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South Africa, among others, have had large changes in direction prompted through sanctions. Cuba has also gradually allowed more economic freedom over the past
by manfredo 6y ago
South Africa, among others, have had large changes in direction prompted through sanctions. Cuba has also gradually allowed more economic freedom over the past decade.
I agree, cooperation is what is needed not blackmail. That's what the sanctions are doing: if Iran wants to cooperate economically with other countries, it needs to stop trying to blackmail other countries with threats of nuclear strikes.
As far as why, Iran regularly threatens to wipe other Middle Eastern countries off the map - including the nuclear armed Israel, which would easily trigger a nuclear war in the middle east. The simple reality is that there is not an equivalency between the possession of nuclear weapons by China, Russia, NATO, versus North Korea and Iran. The former don't go around threatening to wipe other countries off the map on a regular basis. Nor does Israel, they don't even officially acknowledge nuclear capacities. The latter do, and in North Korea's case it has created one of the most infamous geopolitical catastrophes of the 20th century. And Iran stands to become a much larger North Korea in a much more volatile part of the world.
- publicola1990 6y agoIsrael does go around bombing things in other countries.
- dotancohen 6y agoAs do China, Russia, and NATO. Why single out Israel?
- core-questions 6y agoAmerica does not pay for China and Russia's bombs, at the very least; but something tells me you already knew that.
- joelbluminator 6y agoAmerica bombed the crap out of many countries throughout history. I mean wtf was Vietnam all about? Iraq didn't look that good either.
- core-questions 6y agoCool, yeah, more bad stuff. Doesn't cancel out what I was talking about at all - this is just a standard "whataboutism". I'd like to see an end to all bombing everywhere. It's easier as a Canadian to hold this perspective, of course; I don't have to condone or defend the past evils of America at all.
- joelbluminator 6y agoWhataboutism has its merit in this instance. If the U.S wants to show its moral superioriry it needs to actually try becoming morally superior. Which I am not sure it is. Otherwise it reeks of hypocrisy and people rightly suspects most Americans do not care about China's morals at all but about losing their hegemony to China. So its easy to become a cynic when seeing these debates.
- dotancohen 6y agoSo the issue is not the people suffering, but rather who's paying. Got it.
- manfredo 6y agoA couple strikes per month [1] in response to Syrian missile batteries shooting down Israeli planes is not particularly comparable with threatening to wipe a country off the map. Most of these aren't even direct attacks, Iranians are killed in the crossfire because they're supporting proxy fighters in Syria. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_conflict_during_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_conflict_d...