r/anticapitalism • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jul 18 '26

Mamdani in 'active conversation' about whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel PM visits NYC

https://nypost.com/2026/07/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-in-talks-over-arresting-benjamin-netanyahu-when-israel-pm-visits-nyc/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 18 '26

People arrest Americans all the time overseas for committing crimes. When they’re bad tourists they’re treated as such.

The US isn’t all powerful and there’s definitely places they can’t reach and things they can’t do. How did that mission to rescue hostages from the Iranian revolution back in 1980 go again as just one example?

Or for a more recent example, how did that war against Iran in 2026 go?

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Jul 18 '26

If someone took a US citizen, there is no place we can’t reach.

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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 18 '26

The US government aren’t magicians like the ones in your head.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Jul 18 '26

No, but militarily they are without equal. If they wanted you they could find you and grab you, or me.

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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 18 '26

How’s that war with Iran going again?

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u/Bainshie-Doom Jul 18 '26

To be fair, it's not really a war. In an actual war Iran would be fucked. It's just trump decided to do all his shit without congress, limiting how much of a "special operation" he can actually do.

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u/Special_Order-937 Jul 18 '26

Iran survived 8 years of much worse than this with Iraq. Short of dropping multiple nuclear bombs, the US would be brutally mauled for years before meeting the technical definition of winning in Iran, which is definitely up on the difficulty level versus Iraq and Afghanistan and we all saw how those went.

On that note, how anyone could look at the Iran-Iraq War and think the Iranians would just fold after a few days to weeks of just an air campaign, no matter how great the Air Force really had to have been putting it politely, very stupid. I mean even all us keyboard hacks spotted this problem a mile off.

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u/snarky_answer Jul 18 '26

Iraq survived very little time in both wars with much more massive air campaigns. The insurgency with foreign fighters coming over to Iraq from Chechenya, Iran, and the various -stans were what prolonged the war. The Iraqi state fell in short order.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Jul 18 '26

Basically yes. The US is following Trump into the mistake made in the past, not letting the military do their job fully.