
How are people opposed to this? Like, I get it—you can hate Trump all you want—but let’s not pretend like the mullahs are good people either. Stoning women, executing protestors, and sewing terror throughout the Middle East. Practically the entire region wanted this because as MBS of all people correctly pointed out, the Ayatollah was quite literally akin to Hitler. Now, you might argue the war is illegal under “intentional law,” but what good did that do Ukraine when Russia invaded?
saying iran needs to fall as a justification for bombing them is just putting the government’s crimes on the people, the current regime is a brutal, patriarchal autoracy that has murdered thousands of its own people, but failure imposed from the outside isn’t an actual solution, we’re just adding flames to the fire
Yeah after a million dead people, the rise of ISIS, and destroying most Iraqi infrastructure we liberated them lmfao In 1953 the CIA led a coup of Iranian’s democracy, we sanction them massively, why would they ally with us? This doesn’t make the world safer, it just tells our enemies to get nuclear weapons as fast as possible. Plus you oppose Vietnam but are using the same logic used to justify it lol
International law is effectively just a euphemism for American foreign policy at the end of the day because we’re the only ones that actually bother to enforce it. Ultimately, it’s just the law of the jungle. So knowing that, are you really gonna sit back and let the Iranian regime commit all kinds of atrocities and obtain nuclear weapons in the name of upholding “international law”? Can you see how that’s not only moral cowardice, but also directly precipitates bad outcomes?
i agree with everything you said about iran and i have been wanting someone to take out the regime for a while, but i think Trump and Netanyahu are the worst possible leaders to entrust this to. they are so caught up in their own selfish interests that they went into this with no plan for what comes next which means there’s no guarantee things will get better. the next guy in power could be just like the last
It seems almost certain that things will get better. Even if some hardliner takes charge, what are they gonna have to work with? They’ll have no nukes, no ballistic missiles, and no military to speak of. Hell, we’re even targeting the secret police now, so it seems unlikely such a figure would even be able to maintain a grip on power. All that to say: we can pretty much only go up from here…
But even all that would be infinitely preferable to our current situation. If Iran is ever allowed to acquire nukes, everything changes in a way that really has no precedent in the history of the region. By contrast, sectarian war is pretty much just business as usual in the Middle East.