Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ...
by ebbi on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:24PM
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There is another alternative, which a lot of my Irani friends prefer. Which is a regime change without foreign interference.
A puppet installed by US/Israel is a puppet that will only benefit those countries.
Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ...
by armchairhacker on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:42PM
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Sure. I'm just acknowledging that even opposing it, parts of foreign countries' governments will interfere when they see blood, and it may not be possible to significantly help the protestors without them.
Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ...
by ebbi on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:57PM
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Depends what you mean by 'help'
Because the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya didn't really help the citizens. Instead it created more instability, and created power vacuums for other sorts of violence and degeneracy to occur.
I'm not saying I know what's the best way for Iranians to get what they want. But recent history shows us that foreign interference doesn't work, especially because those countries that are intervening aren't merely doing it from the goodness of their own hearts.
Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ...
by armchairhacker on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:10PM
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Yes, unfortunately what I want may be unrealistic, and more likely I can't do anything substantial. But for a situation as dire as Iran, I believe it's moral to try something...
It will inevitably involve foreign intervention, which tends to work out badly. But I don't accept the alternative, that keeping a suppressive and violent regime is the best case. And I'd rather have the least amount of intervention possible, I don't even intrinsically care about breaking the regime; I want to directly support the protestors as much as possible.