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>Realpolitik is pretty much the act of never caring about the moral results of policy Yea, and it's not a good idea in the long term. >I'm not convinced that
by yyyk 6y ago
>Realpolitik is pretty much the act of never caring about the moral results of policy
Yea, and it's not a good idea in the long term.
>I'm not convinced that KSA would be doing anything morally superior to what Iran is doing if they were in Iran's shoes.
What matters is what countries do now and not what some countries might have done if history were entirely different.
>Stability would be what changes Iranian policies
Many years ago, Kissinger said the Iranian regime has to choose whether whether Iran is country or a cause. They chose to make Iran a cause. Stability is incompatible with the cause's ideology.
- mullingitover 6y agoRealpolitik is arguably the only geopolitical philosophy countries have ever operated under in modern times. We throw revisionism into the history books to feel better about ourselves after the fact. You're here citing Kissinger as a venerable authority rather than an amoral war criminal, case in point. KSA exports the same toxic religious fundamentalism, the same if not more radical than anything Iran espouses. The difference is they have the fig leaf of support from first world countries as they do it.
- yyyk 6y ago>You're here citing Kissinger as a venerable authority rather than an amoral war criminal, case in point. Citing Kissinger does not mean endorsing him. >KSA exports the same toxic religious fundamentalism... Iranian-supported fundamentalism controls 4 ME captials, KSA controls only 1 capital. Iran is a explicitly anti-American revisionist power with a serious nuclear program while KSA isn't. Unsurprisingly, I focus on the bigger more toxic power (that wasn't always the case - two decades ago KSA was the bigger issue). Isn't that more like realpolitiks rather than talking about what would some fictional KSA have done?
- mikem170 6y agoIt sounds like you are biased, in favor of the U.S., and discounting Iranian interests.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoYou do realize KSA has is hands all over 9/11 right?
- yyyk 6y agoAnd KSA was indeed the bigger problem two decades ago. These days it's Iran that is sheltering Al-Qaeda people.