Considering what has managed to happen during this year, I would sadly expect dramatic growth.
What do we call when a country bombs a school full of children and kills more than a hundred? Oh, right, that's "collateral damage".
Is it me or are we seeing posts of people trying to make us defend the shitty regime of Iran as to prove that we're in favour of a dictatorship just to criticize magastan?
Don't defend either one. There's no reason to. Iran legitimately is killing its own citizens wildly. The US interfering doesn't suddenly make that acceptable. I condemn my countries actions and don't think it should exist. And every time Iran embarases our government or strikes our soldiers and bases that it is deserved. That doesn't atone for their other actions. Defend the peoples, call out the oppressive states.
That's the point. Looks like people are willing to bait others into saying that Iran did nothing wrong. The Iranian regime is on par with the worst dictatorships in the world. We can say that both countries are shitholes right now.
My hope is for Iran to return to a time before the US got involved with it at all. Pictures from the 60s show an incredible country and people, but over time, Western manipulation drove them back to religious suppression and anger at the world.
Sadly, I think it was the time where France and UK used the shah as a puppet. Not the US but not really better though (the shas was not an angel either) if I remember a video of the youtube channel Histoire crêpues (french decolonial media)
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