Even most children or partners of abusive people feel defensive when an outsider intervenes. Nevermind getting your country bombed by strangers. Spending days reading news that hide people behind symbols make some forget that we're dealing with human relationship.

If the attack was specifically targeting the US to encourage the downfall of Trump, I am sure there are millions of Americans that would be celebrating. Spend some time on Bluesky – they'd love it over there if the attacks didn't literally hit them. They can't seem to see much further than that.

Such bombs would necessarily need to fall in American cities, so the scenario you describe is not possible.

Which part is impossible?

Wasn't gonna post examples, but this thread[1] popped up in my Threads feed, so came back to share for posterity.

[1] https://www.threads.com/@djmelodie/post/DLNlE38PTNk?xmt=AQF0...

>People never, ever, under any circumstances, want to be attacked and bombed by another country.

Depends on the effectiveness of the bombing.

You write this because you don’t understand what people in Iran have been dealing with for the past 45 years.

It is one thing to not like the political leadership, but another thing if the government oppresses the population.

Those of us in America are privileged that we can’t fathom what that means.

I'm not an American, and live in country that was under an even more authoritarian regime until fairly recently. While I was born just as the regime was ending, I know plenty from my parents about how they felt. And I stand by what I said: even under the worse circumstances, no one ever desires to be bombarded.