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Well I wouldn't call them crazy. The are religious, but still conduct stategraft as rationally and pragmatist as anybody else. Even more so. Their idiology inf
by nickik 7y ago
Well I wouldn't call them crazy. The are religious, but still conduct stategraft as rationally and pragmatist as anybody else. Even more so.
Their idiology informs their forign policy, but so much is true for all nations.
- skitout 7y agoWhen they support Syria or Hamas (Sunni), their are not guided by ideology but by Iranian and regime interst
- nickik 7y agoThat a simplistic anaysis. A pragmatist ideology like Lenin often went against his prinicples but he is still an ideolog. That's one of the prime tendencies of leninism. The same for the guys in Iran. We should be carful of such simplistic binaries between idiology and state interest. My point is this, they way they go their national interest is defently inspired by idiological ways of thinking.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoYou could say the same thing about popular televangelists. They're not irrational, their very success speaks to that. But they're still often thought of as religious kooks, because of the views they espouse. Same kind of deal here.