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To state the obvious: 1) It is not clear that the people of Iran actually want to blow up refineries in general right now, but living in an autocracy they don'
by myrmidon 7mo ago
To state the obvious:
1) It is not clear that the people of Iran actually want to blow up refineries in general right now, but living in an autocracy they don't have much of a choice.
2) Because there is a pretty big ocean between them and most American civilians/infrastructure (this also enabled past colonial powers to wage war very pretty cost effectively and at their convenience). I'd like to argue that the prospect of retribution on home soil is important to stem aggressive wars, but at least for medieval Europe this apparently did not work that well either.
- skinnymuch 7mo ago(1) is written as if other forms of govt like a typical liberal democracy in the west or Europe give their citizens much of a choice.
- myrmidon 7mo agoIn a typical democracy you just vote the government out if it starts an unpopular war. Even if elections are far away, you can just protest on the streets at basically zero risk until the government behaves again. If you try the same in Iran you get murdered by the thousands.