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RockRaven

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3. I suspect it is his distaste for backing losers.

Reply to Deminpenn (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 26, 2026, 04:09 AM

Mar 26

If he encourages them to rise up and they get slaughtered -- and everything points to that as the outcome -- he probably sees that as losing which reflects back on him.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu would be perfectly happy with any more dead Iranians by any means.

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