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China and Russia are benefiting from this war. It is not a blow to them, it is a gift for them. > I'm confused as to why Filipinos are protesting against takin
by watwut 8mo ago
China and Russia are benefiting from this war. It is not a blow to them, it is a gift for them.
> I'm confused as to why Filipinos are protesting against taking out the Iranian regime;
Iranian regime was not "taken out". It does not seem like it will be taken out either. Its leader got changed for younger more hard line one with the same name. Edit: also Filipinos are much more affected by oil crisis then USA. It is literally an emergency crisis for them.
> But America's taking out the weakest links in the Russian-Chinese-Iranian-Venezuelan axis.
Venezuela is under exactly same regime as before. Maduro got changed for Delcy Rodríguez, keep regime intact. Trump got personally richer, but that is it.
- iso1631 8mo agoTrump took out an 87 year old man, converting him into a martyr and ruining any chance of change for another generation, all while causing massive spikes in the price of oil and thus inflation, and of course sacrificing a few US soldiers in the way while he bombed hundreds of kids. And nearly half of the US supports this.
- hrimfaxi 8mo agoI didn't believe your nearly half statement but yep https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/polls-wars-us-support.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/polls-wars-us...
- hattmall 8mo agoI'm curious what you think about Iran killing 30,000+ protestors in the streets last month, going to hospitals to kill the injured, and continuing to review video footage to actively seek out and kill scores of 2+ million protestors? Personally I find it strange that with all the vocal detestation of "Nazis" so many people aren't in favor of intervening when an undeniably fascist regime commits the largest mass murder since the early days of the Holocaust and has no plans to stop the killing.
- krige 8mo agoI'm curious why do you think that a half-assed undercooked invasion at Israel's beck and call is the only possible solution to this issue when we have ample historical evidence that invading Middle East literally never worked?
- YCpedohaven 8mo agoit’s so obviously a farce when you’re bombing girls schools and when Israel starts hitting oil fields, suddenly fucking Lindsey Graham wants restraint.
- tartoran 8mo agoIt’s indisputable that the Iranian regime is horrid to Iranians (most of them). But what the US just did is actually strenghtening the grip of the Islamic regime, they get unified against an attacker, their aging aytolah turned into a martyr and a new young one was put in place, oil fields set on fire, plenty of indiscriminate bombing on civillians and so on. This is a major fuck-up.
- noduerme 8mo agoI think you underestimate how much they hate the regime and how happy they are to see us trying to eliminate it.
- tartoran 8mo agoA large chunk will fight for their life to hold onto the old regime. Remains to be seen what will come out of this. Civil war in Iran is still a major fuck-up IMO.
- tastyface 8mo agoActually, many Iranians are terrified and hate being bombed into oblivion: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/world/middleeast/iran-bombing-tehran.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/world/middleeast/iran-bom... This may not go the way you think. Which will enrage Trump and cause even more bombing.
- fhub 8mo agoIsrael tracked him and killed him with a Blue Sparrow missile.
- noduerme 8mo agoRuining any chance of another generation to do what? Get shot in the street for protesting? Get imprisoned and murdered for showing their hair in public? Become a martyr to the cause of a dead revolution that provided nothing for its people? What exactly was ruined for the next generation of Iranians, by taking out that 87 year old man?
- nebula8804 8mo ago>And nearly half of the US supports this. This does not accurately describe the picture. When the US went to Iraq the approval rating was in the 90s(correction I mixed up Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq was 70-80s) because the US had been attacked, and Bush took the time to sell the war to the Americans (with lies) by the time all the disasters kept coming in, support dropped to the 40s. This war started in the 40s approval rating. If bodies start coming home in mass, I don't know how things will turn out for Trump and his party but its already looking like a disaster for them and it hasn't even hit the really ugly part yet.
- iso1631 8mo ago> I mixed up Iraq and Afghanistan American foreign policy in a nutshell
- noduerme 8mo ago>> Its leader got changed for younger more hard line one with the same name Who hasn't been seen or heard from yet. I'd give this a few more days before pronouncing it a done deal.
- watwut 8mo agoHis father, wife and kid were killed in bombing. He was leading the crackdown on protests. There is very little ground to think he will be making some easy deals. He was chosen as a middle finger to Trump.
- noduerme 8mo agoI think the IRGC chose him because he's already dead, and they want Israel to go hunting for a dead guy. If he's not dead, which would be some sort of miracle, he isn't doing much now. And no one needs a deal with him. The Iranian regime doesn't want a deal, and there's no deal to be had.