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The ones protesting for a regime change. It will inevitably involve foreign intervention, which tends to work out badly. But I don't accept the alternative, th
by armchairhacker 10mo ago
The ones protesting for a regime change.
It will inevitably involve foreign intervention, which tends to work out badly. But I don't accept the alternative, that keeping a suppressive and violent regime is the best case. And I'd rather have the least amount of intervention possible, I don't even intrinsically care about breaking the regime; I want to directly support the protestors as much as possible.
- ebbi 10mo agoThere is another alternative, which a lot of my Irani friends prefer. Which is a regime change without foreign interference. A puppet installed by US/Israel is a puppet that will only benefit those countries.
- armchairhacker 10mo agoSure. I'm just acknowledging that even opposing it, parts of foreign countries' governments will interfere when they see blood, and it may not be possible to significantly help the protestors without them.
- ebbi 10mo agoDepends what you mean by 'help' Because the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya didn't really help the citizens. Instead it created more instability, and created power vacuums for other sorts of violence and degeneracy to occur. I'm not saying I know what's the best way for Iranians to get what they want. But recent history shows us that foreign interference doesn't work, especially because those countries that are intervening aren't merely doing it from the goodness of their own hearts.
- armchairhacker 10mo agoYes, unfortunately what I want may be unrealistic, and more likely I can't do anything substantial. But for a situation as dire as Iran, I believe it's moral to try something...