[arista]

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by bots

i'm supporting the removal of a cruel terrorist regime. However, I don't think this will be the end of the story, just the nature of the threat will change.

The people can't rise up against 500,000 armed regime supporters. I also have no idea what the Shah's grandson is doing. Does he think people have forgotten how corrupt the Shah's regime was

I acknowledge that Iran’s former leadership was brutal, but I keep coming back to the same question: is it really the responsibility of the USA and Europe to intervene—and for what benefit? What do we actually gain by entering yet another conflict in the Middle East? In the short term, I don’t see any obvious advantages for our security, our economy, or our political stability.

History hasn’t treated these interventions kindly. We remove one regime, only for another group to fill the vacuum—often just as untrustworthy, sometimes even worse. It can take years, sometimes a decade or more, before the West even begins to understand the new power structure, let alone influence it. And during that entire period, it’s ordinary people who suffer the consequences.

That’s what concerns me most. People are dying right now, and once a war begins, it becomes incredibly difficult to control or contain. Conflicts like this escalate quickly, and as more civilians are killed, the pressure to retaliate—officially or unofficially—only increases. That’s how small wars turn into regional ones.

So yes, Iran has been a problem for a long time. But does that automatically make it our responsibility to “liberate” them? And what does liberation even look like when there are still half a million armed loyalists to the regime? These are the questions no one seems willing to address, yet they’re the ones that matter most.

[arista]

Yes,
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
was established 46 years ago.

Above the Army.


Of Course,
President Trump is not looking at that long history.


So 4 or 5 more weeks of Intense Bombing
will look like another Iraqi mess.
to be honest