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Charlie Fuller's avatar

Good writeup on a topic that I dont think enough people are considering right now

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RCThweatt's avatar

Least of all Trump. Or the warmongers in the Senate and at Fox News

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Ilene Skeen's avatar

Wars end when the aggressor demoralizes their own population by continually failing to keep them safe and attacking other countries. Iran finances of Hamas and all the proxy countries that attack Israel.

The population of Iran is under continual domination by the Revolutionary Guard.

Without the revolutionary guard, the Iranian regime collapses. The people of the world need to know how to hit Iran where it hurts.

—Otherwise, the war will continue into the next century and beyond. The only way to end a war is to demoralize the population of the aggressor country.

Iran is the aggressor and has been the aggressor since 1979. When OPEC took over the Middle East in the early 70s the United States should have blown up the wells in IRAN when it left them behind. US companies brought technology and riches to Iran. Us companies trained young Arab men to be oil engineers. In 1971, I worked for an American oil company. Many of the staff had worked for ARAMCO. Iran was a pss poor sandy desert and all the development started by American, French and other foreign companies who invested in Iran and then were thrown out. And it’s not like Iran wasn’t getting a cut or didn’t agree to the development it in the first place.

OPEC caused the crisis in the early 70s, fed the beast of dictators in 1979. IRAN has been stuck like a monster butterfly which would be a beautiful thing if freedom and peaceful life were a value to Allah, instead of submission and Death.

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Tana Ganeva's avatar

I'd say the Syrian civil war, resulting refugee crisis shaped the 21st century by basically bringing about fascism in America and Europe. Recall how Jeb Bush spoke about undocumented immigrants in 2015 even.

FWIW I love the Syrian refugees. They're the nicest, hardworking, cheerful and optimistic people I've ever met and I think Europe is lucky to have them, but alas that's not how humans work.

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Hutch's avatar

Why do you assume that destroying Fordow and Iran's nuclear installations will lead to 23M international refugees?

That is a massive and unsupported assertion.

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Hutch's avatar

Also: "I am an Iranian who made it out. Please force my countrymen to live under an indefinite Islamofascist theocracy."

...is not a good look.

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Vladan Lausevic's avatar

A "trade-off" could be that if the USA attacks Iran and it leads to a humanitarian refugee crisis the USA should also accept 20 million Iranians to become US citizens

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Ash 1952's avatar

And why is that ?

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