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Venezuela wasn’t a regime change war it was a US-backed palace coup that left the entire regime except for the guy at its head in place in exchange for a narrow
by dragonwriter 8mo ago
Venezuela wasn’t a regime change war it was a US-backed palace coup that left the entire regime except for the guy at its head in place in exchange for a narrow set of policy favors to the US.
It has little in common with Iran, which is more like the 2003 Iraq war (but, so far, without committing ground troops, but there is no way to maintain that with Trump’s stated goal of “unconditional surrender”; that’s going to require a ground forces occupation at a minimum, and probably a ground forces invasion to acheive it) than it is like the recent intervention in Venezuela.
Even if they are not particular fond of the regime that is in the process of being destroyed, the Iranian people are likely to resist that, just as occurred in Iraq (with the most significant resistance there coming from forces that were opposed to Saddam’s regime and which had been actively suppressed by it while it was in power.)
- expedition32 8mo agoAmericans have the uncanny ability to make everyone hate their guts. A US occupation will inevitably breed resistance.
- toast0 8mo agoNot too many people like an armed occupation.
- rayiner 8mo ago[flagged]
- nullocator 8mo agoIran can survive the war without regime change, they have infinite Ayatollahs, america just needs to chill out with the "bomb children and commit war crimes and being lead by the great satan and pedophiles" stuff.
- keybored 8mo agoThe US (following Israel’s lead) offensively invaded another country. Nothing Iran could have said about America would make it look more like the Great Satan than what it has done itself. But chill out, Americans say. We only demand that the Ayatollah (or any other Ayatollah) doesn’t exist/are dead. Why do you have to be so, like unchill about it?
- rayiner 8mo ago[flagged]
- donkeybeer 8mo agoHow manny attacks on American soil have Iran done? Or are words violence now to these pathetic snowflakes.
- rayiner 8mo agoIran has been attacking U.S. property around the world for decades: https://www.britannica.com/event/1983-United-States-embassy-bombing https://www.britannica.com/event/1983-United-States-embassy-...
- donkeybeer 8mo agoAmerica has been destroying Iranian property for decades too, that's hardly a new thing eg Stuxnet. I was asking when has Iran dropped bombs on American schools or the American landmass.
- rayiner 8mo agoWhy should the U.S. wait for Iran to develop the capability to attack on U.S. soil? Surely it’s attack on a U.S. embassy is sufficient to prove the country’s motivations?
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- dragonwriter 8mo ago> Iran doesn’t need to be a regime change war. It doesn't need to be a war at all. However, it is a war, and Trump has declared the only acceptable end is unconditional surrender and Trump himself having a say in the new leadership, so it is a regime change war (but, yes, completely unnecessarily so.)
- rayiner 8mo ago[flagged]