• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’ll put on my cynical hat, and assume Iran isn’t a perfect humanitarian state.

    They are fighting a different war, they know if the US gets the slightest amount of public support it’ll be Iraq/Afghanistan all over again, while the US is bombing Iran, Iran is fighting the propaganda war, and they are doing amazing.

    From the lego videos, to only hitting targets the US public don’t care/can’t complain. Like military bases, Amazon Data centers…

    They only have to fight until next election cycle. And this extremely unpopular offensive will be over. and they might even get a friendlier US administration.

    Trump is 100% losing this war.

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      4 days ago

      They only have to fight until next election cycle. And this extremely unpopular offensive will be over. and they might even get a friendlier US administration.

      Chuck and Hakeem criticisms of the war is that it is not being run competently enough, when Trump had a stopped-clock-moment and signed the first peace deal, they and the rest of BlueMaga were saying TACO Trump.

      I have no faith a Gavin Newsom presidency stops the war.

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        3 days ago

        Americans may believe that Democrats will end the war, but I assure you Iranians are under no such delusions. This is not Trump’s war or Netanyahu’s war, it is the Pentagon’s war. Failure to realize this is cope.

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      3 days ago

      Iran is not perfect, but they do have very strong convictions and their own conception of what it means to be a humanitarian state.

      Iran never developed or used chemical weapons against Iraq, even when Iraq used it against them. Producing chemical weapons is easy and Iran could have easily done it hade they wanted to.

      In the same vein, Iran could have had nuclear weapons had they not decided to ban weapons of mass destruction.

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        3 days ago

        Throwing Kurdish youth activists out of windows is a pretty broad definition of not perfect humanitarianism.