Hyperion1001: world war 3 begins

Hyperion1001 02.28.26	rough times ahead brothers and sisters
SpiritCrusher2 02.28.26	ahhh yes usa spreading peace around the world once again
Hyperion1001 02.28.26	don’t forget Israel totally not committing genocide while peacekeeping the Middle East
SpiritCrusher2 02.28.26	oh yea that too
arthropod 02.28.26	YAY Putin gon blow up my yard and Trump gon blow up my economy I’m so happy
botb 02.28.26	Israel immediately bombing schools is the most on brand shit
Asdfp277 02.28.26	Horrible. And all because the u.s. wants stuff that doesn't belong to it
budgie 02.28.26	being alive has always been gay anyway
Josh D. 02.28.26	If anyone wants to smooch, now’s the time
smaugman 02.28.26	nothing's gonna come from this anyway
ShartHarder 02.28.26	didnt expect hawks vs tundra to escalate this much
smaugman 02.28.26	i'd be more supportive of this if it wasn't USA and Israel that attacked...
rabidfish 02.28.26	it was all in the stars. Fucking hell, we are toys of Fate in the end.
Asdfp277 02.28.26	nah, fuck fate, we just letting the epstein crew do whatever they want lol
Beardog 02.28.26	Oh well we only care about money anyway even though we have more than plenty in Europe. If a war doesn't start between humans then nature will start it on us some time
MTObsidian 02.28.26	I saw the news this morning and my only thought was: "Can we... can we just not..."
Motiv3 02.28.26	Another dumb escalation that will hopefully not lead to anything hugely major.
Asdfp277 02.28.26	wild that 'nothing major' is even a posibility after bombing a primary school (not saying you're wrong for wanting that, it's just trippy to think about it)
Relinquished 02.28.26	it’s going to get worse
AlkemestRedux 02.28.26	I think they're going for it this time. I don't know what 'it' is but definitely nothing good. It's gonna be a long campaign I think because Iran has stockpiled resources, and it's basically impossible to get troops to Tehran. So instead the US and our lapdogs in Israel are just gonna kill as many civilians as we can.
Intothepit 02.28.26	Our lapdogs? As far as I'm concerned, we are Israel's lapdogs.
zakalwe 02.28.26	Biblical
Asdfp277 02.28.26	israel is just another u.s. state tbh
AlkemestRedux 02.28.26	Yee Israel would have been wiped off the map several times over if Uncle Sam didn't bail them out. They're useful sin-eaters for empire. Notice that Israel kicked it off so Trump could turn around and say 'well now we have to get involved' even though he's been moving our whole fleet over there for months. It's all a ruse, this was always the plan.
JerseyJimmy 02.28.26	if it's any consolation, everything I've heard sounds like the US and Israel are getting absolutely fucking bodied. which, yeah, no shit, Iran's had almost half a century of prep time.
Kusangii 02.28.26	I am beyond happy to be born in Sweden.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	“KAMALA WILL SEND YOUR SONS TO WAR” - Stephen Miller, 10/24
Hyperion1001 02.28.26	"I think they're going for it this time. I don't know what 'it' is but definitely nothing good." israel realizes that they are quickly losing/have already lost all support with younger generations in the west and this is basically their last shot at being able to drag the US into a war riding off support from all the dumb christian boomers.
Pooter9000 02.28.26	Israel was a mistake, purely and simply.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	It’s actually antisemitic to not support genocide guys
Trundle 02.28.26	i love how we still have to pretend that there aren't any direct ties between the honeypot pedo ring and the most unhinged terrorist country on earth that has bilked trillions from the west, i guess 15 years of direct communications with the heads of state israel and epstein isn't enough
Demon of the Fall 02.28.26	has anyone got a list of the safest countries vs how easy it is to gain citizenship? A nice line graph or something wouldn’t go amiss annoyingly all my non-British ties are US / mainland European related & I’m seeking somewhere more obscure
AlkemestRedux 02.28.26	Probably south America lol Nobody is gonna nuke Peru.
Asdfp277 02.28.26	peru has been having a lot of political unrest as of lately, but not nuclear holocaust levels of it
Pooter9000 02.28.26	What Trundle said. Literal cancer of a country.
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	Sounds like everyone needs to go outside And leave the bunker to me... :)
brickhed 02.28.26	hmm... epstien files come out... information gets shadowbanned since everyone rich is in there... Trump says "oh yeah NOW is the time for war". Conicidence? I think NOT
Kusangii 02.28.26	He's apparently mentioned more in the files than Jesus is mentioned in the bible. That should tell you everything of what type of a human being he is, but anyone that's not retarded or brainwashed already knows. Literal dirt.
Trundle 02.28.26	Only the most moral people would scrub away the other 10 million victims of the holocaust, who were killed in the very same camps, from pop culture, such morals, definitively doesn’t warrant any critical thinking It says so much about the Zionist political movement, I have never in my life heard a single Jewish person say anything remotely similar to the utterly unhinged stuff Israelis say themselves
budgie 02.28.26	"has anyone got a list of the safest countries vs how easy it is to gain citizenship? if youre a middle class middle wealth middle age adult in a western state you arent getting citizenship to anywhere worth getting citizenship
Demon of the Fall 02.28.26	oh I’d never leave, it was a joke. Unless some mad fuck nukes the entire island I should be fine (and no-one is safe if it gets to that point). I just feel for those who don’t have such luxuries.
budgie 02.28.26	so many people stateside fully think they can just up and move to switzerland on a whim its hilarious
RVAHC13 02.28.26	The youth of this country deserve better than to be collateral for such aimless stupidity
Trundle 02.28.26	So true budgie, like there have been Americans and Canadians who moved to Russia for “political asylum” and all that “freedom” Russia is known for, then they get taxed heavily, then criticize the government online and are shocked when they get a knock on the door lol.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	I mean the US is literally already there.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	“but anyone that's not retarded or brainwashed already knows” ya I was 18 when that fucking douchebag first got elected and I knew he was bad news even then, grown ass adults acting ignorant have no fucking excuse. Everybody that voted for him has blood on their hands. They just killed like 50 elementary school kids and maimed a hundred others and that’s just one instance. Was Hamas hiding in the school? Anybody that’s still MAGA should self delete
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	But hey at least the eggs are cheaper right guys
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	Just so we're clear... We're saying that Kamala would've done a much better job?
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	Clearly. And fuck her too actually, for being such a weak fucking candidate that she lost to this fat steaming pile of shit
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	Calm down
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	I’m not going off on you but this is incredibly frustrating. We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about how bad this asshole is for a decade and people are just now starting to wake up.
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	People actually seem to like him even more than they previously did, from what I'm seeing
Asdfp277 02.28.26	whats ur point in bringing up kamala @thatdeftkid
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	She was the other choice for the election
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	“ People actually seem to like him even more than they previously did, from what I'm seeing” Unreal. Good thing I don’t have Twitter or Facebook because my ass would probably be in jail right now.
Kusangii 02.28.26	Musk probably rigged the election anyway so I don't think Kamala is to blame.
thatdeftkid 02.28.26	The people of Iran seem to be pretty pleased, which is sort of ironic
Scoot 02.28.26	the world has sucked ass since covid
Kusangii 02.28.26	It has felt like a dystopia ever since tbh
Calc 02.28.26	just read they killed the ayatollah holy shit
Hyperion1001 02.28.26	reminder that everything you see on the internet is fake and fabricated and like 70% of internet traffic is bots.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	“ the world has sucked ass since covid” I really couldn’t tell if it was just me getting older or if that really was the case. Probably a mix of the two. “just read they killed the ayatollah holy shit” well, pack it up. We’re literally diving headfirst into WW3. Hopefully I’ll get spared from the draft. I’ll do my finest Ted Nugent impression if that means I don’t have to defend the holy land from its terrible enemies that they attacked first.
unclereich 02.28.26	what's crazy is this isn't the worst thing trump has done this year. his tariffs have caused damage that will last for years similar to his covid era spending that plunged the country into recession and caused hyper inflation. pair that with his newly crowned head of the fed, Kevin Warsh- the son in law of Ronald Lauder the unofficial white house advisor on israel and the president of the world jewish congress- we have ourselves all the ingredients for another 2008!
Josh D. 02.28.26	RFK has probably set so many things in health and medicine back generations.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	Dude I can’t wait for Gen A to get fucked just as hard as millennials did in 08, and what do ya know, a republican is starting a horrifically unjust war in yet another middle eastern country, wow history truly does repeat itself. Except this time it’s to distract from the “being a literal pedophile” stuff. But I guess they could use the WMD’s excuse again, idk if you asked me a decade ago I’d say there’s absolutely no shot Americans would fall for that again, but hey we’ve proven to be pretty fucking stupid so who knows? What a terrible time to be alive
ShartHarder 02.28.26	was really resisting the urge to post here as i should know better to wade in on politics. but this is def not leading to WW3 lol. it is a shocking turn of events yes, and will lead to a pretty bad time in the middle east (worse than usual) but it will be a contained regional conflict. iran has next to no allies outside its proxy groups, who are all weak right now from other recent conflicts. conflict with iran could either be short (troops lay down their arms now leadership is gone) or drawn out (the whole islamic revolution depends on it) but realistically it is only going to go one way now Trump has fully committed to it. like it or not, the US is super emboldened on moves like this now after the Venezuela operation, and who is going to stop them? Russia will be looking on painfully at a key ally getting whiped off the board, but they can't/won't do shit about it. they are already stretched this with the ukraine war. and they would not want to rub Trump the wrong while they are successfully courting and playing him. china will stay out of it as it has actually very little presence in the middle east and will want to present itself as the stable, sensible world power in contrast to the US. so yes, big news, crazy shit to bare witness to. but no need to go getting your passports updated just yet
unclereich 02.28.26	>I have never in my life heard a single Jewish person say anything remotely similar to the utterly unhinged stuff Israelis say themselves Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz would like a word!
ShartHarder 02.28.26	^^^ this is not to say i justify this mad shit in any capacity, in case that was not obvious
unclereich 02.28.26	i agree shart never let a good crisis go to waste! it's in the same vein as people claiming trump isn't going to allow elections! alarmist bullshit. but the economy is a fucking nightmare here and that is usually a huge reason why leaders attack foreign nations.
unclereich 02.28.26	any time something like this happens there is always a chance for escalation, but i'd be remiss to say this doesn't remind me of venezuela only weeks ago, or north korea and syria during trump's first term. nightmare situations no doubt but not exactly world war. i just think the huge concern here is this situation mirroring iraq. remember bibi testified before the house and many other u.s. organizations for regime change in iraq. later he did the same while obama was president. history is repeating itself in real time. trump also replacing the fed chair with the second coming of ben bernanke is extremely eerie!
ShartHarder 02.28.26	yup that seems to be the common driver a lot of commentators are pointing to. got to distract from the domestic problems youre not fixing by claiming some international 'wins'
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	@Shart I hope you’re right, I’ll admit that I don’t pay nearly as much attention to worldwide politics as I do to domestic, so starting shit with a Russia allied nation really has me worried… but you’re probably right. I didn’t even really think of the Ukraine angle until you brought it up. @unclereich I don’t at all think that’s alarmist. People have been saying that im exaggerating or “being alarmist” for a decade now. And now we have ICE fucking murdering people, essentially throwing people into concentration camps because of fucking expired visas, Trump completely ignoring congress and the Supreme Court… even if there are elections, this fuckin guy already was responsible for Jan 6, what makes you think he won’t do some crazier shit this time? I don’t think im being alarmist at all considering how “unprecedented” literally everything he does is.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	Let me also point out, even if he had congressional approval, this is fucking evil. I’m just pointing out that he doesn’t even give enough of a shit to save face by pretending this is “by the book”, and that is another thing that worries me. He’s becoming increasingly unhinged by the day.
unclereich 02.28.26	the claim trump won't allow elections is alarmist. he and his constituents will get absolutely blown out in the midterms, he then will get impeached again and again and go out with a whimper in '28 IF he lives that long. Newsom is 100% the next president.
zakalwe 02.28.26	Iran will annihilate Israel US will mop up and take over the Middle East turning it into a Wal-Mart
TheSupernatural 02.28.26	Not really reassured by the idea of the next president being a Democrat who stands for all the same things Trump does. Newsom is an absolute snake.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	If Newsom is the next president than just fucking pack it up because whatever Republican that follows up his Biden 2.0 ass policies will be even worse than Trump.
Wildcardbitchesss 02.28.26	Exactly. That guy fucking sucks and is literally just a diet republican
unclereich 02.28.26	You will vote for him and you will like it 😈
botb 02.28.26	Newsome’s wack diet republican ass is absolutely going to get the nom because democrats cannot learn anything from the past to literally save their fucking lives
botb 02.28.26	Meanwhile zohran absolutely killing it in NYC while no establishment dems pay any attention
Josh D. 02.28.26	Democrats absolutely love ignoring any candidate left of them that polls at +50 favorability
unclereich 02.28.26	There just isn’t another dem that has stepped up. Unlike the right who has Massie, but Vance will probably have him killed or something.
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	I will not vote for Gavin Newsom, I shut my fuckin mouth and voted for Harris because I knew Trump would be disastrous, but if Democrats seriously don’t put up someone halfway decent.. no more. I can’t do it again man. I abstain unless whoever they wind up with has these three policies 1. Abolition of ICE 2. Medicare for all 3. Cutting aid to Israel All three are popular stances right now, and tbh that’s literally the bare minimum. I’m not asking for full blown luxury gay space communism, these policies are not extreme. But im sure democrats will find a way to ratfuck any candidate that meets the moment, if they fuck over Bernie (twice!) they can and will do it to whatever progressive runs in ‘28. But Mamdani winning does give me hope. No one even knew who he was a year ago and now he’s one of the most famous men in the country. I think something like that could happen on the national stage, though it’s really unlikely. If Newsom is the dem candidate they will lose and they will deserve it. Plus watching that snake debate Vance over policies that they’re essentially completely aligned with might actually give me a fucking aneurysm
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	Example, Vance would just outright say “We should kill all the homeless/trans/brown people.” while Gavin would find some cutesy roundabout way to say the exact same thing. That guy is literally if ChatGPT puked out a generic movie villain politician.
Trebor. 03.01.26	Us state workers have been fighting with Newsom for years. I find it hard to believe he'll be the general nominee because he might not even win his own state. Although the way the fucky primaries go California is so late in the schedule it might happen too late like what happened with Bernie
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	And despite being a deep blue state I imagine it’s still gerrymandered to hell. I’m with you though. The way some libs and establishment types seem to want to appoint him as the presumptive nominee two full years before a primary has even happened will create resentment for a lot of folks, and despite me knowing how right wing that fuck is, I think interviews with fucking Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk especially will come back to bite him in the ass and really shine a light on how fake the progressive front he puts on is. Like I alluded to with my comments on Mamdani, it’s very possible that someone with little to no national spotlight in early 2026 will come forward. Time will tell. I’ll admit I didn’t know much about him until around this time last year, when every time the mf tweeted at Trump someone affiliated with like, the Lincoln project or some shit, would pop up and be like “OHHH SHOTS FIRED”, and it took me minutes of googling to see how much of a piece of shit that guy is. Everybody has two full years to come to the same realization. Just plaster that photo of him personally tearing down homeless people’s tents on billboards and attack ads and that will chip away at any support he might have. Dont get me wrong, if I had to put money on it, I’d say he’s the most likely dem candidate but a whole lot can happen between now and 2028.
unclereich 03.01.26	cali is heavily gerrymandered to favor dems:https://www.reddit.com/r/California/comments/1qvxn50/supreme_court_allows_new_california_congressional/ that was a big news story last year. they did it in response to texas. is that fat ugly pos still running in cali that verbally abuses her assistants? i wish is could say i can't believe she has supporters but most cali libs are brain dead. that state is so heavily mismanaged and yet every step of the way they vote harder for the people that proudly admit to fucking them over. gotta love their new glock ban. so happy to be out of that hell hole
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	I really have no idea. I’ve spent approximately 2 hours of my entire life in California, on a layover flight coming from Oregon lol What I was really getting at is that it took me like 2 minutes of research to come to the “oh this guy is a fucking piece of shit” conclusion. That kind of “vote blue no matter who” liberal can be pretty gullible, but this guy has done shit in the past that very clearly shows that he’s a fuckin snake oil salesman. He wants to provide ICE with more funding, the homelessness problem, even just revealing that his son is a huge Charlie Kirk fan is enough to put me off him. If I had a kid and he was listening to that horseshit id throw his phone in the ocean and cut off the internet access until I could instill some good values in him, not Gavin tho, he was so moved by it he had Charlie on his dumbass fucking podcast
Pooter9000 03.01.26	Irananians wont be free of tyranny, more like under new management.
arapinho1 03.01.26	Death to zionists and their aggression Fuck trump and fuck america
zakalwe 03.01.26	Pipe down moron
arapinho1 03.01.26	Stfu
anarchistfish 03.01.26	Glad to see the most non-interventioniat president in the history of the US at it again
Calc 03.01.26	arapinho bout to get the thread nuked.
ShadowRemains 03.01.26	number one criteria for the dem nominee should be a hardline stance on this administration and bringing them to justice + putting them in fucking prison full stop
Trundle 03.01.26	It says so much about Israel when you have to go into the specific mode of execution to differentiate them from the nazis. I know it may sound callous to say, but Iran and the recent political developments definitely aren’t something to endorse, but invading them to kill hundreds of thousand /millions is literally no justification for what the pedo cult and pedo president have dedicated themselves to. I think it also says a lot about America when Iran appears to have more common sense and are more quick to try to de-escalate over the past decade
budgie 03.01.26	american progressives being so batshit retarded they will blacklist kelly for aipac donations or newsom for being exhausted with identity politics has got to be the nail in the coffin, just nuke us all and destroy anglo american culture before we poison the rest of the west
zakalwe 03.01.26	‘Iran and the recent political developments definitely aren’t something to endorse‘ Have you any idea how many people have been killed under that theocratic nightmare of a regime over the past 50yrs. Irans intentions and ultimate goals should they have the power to do so would see you wiped off the face of the Earth or completely and utterly sublimated
markjamie 03.01.26	In the unlikely event Iran gets a halfway decent government I will be happy, but invading a country who has not invaded anyone and killing their leader can ONLY bring more harm than good in the long run (as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan). Netanyahu and Trump are war criminals and should be prosecuted under international law.
Beardog 03.01.26	When will the Americans finally use their freedom and vote for something other than the two billionaire funded oligarchic parties that only care about the rich?
rabidfish 03.01.26	There is no voting out of this lol
StonedManatee 03.01.26	Fuck Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Relinquished 03.01.26	if yall still believe yall live in a two party system where “dems have to do this to…” then you’ve been boned already for the past 30 years
Supercoolguy64 03.01.26	im 27 so im just lolz-ing at the news
JWT155 03.01.26	This will be the 13th time I’ve survived WWIII
Beardog 03.01.26	@rabidfish that's what they want you to think
Hyperion1001 03.01.26	Christian and Jewish fundamentalist zealots banding together to kill Muslim fundamentalist zealots. If we’re lucky they all eliminate each other and then we can be done with the curse of Abraham and all his destructive, regressive ideologies.
arapinho1 03.01.26	Iran has the right to defend itself.
rabidfish 03.01.26	@beardog if you really believe anyone that can go against the plan will be allowed even the posibility of being "elected" u are beyond naive. Only thing power recognizes is power. No negotiations. no hostages.
Asdfp277 03.01.26	idk why u'd think religion is the whole reason to the entire conflict land and natural resources are agnostic. and the people pursuing political power don't really believe in anything
arthropod 03.01.26	[2] I mean, Christianity is supposed to be a religion of peace. If you kill people like this or support this practice, then you're not a Christian.
Hyperion1001 03.01.26	organized religion has only ever been used as a tool for power. if you think they aren’t intrinsically linked, especially in violent, expansionist religions like the Abrahamic faiths, youre deluding yourself.
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	Budgie cmon I gave you way more than identity politics as a reason why Newsom is fucking dogshit.
arthropod 03.01.26	Organized religion has only ever been used as a tool for power and this is why I do not support the Church. That doesn't change the fact that at its core, Christianity represents the exact opposite values than its respective institution. Again: if you commit or endorse murder, you don't count as a Christian. Also, I might be going off on a tangent now, but Christian theology needs a lot of revisionism. And I mostly mean disregarding most of the bullshit that can be found in the Old Testament because that's the text for an entirely different religion and should not be considered by Christians (at least in full). A big chunk of it exists only to justify the aggressive territorial expansion and other heinous crap pulled off by the ancient Jews.
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	The idea that our foreign policy is based on some 4000 year old writings is part of what makes this country so fucking despicable. What we’re doing is already horrendous, but a lot of our leadership can’t even admit that the motivation is purely imperialist, no we gotta get the dipshit evangelicals on board so the rapture can happen. And yes they actually believe this shit, I was raised in it
Cormano 03.01.26	"Irans intentions and ultimate goals should they have the power to do so would see you wiped off the face of the Earth or completely and utterly sublimated" you're a moron if this what you actually believe
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	zak is the certified boomer of sput, he’s serious
Calc 03.01.26	you guys should really learn about the Islamic revolution in Iran if you think Zak is completely wrong.
Flugmorph 03.01.26	nothing ever happens
Kusangii 03.01.26	Humanity is always gonna be a shitshow. I'd be shocked if I got to see peace on earth in my lifetime.
Asdfp277 03.01.26	u.s. intervensionism will keep the middle east extremist forever, it's by design
Pooter9000 03.01.26	100 dead Iranian schoolgirls killed by an Isramerican strike was a one-line text report from my state broadcaster, never mentioned aloud, but they’ve been screaming and pissing themselves at then9 dead Israelis all day. Funny how that works.
Pooter9000 03.01.26	***the 9
Wildcardbitchesss 03.01.26	“ u.s. intervensionism will keep the middle east extremist forever, it's by design” ding ding ding We’ve continued to irreversibly fuck the region for decades and are shocked that they hate us… the dumb bitch on MSNBC was talking to one of irans highest ranking military guys and she was like “well what makes attacking us acceptable?” Are you fucking kidding me? The audacity of these people. It’s the same thing with Palestine. 10/7 was inevitable, you can’t subject millions of people to that kind of treatment and then be surprised when they retaliate. Fucking 9/11 is another example. It’s totally fine when we bomb brown from ten miles in the sky but not our precious white people, that’s a fucking tragedy. And for the record, both are wrong. Civilian casualties are never acceptable, and I’m criticizing leaders for being so willing to throw innocents into the fucking meat grinder if it means political gain, or in this case, a fucking elementary school to distract from the global pedophile ring.
DoofDoof 03.01.26	'@beardog if you really believe anyone that can go against the plan will be allowed even the posibility of being "elected" u are beyond naive.' In the UK we have irrefutable proof and also evidence of how they stop you with Liz Truss. It's near impossible to go against 'the blob' (civil service)/deep state. The media also managed to make 99% of the electorate think Truss was 'an idiot' (well, she underestimated her enemy/the task at hand so I guess there's that) and had them calling her 'a lettuce'. Never underestimate MSM. "She failed because she was an idiot". A masterful political assassination. They can do it to anyone.
Trundle 03.01.26	Flawless logic zak “we need to kill them(in much greater numbers) or they will kill each other” But you’re sticking with team pedo
rockarollacola 03.02.26	WWIII false flag number 18,347
Hyperion1001 03.02.26	Ok what about: Dont start world war 3 challenge IMPOSSIBLE [GONE SEXUAL]
Wildcardbitchesss 03.02.26	Someone tweeted Hasan calling it World War E(pstein) and I like that framing
CaliggyJack 03.02.26	The Board of P̶e̶a̶c̶e̶ Israel
rabidfish 03.02.26	@doof tho i don't follow brit politics, im sure there's a lot more negotiation involved in these "media assassinations", as u called it. The liberal lie lies in keeping the manipulated masses unstable and paranoid enough so that they can't organize proper resistance but content enough so that they will (mostly) comply to the agenda. Keeping high-profile real assassinations to a minimum used to be the prefered strategy. I fear with Trump/Netanyahu this will become outdated and "too PC".