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Brussels has shifted into crisis mode, with emergency meetings piling up Saturday and Sunday.

As European leaders raced to respond to the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the crisis exposed fault lines inside Europe — and across the Atlantic.

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Brussels moved quickly to strike a cautious tone. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on X that the situation was “perilous,” while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed it was “of the utmost importance” to prevent further escalation. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also urged restraint.

At the national level, however, Europe’s message was less unified.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 53 minutes ago

Every US/Israeli lie is still true, just some concern trolling over head of state assassinations and school bombings. "Urging restraint" while saying US/Israel is right on all points, not condemning them, is full moral support for the warmongering/demonism and any moral/legal opposition to their own future assassinations.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

I'm not suprised. Germany, for example, has a right wing party at the helm. And even if that were not the case, all the old politicians still have the mindset of vassal states deeply ingrained.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 65 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

With them saying the bombing was a result of a breakdown in negotiations, it's hard not to see the rest of the article as complete propaganda. This was not a breakdown in negotiations.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago (33 children)

The only thing Europe is scrambling to figure out is how to reaffirm their servitude to the US. They are just so pathetic.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 minutes ago

If you are american, and haven't risen up in arms to topple the tyrant (despite that being one of the excuses for the 2nd) you have not earned the right to call Europe/Europeans anything. Let me remind you that in Europe, every so often, a president/premier is toppled by the people, through massive, constant movilization, general strikes, etc. Get your house in order. and then comment on others, if you wish.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yep, it is embarrassing to see how much they want to polish that pedorapists knob instead of standing for the values the EU is supposed to mean.

Venezuela was already a deep low, but that shit now is even worse.

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[–] Riverside@reddthat.com -4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Israel and the US invading yet another country is "perilous". Fuck the EU, empire lapdogs

Hear, hear!

t. European

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Three things can be true at once, its good that Iran is being helped, Trump is doing this illegally and the EU should have acted and do this based on International Law a long time ago.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Who the actual fuck do you think you are? Killing children isn't helping Iran and will never help Iran. What you just said was so fucking colonizer-brained it's unreal, please point out which school in your neighbourhood you'd want bombed if it meant the city finally implemented better public transit. You'd what, welcome a nuke in D.C. if it meant the fascists were gone? 9/11 was helping the Americans by attacking the capitalists? There would not be a fucking oppressive regime in Iran if the US did not overthrow their democratically elected government half a century ago. How the fuck are you talking about this like you know anything? Some people told you it was bad there and you wat, never even tried to learn why that happened?

Legality also does not fucking matter, laws are enforced on the vulnerable to the benefit of the powerful. How many invasions do you think the US has conducted legally, exactly?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Iran is being "helped" by bombing schoolgirls?

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

I do believe you are deliberately not reading or understanding the point.

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I have Iranian friends that fled for their lives from the Iranian regime. I've seen their videos and heard their stories. Trust me, they have lost 1000's of schools full of schoolgirls because of the current regime. They will gladly except another few if it means stopping the regime.

THAT is the level of absolute horror these people have been living with for decades now. We cannot be mad about what is happening now to prevent worse.

p.s. I still have nightmares from their videos. I lost all faith in humanity that day, and it took a while to get some of it back...

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

Iranians can have complaints about their situation, without looking for a Zionist puppet to rule over them.

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Exactly! You get it. Right now they are glad to get rid of one dictator, let's hope the future is one they get to choose themselves.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nice Zionist atrocity propaganda, surely an Iraq-style "government reorganization" will help wonders! No mention of the current government in Iran being literally the consequence of western meddling!

If the west wanted a secular democratic government in Iran we wouldn't have destroyed Mosaddeq's political project and reinstated an authoritarian Shah. We want an underdeveloped and servient Iran to exploit their oil cheaply, literally the same story every decade.

The question is: did you fall for the atrocity propaganda yourself yet another decade? Or are you willingly running Zionist atrocity propaganda?

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 0 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Good lord. You guys are angry.

I do not want to make it worse, but I truly feel you do not understand. Or you have not lived a hard life, for which I'm somewhat jealous.

So yes, the regime was a result of the west in the first place. And it was not going to be pretty to fix it. And Trump is not doing this to fix it, but to ... well .. I do not know, take people's minds off of the Epstein files? Make money? I don't know, but I hate him for it.

And I'm not "trading" a school for "better roads" are you mental (This one is from another poster btw, @orioler25@lemmy.world )? Everybody would choose the lesser of two evils. So 80 schoolchildren or 10000's of them? If you HAD to choose? And these people do, they have to choose, and they've been forced to make these and other hard choices for decades now. And you come along and DARE to say what is happening now is bad? Where where you the past decades?

I have no love for the capitalists, for the colonizers, for Israel, USA, EU. I do however love people. And the fact these people have had to make real politik like choices? Makes me sad. I see the truth of it though. And I hope you guys will as well some day.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 0 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

Totally, yeah dude, "invite the genocidal imperialists in to aid in the revolution" is the mentality of a person who has experienced any level of oppression. You've had a very hard life, I'm sure, typical Euro Lib who thinks having to do anything is adversity. You had to study for your exams? That's about the same as having your entire life bombed into oblivion, or at the very least you know as well as someone who did experience that because you watched a video.

Gaslighting language and ignorance, you really are a bad person.

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

I hope you will awaken from the Maga cult some day. You are currently an unpleasant person the way you attack. Be better.

The enemy of my enemy is something the people in Iran currently feel about the US and Israel. Never said they are or should glad with the USA or Israel. But currently, they are happy there is an end to the dictatorship they had to endure. Let's hope they do not get a new one.

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