PieFedWhen the USA and USSR both align against you, you done fucked up
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Explanation: During the Suez Crisis in 1956, France and the UK, assisted by Israel, attempted to seize the Suez Canal from Egypt in order to preserve their influence over trade going through the Suez. Egypt was not fond of this idea, but despite putting up a fight, ultimately could not resist the military force of the two European empires and Israel.
Fortunately, this was during a period of intense decolonization, and the USA and the USSR - for both practical and ideology reasons - both shared an interest in seeing the old order of outright colonialism destroyed. The USSR threatened to bomb the UK, France, and Israel; while the US threatened to crash the British economy, and, along with the other members of NATO, refused to sell oil to France or Britain, compounding the crisis from an oil embargo from the Arab states. Nearly every country in the UN (other than France, Britain, and Israel) condemned the invasion.
This pressure managed to force a withdrawal of the three states, preserving Egypt’s sovereignty - a rare moment of Cold War international unity, and with a good outcome at that!
And now today Israel can literally do anything it wants and the US will just be like “meh”. Still fucking seething that RONALD REAGAN once managed to tell an Israeli PM to stop being a fucking idiot by bombing Beirut, even straight up calling it a “holocaust” to his face. And when the Israeli PM tried to be sassy he was like “No, fuck you, stop this horseshit NOW, I’m the fucking superpower here.”
The fact REAGAN had more fucking spine regarding Israel than Biden or Trump (or literally every corporate democrat, really) fills me with an amount of rage that could rival Asura (from Asura’s Wrath), Akuma, the Doom Slayer, and Kratos COMBINED. HOW DO YOU GET OUTFLANKED BY RONALD FUCKING REAGAN?????
Don’t lionize Reagan too much on this. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon was far more controversial in internal Israeli politics (due to the promises of the Israeli PM that it would be a short and focused war, and became ’open-ended’ under his command) and much less integral to long-term Israeli aims than the total extermination of the Palestinian people. Lebanon was attacked to deprive the PLO of a base - a goal they succeeded in before agreeing to cease operations.
Not only that, but Reagan was instrumental in the intertwining of the Israeli and US MIC, as well as AIPAC’s increased influence over domestic US politics - the core of the issue of the US’s attachment to supporting Israeli policies - including genocide - unconditionally.
Another Ike win.
I’m sure both USA and USSR were not keen in having other powers competing and that was the big reason behind all that. Would be interesting to have a plurality of powers, but not at the cost of colonialism revival.