 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 It’s also interesting that they managed to seeing as the Great Orange One claimed Iran’s air defences had been obliterated! Dumpf was apparently initially only being fed good news by is toadies so he has no idea what was actually happening.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/alex_p_roe/statuses/116345361961298650https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/alex_p_roe/statuses/116345361961298650Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:55:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:49:17 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 It’s the same as Russia/Ukraine & Israel/Palestine: ”How dare they defend themselves?!”

Authoritarian conservatism has become the dominant narrative of our time.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116345337086237407https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/116345337086237407Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:49:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:48:09 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 Russia said similar things of Ukraine.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/feijoa/statuses/116345332692592259https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/feijoa/statuses/116345332692592259Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:48:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:19:35 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 the fact that the stock market reacts to Iran gouvernement announcements nearly as much as US ones seems to shows that traders are more critical than the US media.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/thias/statuses/116345220303622071https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/thias/statuses/116345220303622071Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:19:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:15:57 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116344901049579532

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman/statuses/116345206054496182https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman/statuses/116345206054496182Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:15:57 GMT