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Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by renewiltord on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:41AM (#47191810)
Well, they're probably killing thousands of their people there. This country was once aligned with us. We may yet have an ally there.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by ivraatiems on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:46AM (#47191849)
If we attacked every country in the world killing thousands of its own people we'd be at war with half the world right now.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by RobotToaster on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:15AM (#47192141)
Including the US.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by renewiltord on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:42AM (#47192929)
Hey, we can’t save them all. But maybe we can save some of them.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by gen2brain on Saturday February 28, 2026 @05:29AM (#47193352)
Sure, throw several thousand bombs on them. That surely will help. They send kisses currently and are very happy they and their children are dying.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by Cipater on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:50PM (#47199434)
The US government doesn't give a single damn about the Iranian people.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by DecoySalamander on Saturday February 28, 2026 @05:00AM (#47193057)
It would be highly impractical to go to war with all of them at once, but USA can still fix one country at time. Venezuella, Iran, hopefully Cuba next.
Re:U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran by somenameforme on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:22AM (#47192750)
They were only aligned with us after we overthrew their democratic secular government in 1953, and installed an unpopular authoritarian monarchy as sole leader. The reason we overthrew their government is because they felt we were ripping them off in oil deals and wanted the right to audit and cancel those deals (and renationalize their oil fields) if we weren't playing fair. Then in 1979 that puppet government was overthrown in a "real" revolution, which gave birth to the Islamic Republic of Iran which, for some reason, always had a chip on its shoulder against the West.

The protests in Iran today are almost certainly being extensively backed by the CIA and other US organizations. Do not mistake a minority as necessarily representing much more than themselves. Of course they might (I certainly don't have any particular insight in the "real" Iran), but you could certainly see something similar happening in the US with extreme groups, left or right wing, becoming visibly active if they were able to find a strong backing/organizing power that made them believe that they could genuinely overthrow the government. The point being that the actions and claims of those groups would not necessarily represent the US at large.