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Germany has 80+ mil inhabitants. Also 90,000,000 people doesn't mean 90,000,000 soldiers, especially when a large part of them hate their own regime.
by IlikeMadison 6mo ago
Germany has 80+ mil inhabitants. Also 90,000,000 people doesn't mean 90,000,000 soldiers, especially when a large part of them hate their own regime.
- Animats 6mo agoRight re 80 million in Germany. After a bombing campaign, most of the people tend to hate whoever bombed them.
- mathgradthrow 6mo agoI don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.
- kelnos 6mo agoThey seem to work not very well, considering the number civilians they've killed in Iran.
- Windchaser 6mo agoSupposedly the issue was less bomb accuracy and more bad intel
- kergonath 6mo agoDoes it matter, at this point? If you go and tell someone who’s lost their home and half their family in a strike, "oops, it was just bad intel", do they hate you less?
- Windchaser 6mo agoOh no, if anything I think bad intel is probably worse
- kakacik 6mo agoits always that, and absolutely nobody cares
- foxglacier 6mo agoI sometimes wonder if our modern philosophy of requiring intentionality for crimes is the wrong way. You can launder intentionality be not trying too hard. If you try really weakly, it's called negligence but even that isn't as morally bad as intentionality. Perhaps we should forget about trying to read the mind of a state or criminal and only judge them by their actions. In my country, punishments for killing people with deliberate violence varies from 8 months home detention (bus driver punched a passenger in the face, knocking him out so he fell backward and cracked his head on the ground), to several decades (man grabbed scissors from the kitchen, ran to his ex girlfriend's room, and stabbed her repeatedly). Both victims are equally dead but the courts decided that the perpetrators' feelings mattered far more than what they did. Perhaps if the bus driver had been weaker and needed a weapon, he'd be in prison for 10 years instead of free? Perhaps if the ex-boyfriend had used his fists outdoors on a concrete pavement, he'd be free? Seems grossly unfair.
- mmustapic 6mo agoThe issue was starting an unnecessary war. When you did, then all the deaths are on you.
- drnick1 6mo agoOstensibly, it wasn't unnecessary to those who started it.
- Windchaser 6mo agoYeah, but… I think if you’re bombing a child’s school because of bad intel, the deaths are on you either way. We’re not going to be like “oh, this war was necessary, which means it’s no biggie that you accidentally killed two hundred children because you didn’t do your DD”
- fc417fc802 6mo agoWeird that we can afford how many hundreds of thousands per bomb but can't be bothered to pay entry level wages to manually verify each site. I'm sure the DoD has access to something even better than Google Maps.
- flipbrad 6mo agoLike this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
- flyinglizard 6mo agoWas it true for Japan and Germany post WWII? Or between European nations after the same said war? On the other hand, until a couple of years ago, Iranians and Israeli never directly exchanged even a bullet between them and yet Iran was dedicated to the destruction of Israel, so YMMV.
- yongjik 6mo agoThe threat of Japanese people all waging guerrilla warfare was considered real enough that the US decided to keep the Japanese Emperor as figurehead (even though the US had enough power to sentence or even execute him for war crimes), just so that the Emperor could order his people to surrender and obey US forces. Something the current US regime might have forgotten.
- petre 6mo ago> Something the current US regime might have forgotten. Nah, it wouldn't have worked with Khamenei after a few decades of destroy America and Israel rhetoric. It was a good decision to eliminate him and most of Iran's hardliner senior leadership. Now maybe they can make a "deal" with whoever they're replaced with, but I doubt it. The trouble was going all in without a clear plan. Or maybe they have one but they keep it to themselves?
- watwut 6mo agoFirst, new leadership is MORE hardline. Second, Khamenei in fact presided over Iran who exercised restrain in their responses to attacks and was willing to enter international agreements. And followed them to reasonable level. They did cause destabilization by proxis, they were still regime they were. But like, what Iran regime learned was that restraint makes them look weak and makes them be bombed every couple of months. And that negotiation and international agreements mean nothing. Third, frankly, as evil regime was, American history and role in Iran was destructive one. You cant take down elected president, put cruel monarchy in power and then play victim when revolution happens. And yes, who ends up winning bloody revolution does not tend to be nice pro-democratic side either. It tends to be the side willing to kill and risk more.
- kelnos 6mo agoI bet that "large part" isn't thrilled about the US bombing civilians, including children, either.
- alsetmusic 6mo ago> Also 90,000,000 people doesn't mean 90,000,000 soldiers, especially when a large part of them hate their own regime. You know what engenders nationalism? Attack on your way of life and the murder of someone you know by said attack.
- tommica 6mo agoIf my countrymen were killed by my government by the thousands, I'd not be super happy about defending that government. If the enemy does the same kind of mindless killing to the civilians, then I would have different ideas.
- kakacik 6mo agoWho cares if you are super happy, you get force-drafted with alternative either harsh deadly jail or firing squad. You have 10 seconds to decide. Good luck on having strong opinions in such case.
- tommica 6mo agoThat seems a bit dramatic - do you have sources for the things you mentioned? I'd like to learn more.
- zarzavat 6mo agoThe truth barely matters anymore. People believe whatever they want to believe, or whatever they are told to believe. You can be sure that Iranians are being blasted with propaganda just the same as Americans are being blasted with propaganda, except that currently Iran is cut off from the internet so the effect is much stronger. You can't say for sure that you wouldn't wilfully join up if you were in that kind of information environment.
- tommica 6mo agoInformation does go around even without the internet - doubt that iranians do not know about the things their government is doing in those mass executions.
- ifwinterco 6mo agoGerman geography makes it much easier to invade (most of the country except for the far south is a relatively flat plain). And it still wasn't much fun for the troops who had to do it in 1944 and 1945 even against a significantly weakened force fighting on multiple fronts at once
- refurb 6mo agoIndeed it’s an odd argument. The regime is immensely unpopular. If it weren’t for the murderous crackdown they would have been overthrown long ago.
- don_esteban 6mo agoThere is a good case to be made that if it weren't for the consistent pressure, sanctions and assassinations from US/Israel, the moderates would have prevailed in Iran.
- expedition32 6mo agoSaddam was immensely unpopular. The Taliban was immensely unpopular. It doesn't mean that people like America- or Israel. Every country has it's own elite who have their agenda independent from whatever the White House wants.