• McDropout@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And western intervention always saves the day!

    Just like in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan! We should trust them, this time is different. /s

    A reminder that the US wanted to clear the Taliban, only to leave 20 years later to… the Taliban in control?

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      11 months ago

      Intervention?

      They are literally attacking innocent boats. You can hardly blame the US for starting this, every death will rest solely on the theocratic brutally oppressive authoritarian state of Iran.

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        11 months ago

        The USA is run by fascists who support and enable the genocide of Palestenians by sending money to zionists murderers. It’s not the high moral horse you think it is compared to Iran.

        Every death rest solely on the theocratic brutally oppressive authoritarian state of the United States.

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          11 months ago

          The US certainly has a long history of doing terrible shit but the facts are really clear here. Iranian proxy forces are trying to sink civilian ships. There’s not any moral ambiguity about those actions, civilian ships are not legitimate targets. You can’t go around trying to blow up everything in a major shipping lane and then not expect a substantive response. Claiming the US is at fault for reacting to this escalation from the Houthis, or that Iran has any kind of moral superiority when it too has a long history of doing terrible shit (and its proxy forces are actively engaged in terrorist attacks against civilian ships), just does not make sense. It feels like maybe your hatred of the US is clouding your assessment of the situation.

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          11 months ago

          Okay.

          That doesn’t change what Iran is doing in Yemen.

          Or do you think pointing out two wrongs makes one of them okay?

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          11 months ago

          When was the last time a gay man was slowly strangled to death by hanging him from a crane, IN THE US?

          When was the last time a woman was murdered by a state sanctioned fashion police?

          Yeah, the US has a lot of issues, internal and external, but comparing that government to that of to Iran is just really really shitty and naive.